As Enfolding Quality (The Practice): The feeling of integration. Yoking your breath to your movement in vinyasa. Binding your wandering mind to a single point of focus (drishti or a mantra). Joining the physical body and the energetic body into a single, functional unit. This is the act of gathering all the disparate parts of yourself—your thoughts, your breath, your limbs, your past, your future—and enfolding them into the present moment. It is the creation of structure, stability, and integrity.
The deeper question is: Why do you perform this act of enfolding? The purpose of yoking is liberation.
As Unfolding Quality (The Purpose): The feeling of expansion and freedom. By enfolding the fluctuations of the mind, you allow a deeper, quieter consciousness to unfold. By yoking the body and breath, you create the stability necessary for your spirit to expand and feel its connection to something larger. The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha (liberation), which is a state of profound, limitless unfolding. You bind the smaller self to free the larger Self.