Yoga Drawings

While drawing yoga poses, I found out that some poses express a dynamic, free, elegant expanse. These poses do not seem to stop, where the hands or legs end, they seem to go further into the space. They seem to be connected to the space and they are very aesthetic. How comes this expanse expression into existance?

The articulated dynamic of Heinz Grill

Especially all poses of Heinz Grill show this dynamic and expression. His body does not seem to be in full tension, the whole body is not fixed in an extreme muscle tension. Heinz Grill articulates the dynamic in some zones of the body, he concentrates force. There are parts in his body, which are centered harmonically and other parts that remain light and free. This creates the beauty in his poses. His poses show a dynamic, that is articulated.

The active, conscious movement

After I have written this post, I got another idea over night, I want to add here. The poses of Heinz Grill must be an active, wanted, willingly created movement. This dynamic movement is beautyful, because it is not “only force” or tension, it does not seem to be an unwillingly forced movement. In extreme sports, the body is treated quite rude sometimes. In general and from my own experience, most danger for the body comes, if you move you body without consciousness and with force only. The more conscious you treat the body, the less you will hurt yourself. But I want to go on with the active movement. The poses of Heinz Grill expresses the attitude, that he really wants to move to the outside. In a way I would describe them as very authentic movements. Heinz Grill is not passiv, waiting in the pose but he is involved with consciousness. He creates the pose with an inner activity and intention. This is a kind of artistic attitude. He wants to shape and create the movement consciously. This can also be seen in the video, I posted at the end of this page. This conscious, artistic relation tu the body makes the pose beautyful and charismatic and it creates free expanse. In other arts like in dance, a conscious relation to the body can be found more easily, in yoga this would open a new, big field of art. Unfortunately yoga is not often done for an audience, like all arts do. If it would be, aesthetic would gain more attention and value.

Uniting Space and Center

In his poses, one can observe a dynamic part of the spine and a gliding lightness in the arms and legs. In the exercises of Heinz Grill, you can really feel how this two opposites unite: tension and lightness, dynamic and calmness. His exercises express a hold in the spine and the back and combine this with a flowing dynamic to the outer space.

For expressing and creating dynamic, you need a center in the body as well as a feeling for the space around. If you do not have a center of concentration, it is very difficult, to create dynamic. This activity needs a consciousness for the space. This awake consciousness you can see in the way, Heinz Grill holds his head and in the look of his eyes. With a very conscious sensation for the space as well as for the shape of the body, he develops dynamic. The result is expanse in movement.

Uniting flexibility and stability

If you are very flexible, it is not easy to create this dynamic. The body seems to be without any stability and resistance. There is less hold and less centering. If you are very unflexible it is also not easy to create dynamic. There is missing the lightness and softness. This unity of centering and expanse seems to be an ideal for movement. It creats a harmony between the person and the space, between inside and outside.

More sketches and pictures of Heinz Grill, expressing dynamic and expanse

This video of Heinz Grill I found on youtube. It shows the zones of dynamic very well in triangle pose, trikonasana.