Writing the Fire!: Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive

by Gail Sher

Writing the Fire! offers writers a new and visionary using yoga to release the body’s inner intelligence and then support, shape, and inform the creative process.

Indeed, “writing is yoga,” declares Gail Sher, introducing the “writing asana”—an invaluable new tool for every writer’s routine. Her insightful and lyrical book, organized around eight thematic “immersions,” plumbs yoga’s wisdom heritage. As Donald Moyer, director of the Yoga Room in Berkeley, comments, “She encourages writers to approach their writing with the clarity and presence of yogis, and teaches yogis how to temper their awareness with the heat of words and images.” Writing the Fire! celebrates the fullest expression of our being.

Genres: Writing

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 23, 2006

Reviews

[Dana Jerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

you don't have to do yoga while reading this book, but by the end you will want to. Enjoyable and quick to read.

[Johanna DeBiase · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, I did not love this book. It wasn't organized enough for me. Seriously. It didn't have any order to it and seemed to flit all over the place from one topic to the next. Also, it rarely went into depth on any one topic. Of course, some people might like this effect. It could read more like a book of daily meditations or something that you just pick up once in a while and open to any random page to contemplate. Personally, I don't think this book would help people learn about yoga and I'm not sure it would help writers either. But there is a beautiful simplicity to it and I think it just depends on the person and what they are looking for. For me, this didn't work.