Ha, what have the human body and Chinese characters in common? They are both complex systems. I've been a yoga teacher for about 20 years. Before that I studied Systems Design engineering at the University of Waterloo. And before that I served in the British Army for five years. I was in the REME as an armourer (I fixed guns!).

At about the same time that I started learning yoga I started learning how to write Chinese characters. That may have been part of the reason why I eventually moved to Taiwan. Here I started work on what was to become a database for a Chinese English Dictionary with an index system designed to make Chinese character lookup easier. In the process I also learned how to "touch type" Chinese characters using the Cangjie input system.

Studying both yoga and Chinese my focus has been on breaking both down effectively to make them easier to learn. Which Chinese characters that's amount to practicing smaller sets of brush strokes. With the body it means learning to isolate parts of the body and practicing moving those isolated parts.

Note  that isolation in both cases is to learn the parts. But it's only part of the process. The other part is re-integrating.

Another practice that I teach is Dance of Shiva. You could think of  that as part of the real inspiration for how I break things down.

And one final note, I should give thanks to one of my most important teachers, Andrey Lappa. I took part in his Universal Yoga teacher training many years ago and his teaching was instrumental in helping me become the teacher I am today.