Corie Feiner

Hey there, thanks for checking out my work. About you... you've come here for something, maybe some inspiration, and my sincere wish is that you'll find it. If you do, please let me know. About me... I'm a poet and performer born out of the 90s NYC slam scene. I'm also a wife, mom, gardener, cook, traveler, and seeker of higher consciousness, new experiences, and beauty.

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The Fall Session of the Bodylove Poetry Workshop starts on Sunday, October 11th, 2026. Apply Now.

How the Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop works… 

In these women only poetry writing workshops, you will practice breath and bodywork; give yourself presence and acceptance of your body; read body-based poems, learn solid poetry craft skills, and be given generative writing prompts, sacred and supported writing time, and the chance to share your voice in a safe and compassionate space. 

Apply now

Spring Workshop Dates and Times: 

Dates & Times: Six Sundays from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET  (find your local time zone here) 

Dates: October 11, 18, 25 - break - November 8, 15, 22

Space Limit: 11 Divine Woman 

Location: Live online via Zoom

Cost: $247 (1 scholarship available) 

Apply now

 

The whole body has one story, but each part contains its own take. Here is a sample of some of the themes of each workshop-

the history of our hands with Linda Hogan

odes to our feet with Laura Foley

examining our ears with Cortney Davis

hymns to our necks with Amy Gerstler

honoring our hips with Lucille Clifton

anthems to our bellies with Kara Jackson

claiming our thighs with Desiree Dallagiacomo

looking through new eyes with Maggie Millner

shedding skin with Harryette Mullen

in praise of menstruation with Lucille Clifton

the metaphor of our heart with Dorriane Laux

whole body love with Donna Ashworth

My Background & Mission

I have written and published a lot of poems. I have been a poetry editor for several literary magazines including one as my faves, the Bellevue Literary Review. I have an MFA from NYU where I had the honor of studying with the greatest poets of our time. For my poetry performances I have been called, “wonderful” by the rags such as The New York Times and “captivating” by backstage Magazine. I am a certified health coach who specializes in body image and women’s health. I have a growing Substack publication where I publish weekly yoga poems from my collection, A Poem for Every Pose. But my most favorite thing to do is teach uplifting and inspiring poetry and empowerment workshops. This is why I offer you the Bodylove Poetry Workshop– it combines it all for this time when we need the caretakers of the world to learn to love and accept themselves more and more every day and spread more love and light in the world.

Apply now

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The Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop starts on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 and I would love for you to be a part of it!

How the Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop works… 

In these women only poetry writing workshops, you will practice breath and bodywork; give yourself presence and acceptance of your body; read body-based poems, learn solid poetry craft skills, and be given generative writing prompts, sacred and supported writing time, and the chance to share your voice in a safe and compassionate space. 

Workshop Dates and Times: 

Dates & Times: Six Wednesdays from 6:00-7:30 pm ET  (find your local time zone here) 

Start Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Space Limit: 11 Divine Woman 

Location: Live online via Zoom

Cost: $197 (scholarships available) 

To register for an act of self-expression, self-love and self-care, go here.

 

How it will work & what to expect… 

week one: the history of our hands (Wednesday, February 5, 2025)

week two: ode to our feet (Wednesday, February 12, 2025)

week three: hymns to our necks (Wednesday, February 19, 2025)

week four: honoring our hips (Wednesday, February 26, 2025) 

week five: looking through new eyes (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)

week six: whole body love (Wednesday, March 12, 2025)

My Background & Mission

I have written and published a lot of poems. I have been a poetry editor for several literary magazines including one as my faves, the Bellevue Literary Review. I have an MFA from NYU where I had the honor of studying with the greatest poets of our time. For my poetry performances I have been called, “wonderful” by the rags such as The New York Times and “captivating” by backstage Magazine. I am a certified health coach who specializes in body image and women’s health. I have a growing Substack publication where I publish weekly yoga poems from my collection, A Poem for Every Pose. But my most favorite thing to do is teach uplifting and inspiring poetry and empowerment workshops. This is why I offer you the Bodylove Poetry Workshop– it combines it all for this time when we need the caretakers of the world to learn to love and accept themselves more and more every day and spread more love and light in the world.

