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The Yogic Writer: Uniting Breath, Body, and Page

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Fusing the craft of writing with the philosophy of yoga, The Yogic Writer charts a path to the heart of creativity through the practice of yogic breathing, somatic exercises, and meditations. In response to an oftentimes paralyzing focus on outcome and product, Jennifer Sinor summons decades of experience teaching creative writing and yoga to guide our attention back to the body, the place from which all art arises.
When invested with deep awareness, writing transforms us as human beings. The Yogic Writer connects the recursive process of writing – creating space for intentions, drafting, revision, and sitting in sites of possibility and potential – with the four stages of breath. Through brief insightful essays, Sinor meets writers in the present moment, providing craft advice while challenging us to explore how we look, who is really writing, and how to listen to our bodies.

Steeped in ideas owed to ancient wisdom as well as creative writing pedagogy and Sinor’s own experience, The Yogic Writer offers a unique, alternative approach to finding creativity that forsakes external validation for internal knowledge and experimentation. Inspirational, affirmational, and personal, this book is for anyone seeking permission to embody the life of a writer that they already know, deep down, to be theirs.



Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Sky Inside

Beginnings—Puraka

Writing with the Whole Body
The sheaths of the yogic body

Born to Write
Not seeking external validation

Set Your Goats to Roam
Art as the externalization of the internal

Breathing to Write
Breath practice: intentional breathing

Effortless Effort
Allowing your attention to be called to what you love

Form the Circle and Step Inside
Creating a sacred writing space

Don’t Wait for Cadaver Gums
Importance of daily practice

The Portable Altar
Flexibility in your practice

Casting Language
Keeping a writing notebook

X Always Marks the Spot
Writing prompt: mapping childhood

Picture This
Writing prompt: writing from a photo

I’ll Never
Writing prompt: writing into the difficult

Inhale the Stars
Breath practice: focus on inhalation

Fiction Doesn’t Exist
Finding compassion for yourself

On Fire
Writing prompt: sparking intuition

Archives Aren’t for the Dead
Writing from primary materials

Trust the Treasure
Staying with a memory

No One Blames the Baby
The importance of becoming

The Spellwork of Others
The practice of daily reading

Writers’ Eyes
Seeing as reception

The Muse is a Myth
The labor of craft

Fullness--Antar-kumbhaka

Fullness
Breath practice: retention at the top of the inhalation

Dander and Fluff
Start small

Everyone Gets Naked in a Scene
Writing scenes

Designate a Driver
Writing summary

There is no Beethoven
The musing voice

Breathing with Caesar
Breath practice: keeping the breath sacred

Enter the Snake
Significant detail

No Dead Grandmothers
Creating characters

Whose Line is It?
Creating dialogue

What to Bring to Show and Tell
The power of both showing and telling

What Piano?
Pursuing organic metaphors

The Body is Your Swing
Breath practice: somatic movement

Creating Our Own Obstacles
The myth of writer’s block

Research and Laundry
Archival and living research

Two Towers
Crafting voice

It’s Not about Cake
Finding deeper subject

Drop the Knife
Breath practice: loving kindness

No One Stands Outside
Writing and trauma

Finding Form
Linear and non-linear structure

Distillation--Rechaka

Winnowing
Breath practice: exhalation

See the Wolf
Understanding fundamental attributes

Collecting Language
Precise diction

Choose Your Wand
Verbs as energetic channels

Heart Holding
Breath practice: holding your own heart

Word by Word by Word
Focusing on syntax

Taking Refuge
Forming a writing group

The Public in Publication
Alternative Types of Publication

Rejection as Protection
How to keep going

Void—Bahyu-kumhbaka
Entering the Void
Breath practice: retention at the bottom

The Alchemy of Writing
Connections between yoga, alchemy and writing

Surrender Ritual

Epilogue
Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350371965
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 304 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1350371963
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Uniting Breath, Body, and Page
  • Width: 154 mm


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