Note how these two trees, separate, yet growing in tandem as though synchronized or in sympathy to one another, elegantly wind upward.
So too we can be with the universal, self to Self, individual life force to the universal life force.
Yoga and meditation (including pranayama and all the limbs of yoga) are what we do, the practices, to synchronize with this universal, to move in tandem.
The Every Day Yogi 