Author: nicoleadell
Nicole Klosterman is a certified yoga teacher through You Do Yoga’s Taoist Teacher Training Program (RYS200) in Cincinnati, Ohio and holds bachelor of arts degrees in English literature and environmental studies from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. In addition to teaching yoga, Nicole is a poet, writer, and editor; leads workshops in creative writing and culinary arts for adults and children; and is a lifelong student of dance.
taoist seasonal practice: spring workshop
You Do Yoga – Anderson Township ∞ 7218 Beechmont Avenue
March 22, 2015 ∞ 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Join me at You Do Yoga – Anderson Township for an afternoon of seasonally focused Taoist yoga practice and meditation.
Each season offers opportunities to balance and strengthen our physical, emotional, and thinking bodies. Taoist elemental practice calls upon the wisdom of the natural world, the Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian system & the associated Yin and Yang Organs, and the ability of our Spirit to transmute human emotion into virtue.
Spring takes us into the Wood elemental phase, the Liver and Gall Bladder meridian circuit, the release of Anger, and the cultivation of Human Kindness.
wind blows snow
February 15, 2014
Birds are singing;
Sun is shining.
Wind blows snow
Off the trees.
Spring is coming!
Nicole Klosterman
break fast our will
The wind carries our will
Through the water
To find earth;
Through earth
To fire.
The heart flame
Forms sudden ceramics:
Vessels, bowls, pitchers
To pour water
Through cupped hands.
A wooden basin splinters;
The pelvis holds earth;
The tea kettle hisses,
Steam sings
Break fast.
NICOLE KLOSTERMAN
geometry
I believe but cannot prove
I would never try to convince you
that one and one is two.
God made the stars
from fire and ice:
the melody
of strummed guitars,
geometry, the silence
of the wise;
the firmament in minor chords;
impossible dragons:
love and hate.
Celestial bodies
strung out
in space.
I trust in faith
without the hope
that death ends life.
Settle for the Ocean 