Introduction
The ocean is full, deep, powerful, beyond our comprehension, yet restrained by its shores. The same is true for rivers and their banks. We look at oceans and rivers and see what we can see, but what we feel is much greater than what meets our eyes. And so it is with the paradox of our embodiment, as our tendency toward overflowing life and expression splashes against the constraints of our bodies. The graceful resolution of this paradox in a person’s movement, bearing, and expression is the felt experience of
elegance.

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