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“People generally feel better when they do yoga of any kind, in any capacity. It strengthens bodies and minds, and it’s like weight lifting for the spirit. Yogis”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The image of the lotus flower, a beautiful blossom that grows out of the muddiest, murkiest waters is a prevalent one in yoga, as it symbolizes growth out of adversity. The flower doesn’t grow despite the muck. It grows because of it, just as spiritual transformations so often come from our darkest, muddiest moments. Gold”
― Rebecca Pacheco, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear