Quotes from Frederick Leboyer

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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

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 feeling