I am beginning to notice a pattern in my learning:
- First, yoga presents two (seemingly) mutually exclusive goals, such as (from Anusara alignment principles) pulling the lower ribs in and up while opening the shoulders back and down, or fanning the sitz bones back while also lengthening the tailbone down.
- Then, I struggle for a long time with the two concepts, often only achieving one at a time.
- Finally, in a beautiful moment of enlightenment, I learn how to open and create enough space for both to be true. I can have my ribs in and my shoulders back. Some might call this finding balance, I call it creating space.