“If you want to use yoga to heal emotional pain, you must find out where it resides in your body and learn to take your breath there. I don’t teach yoga to help people to transcend. I want people’s spirits to reside in their body. I literally want to help people embody their spirit. Not go through life fragmented.”

- Ana Forrest

 (Life/meditation/yoga/whatever) “is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis… The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.”

- Pema Chodron

 “Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere.  It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”

-  Roger Staubach

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing, or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated, precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, the sense of one’s being, the satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. Practice means to perform over and over again, in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire.”

- Martha Graham

“In theory, practice and theory are the same.  In practice they are not.”

- Yogi Berra

“Never give in.  Never never never never give in.”

- Winston Churchill

“The cure for everything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the sea.”

- Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen