I have come to understand that Half Moon Pose {Ardha Chandrasana} brings forth this idea of dexterity. This helps demonstrate that the interdependence of certain actions in your body are mutually dependent.
Half Moon Pose allows any type of being to tap into different balancing energies. Such energies could be calmness (like the moon) and intensity (like the sun). The idea of being calm and intense is contrasting, but without the other, they both cease to exist. Ponder this in simple terms: opposites attract.
Think about the movie OVERBOARD. A rich, snobbish woman who suffers from amnesia ends up falling in love with a poor carpenter. By the end of the movie, the woman discovers gratitude and love and the carpenter learns how to stick up for himself. Ease is discovered!
In Half Moon, your core is the connecting link to it all. While extending your torso in one direction and the uplifted leg in the other, Half Moon educates us on how to balance, tolerate and grow an awareness to something that’s disorienting. Eventually, we will find comfort.
With practice, discipline and determination one will eventually stabilize the rooted foundation and twinkle with confidence in all directions.