Creative living.
When the work won't come.
Five mornings of yoga and meditation for a creative mind that's blocked, burnt out, and tired of fighting itself — to clear the channel and let the work move again.
It rarely starts in the work. It starts in the body.
You sit down to make something and nothing comes. Or it comes, and a voice tells you it isn't good enough. The block isn't laziness — it's a nervous system that's been running on fear and fumes for too long. Before we ask the work to return, we have to make the body safe enough to hold it.
The fear that won't sit down
Every maker carries it. Left unattended, it stops being a passenger and grabs the wheel. We don't try to kill it. We learn to let it ride along — without letting it drive.
The well that ran dry
You can't pour from empty. Burnout isn't a character flaw — it's a body that gave more than it got back. Five mornings, we begin to fill it again, gently.
The voice that judges first
The inner critic is loud because the mind is restless (the वृत्ति · vritti — its endless turning). Yoga quiets the turning. In the quiet, the critic has less to grip.
Not a productivity course. A return to the body.
This isn't five days of hacks for making more, faster. It's the opposite. We slow down enough that the body stops bracing, the breath lengthens, and the mind clears — and in that clearing, creativity finds its own way back. It always does. Inspired by the spirit of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic: fear and creativity are old travelling companions, and you are allowed to make anyway — out of curiosity, not pressure.
You don't have to feel fearless to begin. You only have to begin.
Five days, one block to clear.
Each morning is one practice — about 75 minutes — a mix of gentle आसन (asana · movement), प्राणायाम (pranayama · breath), and meditation. You need no experience and no flexibility. Just five mornings, and a willingness to show up.
Meeting the fear
Grounding movement for the spine and the breath, to bring a racing system back to earth. A meditation to name the fear plainly — and to seat it beside you, not in front of you.
The body remembers
The block lives somewhere — a clenched jaw, tight shoulders, held hips. Slow openers to release where you've been holding, closing with योग निद्रा (yoga nidra · guided rest) so the body lets go all the way down.
Clearing the channel
For the scattered, can't-focus mind: नाड़ी शोधन (nadi shodhana · alternate-nostril breath) to steady attention, a standing practice for a steady spine, and त्राटक (trataka · candle-gazing) to gather a mind that's been pulled in ten directions.
Softening the critic
Gentle heart-opening backbends to undo the protective hunch, and a loving-kindness (मैत्री · maitri) meditation turned, for once, toward yourself. The critic doesn't vanish — it just stops being the only voice in the room.
Begin again
One flowing practice to feel the energy you've gathered, an intention set in stillness (संकल्प · sankalpa), and a short daily practice to carry home — ten minutes you can return to whenever the block creeps back. You leave making for the joy of it, not the fear of it.
Small, short, and yours.
A short course on purpose — long enough to feel a shift, short enough to actually finish.
15–19 July · five mornings
Five consecutive mornings, 15 to 19 July — one 75-minute practice each, online over Google Meet, from wherever you are.
A small circle — ten places
Writers, designers, founders, painters, anyone who makes — and anyone whose making has gone quiet. No yoga experience needed.
₹1,000 for all five days
The whole workshop. Bring nothing but yourself and a little space to lie down. Mats optional.
Five mornings to meet the block
— and move through it.
15–19 July · ten places only, so the circle stays small. ₹1,000 for all five days.
Reserve your place — ₹1,000If something opens, you can keep going.
Some people come for these five mornings and that's exactly enough. Others feel something begin, and want to stay with it. If that's you, the online group class runs five days a week, and the free demo class is always open. No pressure either way — the choice is yours.