If you think of Yoga as focused on getting you out of your common body and mind habits,  you’d be speaking my language.   When you are guided to become aware of your physical body in postures (asanas), linking with directed breathing, you stretch beyond the typical confines of sitting, standing, walking and whatever else you may do with your body.   In addition to expanding flexibility,  building strength and  enhancing balance in the physical body, we also learn to consciously control our breathing.

This leads us to the Subtle Body, the seat of the chakras, and our feelings = that is, the Emotional Body.  When we tune into this more subtle energy, accessed through breathing and noticing feelings, we can balance what we recognize as askew.  When we are irritated, we can breathe and let go, with a nice long, slow, deep exhale, grounding to the earth.  This takes us out of our head – and especially the left side!
Our culture is very left hemisphere dominant, demanding we put much effort into ‘Doing’,most of it fairly linear and constricted to the three dimensional space/time realm.  Through Yoga, the Rational part of our Brain gets a break.  Yoga helps us redirect our effort inwards, and to integrate.  It is essential for ‘Being’.

When we let go of our efforts during sav-asana (in corpse pose, after asana), or as you are guided into deep relaxation, or Yoga Nidra, (when you focus on connecting through the layers of your Being: Physical, Subtle, Psychological, Inner Witness, & Expanded Heart-Centered Awareness), you integrate experience, release the toxic byproducts, and keep the wisdom.  Forms of meditation focused upon cultivating positive qualities such as: Joy, Compassion, Patience and Connection, simply makes you happier and your life easier!

So what do all these beneficial Yoga Practices have to do with Creativity?

Creativity requires the use of the right hemisphere of your brain, and when engaged, ultimately allows the two halves of your brain to operate together more seamlessly. Once we have put the left brain on the back burner, and  allowed for the natural integration of our experiences, we can more freely access the right side of our brain.  We can play, explore, and be in a different kind of rhythm than what the social structure primarily dictates. We are more free to imagine, visualize, and make atypical connections for problem solving and our life flows more easily.
Our creativity is free to infiltrate our whole life and that Brings JOY!

That is quite a promise… and I hope you engage in enough yoga, or the kind that makes this possible, for you!