It may be interesting to note that when we create we are actually moving in really big ways. Whether writing, engineering, solving problems, building roads-all involve breath moving or body moving. It occurred to me in a tangible way when I started to work with the sticks again recently. There was a great deal of arm and leg and breath all over the place. I felt as though I was getting to know not only the trees from which the branches came but also the beavers who did the hard work of removing all the bark off of the limbs I selected.
I had a similar experience of large art making movement while I working in a sizable loft space. Suddenly my tiny works became huge. Movement reflected a more “spacefull” condition I literally dashed from one end to the other in order to apply the medium to the surfaces. It was so deeply satisfying to be dancing with art.
No matter what you’re making, see if you can notice how much different the result is when you include and awareness of the incorporation of movement of breath and body. It is then when you realize that yoga is doing you all the time
MJ Yeager 