Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

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

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

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

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

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.