Register for the 6-week Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop here. 

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Registration for the Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop is now open!

How the Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop works… 

In these poetry writing workshops, you will practice breath and bodywork; discover the wonder of different parts of your body; read body-based poems, learn solid poetry craft skills, be given generative writing prompts, sacred and supported writing time, and the chance to share your voice in a safe and compassionate space. There will also be optional weekly writing assignments and the chance to meet one-on-one with Corie Feiner to get feedback on your work.

Workshop Dates and Times: 

Dates & Times: Six Wednesdays from 6:00-7:30 pm ET (new earlier time!)  

(find your local time zone here) 

Start Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Space Limit: 11 Students

Location: Live online via Zoom

To register for an act of self-love and self-care, go here. 

The syllabus in a nutshell of the 6-week Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop:

week one: hands (Wednesday, November 6th) 

The history of our hands with Linda Hogan.

week two: feet (Wednesday, November 13th) 

Odes to our feet with Laura Foley.

week three: hips (Wednesday, November 20nd) 

Homages to our hips with lucille clifton.

week four: bellies (Wednesday, December 4th) 

The history of our hands with Linda Hogan.

week five: thighs (Wednesday, December 11th) 

The song of our thighs Desiree Dallagiacomo.

week six: whole bodylove (Wednesday, December 18th)

Celebrating the rhythm of our whole beings with Maya Angelou.

My Background: Is Corie Legit?

I have written and published a lot of poems. I have been a poetry editor for several literary magazines including one as my faves, the Bellevue Literary Review. I have an MFA from NYU where I had the honor of studying with the greats. For my poetry performances I have been called, “wonderful” by the rags such as The New York Times. I am a certified health coach who specializes in body image and women’s health. I have a growing Substack publication where I publish weekly yoga poems from my collection, A Poem for Every Pose. But my most favorite thing to do is teach uplifting and inspiring poetry and empowerment workshops. This is why I offer you the Bodylove Poetry Workshop– it combines it all for this time when we need the caretakers of the world to learn to love and accept themselves more and more every day and spread more love and light in the world.

Register for the Bodylove Poetry Workshop starting on Wednesday, November 6, 2024. 

Or if you want to see if this workshop is a good fit, register for the free sample workshop and experience what it is like to explore your body with the magic of poetry in a safe and supportive space. 

Register for the free sample workshop here. 

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You can read my poem for the yoga pose, Upward Salute in my Substack, the least toxic place on the internet!

Corie Feiner | Substack

A newsletter for yogis, poets, and seekers of inspiration featuring poems from my manuscript, A Poem for Every Pose. Subscribers will join a

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In this juicy workshop I walk you through how to write a poem and give voice to specific parts of your body.

We are going to start with skin. Your skin is your largest organ, weighs about eight pounds, and renews itself every 28 days!

We will read a poem about our skin, learn serious poetry craft skills, connect with our bodies, and create a safe and supported space to write and share our own original skin poems. You will leave this workshop feeling vibrant and lighter -- as if you shed some skin!

This process has been transformative for me and I want to share this gift with you.

We then go on to other body parts that you may have been trying to ignore – like your hips, your belly, or your heart. But isn’t it time you let them speak?

Even if you have never written a poem before, I know there is a poem or two or ten inside of you waiting to be unleashed.

So please join me and other lovely goddess-y women to express yourself in a way you have never done before. But it’s worth it. And so are you.

Register now for a free session of the Bodylove Poetry Workshop about our skin on Sunday, April 28th at 10 am ET.

(Find your time zone here.)

How I Got Here

There I was in one of my first plank poses with my mind racing when I heard the yoga instructor say, "Now look at your hands… really look at them.

And when I did, I cried.

There they were-- red, chapped, neglected. They were my hands. My hands. So hard working. They represented a part of me that needed to heal. The silent girl in the room who took care of everyone but herself.

On a whim, I asked my small online women’s empowerment community if anyone wanted a free poetry workshop. When four women showed up on Discord, which I hardly knew how to use, I conducted a poetry workshop about our hands.

And then we all cried.

And then they asked for more.

