Meander and Spiral: How We Evolve with Luisa Igloria | Vinyasa in Verse Podcast Episode 57

In this episode, I talk with Luisa about how poetry writing and spiritual practices overlap and intersect. Both are a kind of meandering, a kind of exploration. // Our human minds always want to be linear - a ‘feeling’ is not a straight line nor a destination, but it is a moment or an experience. // This episode brings the idea of mapping the patterns according to what we see in nature rather than trying to live a linear life. // Writing is not all magic nor fairy dust but it is an idea of finding a point of stillness where you can just be in your own space. // Poetry is a lot like a prayer. The idea of prayer as an internalized form of speaking to another, not just a supplication but also for disclosure or for company. // It has the capacity to draw out an experience from us when we are most vulnerable, as if we're not just talking to ourselves, but we're talking to something else in the living universe. // Memory is something that is directly attached to the ability to repeat. You use it as a way to find something or to find your way back to that thing by remembering its associations. // Poetry is related to saying the rosary - it is how we lay down the verses, how we lay out the lines, and how we choose the words. // Follow me on Instagram for Maverick Mondays, Free Verse Fridays and some real talk about healing AND play: @leslieannhobayan

Today’s poems/ Books mentioned:

• “In a Circus Booth” by Hafiz
  
• Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
  
• The Buddha Wonders If She is Having A Midlife Crisis by Luisa Igloria
  
• “The Morning Porch”(blog) by Dave Bonta
  
• “Fata Morgana” by Luisa Igloria
  

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