The Journey from the Center of the Page Hardback - 2004

Media reviews

Davis' book is an engaging companion for writers who struggle for focus and clarity...he draws from thorough study and personal experience to offer an accessible guide to the circuitry that links the body with imagination, perception, creativity and the roots of language. (Leslie Ullman, author of Natural Histories)Writing is the opportunity to share thoughts that may inspire. When thoughts can be purified and are beneficial, the beauty of words can transform, like melodies. Yoga allows us the means to purify our thoughts with the Divine, and Jeff Davis highlights the importance of this purification in writing in his book "The Journey from the Center to the Page.' (David Life, owner and founder of Jivamukti Yoga Center and co-author of The Art of Yoga and Jivamukti YogaFor centuries, Westerner writers have sought through ritual and serendipity to discover some sort of Philosopher's Stone that might open the way to where writing, in John Keats's words, 'comes as naturally as leaves to the tree.' Now, in Jeff Davis's beautifully and clearly written The Journey From the Center to the Page, in which he fuses the centering practices of Hatha Yoga to the act of writing, inducing that elusive magical zone is as simple as following the practical exercises in this breakthrough East-Meets-West book. Finally, a book that blurs the distinction between Doing and Being.(Jack Myers, Poet Laureate of Texas, 2003; Director of Creative Writing, Southern Methodist UniversityThrough yoga, we can find a more limber imagination as well as more articulate limbs. In this wise and delightful book, Jeff Davis helps us awaken both our bodies and our writing. (Gayle Brandeis, author of Fruitflesh