Humankind has always wanted to make sense of life and this starts by observing nature and trying to understand how it works. Its starting point is. that everything can be divided into dark and light, night and day, winter and summer, feminine and masculine, yin and yang. Everything is in motion towards one or the other, all intertwined and affecting each other. Our bodies in turn, can also be interpreted within the same framework, where some of our organs are considered yin and others yang, according to Chinese Medicine. If we’d like to, we can also translate this into how we best create balance and beauty with comfort in our homes, to set the stage for us to grow in abundance, health and prosperity, called Feng Shui. All based on using the natural elements to create harmony for our health.

Winter is considered yin, and is represented by water (kidneys) moving towards wood (liver and gall bladder). Spring is considered growing into yang, moving towards fire (heart). Summer is yang and fire, moving towards air (lungs and large intestines) becoming yin, ie fall. To make it even more interesting, one can also connect each organ with an emotion, such as anger lives in the liver, love lives in the heart, fear in the kidneys, pondering is in the spleen and stomach (earth), while stress and grief becomes affected through the lungs and large intestines, where our skin can be looked upon as our third lung. Seeking to balance all these, is to seek health. Both acupuncture and Qigong are used for this, while we also can seek to understand these dynamics in the way we dance – from contraction to expansion, and in all their variations.