Digital, analogue, posture, movement, discrete, continuous

Doing Plasma Yoga today it crossed my performing of it the realisation the connections between digital and movement.

In Plasma Yoga one simply starts in any position (asana) and observes one self and does what you do in yoga: stay in the position, breath, do it as precisely as you can… When one exhausts the position (usually that means that you exhaust one of the elements of standing in that posture), goes to a new one and repeat the actions from before.

In Plasma Yoga one starts to shorten the time between one and the other position till one is not moving continuously from one position to the other, ie continuous movement. The proposition in Plasma Yoga is to keep approaching the movement as a series of postures.

Somewhere along the way of shortening the time between postures the inner movement of the body trying to get to balance, and the outer movement melt into each other and there is no more posture but contiguous movement.

It reminds you of the fact that there is no static posture, one actually experiences that understanding.

The postures are digital version of analogue movement. And this is how we can analyse the movement. Yet when we synthesize digital parties in analogue movement, there happens something that escapes or is out of digital realm.

This there is something in the movement that does not get analyzed in digital way, but analogue.

And just to remind you that digital is not only 0 and 1, basically it means discrete version/value of a system. So, we could analyse movement not only in 0 and 1, but 3, 5, 7…

One does both all the time digital and analogue, posture and movement, discrete and continuous. To fix one process as being the one better then the other, is plain old stupid.