They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

Yoga aims to bring about a situation where the mind is quieter and more effective. It's not only about relaxation, it's also about improving our energy. It's about making us more decisive and at the same time better able to judge a situation clearly.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

For me the breath really is the tool which allows you to understand what's happening on the mental level and what's happening on the emotional level, and it also allows you to measure what's happening on a physical level.

Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively; to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.