You can tell a lot about yourself by how you go about things.

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.

Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.

Say you're doing a headstand. The moment you think to yourself, "Wow, I'm doing this pose!" is usually the moment you'll topple out of it.

You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible.

Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now.

Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.