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When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease, or choose to be tense. It's a choice, and that choice is up to no one but us to decide.

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Tara Stiles
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: May 6
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Illinois
Tara Leann Stiles
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Learning to savor the moment keeps us from living in constant worry and fear and tension over things that haven't happened yet and may never come to pass. Practicing yoga helps us to undo these bad mental habits and stress triggers that we often unknowingly pick up along the way.
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Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling and your leg is burning and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.
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Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in!
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When your life is not in balance and you're struggling to achieve stability, practicing observation without judgment gets really interesting, and very useful. How? Because you can learn to distance yourself from the roller coaster ride of your emotions and circumstances but still enjoy the ride of life.
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You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice.
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Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way.
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Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now.
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Say you're doing a headstand. The moment you think to yourself, Wow, I'm doing this pose! is usually the moment you'll topple out of it.
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When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity.
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What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.
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That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.
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Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.
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When you are plugged into you, anything is possible.
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You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible.
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It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.
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Everything you need to know is right there inside, waiting for you to tap in and discover it, and then hopefully do something about it.
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Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.
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You can tell a lot about yourself by how you go about things.
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Each exhale allows us to let go of the moment that has just passed.
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A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.
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