Yoga

go ahead - breathe...

COOL QUOTES

"Yoga...can help your kids: become stronger and more flexible; develop good concentration and posture; learn how to relax and concentrate; and let out their energy in a safe, health-promoting way." -- Mary Stewart and Kathy Phillips, Yoga for Children (ISBN 0-671-78712-8)

"The young, the old, the extremely aged, even the sick and the infirm obtain perfection in Yoga by constant practice. Constant practice alone is the secret of success." - Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 1:64-6

"Undoubtedly, the mind is restless and hard to control. But it can be trained by constant practice..." - Sri Krishna to Arjuna, Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 6

"In the night of all beings the disciplined and tranquil man wakes to the light." - B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga (ISBN: 0-8052-1031-8)

"I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness." - Dodie Smith

"Don't worry about things you cannot alter." - Catherine the Great

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein

"Good judgment comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgment." - Anonymous

"There are no riches above a sound body." - Ecclesiastes 30:16

"A wish to be well is part of becoming well." - Seneca

"I am worn to a raveling." - Beatrice Potter

"It's the fine rain that soaks us through." - Madame de Sevigne

"Gentle is as gentle does." - English proverb

"The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself." - Montaigne

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The human body is a wondrous thing." - Ralph Strauch

"I believe that the physical is the geography of being." - Louise Nevelson

"In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder." - Pearl Buck

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." - H. L. Mencken

"Most of us need to be given permission to switch from the doing to the being mode, mostly because we have been conditioned since we were little to value doing over being." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

"There is nothing stronger in the world than tenderness." - Han Suyin

"The delights of self-discovery are always available." - Gail Sheehy

"As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self." - B.K.S. Iyengar

"We always know what to do if we are in touch with life as it is." - Charlotte Joko Beck

"If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred." - Walt Whitman

"We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for states of the body." - Jeanne Moreau

"We are always getting ready to live but never living." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Practice is absolutely necessary." - Swami Vivekananda

Enter content here

Lake Charles native Belinda Y. Hughes (on right) is a certified Hatha yoga instructor of eight years' experience. Belinda has been a substitute teacher and special education paraprofessional in Calcasieu Parish since 2002. In December 2006 she retired from massage therapy after specializing fifteen years in personal injury rehabilitation, stress management and educating the public on alternative and natural health modalities.

She has presented massage therapy and yoga demonstrations at CARC - Child Development Center, Families Helping Families, Books-a-Million, Grand Casino Coushatta, meetings of the Mossville Homemakers Club, Moss Bluff Lions and Business & Professional Women, and on KPLC-TV (NBC-Lake Charles).

She was Massage Team Coordinator/Director for the Sulphur Mines Festival December Duathlon and the LA State Senior Olympic Games. Her article, "Yoga Massage," was published in the ( Lake Charles) American Press. Her inspirational memoir, LIVING PROOF, is available online at Booklocker.com ().

A survivor of Hurricane Rita, domestic violence, and four rear-end collisions in a three-year period with no hospitalization or surgeries, Belinda is grateful to get up out of bed and enjoy productive days with the help of chiropractic care, massage therapy, nutrition, and yoga.

YOGA LINKS

BOOKS

Yoga for Children