The practice of yoga has always been evolving, but essentially yoga is the cultivation of attention.

What we attend to and the attitude with which we attend greatly influence how we experience ourselves and our life. In yoga we concentrate on both form (our bodies and tissues), and formlessness (our breath, energy channels, and mind states).

These interconnected aspects of reality are in constant interplay, they are the Yin and Yang of life, and, in yoga we develop and balance these polar complementarities within our body/mind experience.

For most of us, beginning with that which is most tangible, the body (Yang) is a common doorway into the practice.

As we become less distracted and healthier physically, most students eventually become interested in that which is more hidden. This can be called the yin aspect of reality, which relates with that which is subtle.

It is only by paying attention in a relaxed and attuned way that this yin
aspect of yoga is revealed.

When students first begin a yoga practice, perhaps to reduce stress or to get in shape, or maybe just to accompany a friend, they will often be guided to place the largest percentage of their attention on the shape of the poses they are trying to do.

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