Hawah - The Poetry of Yoga: Poetic Shakti from Contemporary Yogis

Praise for The Poetry of YOGA Perfect for solitary contemplation, this anthology is full of yogic wisdom. Yoga Journal Magazine This book is a link that paints an important picture and gives us that experience of looking beyond appearances and feeling that profound parallel between the yogic experience and poetry. Rod Stryker This book is the soul ignited. Sianna Sherman These beautiful poems speak to and are expressions of the very heart of yoga. Kelly Birch, Editor, Yoga Therapy Today To have yoga without poetry is like having marriage without love. Poetry is the essence of beauty in language.

I am grateful for HawaH having put together this volume to inspire yoga students with the beauty of meter and verse. Aadil Palkhivala, Master Yoga Teacher This collection of poems is a beautiful expression of the collective consciousness of the modern day yoga culture. YOGANONYMOUS As I started to scan through the pages, I felt like I had won the lottery! Like a beautiful asana, each page contains words perfectly aligned to lift my soul. I had been given the gift of a book of yoga poems that I know will provide inspiration for my life and my yoga classes for many years to come. The Daily Downward Dog This book is a sweet gift offering to any poetically inclined yoga practitioner and a perfect item to have at yoga studios. Often, instructors will be able to bring resting students back from Savasana with an inspiring reading.

The Poetry of Yoga offers a trove of fresh selections. Like asana practice itself, each visit to the book will bring new discovery and communion. Mount Shasta Magazine It is such an incredible combination of yoga and poetry that we were literally blown away. It has so many great poems and the offerings from the yoga community makes us proud and happy to be a part of something so special. Flow Yoga Magazine This book is successfully building momentum to revitalize the ancient tradition of yoga poetry. Art of Zen Yoga The Poetry of Yoga is an amazing book...featuring some of todays greatest yoga teachers! Opposing Views The Poetry of Yoga anthology harnesses the energy of a great movement of healing arts practitioners...and crossed the lines to gather and contribute 21st century reflections of the state of an ancient practice...

Tribe I used to dream about living in the desert, where the mountains turned pink at sunset, snow graced mountain tops, and every star and galaxy in the sky opened its glimmering eyes; now it is all here in an anthology! Sister Hawk A powerhouse book of poems! Where is My Guru Heartwarming, funny, inspiring and enlightening. A great collection for poetry loverswhether you practice yoga or not! Chelsea Edgett Lots of people write and read poetry and we should all come out of the closet about it. Mind Body Green A monumental work of art, compiled and offered as a global reflection. The many poems, colors, perceptions and cadences, in The Poetry of Yoga together stand as one glowing source of light...one representing our generation. Hosh Yoga When youre a child and read Dr. Seuss, poetry becomes part of the childhood landscape.

This is a playful, contemplative, whimsical, serious gateway back to that place. Rhyme or not, long or short, this collection of poems skewers the heart and spirit with a joyful edge. Its a must-have for any library! Sherry Hanck Im impressed, there is actually a whole, budding theory on how yoga and creativity can work together in all kinds of mediums, from writing, to painting, to music, or just dealing with issues coming up in whatever work it is you do. We need creativity in all aspects of our lives, and in order to access it, we have to be willing to step out of our comfortable boxes. Spirituality and Health This book is a great victory. A voice to contemporary yoga.

Through this book we get to see the somatic power of consciousness. Shiva Rea

All rights reserved. Copyright 2014 by Rajeev Hawah Kasat. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means whatsoever, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. White Cloud Press books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. -- First edition. pages cm. -- (Poetry of yoga series ; 1) ISBN 978-1-940468-25-9 (paperback) 1. -- (Poetry of yoga series ; 1) ISBN 978-1-940468-25-9 (paperback) 1.

Poetry--21st century. 2. Yoga--Poetry. 3. Spiritual life--Poetry. HawaH. II. II.

Rea, Shiva. PN6101.P5445 2014 808.81--dc23 2014029368 Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything Thats how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen Contents

Invocation This book you hold in your hands comes from breathing bodies. Tenderized through the fire of yoga transformed by moments and years of practice and letting go into the natural flow. It can happen to anyone when you least expect it the creative fire arrow releases in the middle of a meditation a wide open asana or a deep embrace while you were turning the corner or dressing your child or calling out in kirtan falling down rising up cracking open exhaling as freedom born again. The sages say, You can teach science to anyone and turn them Into a master.

But not even a Guru can awaken the flow of poetry. It releases spontaneously from within. This inner creative fire of yoga churns life experiences into poetic shakti with the power to ignite the dormant dissolve barriers and sustain connection to your deepest source. This book will hold you as the poets of each page become intimate friends, guiding you through the inner landscape echoing a wisdom teaching, a tenderness, a mirror of your own truth. If you become receptive inside you can work with this book like a mala each poem an offering arising at the right time like a precious jewel remembering what was lost, forgotten or hidden. This book is a great victory a celebration for the cells who carried the creative spark through time for the Sages who poured the nectar of realization into the hymns, songs and sutras that were the poetry of the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita, Tantraloka.

These poems are not lost in post-modern translation but alive with the current of all poets who have vibrated their truth in treacherous times. These poems are a tribute to those extraordinary poetic teachers such as Kabir, Lalla, Mirabai, Rumi, and Tagore whose teachings wrapped in love songs to the Divine helped us become more human. May all who hold this book be transformed by the twilight language of poetry that bows to the eternal in a million different ways. Each poem will find you at the right moment and bring you closer to the author and also your Self. In a world that is trying to find a compass to navigate rough waters ahead, Poetry is the unexpected divining rod, a nadi line between time an ear to the ancestors a yoga practice for the soul. To honor the poetic revelation, revolution and evolution that our brave editor, HawaH calls forth: May you take up a new or old yoga sadhana with a pen And blank page.

Bend your outer mind into your heart. Inhale the fire that waits for us all. Write a poem from your breathing body and feel the yoga of poetry...