small black ashes

it is the exhalation that has to learn to be free
and to carry out of the body
all the unnecessary deposits
then the inhalation is just beauty, novelty
it comes, you don't have to think about it
but in the beginning
the exhalation has to be encouraged
to tke away all these small black ashes
that otherwise stay inside

-- Sandra Sabatini (Breath: The essence of yoga)