And so for ten weeks, in the beginning days of the pandemic shutdown, we went through as many body parts as I could find solid poems for. We laughed, we cried, we held each other with zoom room hugs. And through the magic of poetry, writing, sharing, and body awareness, we wrote our hearts out and felt… different. Connected. Heard. Relieved.

And so, after years of birthing, mothering, nursing, homeschooling, and caring for others, I decided to rekindle my love of teaching and launch the Bodylove Poetry Workshop specifically for women, and especially for caretakers and moms.

Because we matter. The caretakers out there matter. And this little slice of time to care for ourselves and reconnect with our innate creativity and parts of our bodies, well… can make help us feel more whole, again.  

So please join me and other lovely goddess-y women to express yourself in a way you have never done before by trying out a free workshop on Sunday April 28th at 10 am ET.

It was a transformative gift for me and I want to share it with you.

Register now for a free session of the Bodylove Poetry Workshop about our skin on Sunday, April 28th at 10 am ET.

My Background: Is Corie Legit?

I have written and published a lot of poems. I have been a poetry editor for several literary magazines including one as my faves, the Bellevue Literary Review. I have an MFA from NYU where I had the honor of studying with the greats. For my poetry performances I have been called, “wonderful” by the rags such as The New York Times. I am a certified health coach who specializes in body image and women’s health. I have a growing Substack publication where I publish weekly yoga poems from my collection, A Poem for Every Pose. But my most favorite thing to do is teach uplifting and inspiring poetry and empowerment workshops for women. This is why I offer you the Bodylove Poetry Workshop-- it combines it all for this time when we need the caretakers of the world to learn to love and accept themselves more and more every day and spread more love and light in the world. We need it!

Register now for the Bodylove Poetry Workshop about our skin coming up on Sunday April 28th at 10 am ET.

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A Poem For Tree Pose

A Poem for Tree Pose

"...no matter what weather comes your way, you are capable of bending, twisting, flexing, falling, and still staying connected to it all." -

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A Poem for Tabletop Pose

Whether you are into yoga or not, a poem for Tabletop Pose embodies the potential sacredness a table can hold.

I hope when you read this poem, you feel empowered with the knowledge that you decide your future, and, like a strong and solid table, you can hold it all.

(And if you are not subscribed to my Substack Newsletter, I highly encourage you to subscribe. You can receive these poems and insights directly in your inbox and it would really support my mission to bring just a little bit more love, light, and consciousness to the world.)

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Self-Love Saturday Substack Post

It is never to late to catch up on Self-love Saturdays.... (and to wish a little bit that it still was Saturday:) And if you are called to subscribe to my Substack, it would really support my work, and you would receive weekly yoga poems and nuggets of insights and love directly in your inbox. 🙏❤️

Self-love Saturdays

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare." -- Audre Lorde

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Substack Post Alert!

May you take this poem with you to your yoga practice or wherever you are at in your life journey and know that you are supported - even when it does not seem that way, you are not alone.

 (If you are not subscribed to my Substack, it would be awesome to have you. You would get poems directly in your inbox and it would really support my mission to publish all the poems in book form and share these poems with the world! 

A Poem for Staff Pose

"Some of us have covered our hearts with our shoulders or have locked our pelvis in layers of loss—" from Staff Pose by Corie Feiner

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Substack Post Alert!

May you embody the courage today to not just feel lovable, but embrace that you are made of love. Darnit!

(And please become a free subscriber, share with your friends, use in your yoga class, and embrace the wonder of the world that you are!

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Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop

A somatic poetry writing workshop for women

Bodylove Poetry Writing Workshop 

CLOSED - BUT LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT ONE STARTING LATE SPRING 2024!

Starting this coming Sunday, February 4th, 2024 Online via Zoom 10:00 - 11.30am EST (find your local time HERE) 

4 spots left!

Many of us have been taught to ignore our bodies, over-identify with our bodies, or to treat our bodies as servants to our whims. 

But the body is the subconscious mind. The body speaks. The more we listen, the more we can learn to radically love and accept every part of our beings and activate our innate abilities to heal and direct the story of our lives.

