Yoga and the Element Water

Water qualities are softness, fluidity, adaptability, power, and feeling. The fundamental expression of water is deliberate movement, and it is embodied in the technique of entering, and leaving, arriving, and departing: Vinyasa.

Water is cultivated, and expressed by learning to move effortlessly, softly, and fluidly into, out of, and between Asana. It is supported by repetition, and expressed in synchronicity between breath, and body movement. The arena of water is the pelvis, its source the ball of the foot, its medium the bones, and its control the joints.

The superficial application of water is to allow complete passivity into the muscular system, reducing Asana to stretch. The subtle application is to find the exact synchronization of body movement, and breathing. Establishing water requires the utilization of delicacy; the sign of its presence is its opposite, power.