We exist in at least two realities: a physical world of objects (things) and movements (energies), and an emotional world of feelings, yearnings, intuitions. Our physical centre is the dantien and if we want a meaningful engagement with our own body and the physical world beyond it, then this centre – our centre of gravity – must be strong: focused and still. Our emotional centre is the heart and if we want a life enriched by feeling and the creative imagination then this centre must be open, clear and above all soft. These centres are the two poles of our work: the yin and the yang, and the trick is, through an act of spirit, to have them interdependent rather than mutually exclusive: each flourishing because of, rather than despite, the other.