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Bryan Kest is an American yoga teacher. Recognized as a creator of Power Yoga, he is the founder of Santa Monica Power Yoga, based in Santa Monica, California. Kest has led yoga classes, retreats and workshops worldwide. He is credited with pioneering the practice of donation-based yoga in the United States.

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If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.

Animal, Child, Children, Donate, Hurt, Solar

Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

Care, Change, Take, Want, Yoga

Everything becomes an opportunity to evolve and grow.

Becomes, Everything, Evolve, Grows, Opportunity

Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.

Dependent, Earth, Elements, Like, Made, Same

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

Opportunity, Years, Understanding, Encounter, Planet

It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.

Heaven, Hell, Looking, Secret, Teaching, Youth

Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

Important, Mysterious, Mystical, Powerful, Special

Natural events have completely destroyed this planet on numerous occasions in the past, and just like them we are a natural event destroying this planet.

Completely, Events, Natural, Occasions, Past

Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance to our ecosystem, which also includes our atmosphere. Have you ever considered that we, you and I, are also apart of that?

Animal, Apart, Ecosystems, Perfect, Playing, Role

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

Existence, Happenings, Nothing, Separate, Strand, Who We Are

If we want to try again, then try again. The point is we have free will to act and accomplish along with the peace of knowing whatever happens is what needs to happen in order for nature to fulfill its destiny, which we are part of.

Destiny, Free, Knowing, Order, Peace

Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are prettier are healthier and happier. So why don't we just cut to the chase and go straight to what makes us feel good?

Cutting, People, Feel Good, Good, Everybody, Make

Without challenges we would literally wither and die (which also would be perfect).

Challenges, Literally, Perfect, Would Be

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

Everything, Happened, Happenings, Life, Right, Right Now

Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

Body, Capabilities, Consciousness, Depth, Hurt, Physical

No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap is part of my process that is shaping me as I become all I'm becoming. I'm sure this understanding will be a big help to us in our yoga practice and also as a teacher. More than anything though, it will affect the way we look at everything in our life, which affects how we respond to things.

Nature, Practice, Teacher, Things, Yoga

Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.

Roles, Destroying, Planets, Perfectly, Playing

Learn to take pleasure in the search.

Learn, Pleasure, Search, Take

I do not believe you could intellectually comprehend all the different forces playing upon us. Yet what you can do is become very silent, so you are not distracted and then begin to feel how these forces playing upon us are affecting us, and according to how we feel, we can then make intelligent decisions as to how far, how deep, how much, we explore in any pose.

Believe, Decision, Forces, Intelligent, Playing, Pose

Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.

Doe, Everything, Mean, Think, Thinking

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