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Whenever you offer a standing practice, offer the seated version in the same breath, and mean it. Say plainly that people should look after their own bodies and change anything that does not suit them.

Say it before you begin, not afterwards, so that nobody has to interrupt to ask. If you cannot see the people you are guiding, say that too, and say you are trusting them to make their own calls. Choice over your own body is precisely what hard experience takes away, so a practice that quietly removes it can undo what it was meant to teach, however good the technique.

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