I'm discovering that there is tremendous wisdom in growing older. It is called wisdom. It's a kind of knowing that cannot be acquired by reading books or accumulating information. It comes from experience. From living through things, making mistakes, loving, losing, beginning again, practicing, failing, succeeding, and continuing to show up....

Our nervous system was never designed to live with anxiety as the baseline. We need to regularly return to that deeper, quieter place within. Yoga practice gives us that opportunity.

We live in stressful times. When we become overwhelmed by stress, it's tempting to escape. But when distraction becomes a way of avoiding what we really feel, eventually our suppressed emotions catch up with us. Tantra teaches us that live is happening for us, not to us. The yogic teaching is to life fully, rather than merely tolerate our lives.