Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it, — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
