12. Yoga and Poetry

Cynthia talks about how yoga training helped her to ease the pain and how poetry, just like yoga, can do the same for a person inside. Reaching some deep places and wounds, we did not visit in a long time, can be healed with the help of poetry writing.

Show Notes

🌧️Rain is so wonderful, it extends green colors in nature. 0:18
🧘Just like yoga stretches, poetry stretches you inside towards unreachable places. 0:50
📖Reading: Poem about Yoga. 1:25
🤔Thinking about what we have hidden inside that's still giving you a trouble.2:55
😓Poetry cuts like a knife to find what is hurting inside. 3:24
✍️Write poems to heal yourself. 3:42
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What is In-Versing Your Life?

Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson is a prize-winning poet and a pioneer in the world of poetry therapy. This podcast takes one poem and relates it to the current day, then challenging the listener to write.