“May every breath be a prayer. May every surge of energy pulse with colorful kindness.”
When a world renown yoga guru proves to be a criminal, one woman abandons his unusual teachings and finds solace in her intuitive daily practice of yoga combined with writing sestinas. This collection follows characters from realms of the fantastic, sacred, ethereal, and realistic. She Bleeds Sestinas is an imaginative journey exploring the intersection of subtle body awareness and art. These poems attempt to be anchors to one who learns, with cultural humility, from Vedanta, Tantra, Classical, Taoist, Buddhist, and Modern yoga, while yoking sadhana to formal poetry. Her unique way birthed a discipline of meditation that helped her transcend grief. By imagining the poetic form of the sestina as the ideal companion for Kundalini Shakti—the powerful energy that moves up and down the spine in spirals—the connected poems interrogate that which enriches and derails the sincere spiritual seeker’s struggles and joys in keeping up with daily practice, especially when teachers have failed her.
She Bleeds Sestinas presents a perspective uniting spirituality with imagination and poetry with yoga to create a powerful tool for personal transformation. Both poetic and practical, it provides readers with the guidance they need to navigate life’s disappointments with beauty and discipline.
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