Creativity Courses & Writing Offerings
:Body Writes:
Thumbs indecisively quiver above the illuminated keyboard.
That blinking cursor now looks like the judgmental eye of your sarcastic senior-year English teacher.
For the past half-hour, in molasses-moving minutes that have plummeted and gutted your self-esteem, you’ve been wrestling, pleading, swearing, and coaxing the inspired return of the Words.
That initial whisper of the idea, that tease of a phrase that turned your head, that flicker of an enlightened thought … has gleefully vanished and left you stranded in a discombobulated state.
Here, you sit and stare and strain in front of that device, or perhaps the patiently awaiting blank page, hoping the Muse will reemerge like a firework display.
Either way, the tea is now swamp water, the dog sulks at the backdoor (she’s given up barking), and you’re suddenly frightfully aware that you have a body. Your shoulders have married your ears. Your mental workings have etched themselves out onto your brow. Your toes are devoid of life. And you’ve been holding your breath… for only the dog knows how long.
Writing doesn’t have to be this way. Our relationship to creativity doesn’t need to be a Dickens’ novel of struggle and strife.
And this is the creativity that initiates an Instagram post and also helps us dress to express, tidy up our desk, create a meal and a home, speak and present with intentionality. This is the creativity that animates our life with attentiveness, aliveness, beauty. This flow of life-force can be accessed, activated and clearly channeled when we remember, include and befriend our body.
All the answers we seek – from the heart-truths for the Instagram post to deciding whether to stay or leave our job – exist in the universe of the body, in the intelligent life-force breathing and brimming within.
We’ve just forgotten. Well, we’ve been rigorously conditioned and talked out of (oh, so many times) our intuitive and instinctual wisdom, and are cast out into confusion and doubt.
We get tricked into thinking that effort and struggle are necessary, maybe even badge-worthy, to be productive and that we have to earn belonging and love by our giving, busyness and going, but quietly, or sometimes not so quietly, the body whispers that you know, down in the marrow of your living earth bones, that there’s another way.
Let’s listen and honor what the body has to say.
Let’s enhance breath-brightened clarity, strengthen self-trust, and replenish heart-centered ease by coming back home to our body.
And let’s have this liberated homecoming be joyous, lighthearted, beautiful and fun, because playfulness is a powerful energy we can also trust, and it’s one that guides me when I facilitate and offer this course to you.
This Body Writes offering has been vibrantly inspired by my past decade of teaching over a thousand yoga classes -- from seniors in public libraries to teens in advocacy programs – continuous study in nervous system healing, improv performance and instruction, and my life-long love for writing.
My personal experience in teaching and participating in these embodiment and creative arts modalities has gifted me the insightful tools on how to facilitate, hold sacred and supportive space, and intentionally shape each workshop.
In this workshop, meditation will be like cozying up with our best friend, movement will be celebratory, music will be uplifting, inspirational poetry will be eloquently shared, and writing will be like composing love letters to ourselves.
All the tools shared will be self-liberation practices you can bring home.
So next time you’re writing that Instagram post, you’ll be enjoying a hot cup of tea, the dog will be content and at your side, and you’ll be breathing into the back-wings of your ribs as you let your thumbs dance and the words take ease-lit flight. You’ll be the rooted and the radiant creative — body-centered and luminous with mischief - and magic-making insight.
:Wedding Vows & Officiant:
I marry soulmates, and I write wedding ceremonies that are infused with the blessed presence of the Divine. As an officiant, I stand as a vessel for Higher Love to shine through to the gorgeous couple proclaiming I DO.
I believe that the ceremony shines as a potent opportunity for the couple to be lovingly seen and wholeheartedly supported by the gathering of their beloved community.
Though I am lighthearted, and will bring lightheartedness to our ceremony writing sessions and to my facilitation, I do take marriage quite seriously, because I see and honor the depths of courage it takes to commit and open one’s heart to another human being. Through purposeful written words and/or in-person officiating, I will encourage full presence from everyone in attendance so the couple can receive the blessing of being sacredly witnessed.
:The Write Support:
I’ve been unofficially writing my loved ones’ Instagram captions and professional bios for decades, and now, after some cheery prompting from these anonymous loved ones, I feel inspired to share this merry musing I have with words with YOU. Need writing support – anywhere from a Facebook post to professional copyright? Let’s connect! I’m happy to collaborate with you, and help you find the words that are already there (they’re just being mischievous!). Or you can present your intriguing shimmer of an idea, which I’ll receive with respect and muse solo. We’ll revise together until your creative instinct declares it’s golden and good-to-go!