Gravity is like a magnet attracting us to the earth, but this attraction in not limited to pulling us down. It allows us to stretch in the opposite direction towards the sky.
There are no beginners or advanced students in the practice of any form of yoga.

-Exactness, balance and harmony are not a performance... they are a liberation.

This means that fundamental principles, such as this one are the same in all asana. However, they have to be clearly explained by the teacher and fully understood by the student. There is no age limit, and no damage will occur if the movement originates from the spine. It is not the performance of the exercises that matters, but rather the way we are doing them.

The teaching is developed around this concept; working in resistance, all movements originate from the spine in relation to gravity. This prevents injury common in unconscious movements made in most forms of dance and yoga. The work precisely reshapes the musculature and skeletal portions of the nervous system enabling the body to perform with aplomb. The intelligence of the spine is awake.