Move Your Mind: Headstands for Creativity

It worked for Stravinsky!

Photo by Evelyn Alder on Unsplash

Move Your Mind is a short exercise to start your week in the realm of Yoga Culture’s Yoga & Writing. Sometimes metaphorical, other time scientific, we explore new directions with fun.

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Headstand (Salamba Shirshasana)

Today’s Move Your Mind is about going upside down and, more specifically, headstands. I’ll give you a couple of options and tips and discuss its benefits for our creative minds.

Anytime we move upside down, we gain a literal new perspective of the world around us. How can we also use this idea in our writing?

Have fun!

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Notes and resources:

• Idiom definition linked: to turn something on its head

• Keeping your neck safe in headstand

• Yoga poses for creativity

• Playing Devil’s Advocate in your writing (my article) & discussion of engaging with “the other side”

• Headstand brainstorming (like the Evil Brainstorming of Dr. Kate Henry in this community, article linked below)

• Stravinsky did it (+ coffee and napping with steal balls…although I think maybe just napping could do it?)

• A bunch of other headstands…

• A couple of articles on Substack —

  Headstand Pose

Evil Brainstorming is a Great Idea

Let us know how you feel when you try it! Have a great week.