Yoga For New Projects

Unleash your creativity, be inspired to start something new and learn how yoga can give you the courage to keep going into the unknown.

- Rachael Coopes

In my career as a writer, actor and yoga teacher, I’ve embarked on many new projects. Each time, there is a sense of excitement and terror. I see it as a surge of energy and inspiration. There’s nothing more exhilarating and terrifying than the blank page, full of possibilities. I believe this surge is necessary in order to create anything in life, just like plugging into a power source. We need a great deal of prana to embark on anything new such as a business, relationship, health plan, renovation … it all requires concentrated prana.

Prana is our life force. From the yogi’s perspective, it runs through invisible power lines called nadis throughout the energetic body. Similar to the meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine, these little pathways can’t be seen by the physical eye, but according to the yoga physiology they are very real and immensely powerful. Nadis have a tendency to get blocked, due to various mental, physical, emotional and spiritual stressors — life’s baggage if you will.

You arrive at a particular moment ready to embark on something new, but you find yourself stuck and bogged down by your history, which manifests as blockages in the energetic body. The practice of yoga allows you to purify stuck channels so that life force can flow and your creativity is freed. When that happens, you can direct your precious energy to wherever you want it to go.

In order to facilitate this process, you need to clean out your closet. According to Patanjali,