Workshop Review 1

Introducing Kundalini Yoga and Creative Writing

The first Yoga and Creative writing session this year was in February at the Little Escape Studio in Crystal Palace.

During the workshop we read and discussed 3 poems

• Golden Retrievals by Mark Doty

• For Presence by John O'Donohue

• Shore Songs by GS Smith (see below)

I invited people to work together to write an acrostic poem and then we practiced a Kriya (Kundalini yoga set) for Creativity as well as some meditations and visualisations to help with focus and overcoming self criticism. There were writing prompts to help everyone get stuck in and tea and snacks to support the creative energy.

Sarah and Maria both shared some lovely pieces that they had written as a result of the session.

I love the energy in both pieces, Sarah sounds literally enlightened by self discovery and Maria empowered and unstoppable! All in an afternoon's work for Kundalini Yoga of course :)

Thank you both for your generous sharing!

From Sarah Cannon

Here I am,

My hands cupped and outstretched before me,

A shining bowl of beauty,

My heart!

I offer it to you tenderly,

All that I am is contained in this light,

Seeing myself with fresh eyes,

Beaming brightly,

astonished.

• 
  

From Maria Stamati- Knipe

I am the water

Cool or warm

I've been in my source for a long time

Quenching the thirst

I want to flow down the mountain

At times a trickle

But I want to cascade

Clear my path of all the sticks

Will I get to the sea?

I don't know

Maybe the earth will absorb me before I get there

But I want to flow faster

To face the new and push it out of my way

If I have to.

Shore Sound Trilogy, By GS Smith

aquatic balsam

soothe                       

seething          sea thing      

 seething         sea things       seething        salve                              

soothe             soothe              

 sea things

cycle of placation

see things    see things    

seethe          seethe

soothe         soothe        

tiresian ire

sooth

say things

seethe

seeing things

sooth

said