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Happy Baby Pose (Ananda Balasana) – Original Yoga Poetry. Linked to prompt from dVersepoets
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happy baby pose (ananda balasana) – original yoga poetry
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Intro
the dVersepoets has provided another of their continuing series of prompts, this time on “contrast”
as usual, the poet providing the prompt, this time, victoria c. slotto, provides an interesting essay, with numerous visual and written examples of the use and presentation of contrasts
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The Prompt
almost immediately, though the essay from dversepoets mentions art and texture, things i personally relish, an image from a poem i was working on came to mind – “happy baby pose“
the contrasts i felt thinking of this image, involved the incredible softness of a baby, their delicate expressions -
and yet the immense strength and growth of bones and muscles happening at the same time, which allows us to first crawl, then walk
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Yoga
the lecture sheila and i attend at the university of vermont recently, actually spoke to the necessity of a child developing its core muscles, to even being able to crawl, much less walk
and here we are, as adults, in fitness and yoga classes, needing to be reminded, made aware of, and recapture, the sense of strength and stability we gained when we first developed those core muscles -
when we were happy babies 
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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Happy Baby Pose – Ananda Balasana
happy baby pose
is a pose of contrasts
strength
in playfulness
legs curled, hands securely clasped
on searching feet
airborne
the relaxed back resting
on first mother, earth
the core
felt, and tightened, made aware
ready
for movement when feet and hands
roll
the back to the sky and the heart back
to the earth
it is time to crawl
explore
such a happy baby…
© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma
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