The Art of Yoga
- Michelle Rae Sobi
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A year of the muse
The Art of Yoga as Muse: Introducing the Crown Pathway
At Edge Yoga School, we believe yoga is not only something you practice on the mat. It is something you live, feel, notice, and carry into the way you create and express yourself in the world.
The Crown Pathway was designed with this understanding at its core.
This advanced personal practice journey invites experienced yoga practitioners to explore yoga as a source of creative inspiration. Rather than focusing on teaching techniques or performance outcomes, the pathway centers on lived experience, reflection, and integration. Yoga becomes the muse, and art becomes the language through which insight takes form.
Throughout the Root to Crown journey, students move through a steady creative arc. Each center begins with embodied experience and reflection, followed by guided practice and art meditation. Readings and simple field experiences offer external perspective without prescribing meaning. From there, original creative work emerges naturally, shaped by what has been felt, noticed, and integrated.
Each unit culminates in one original art submission. Over time, students complete a full portfolio of creative work inspired by their yoga practice, reflections, art meditations, and daily rhythms. Painting, drawing, photography, digital art, collage, writing, audio, video, and AI assisted imagery are all welcomed. The focus is not artistic skill, but authenticity, presence, and process.
The Crown Pathway is trauma informed, gently paced, and designed to support nervous system awareness, subtle body literacy, and long term integration. Students are encouraged to move slowly, honor their capacity, and allow meaning to arise organically. There is no comparison, no rush, and no pressure to perform.
This is not a yoga teacher training. It is a personal practice certification for those who want to deepen their relationship with yoga as a living art form. By the end of the pathway, students are not only more grounded and self aware, but also leave with a tangible body of creative work that reflects their journey.
The Crown Pathway reminds us that yoga does not end when practice does. It continues in how we see, create, and relate to our lives.
Students enrolled in our program may send a Slack DM to Michelle or those interested in enrolling are invited to send a CHAT to begin a conversation.