The
Great Seal
Sit,
and stretch your legs. Bend one knee
out
to the side and pull your heel
into
your groin. Reach forward, grab hold
of
your big toe. Lift your chest
and
tuck your chin into your sternum. Breathe in
and
hold. Suck your pelvic floor and belly
up
and in to lift your diaphragm.
Slowly
now, release, let go.
To
walk the royal road of breath control
focus
like a laser on its flow.
Draw
the serpent, Kundalini, up
from
root to crown. Give your soul
a
glimpse of emptiness, transcendent bliss—
no
self, no other, all one, complete and whole.
John
Whitney Steele
John Whitney Steele, a psychologist, yoga
teacher, and assistant editor of Think: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction and
Essays, graduated from the MFA Poetry Program at Western Colorado
University. His poetry has appeared most recently in Autumn Sky, Boulder
Weekly, Buddhist Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, The Colorado Sun, Copperfield
Review, Eastern Forms, Ekphrastic Review, Lighten Up Online, The Light, The
Lyric, Mountains Talking, Muse India, New Verse News, The Orchards, Road Not
Taken, Urthona Journal of Buddhism, and Westward Quarterly.
hard to tell if this is poetry or zen new age teaching methodology.
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