In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no one sees you. But sometimes I do
and that sight becomes this art.
–Rumi
Rumi’s poem expresses the deep connection he has with the divine. He is a channel through which the formless becomes form. And the divine becomes heard, felt, and sensed through his artistic expression of poetry.
We are all artists and creative beings. Yoga is a practice that reconnects us to the light of the divine, so that we, too, can learn how to love. . . how to make poems . . . how to give creative expression to the life force pulsing through each of us.
In our yoga practice each pose (asana) can become a way in which we give artistic expression to the divine. No one does a yoga pose just like you. You have a unique gift to give; a unique way to express yourself. And this expression is emergent — it comes from that energy that dances inside your being.
May your yoga practice today be a gateway to reconnecting with the light and love dancing inside your heart, that your poses and your life may be become a creative expression of the formless flowing through you, as you.
