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.

—Hafiz