Each of the yoga poses is accompanied by breathing and it is during the process of exhalation that the spine can stretch and elongate without effort. We learn to elongate and extend, rather than to pull and push. Elongation and extension can only happen when the pulling and pushing has come to an end; this is the revolution.
It is not so much the performance of the exercises that matters, but rather the way we are doing them.
- Vanda Scaravelli, Awakening the Spine p. 10 and 24
