Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions , we cannot but wonder why such a torture has been inflicted on the child. How could a being who has been aggressed in this way, while totally helpless, develop into a relaxed, loving, trusting person? Indeed, he will always never be able to trust anyone in life. He will always be on the defensive, unable to open up to others and to life.

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin