Tara Stiles

Millions of people are waking up, stepping away from harsh teachers, false gurus, and beginning to realizing yoga is not about the pose and the shape you can make with your body.

You may be guided through ways of practicing by a teacher, but you are ultimately your own and most important teacher. The universe is within you, and you are the universe.

When we practice cleaning our slate and interacting without motive, what we actually "get" in return is greater than what we might have expected.

We miss moments all the time and if we fully lived them all we might spontaneously combust, or appear intensely hyper and loony. This brings awareness to all the moments that we miss, that we dull out on.

Carving out a yoga practice that brings you to your edge and challenges you physically will burn calories, blast fat and tone everything up without harming your joints, but that's only part of the equation.

I'm not having a nervous break down ... yet. But if I let things continue in a speedy way without observation, falling into a million pieces would be inevitable.

It's time to take Jesus back for the people, and press on with a useful, loving, practical message that can heal us as individuals and the world.

The hard part is listening. No one can do it for you. There isn't a 10 day diet for it. It can start with meditation, a nature walk, being inspired by a poem, or a number of other things.

Meditation (and yoga) isn't a religion. It brings you back to YOU. That feels so amazing and aligns you with your creativity, intuition, and sets you in a state of energized inspiration.

If we can shift our perspective of blowing off steam to get away from ourselves, and our lives to dropping right into them, we can begin to form healthy, sustainable habits.

Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try but it will slip under the cracks every time. So how do we maintain access to inspiration?

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Even in our efforts to become healthy we often get caught moving with anxiety and haste. Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires.

Step 1. Know your archetype. We all have one. I am Artemis, who represents independence, focused, daring, adventurous. Artemis needs to work on healing being cut off from emotions.

Everything starts with awareness. Thankfully, we are made up of awareness, so we can always tap in. When we bring awareness to our habits, our fears are illuminated and we begin to work toward balance.

I notice sometimes I bring this demand to the mat, when I really should be working on the reverse, bringing the discipline I am developing on the mat to the rest of my life.

Law of nature One. Go to bed. Don't think that you can cheat nature or your body for an extended period of time and everything will continue to work as it should. Get yourself to sleep already!

We all have our straws that we see the sky with. Practice comes in wiping off the dust at the end of the straw so we can see clearly. If we're really lucky, maybe we can put down the straw and look at the sky.

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Cultivating strength by living with awareness of our actions affects the outcome of our lives. Impenetrable strength requires endless compassion. Strong body, soft heart will lead you everywhere you need to go.

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