Yoga teaches "Vampire Diaries" star a balanced lifestyle.
Life is hard enough when you're a teenage girl and you have to deal with school and living with parents who just don't understand you. Try being "The Vampire Diaries" heroine Elena Gilbert, who also has the added pressure of being torn between the two loves of her life – both vampires. Perhaps if Elena took up yoga like her real life counterpart, Nina Dobrev, she could learn to lead a more balanced lifestyle.
Like any television actor, Dobrev has to maintain a certain level of physical fitness for the cameras, which she accomplishes with the help of yoga. However, she refuses to take her fitness to extremes, and allows herself the luxury of indulging her sweet tooth on occasion.
"It's all about balance," Dobrev told Us Weekly. "I love to indulge and eat yummy things, but then I go to yoga and exercise."
In addition to yoga, Dobrev helps herself stay fit with her favorite line of health shakes.
The benefits of a Massachusetts yoga class are not just physical, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health. This mind-body regiment can also improve one's mood, sense of well-being and ability to handle stress.
a great way to keep her healthy and centered