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If it were a color, what color would it be? What shape? What texture? Soft or hard? Hot or cold? (Note: If the Easy Pose is not easy, try sitting on a pillow. When you find one, spend a few breaths just noticing it. Sitting in Easy Pose (seated, with legs crossed, as pictured above), scan your body for sensations. If you’re tracing, make changes in the shape so it looks more like you.Ģ. Trace the figure below into your journal or, if you prefer, make your own outline. You are cultivating an embodied neutrality that will be an asset to you in any endeavor.ġ. The images you create help develop intuition.Īs you work from your sensations, listen to them. Perceiving and representing these patterns guides you in noticing when those patterns shift. You will notice more about your sensations and gain insights into what’s happening in your body and mind. This transition increases your ability to perceive. But as simple as it is, by noting sensations and representing them visually, you shift from the concrete to the poetic or symbolic. This is a very simple practice, and anyone can do it. It is especially helpful for students new to meditation or those who have trouble focusing or sitting still.

This practice calms, heals, and brings insight.

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The following series of movements - adapted from my new book, Art & Yoga: Kundalini Awakening in Everyday Life - helps to cultivate awareness and to translate sensations and feelings into your unique visual language.

As a lifelong artist and Kundalini yoga practitioner, I have found that yoga provides an ongoing awakening of creativity essential to my art practice. The simplest way to return to this ancient awareness is to literally draw what we experience, just as ancient yogis did. We need to move away from seeing yoga as gymnastics and return to seeing it as a way of compassion, community, and awareness. This sense of connection requires a departure from the individualist, introverted, and competitive approach often found in the modern practice of yoga. Whatever happens to any one of us - human, animal plant, or ecosystem - happens to all of us. Today it is essential that we sense the interconnectedness of our world. The world needs our creativity, compassion, and intuitive intelligence.

Ong namo guru dev namo draw