“The love for asana is real, it was the gateway into this whole realm of yoga… and I inward transformation…how I felt I was shifting…and I loved that I could could have a belly and that I could have a level of softness and yet feel fiercely strong…I loved that combination…but that was in my late 20s, 30’s…so a lot of asana, a lot of fun times, but in the end, what really sustains me and softens my heart and my attitude and all of it, the stuff that sustains my practice on a daily basis when I leave the house is chanting to God..theres something to the vibration that really softens the harder edges that still exist in me.”

-Astrud Castillo, Episode 11, Homebodies Yoga Podcast