"Yoga is not about pretending to know the divine. It is about showing up to the mystery. Whether we call it Shiva, Shakti, God, Goddess, Self, Source, or struggle to find the name, the act of seeking is itself a practice." - Sandi Higgins
Unholy, Holy, Whole
Tantric Poetry Memoir
and Yoga Writing Companion
Unholy, Holy, Whole is an intimate poetry memoir and playful writing pilgrimage that weaves together the erotic and the existential for language lovers, creative seekers, and spiritual adventurers to rediscover their wholeness through the transformative power of poetry.
Bridging English and French, body and mind, devotion and intelligence, intoxication and clarity, this book emerges from the author’s passionate coming of age as an American exchange student in Paris, France. Now an international yoga teacher, she reveals a journey of soul retrieval by guiding her poetic voice into the present with a tantric framework and ripened gaze.
In tender odes to the City of Light, Unholy, Holy, Whole offers an invocation of creative pleasure and an inquiry into self-destructive pain. Each section ends with writing prompts that dare the reader to deepen their own embodied voice.
"These poems were born as I learned to think, feel, and dream in another tongue. If you’re learning a new language or dreaming of doing so, I encourage you to write your way in. Poetry is the perfect place to take linguistic risks and feel into another soundscape. Writing between languages can stretch your spirit in all directions.” – Sandi Higgins
Book Details: Paperback | 6x9” | 143 Pages | 65 Poems | 20 Writing Prompts | 5 blank pages for writing directly in the book (and you are welcome to write and doodle in the white space throughout)Peak Inside
“Looking back, I now recognize what I could not name in my early twenties. Writing, for me, was already a call to yoga and tantra, to mystical union through knowledge, devotion, and transformation. It was a deeply embodied and necessary act. Writing poetry was my yoga practice long before I formally studied yoga or became a yoga teacher.” - SAndi Higgins