Words Out Of A Flow
Writing through movement
Sweet friends!
How are your journals? What are your findings? I’ll be honest…mine have been blank(ish). My pages have been simple and sharing multiple dates on a single side. Short, dry, sleepy and lethargic. But compared to what? Our current page cannot live when it judges itself to our previous one. I’m finding that a small entry of a few words is movement, and movement is creation, regardless of how grand.
Our stuck-ness is not our scarcity.
I try not to see my lack of motivation or inspiration as lack of abundance. I meet the page with a few notes of a song, and that is enough. Silence is not lack of participation or scarce in substance. It is a recharge. It is sacred. It is as necessary as breathing.
Vinyasa of Writing
I’m stuck in a lot of places. My hips feel tight, my left one specifically in a wide leg forward fold. My writing feels stuck, specifically on finding words- like I can’t see them or where they went. Spiritually stuck, or rather, impatiently waiting for the path to unfold, which undoubtedly will reveal itself exactly when it’s supposed to, but, it feels stuck. When I want to write, when I want to say something but the words aren’t there, I remember this:
Get out of your head and into your body.
I become a moving meditation when stillness isn’t there. I become a flow of breath and bones until my focus filters out the scattered bits and leaves the truth. I roll out my mat and set my head down, the rubber world absorbing my mind like a sponge. I move without rules or regulation, circling the spine away from what’s rigid. Words pump back into vision when my blood flows head to toe, when yoga breathes me awake.
The word Vinyasa (vin·ya·sa) can be translated as to place something somewhere in a special way. To place on purpose. To move your body intentionally between poses with your breath. To set a word specifically next to another word like an inhale followed by an exhale.
Our prompt this week is to find words through movement.
Roll out a yoga mat
Turn on violin, piano or other soft music
Set a journal and pen beside you
Flow. Move. Let your intuition guide you through a yoga practice
Practice until you feel clear. Until words come through one at a time or in sentences.
Let it be, maybe they’re words for later or create a poem with them
Yoga Flow
(if you need a place to begin)
Child’s pose
Cat/Cow (inhale cat, exhale cow)
Downward Facing Dog
DDog to Plank waves (roll the spine through a wave from DDog to Plank)
Standing Forward Fold
Tadasana (mountain pose)
Sun Salutations (mountain pose, FF, Half Lift, Chaturanga, Upward Facing Dog, DDod) 3-5x
Warrior Two
Reverse Warrior
Wide Leg FF
Other side 8-10
From DDog, move to Child’s pose
Come to easy seated
Side bend reach R, L
End in seated meditation or lay back for Savasana
My words from a flow
At the edge of my voice.
warm notes of a song, like a plum whisky to the throat.
I break in half.
Piano notes coming up my throat.
inside a labor of love.
daily grace.
silent daring.
much love.
Nicole
Really immaculate words that came through