A Poem for Hovering Tabletop Pose

"...I shoo shoo the naysayers who claim / there is a wire, there is a rod, it is a trick. ..." -- from Hovering Tabletop Pose by Corie Feiner

I was drawn to poetry at a young age because it seemed that magic lived there.

In the metaphors and the music. In how it made me feel like I was having a conversation with another sentient soul who understood not just me, but the vastness of the feelings I felt. That we all feel. And that I belonged.

My poem “Hovering Tabletop Pose” is replacing my poem “Bear Pose” in my manuscript, A Poem for Every Pose. It is the same shape, but Hovering Tabletop honors the magical nature of moving our bodies this way, physically and metaphysically. This poem beckons us to “shoo shoo the naysayers” and to allow ourselves to come home to the magical nature just being here.

If you are a yoga teacher, may this poem serve to create a sense of magic in your classes. And if you are a lover of yoga and/or poetry, may this poem serve to give meaning to your movements and to light up your day.

---

---

Hovering Tabletop Pose

By Corie Feiner 


I hold myself steady like a small table
waiting for the wave of a magician’s 
wand and the mystical mumbo jumbo
 
sounding words that will lift me 
with the strength of my very own breath.

Abracadabra, kar do kar do. 

And just like that, I push myself away 
from the earth and feel the unsteady 
power of letting myself hover, 

of reclaiming my core as strong, 
of embracing how my muscles can burn, 
of holding my spine steady 
and luminous. 

I shoo shoo the naysayers who claim 
there is a wire, there is a rod, it is a trick. 

Watch me float. Watch me shake. 
Watch me claim that I am magic, 
that I am surrender, and that I am home. 





Sanskrit Name: Bharmanasana Knees Up

In what ways can you embrace magic today?

Paid subscribers can listen to me read an audio recording of my poem for “Hovering Tabletop Pose,” and receive their free printable PDF here.

Audio & Printable Version of "Hovering Tabletop Pose" {for paid subscribers}

---

If you want to learn more about Hovering Tabletop Pose…

you can watch this informative instructional video by Substack writer and yoga instructor Janine Agoglia here. She is not only a fantastic yoga instructor, but is also an essential editor for every one of these poems!

---

---

If you’re a yoga teacher and you would like a free printable PDF of this poem so that you can share it

with your students, please DM me with your email address and the name and location of your studio. I will be offering this service free of charge until the eventual publication of my yoga poetry collection, A Poem for Every Pose.

---

Free sample of my Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop for women this coming Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 10 am ET.

Our bodies hold ancestral memories, celebrations, traumas, and stories longing to be told. In the Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop, we use breath and body work and the sacred craft of poetry to create presence with our hands, our hearts, our breasts, our stomachs, our thighs, etc.. We share, we shed, we read, we write and we create community and connection.

If this calls to you, I would love for you to join me for a free sample workshop this Sunday, February 01, 2026 at 10 am ET where we will be connecting with and writing about our hearts. Whether you just come for the free sample or decide to sign up for the full six week workshop, I encourage you to come. Why? Because we need more love in the world right now and it starts with you.

In the sample workshop on Sunday, February 1st, you will:

• Connect with your body with gentle movement and breath work.

• Read and discuss poetry about your heart.

• Explore your relationship with your heart.

• Receive generative writing prompts.

• Be given sacred and supportive writing time.

• Share your work out loud in a safe and supportive space.

• Be given the chance to ask questions about my 6-week Bodylove Poetry Workshop.

Here is the nitty gritty:

Date: Sunday, February 1, 2026

Time: 10-11:30 am ET + 15 minute Q&A about the full 6-week workshop

Space Limit: 11 soulful women (7 spaces left)

Location: Live online via Zoom

Cost: Free

Register Here

If this calls to you, please join me and other lovely goddess-y women to express yourself in a way you have never done before. Even if you’ve never written a poem before, I know there is a poem or two… or ten…inside of you waiting to be unleashed.

Note: With mad love and respect for all genders and non-genders, due to the sensitive and intimate nature of this workshop, participants are limited to those who were born and identify as women. But for real, know that I love and appreciate you in whatever form you take.

---

Thank you all, as always, for your time and presence. Please leave a comment as one of the most wonderful things about this platform is how we connect and have conscious conversations with each other. I always respond.

With gratitude,

Corie