When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

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.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

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.

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.

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty.

Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.

I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.

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.

Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.

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.

I have a beer belly.

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.

Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.

The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

I always run without music. Being disconnected is what I'm addicted to more than anything. There aren't many places where you can be without your phone and computer. I've started to crave and enjoy that time alone.

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

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.

It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti who had come from South Asia where it is endemic.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

It's very human to want to make an impact, to contribute to the world. But it's hard to know the how and why. Like, 'Will my small thing make a difference?'

As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.

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.

Lipstick is the easiest way to dress up without doing a lot, but it's hard to maintain, so I always opt for nudes if I'm going out for a long time.

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.

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.

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.