Frederick Leboyer Quotes

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• Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,
• The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.
• 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…
• Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin
• 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.…
• 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…
• Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
• This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
• Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.
• This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
• These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

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