I’m intrigued by paradox - seemingly contradictory propositions which also carry truth.    I started paying more attention to paradox during my 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2019.   The fellow prospective yoga teachers and I were studying, in some depth, the yoga poses (asana) and learning about the appropriate verbal cues to use while teaching.    This was interesting…    we wanted to offer cues that would support the less experienced yoga practitioner, yet touch the subtlety and the nuance of the pose. Here’s one that proved to be absolutely eye-opening for me: “Root down to rise up” (and all variations on that theme).     I never thought much about the process of “rising up.”   Quite frankly, I never much paid any attention to how my feet (or other bodily part) was/were using the ground, either.     And to think that these two apparently opposite directions of energy were related! "Flying starts from th...