Yoetry

7/6/2018

Yoetry

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When is a word like a pose? When is a pose like a word? Welcome to Yoetry.

In Yoetry, we find common ground between yoga and poetry, experiencing how they both inspire and lead to each other. Using yoga technique—posture, breath, and meditation—as well as poetic form, we entertain the notion that poetry is as visceral and alive as a yoga form and is not created merely by scribbling with a pen onto or typing across paper. Too, we visit the idea that yoga is as innately economic and fluid and as alive as poetic language itself.

Yoetry sessions open with a brief introduction to poetry: its ancient roots, purpose, and historical poetry/yoga crossover that existed thousand of years ago.

We then play, practicing exercises that encourage us to pose, breathe, write, and recite. The following are some Yoetry exercises:

Accordion to Whom?: Group Write and Yoga Warm-Up
Breath by Poetry: A Tempo for Linemakers
What Remains?: Reductive Yoga and the Erasure Poems
Haiku to You: Simple Postures, Quiet Forms
Names of Poses: Yoga’s Animal Postures and the Poet-Gatherer
First Line, Best Line: Famous Openers and Spontaneous Posturemaking
The Chakra, The Couplet: Teaming Up with an Ancient Energy Map
Nidra to Know: Guided Imagery and Streaming Words
Presentation Station: Reading While Posing

We close each Yoetry session with a poetry reading, sharing our work.

No experience in either poetry or yoga is required to enjoy Yoetry.

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