Published: Feb. 2008 Yoga Life Vol.39 No. 02, Pondicherry, India.

The whole of the material universe exists because of the 'play of opposites'.  This idea sheds awareness on the play of opposites within our Asana practice.  When we sit up, there must be apoint when the energy also moves down to ground us!  Most of us find this point of energetic change in the small of the back.  Thinking only of sitting up is quite a different experience energetically than thinking only of sitting down.  Doing both feels different again ... more balanced.  If we move to the left we must also be moving somewhere to the right ... or else it will feel so unbalanced!  Awareness of the different directions of energy in a posture, brings yet another dimension to our experience of Asana.  We can also find the centre of the movement, the point of change, where Yang meets Yin, Loma flows into Viloma, positive to negative and experience its dynamic.  Where the opposites merge one into the other is the "turning point" and the point on which we wish to take our stance.  Within all this wonderful dynamic energy is a centre of stillness.  We must balance ourselves between the play of opposites in a dynamic peace!