How to Talk to a Teacher About a Hard Pose

In yoga, one of the great meditations is to meditate on the breath. The more you control it, the more repressed it gets, because the mind is controlling the breath. It becomes a really visceral understanding of impermanence that one might be able to get in a 30-day meditation. Some people have to put their foot on their head before they can even check back in and see how they're feeling.