Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
Yoga is not a religion to me.
Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.