A Poem for Sphinx Pose
"What if we could reclaim what it means to have enough courage that we protect all that we love, including ourselves?" -- from Sphinx Pose by Corie Feiner
When I set out to write, Sphinx Pose, I had so much fun researching the riddle of the sphinx from the ancient Greek tale of Oedipus, and the mythical sphinxes of Egypt built as protectors near the tombs of royalty and pharaohs.
The Sanskrit word for Sphinx Pose actually translates into something more along the lines of “supported cobra pose,” but the poetic-ness of embodying a sphinx when I rested on my forearms, opened my heart, and gently stretched my often sore back was just too… alluring.
The first line of the poem came quickly with the idea that the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx was within… and with the dare to love myself enough to spend some time with myself and be, again, in wonder.
The rest of the poem came after a lot of research, detours, deep breathing… and finally the version of Sphinx Pose that I have posted below.
If you have not tried Sphinx you can read more about it here, and if this yogic movement is a regular part of your practice, I offer you this poem to h…