Poetry is part of all of our programming. We are made to respond to rhythms and rhymes. This is what makes writing poetry stand out from other art forms as one of not just expression, but healing. It is what we turn to in times of mourning, loneliness, and celebration. It can be a whisper, a moan, scream a or a song. In this workshop, you will make it yours as you learn solid craft tools to write poems that contain your words like a vase holds water as you reclaim parts of your body that have been longing to speak. 

Sign Up Now

How it will work & what to expect...

 week one: the hands (Sunday, February 4th) 

The history of our hands with Linda Hogan. 

week two: the hips (Sunday, February 11th) 

Homages to our hips with lucille clifton. 

week three: our breasts (Sunday, February 18th)

Personifying our breasts with Sharon Olds. 

week four: skin (Sunday, February 25th)

The complex metaphor of our skin with Naomi Shihab Nye. 

week five: the belly (Sunday, March 3rd) 

Anthems to our bellies with kara jackson.

week six: our thighs (Sunday, March 10th) 

The song of our thighs Desiree Dallagiacomo.

week seven: menstruation (Sunday, March 17th)

The narrative of our blood with Ellen Bass. 

week eight: whole bodylove (Sunday, March 24th)

Celebrating the rhythm of our whole beings with Maya Angelou. 

Sign Up Now

[coriefeiner]

Now Offering A Somatic Poetry Writing Workshop

Take the time to get to know yourself and work on some self-love, self-respect, self-acceptance, and some genuine bodylove.

In this workshop you will read the work of our great foremother poets, learn about craft, do breath work, movement, concrete acts of self-care, and generate your own writing about your body.

You will also be given actionable steps between classes to increase your overall wellbeing and practice some bodylove.

Learn more here or go for it and register now!

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Find Peace in Puppy Pose

Puppy Pose

"...that surrender is something that can happen at any time, with a giggle, a breath, a deep, deep sigh. ." - from Puppy Pose by Corie Feine

I am honored to share Puppy Pose with you today from from my manuscript, A Poem for Every Pose.

I encourage you to read Puppy Pose to your students or to yourself and practice this deep, deep stretch if it is available to you --

(And please subscribe to my Substack publication if you have not already. All free subscribers get yoga poems, other poems, insights, comics, and announcements in their inboxes; paid subscribers get audio and other occasional treats. It would really support my work! ) 🙏❤️🐶

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I Need to Stand in Mountain Pose

I Need to Stand (in Mountain Pose)

"Every day is a new day to relearn how to stand...." -- from Mountain Pose by Corie Feiner

How we stand is how we live our lives...

I hope you enjoy my post on standing in Mountain Pose.

If you are not subscribed to my weekly yoga poetry newsletter, please consider subscribing.

(And if you want to support my work even more, consider upgrading to a paid subscription.)

I Need to Stand (in Mountain Pose)

"Every day is a new day to relearn how to stand...." -- from Mountain Pose by Corie Feiner

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Reach High in Low Lunge

Who else loves Low Lunge?

(I love it in an ooh, ahhh, wow sort of way:) 

This poem is dedicated to the hips, the knees, to Anjana, to you! 

If you are called to do so, I invite you to check out this poem, and if you are called to do so, to subscribe to my Substack. 

It is free, you will receive weekly poems, join in on conscious conversations and it really supports my work (so that I can approach larger publishers with my book, A Poem for Every Pose.) 

Namaste.🙏 

Reach High in Low Lunge

"Praise the hip. Praise the leg that steps forward. Praise the knee that bends and holds me as I lift my heart towards the sky. " -- from Lo

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Now Launching - Somatic-based Poetry Writing Workshop

Who is interested in a 8-week online somatic-based poetry writing workshop where you learn the craft of poetry from poets such as Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton, Ellen Bass, and Naomi Shihab Nye, and write and share original poems where you let your body speak one part at a time?

Yes! I would love this!

Maybe... tell me more!

Not at this time.

Voting ended onSep 27, 2023

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“Focus now as you enter eagle pose and ask yourself what will you choose to protect and preserve today. The soil? Your sanity? Your soul? Stand with soft knees, find your focal point— the crack in the paint, the doorknob, the wind….” You can read the rest on my Substack at: https://open.substack.com/pub/coriefeiner/p/eagle-pose?r=1vl0c8&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post