In the physical practice of yoga, our approach to the body becomes expansive and poetic. We allow our awareness to drop deep inside by considering the body to be a vast landscape, or even a universe unto itself, replete with the pull of physical forces and the interactions of elements. In various postures (asana) different parts of the body become stable as other parts become fluid; the vinyasa method involves juxtaposing contrasting landscapes, training the body to become progressively more responsive and malleable.
