Posts Tagged: Yoga

Practicing Yoga with Sylvia Plath

By Guia Cortassa

December 30th, 2014

This is the Plath poem I relate the most to shavasana. You sink down, you bubble back up. The Duchess of Nothing in yoga pants.

For Carrie Frye, yoga practice and Sylvia Plath are inherently tied. She explains why in a lovely essay over at The Awl.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Weightless Nomad

By Arielle Bernstein

February 23rd, 2014

"We live in a moment where images fill our lives in more obvious ways than words. Every day we scroll through Tumblrs, memes and gifs, a parade of images as completely absorbing as it is mind numbing." ...more

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ruptured

By Jennifer Pastiloff

November 24th, 2013

I think about that night a lot, how I knew the ambulance was coming for us. Call me Magic, if you want. I won’t object. Who doesn’t want to be called Magic? Was it magic or do we always know before we know? ...more

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ghost Lives

By Jennifer Pastiloff

May 5th, 2013

"Here’s what you do when that pile starts talking. You light a match. Light it all on fire and watch it burn with a combination of sadness and elation." ...more

Shit Turd and The Purple Light

By Gwen Goodkin

January 11th, 2013

With this much self-awareness and meditation, residents such as myself tend to forget – or, rather, concentrate on forgetting – that Encinitas is also a half-marathon’s distance from the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island ...more

In the Wound Lies the Gift

By Megan Leigh

January 3rd, 2013

At 13, I never hear anyone use the words “slut, whore, bitch,” until they are said to me, about me. Brain damage, in one area of my skull. Straight A’s in the other. ...more

The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Evison

By Joshua Mohr

February 14th, 2011

“It's difficult to forget yourself, to put your whole life on some back burner, and give yourself to your characters. But that's what you've gotta do to get the job done.” ...more

The Rumpus Interview With Neal Pollack

By Zoë Ruiz

August 17th, 2010

A year and a half ago, I started practicing yoga because I wasn’t feeling well. I could barely touch my toes and felt very self-conscious in yoga classes, but kept practicing because I started to feel better.

I didn’t know why I was feeling better, so I went to the literature.

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