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

As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream.

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.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

What you want to get as a teacher is not an email or a Facebook post that says, 'I learned so much about headstands in your class'. What you want to get is 'I learned so much about myself and my life in your class'.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

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