Art and Yoga

Learn to express your soul's longing, delve into images that awaken your imagination, and speak of a truth yet unexplored. Allow Art & Yoga to take you on a journey to your intuitive, creative and authentic self! Yogis will find creative exercises to deepen their experience of yoga, while artists will discover simple, yet profound yoga and meditation practices that will help their creative flow, focus, and intuition.

For anyone interested in yoga and the arts, this book explains how to create a daily Art and Yoga practice, providing step-by-step guidelines for producing art and doing yoga as complementary practices individually, in a group, or in a community. Along the way, we draw inspiration from the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, nature, artists of the past, and recent developments in healing and spirituality.

There is no need to know how to draw, paint, meditate, or do yoga to use this book. The art exercises are designed to make the experience accessible and fun, while also introducing a variety of inexpensive, safe, and easy-to-obtain art materials. Any experience you bring to the process will be helpful. If you teach yoga or art or if you work as a healer, you'll find inspiration and practical ways to deepen your professional practice.

"Art & Yoga is a beautiful, clear, and useful book. It presents an accessible practice of yoga and art for healing oneself and one's community." -Deepak Chopra

"I am happy that Hari Kirin Kaur has created such a beautiful and simple guide for how to bring the practice of Kundalini Yoga into the practice of art. When you conscientiously call your spirit into the service of your art it brings deep fulfillment and joy". -Snatam Kaur

"Unroll your yoga mat, open your sketchbook, and allow your innate creativity to flourish, guided by this irresistible, inspiring book. Internationally renowned artist and yoga teacher Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa draws on a lifetime's worth of hands-on experience in the art studio, and her many years as a student of Yogi Bhajan, to create a fully integrated practice of art and yoga that is accessible to newcomers and seasoned practitioners alike. Through the integration of movement and meditative awareness, heart-opening yoga practices, and joyfully creative art exercises, we are reminded of the beauty of self-expression and the interdependence of all things. As Hari Kirin so generously demonstrates, Art & Yoga has the power to heal the mind, the spirit, and the body; it may even begin to heal the world. -Katrina Kenison, author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day

"So many within the art and healing community long for a book integrating the traditions of yoga, contemplative practice, and creative expression, that longing is realized here with clarity, precision, and visual elegance. Art & Yoga inspires and invites participation and discovery; it is an exercise of the embodied intelligence and imagination carried by the deep streams of the respective traditions and renewed through their partnership which Hari Kirin has embraced as her life's work". -Shaun McNiff, Lesley University

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Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa is an artist and teacher dedicated to healing through yoga and art. She teaches at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the Antrim Girls Shelter, Omega Institute for Holistic Health and venues throughout the Us and Europe. Hari Kirin is currently exhibiting an installation called Wherever You Are is the Center of the World at the Brattleboro Museum.Hari Kirin (b. Joan Hanley in Queens, NY 1955) has been a professional artist since finishing her BFA at Hartford Art School in 1976. Her twenties were spent between NY, at the School of Visual Arts or Columbia University, and Hartford, CT, where she participated in Real Art Ways. During this time she met her spiritual mentor, Mahan Tantric, Yogi Bhajan. In 1986 she moved to Cambridge MA to pursue her interest in art, healing and spirituality.