Estela Puyuelo (Huesca, 1976) is a poet, ethnographer, columnist and secondary school teacher with a specialty in Spanish Language and Literature. Graduate in Humanities from the University of Zaragoza. In addition, she is a Yoga teacher from the AEPY (Spanish Association of Yoga Teachers) and studied at the Conchita Morera School (Zaragoza). Since January 2024, she has been an advisor to the Social Sciences Area of the Alto Aragonese Studies Institute (Huesca Provincial Council). Author of poems All silkworms (translated into French by Éditions de la Ramonda), Now that we were goneshipwrecked, dandjto vu (bilingual Spanish-French), in the Olifante publishing house, and Soledad doesn’t have a cat (The Black Cat Books). She is the founder of the magazine Ronda Somontano, which she directed from 2007 to 2013.
The Yoga teacher It is a book of poetry that is structured around a yoga session. Each of the postures is linked to two micropoems that are united in the yoke of the verse and that represent the duality of everything that exists: the mind and the body, the inspiration and the exhalation, the teacher and the disciple, the agitation and the calm, life and death. Both disciplines, poetry and yoga, share a subtle component that connects them with spirituality, the intangible, the transcendent or the exploration of emotions.
Each of the asanas is accompanied by a technical sheet that explains its execution, etymology, physical and subtle effects, and illustrations by the artist Josema Carrasco. In addition, the painter Georges Ward has collaborated on the work, illustrating the cover and interior chapters with hyperrealistic paintings inspired by nature that induce elevated states of consciousness. And, also, the illustrator Marisa Royo has participated with some of her drawings, where she experiments with human anatomy and emotions to frame the different postural groups of the Yoga session.
The book is dedicated to Conchita Morera, president of the AEPY (Spanish Association of Yoga Practitioners), with a long career in teaching this discipline.
ŚAVĀSANA (corpse pose)
YO.
On the ground,
a body lying face up,
abandoned on top of the
back.
The eyelids cover
the cut corpse
on the white tiles
of the floor.
II.
everything begins
in the stillness,
in non-being,
in being a no
to be one,
and everyone,
at the same time.
The yoga teacher
Estela Puyuelo
Illustrations and design: Josema Carrasco
Illustrations: Georges Ward and Marisa Royo
Oliphant. Poetry Editions
66 pages €15
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