“I think everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything, from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.”
“She was diagnosed with scoliosis (a severe curvature of the spine) at age 15. About wearing the braces around his torso – “It’s like wearing a tacky, disgusting, plastic corset for 18 hours a day. In the beginning, it was hard to eat or breathe. And I had to give up cross-country running. But I needed to have it to realign my spine.” After two years, Woodley’s doctors gave her the OK to remove her brace. Yoga helps her with her alignment and posture…”
The actress says she winds down with “15 to 45 minutes of yoga” at night…
By the way, her long hair is thing of the past. She cut them to play the key character in her next title role in the upcoming movie (Fault in Our Stars where she plays a teen girl who falls in love like any girl her age while suffering from a little divergent issue – she has cancer…) Rather than have her beautiful locks just be swept into trash after the haircut, she donated her long hair to a NPO who makes wigs for cancer patients undoing treatments…she does not seem like an ordinary Hollywood star…and I get it: She’s divergent because she’s a yogini.
Here’s her doing day time yoga:)
– Shailene Woodley – having read the linked interview, now I am so curious about her mom with undoubtedly so much lifelong wisdom she is bound to have. Her mom is someone I’d like to do hikes with and yoga…:) We all have moms in spirit or in real form and reminded how we all love moms as we head into Mother’s Day next month. Easter this month… all the rituals to sustain us throughout the seasons.
Practice yoga with refined attention to our inner landscape – conscious effort to quell all thoughts that arises … and to find that genuine authentic self when our mind is no longer busy… always so busy with thoughts, plans, ideas, critiques, analysis… that turns to worries and anxieties about tomorrow and regrets and guilt about yesterday. We are no longer in the present. Take a deep breath and reconnect – Just allowing ourselves to get out of our own way so we can accept not being so busy. Sometimes, it’s okay to do nothing. Outwardly you are doing “nothing” but what’s going on in the inside is … amazing.
You have the power to heal from within.
Namaste:)
