Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
There's nothing that hasn't happened before, guys. In the '80s we were all doing the '60s. In the '90s, we were doing the '70s. There's not one way to wear jeans anymore though. Flared, skinny, ripped, high, low, whatever. It used to be that there was one cool jean. There was a while where it was stonewashed, god forbid.
Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.
or those who have one, please use your voice. So many of us don't have that ability.
Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
For me, true beauty really does begin within and when it comes to skincare that means Imedeen.
My middle name is Nicole. It's so weird because my mom is from El Salvador, but my sisters and I have Irish names - Christy, Kelly, and Erin. And Christy and Kelly, they're not even girls' names! In Ireland, they're boys' names. And somehow, my mom was in El Salvador dreaming about Shamrocks before we were born.
Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who.
Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.
I don't really have an anti-aging strategy. I accept it. It is what it is. I think about how I feel. So to me, yoga and running and doing work that is meaningful to me is the best way to look and feel good. I think happiness and living a life that you feel good in and you don't feel compromised - that all makes a big difference to the way that you look. I don't give a lot of thought to aging.
I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.
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.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
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 would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
Now every model wants to be an actress
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
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.
