The Writing Warrior: Deepening Your Writing by Bravely Facing Yourself

The winter season and the New Year create the perfect environment for reconnecting with and recommitting to your writing. The writing process creates a different path for all who take it. Staying firmly rooted on that path requires not just discipline, but self-awareness.

This process-oriented class with award-winning writer Laraine Herring is focused on generating new, authentic work. We will spend our time writing, discussing, meditating, breathing, and being. Because deep writing naturally takes us to places of discomfort, we will learn to remain steady through that discomfort, and be with ourselves long enough to hear our own words and write without judgment. As we move into our bodies and observe thoughts from a place of witness consciousness, we learn how to stay present with characters and poems until we’ve heard all they have to say, not just to our readers but to our own hearts.

Recommended reading Laraine Herring, Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice (Shambhala) and Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala).

Note Bring a journal and pen.