Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.

Yogic Logic

It is not debilitating and draining
Yoga is fortifying and fulfilling.

It is not tearing down others defenses
Yoga is about enhancing your senses.

It is not overwhelming your opponents
Yoga is overcoming your impediments.

It is not about material possession
Yoga is about spiritual ascension.

It is not winning a frantic race
Yoga is attaining a state of grace.

It is not about a world that has to be won
Yoga is about a Universe that is One.

Last few words: 
Yoga - Your Optimal General Activity
Editing stage: 

Comments

Never having done yoga, but always hearing about all it has to offer not only physically but mentally as well, your poem may actually inspire me to finally give it a try! I enjoyed the way it read from beginning to end, and you couldn't have written a better end! I think your format makes the read an easy one and aides in giving it a good flow. Your rhyming is on spot. I especially like the lines, "It's not about material possessions...Yoga is about spiritual ascension." In today's world where it's easy to get caught up in thinking that material things are so important to exist, your words are more important than ever!

Valerie, thanks for sharing your thoughts and your generous review. Yoga is an ages old activity for persons young or old or any age in between.and you can experience the positive benefits by taking a course from a qualified instructor in your locality. Here's to Happy, Holistic Health.

author comment

There's a place right near where I work that I need to check into. I like the idea of holistic health cos I don't think doctors always have the best answers for certain issues. Oh and it's Valene not Valerie but Valerie is close enough or just Val is fine too....LOL!

Valene, sorry about the misnomer. Let us know your experience after trying Yoga. There is another benefit to Yoga that includes meditation. Just a cursory review of leaders who practice or are knowledgeable about Yoga shows that generally they are more balanced leaders less likely to initiate or expand conflicts. PM Trudeau I of Canada (father of current PM Trudeau II) used to practice Yoga (standing on his head in between cabinet meetings) and is widely acknowledged as a leader that was progressive and Canada had a very favourable reputation abroad due to him. Trudeau II's predecessor was a man who had a very narrow knowledge and understanding of the situation outside the Western hemisphere and his policies changed the reputation of Canada from good to bad. Fortunately, PM Trudeau II is in the same mold as his illustrious father. Trudeau II's wife practices Yoga. So a small example gf how practicing Yoga might avoid conflict.

author comment

Ah yes meditation is definitely something I've thought about for quite some time and learning how to do so, I know would benefit my frame of mind at times! Thanks for the info. I've met a woman who teaches restorative yoga and am just trying to find the time to get together with her. I shall ask about meditation as well. I'll keep you posted!

Your responses are routinely remarkable and gracious.

author comment
(c) Neopoet.com. No copyright is claimed by Neopoet to original member content.