A Poem For Every Pose
inspiring poems for your yoga practice
A Poem for Every Pose was born out of my yoga practice and my deep desire to feel more connected with my body and every part of my being.
Each poem is simply titled with a common translated name for each asana and intend to honor the history, depth, somatic, and spiritual meaning of the pose. Some poems are more personal than others and touch upon my struggles with disembodiment, trauma, and my insistent desire to persevere and come home to my deepest self. Other poems are humorous, like Cat-Cow and Wind-Relieving Pose and others, like Star Pose, are more universal and addressed to the you in us all.
Corie’s work is refreshing, original, and inspiring! Her poems help
me go deeper into a practice I thought I already dove deeply into.
I am so thankful for this creative twist to the ancient tradition of yoga.
— Jacquie Bullard, Urban Yoga Mama
The poems can live on the on page or on your walls, but they are also meant to be read out loud, to be shared, to be heard, to be embodied.
They are as much poems as they are teaching tools to bring depth to your or your student’s experience of the asanas and create more yoga practices infused with poetry and presence.
Some of the poems came to me whole right in the middle of my practice and were crafted and re-crafted over time; and some of the poems took days and weeks until they finally took shape. Most of them want to stay as they are, but some poems still want to be rewritten, and some are still yet to come.
The combination of each of the postures with their specific poems
is so good. The stories Corie tells are completely new approaches
to these simple and lovely postures. I was transported into this journey
and, honestly, I didn't fully expect that.Â
— Patty Townsend, Embodyoga
Whether you read them quietly to yourself before, during, or after your yoga or meditation practices, listen to my available audio recordings, or share them with others, I hope they are as much a gift to you as they were, and still are, to me.
If you want to start reading some of the poems from A Pose for Every Pose, I recommend you start here:
Experiencing our yoga practice through the unique combination of language
and asana is immersive and intimate. Corie’s ability to capture the world of e
ach asana in such lively imagery, brings forth a new dimension to what we call our Practice.
— Trina Shumsonk, founder Bucks County Yoga Festival
You can find my work here or upgrade to paid for audio recordings. But hang tight, poster prints are coming soon…
Brief Bio: Corie Feiner is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Bucks County, PA and an award-winning poet, performer and educator called "wonderful" by The New York Times and "absorbing" by Backstage Magazine. She obtained her MFA studying with some of the greats at NYU and has actively publishes her poetry in journals, anthologies, and teacher training manuals. She is also a certified Holistic Health Coach, lover of yoga, and a homeschooling, home-birthing, cook from scratch mama who lives in a stone house with her kindred spirit and their two boys. Her latest project, A Poem for Every Pose, combines her love of yoga with her craft.