Eve Ensler Quotes

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

Yoga makes me feel really sexy.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Yoga is just good for you.

Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

I love how Pilates makes me feel, like it opens me up. I have the hardest time breathing, weirdly enough. Even when I have conversations, I need to work on my breathing, so it's something I enjoy because it's peaceful and it helps me relax.

I do a lot of yoga and it's made me positive.

With yoga, it works every part of the body and increases range of motion. People think you get super flexible and you lose your power in sport. I'm getting back to normal because I'm so wound up and tight.

Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.

Whenever you get nervous about anything, start dancing. You'll feel better.

What I do is I'm trying to bridge the gap between yoga and fitness.

Dance saves lives.

I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body.

Yoga can benefit you no matter what mood you find yourself in.

Our bodies hold so much tension and resentment and sadness, so if we don't move it out of the body, we stay stuck in those negative patterns.

Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

If I'm having a challenging moment, I jump for joy. Literally. After a minute, I feel better, and after a few minutes, I'm really happy. Everything else just drops off. It gets me out of my head and into my body, and it makes me feel present. Everyone has challenges. But if you know your strengths and expand on them, you’re going to radiate.

I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.

There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.