A tai chi/bagua instructor I met the other day made a really interesting point, ironically about yoga: something like "You go to the point in the pose that you can get to, and don't try to strain for more, but just learn how to relax at that point." One of those obvious-as-a-zebra-on-a-golf-course things that doesn't actually seem so until it's bluntly pointed out, but one would wish more people would hear it before they get turned off to yoga by trying to kill themselves by overstretching everything.

Oh man...I almost feel sorry for these people, except that they're a bunch of hoyty-toyty Continentalists...
I don't actually mean that.
No...yes, yes I do. Damn Frenchies.
But brie cheese is so good...hmm...