Yoga as the Writer's Muse - Jeffrey Davis Part 1

Welcome, Jeffrey Davis,  author, TIFERET Fic­tion Edi­tor, yogi, and cre­ativ­ity con­sul­tant,

Amber: How would a writer benefit from bringing yoga into her or his life?

Jeffrey: Yoga brings a clear mind that becomes aware of itself. It instills that luxurious immersion, that deep concentration all artists and writers need and yearn for. It awakens what I call the felt mind - this is a term I've just stumbled upon in my own journaling and is not something I've written about yet except in a Yoga As Muse e-course . I distinguish the felt mind from the processor mind.


Let me digress a moment because this point is essential, I think. The processor mind wants to explain and analyze and compute and calculate and, frankly, conclude and wrap stories and poems and essays up before my fingers have even completed a page of writing. The felt mind slows down. I'm not a fan of automatic or quick writing or free writing, by the way. I'm a fan of slow writing, of a process that is so deeply felt that while writing your inner ears can hear the textures of words and your inner fingers can feel the textures of words. The felt mind feels. The processor mind is made of steel and sky. The felt mind is made of silk and sinew, of felt and grit. It mind wrapped in earth.


Several yoga practices quiet the processor mind. (Neuroscience has an explanation for this phenomenon, too.) And several yoga practices awaken the felt mind.


Yoga As Muse specifically is a way to help writers and artists become aware of their embodied mind's nuances so they can become their own muses. They don't have to wait for some mysterious muse to show up each blue moon wearing angel wings and blowing a golden trumpet. Those inspired moments - like a Miles Davis impromptu solo - require a lot of practice.



Yoga As Muse offers that practice.

 

Join author, TIFERET Fic­tion Edi­tor, yogi, and cre­ativ­ity con­sul­tant JEFFREY DAVIS as he shares with you key insights and tested tools to deepen your rela­tion­ship with your own cre­ative mind.



In Part 2 Jeff will talk more about his book, workshops, and Yoga as Muse


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Thecre­ative mind is fickle. Some­times it sparks; some­times it's just dark. Youcan­not exactly "con­trol" that wild mys­tery box (who would want to?).Butflour­ish­ing cre­atives and cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als do know they don't haveto be at their muse's whim. 
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