This Week’s Featured Creator
This week, I’m delighted to introduce Corie Feiner, the writer behind A Poem for Every pose.
Quick Introduction
I first connected with Corie on Substack 16 months ago, and believe she is one of the most inspiring and resourceful creators I have had the pleasure of meeting on this platform.
Corie’s commitment to both poetry and yoga is truly exceptional, and her ability to intertwine these two realms is nothing short of remarkable.
I hope you’ll take the time to read about Corie’s creative journey and discover her beautiful offerings, both in written form and through her scheduled workshops.
I sincerely believe you’ll be glad you stopped by to connect with this extraordinary creator.
Conversation with Corie Feiner
What is the heart of your Substack, and what do you hope readers experience when they spend time there?
The heart of my Substack is my yoga poems from my collection-in-progress, A Poem for Every Pose. Each poem centers on a single pose, exploring how the ancient mind-body-spirit practice of yoga, my physical experience, and my healing journey metaphorically come together in the poem with rhythm and breath.
A Poem for Every Pose consists of 108 poems which I have been carefully carving out and sharing over the past few years here on Substack. My vision for these poems is that they will serve as a bridge from the physical to the metaphysical realms of yoga and change your relationship with not just the yoga asana, but with yourself.
Eventually, I will publish the collection as an alphabetically organized reference-style book, a teacher-training manual, a tarot-style deck, an audiobook and an ebook. Currently, I am working on poster prints that I hope to finish before the holidays. I would love to see these poetry prints in meditation and studio spaces right above where you take off your shoes! I mean, imagine that, reading a yoga poem on your way into the studio as you take off your boots.
Also, perhaps not exactly in the “heart,” but at least in the aorta of my Substack, is my Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop for women, along with my body-part-based poetry.
These workshops and poems overlap with my passion and commitment to writing these yoga poems in that they help foster self-acceptance, self-love, emotional safety, and creativity.
What I hope is that when readers find my Substack they experience a deep sense of inspiration and hope. That they walk away with new ideas and possibilities. And if they practice yoga, that my Substack adds depth and dimension to their practice. And if they do not practice yoga, that they are inspired to move their bodies, see things with new eyes, try their hand at writing a poem, and be open to new possibilities.
What inspired you to begin writing or creating on Substack?
I finished my yoga poetry collection years ago when I thought it would be only 84 poems. I sent it out to publishers, and they liked it, but I had no audience. I used to be a very active poet, performer, and workshop facilitator in NYC in the 1990s before I moved to a small town and dedicated myself to my family. Even though I was the Poet Laureate of Bucks County and had a good number of publications in literary magazines and anthologies, I did not have any social media presence. I was really in a funk. I didn’t know what to do or how to share these poems since they were creating a category of their own.
My husband then suggested this new platform called Substack. He told me that it was a combination of a blog and a mailing list with no ads. (It has grown quite a bit since then!)
I started my Substack with a lot of trepidation and have slowly found my footing here. What I am most grateful for is how writing here has inspired me to keep creating yoga poems, collaborate with other creators, and launch my Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop. Along the way, my poetry collection has grown from 84 to 108 poems.
Is there a topic, question, or idea that continually calls you back in your work? If so, what is it, and why does it matter to you?
I realized at some point in my life that the artists who eventually gained momentum or “made it” were those who did not give up, those who committed.
I felt very reluctant to write this collection of poems. I had total imposter syndrome after I wrote Hero Pose then Warrior I. Writing these poems changed my relationship with the asanas. They became deeper for me, more connected and less about trying to “do it right.” I then realized that I could keep going and write a poem for every pose.
I wrote them with that tension within me until I remembered an Arlo Guthrie concert I saw. He told the audience in his signature sing-song way that he did not “write” songs, but received them as if they were floating down a river. (He then joked that Bob Dylan got “Like A Rolling Stone” and he got “The Motorcycle Song.”)
I realized that I had spent years writing poetry and practicing my craft, and that my words on the pages were like tiny vessels for the spirit of these poems. I had the realization, after a deep meditation practice, that these poems were being spread like dandelion seeds all over this earth, and that I could say yes or no to them. So I said yes. And say yes every day now as I carefully revise and share each and every one of these poems.
I gave myself 20 years for this project so that I would not give up.
My hope for these poems is that they will be read before, during or after meditation and yoga practices, and remind you that we are many-layered and many-souled beings. Remind you to connect with yourself, get to know yourself, tend to yourself, be brave in this inner journey that we are on. And that you are healable, lovable, and part of everything the way a flower is part of a garden.
If your writing or creative work could make one meaningful difference in someone’s life, what would you hope that difference would be?
Oh gosh. I just want you to sigh with me, hug yourself, and say to yourself, I really am lovable.
A Favorite Photograph
OK. This photo has nothing to do with the yoga poems, but it is one that my husband recently took of me hugging my son after not seeing him for a few months. I am sharing it because love is this thing that we talk about a lot, and try to show, but it is a felt experience. Perhaps invisible and elusive like so many other feelings.
In this photo, my husband captured love.
I feel it every time I look at this photo.
Things were not always smooth in our home. I was not prepared for mothering, even though I wanted it so much–especially after being told that with amenorrhea it would be unlikely for me to conceive.
But I didn’t know that to have children meant that every suppressed trauma would rise up to the surface, and I did many things I felt bad about for years… until I did an about-face and dedicated myself to non-violent communication and self-directed evolution to not just heal the generations of abuse in my family, but to heal my relationship with myself and my son. So this photo… It just means a lot to me. And as I always tell my boys, You two are my greatest poems.
What is something that brings you joy or peace in your everyday life outside of writing?
My yoga practice is intensely private and gives me great joy. It is what helps me connect with my body, calm my thoughts, balance my nervous system, and give my body much needed relief from my scoliosis induced SI joint pain. It is just as much of a movement practice as it is a spiritual one for me. And after years of daily practice, I feel stronger and more confident in my body than ever.
Also, hugs, lots of hugs.
What do you hope people remember after reading your work?
I hope that their relationship with each yoga pose transforms. That they can be more present with themselves and have each poem come to mind when they practice the yoga asanas.
(Here is a quote from Patty Townsend about her experience with my yoga poems. She says it way better than I do:)
The combination of each of the postures with their specific poems is so good. Your voice and the words of the poems are so fresh. The stories Corie tells are completely new approaches to these simple and lovely postures. I was transported into this journey and honestly, I didn’t fully expect that.
The transporting is created by Corie’s voice, pace, words, and the simplicity of the postures. The fact that the “commentary” (poems) is so different from what we normally read and hear about the postures is fantastic. (If the poetry wasn’t also so good it wouldn’t work, obviously. 😂)
Patty Townsend, founder of Embodyoga
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