Christy Turlington
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.Collection: Amazing
In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can't otherwise reach healthcare facilities.Collection: Health
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.Collection: Beauty
I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.Collection: Health
Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.Collection: Health
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.Collection: Beauty
I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.Collection: Mom
As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.Collection: Health
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.Collection: Parenting
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.Collection: Religion
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.Collection: Design
Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.Collection: Equality
You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me.Collection: Beauty
America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.Collection: Health
In my teen years, I was hanging out with adults - Steven Meisel, Francois Nars, Oribe, Paul Cavaco. We had so much fun! We'd go out in New York.Collection: Teen
I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.Collection: Diet
People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.Collection: Amazing
I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
My weight fluctuates, and I haven't always been skinny. I became curvier in my twenties, but I never felt self-conscious about it; going through different periods is all part of being a woman.
Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
Style is something you either have or don't have.
With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.
Yoga is not a religion to me.
Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.
I have a beer belly.
You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
I like the big questions.
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.