This morning I taught at Still on the theme of love (it is St. Valentine's after all), using Shiva and Shakti as lovers that are trying to reunite. And I gave alignment points that seemed opposing but in fact where complimentary (hug your shins while widening your inner knees and thigh bones apart) (hug your forearms in plank while melting your heart). Yoga can be thought of as the union of opposites and in Anusara yoga -which is a style of Hatha Yoga based on Tantric Philosophy- we're trying to remember our oneness, we're trying to unite Siva and Shati, who are in fact one but we speak of them as if they were two.