There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.
The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit.
Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.
Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.
It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!
I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
Your body is the harp of the soul.
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
Feeling strong is important, and to feel in your body is a vital part of being a woman, regardless of whether you're a mother or not.
Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.
Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.
I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.
Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.
Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.
What we put in our bodies can make us feel depressed or anxious, and it's the same for fitness, I think it all joins up in this big circle.
