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.

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'.

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

Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

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

Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.

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