Yoga Poetry

Yoga Poetry: Pose Poems to Enhance Your Practice is a book featuring yoga pose photos, each with a corresponding poem. It was created for the millions of yoga lovers seeking deeper insight and meaning to their practice, and for people who appreciate the elegance of language. Yoga Poetry came into existence to bring pleasure and spiritual nourishment to yogis and not-yet yogis, for poetry lovers and those who may learn to be, for those who adore the natural beauty of bodies, and those who marvel at the powerful energy of words. Each page of the book offers an original poem and corresponding photo. Readers can experience the visual elegance of the pose with a poem that examines its symbolism and lessons. The poems are personal, anecdotal experiences of what the ancient poses can convey to a modern practitioner.

Yoga Poetry: Pose Poems to Enhance Your Practice is a book featuring yoga pose photos, each with a corresponding poem. It was created for the millions of yoga lovers seeking deeper insight and meaning to their practice, and for people who appreciate the elegance of language. Yoga Poetry came into existence to bring pleasure and spiritual nourishment to yogis and not-yet yogis, for poetry lovers and those who may learn to be, for those who adore the natural beauty of bodies, and those who marvel at the powerful energy of words. Each page of the book offers an original poem and corresponding photo. Readers can experience the visual elegance of the pose with a poem that examines its symbolism and lessons. The poems are personal, anecdotal experiences of what the ancient poses can convey to a modern practitioner.

Samantha Lang is the author of Yoga Poetry and is an avid yoga practitioner and instructor in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. Certified in 2004 by At One Yoga, Samantha was trained by Astanga yoga master, Dave Oliver, and Sanskrit scholar, Cheryl Hall. Samantha holds a BA in English from Fordham University and an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. In addition to teaching yoga at the prestigious Village Health Club and Spas in Scottsdale for the past ten years, Samantha teaches community classes for the fitness clothing company, Lululemon Athletica, and for major league baseball teams, under Katherine Robert’s Yoga for Baseball program. She regularly leads popular yoga events and workshops, often attracting significant attendance, and is frequently asked to teach private classes for individuals and groups. Samantha’s poems have appeared in the Santa Clara Review, Chelsea, Folio, and American University’s Graduate Review. In 2006, she received the Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize (in one of three runner-up positions) from Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square, the oldest continuous poetry book shop in the United States. She graduated with Literature Department Honors from Fordham University, also receiving the annual Nettleton/Hirsch Award for Poetry. From American University, upon completing her Master’s degree, she was honored with the Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis of the Year and Literature Department’s Outstanding Academic Achievement Award.