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For our discussion, the most important thing to consider in the body, there are so many things we could consider in the body. But for our discussion, for these DVD, this presentation, we will discuss the quality of the tissues specifically, we want to talk about are they plastic or elastic.
This is what is important to us in this particular context is very limited context of this particular DVD articulation of the reasons of Yin and Yang, why we make this discriminations. Something that is plastic, be like silly patty or clay, you can mold it and as soon as you stop squishing it, it pretty much stays the way that you squished it. You squish it, you set it down and stays like that. Whereas elastic, stretch your underwear and let go and snaps back hopefully. So usually, the more a tissue is plastic, it is less elastic. Just by definition. So a plastic material is Yin. It is slower to change. You set it down, you look at it from, look back and it is still the same, whereas Yang are things that change.
This is what pretty much the context of everything we will be discussing. What are we discussing, why define something as Yin or Yang in this context? For us, is it plastic or elastic, the quality of the tissue that we are trying to usually stretch, is it plastic or more plastic or is it elastic.
Because in Yoga, at least Hatha Yoga were usually concerned with why do we not move? Why do we not move? If you can do a posture easily, you usually do not question. Yes, everyone should do this. It feels good. It is when you cannot do a posture and that annoying flexible person right next to you can do the posture. Now, it becomes important, so we usually want to know why we cannot do a pose. So again, in our context, if we cannot do a pose, it will be for one of two reasons. One, the joint is in a state of tension, or two, the joint is in a state of compression. In any form of Yoga, Yin or Yang, this is the most important fundamental discrimination to make when you are trying to feel what is going on in your body or trying to guess what is going on someone else’s body. This is the most important discrimination to make. Can this person or can I myself in my practice not bend my knee because the joints are in a state of compression or the joints are in a state of tension. Can I not bend my back because the joints are in a state of compression or the joints are in a state of tension?
This is the most important fundamental distinction to make because what we can or should do is very different, if we analyze we think it is tension or if we analyze we think it is compression.
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