Yoga and Creativity

Each morning I start the day by giving myself the time to connect to the stillness within.  During the warm months, I often sit outside and allow my practice to unfold in concert with nature as the day stretches itself in to being. 

Practice often waxes and wanes in terms of it's intensity, sense of spaciousness and ease.  Over the years I have learned to trust this natural cadence and release my grip on having to achieve any particular kind of result.  What I have discovered is that within the rhythm of my practice's ebbing and flowing, so too does my creativity, which reaches out in to all aspects of living from work, play, rest and also in to my relationships.  Just as my practice has deepened over time, becoming more consistent and steady, permeating my everday life, my creativity has expanded similarly.

Recently I had a particularly expansive morning practice, and the words seemed to literally flow from my heart to my hand and onto paper.  I thought I'd share.

 

Drink deeply of life

like a thirsty summer lily

pink throat open to receive the rain

Walk barefoot in the wet morning grass

to greet the sleepy sanguine dog stretched in the sun 

His soft underbelly exposed

for the loving sweep of a trusted hand.

And receive the howling wind

Let it echo inside

Reverberating it's gentle reminder

to let go with unfettered abandon

and fly into the wisdom of uncertainty.

 

Peace, and Many Blessings,

Namaste