Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.

I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

I believe we are capable of great things.