Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.