Berkshire Festival of Women Writers

This year, Kripalu is proud to participate in the annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, a month-long multi-venue event sponsored by Bard College at Simon’s Rock that celebrates the talents of local and regional women writers.

Salmon in the Stream: A Lecture on Writing

Julia Cameron
March 7, 2013
7:30 pm–9:30 pm

Julia Cameron, best-selling author of The Artist’s Way, shares her insights on writing and the tools she has used in a three-decade career of writing movies, music, poetry, journalism, and publishing more than thirty books, selling more than four million copies worldwide.

Admission $25. Pre-registration is required; please call 800.741.7353.

Writing the Wild Heart

Jennifer Young (Kripalu Faculty)
March 14, 2013
7:30 pm–9:30 pm

For hundreds of generations, our ancestors’ primary relationship was with the earth. They felt themselves part of an intricate community of life. Today, most of us live in towns, cities, and suburban neighborhoods. We may no longer live in the wilderness, but it still lives within us, and connecting to that part of ourselves can be a powerful and healing process. In this workshop, we explore a variety of landscapes: deserts, forests, oceans, rivers, and mountains. Through writing prompts and discussion, we discover what these landscapes bring up for us, and how they can empower, inspire, and support our lives.

Admission Free. Pre-registration is required; please call 800.741.7353.

Jump-Start Your Memoir: Write it From the Heart

Nancy Slonim Aronie
March 21, 2013
7:30 pm–9:30 pm

We’ll take the ’marrow’ of our lives—the good, the bad and everything in between—and transform it out of our bodies and onto the page. We’ll turn our life experience into gold. There will be one or two short interactive writing exercises.

Admission Free. Pre-registration is required; please call 800.741.7353.

What’s Your Story?

Lara Tupper (Kripalu Faculty)
March 28, 2013
7:30 pm–9:30 pm

In this informal writing class, we’ll investigate the notion of “samskaras,” or deeply embedded ideas about ourselves. What are we clinging to that is no longer serving us and how can we begin to let go? What are the authentic stories we yearn to tell instead? Through writing exercises, we’ll differentiate between the falsehoods that hold us back and the true tales we long to express.

Admission Free. Pre-registration is required; please call 800.741.7353.