A message to my YogaDownload.com students: Master the basics. Do not be seduced by fancy shapes and complex movements. Slow down. There is unimaginable depth to the simplest of yoga gestures, and rushing - both the rushing to more "advanced" practices, and the rushing through each individual gesture - always results in delaying our progress and stunting our growth. If you observe beginning qigong practitioners, they perform large physical gestures to move vital energy through the body and through space; however, if you watch the great masters, they hardly move at all - but the result is infinitely profound. It is just so with yoga - the more advanced the practice, the more subtle; and the deeper one's realization, the more simple it reveals itself to be, and to have always been. So refrain from succumbing to the temptation of the external - dive deeply into each gesture and every single breath, and realization will surely come more quickly.