Standing Waves

The following excerpt is from Ganga's book, Yoga Beyond Belief, from the chapter, The Internal Alchemy of Hatha Yoga in the section entitled: Standing Waves.

Standing waves demonstrate a delicate interplay of static and dynamic opposites balanced in time. An ancient yogic text states, "A yogi is one who sees movement in stillness, and stillness in movement."  Generating and riding standing waves and surfing internal waves of energy in asana practice is one way to experience this. There is the stillness of asana with the internal dynamic movement of energy. This is contrasted by the stillness of attention and awareness within the dynamic movement of asana and energy. Physical standing waves can be created by balancing opposing, internal tensions and by bringing equilibrium of strength and flexibility.