Fourth Annual Fall Writing Program
- Presenter: Jessica Durivage
- Presenter: Monique Schubert
- Presenter: Julia Cameron
- and more…
Imagine New Worlds: Hope, Transformation, and Exploration
October 2025
Join us for the fourth annual Fall Writing Program at Kripalu. Step into a living, breathing circle of writers, poets, storytellers, and seekers—each of us gathering around the fire of words to imagine new worlds into being.
This is not just an online program—it’s a sanctuary, a playground, a place of both grief and wild possibility. In complex times, our writing can become a brave act of hope, a ritual of transformation, and a compass for exploration.
We are here not to convince, but to evoke. To call forth what is hidden. To move with love, even as we touch sorrow. To play our way into new realities. This gathering welcomes you wherever you are.
Join us for a single session to spark your voice or step fully into the container and be held by the collective energy across the entire journey.
Whether you come to heal, play, vision, or give form to a new book or project, you will find yourself among kindreds—people who believe, like you, that words can shape worlds.
Together, we will explore:
- How writing helps us navigate grief and summon courage.
- How play and imagination open doors to transformation.
- How to write not for noise, but for meaning, healing, and collective care.
With over 24 hours of immersive online sessions led by celebrated teachers—including Julia Cameron, Brynn Saito, Eric Maisel, Victoria Erikson, and more—plus two cozy Writer’s Coffee House gatherings and a culminating Share-Out Writing Slam, this program offers both deep immersion and flexible pathways.
Join live and be held in real-time community or move at your own pace with access to recordings for 30 days.
Come for a spark. Stay for the transformation. Your words are needed here. Your voice is part of the new world we are dreaming.
NOTE: Kripalu is delivering this online experience through a third party platform. When you purchase this program, you will be sent to union.fit and asked to create an account to complete your purchase and receive further details on accessing the program. All sales are final. All recordings will be available within 72 hours of the end of each session. You will have access to the video recording for 30 days after the program ends.
Explore the Sessions
| Julia Cameron October 1 | The Writing Life: Learn about Julia's books on writing as well as the fundamental tools that make a writing life possible including Morning Pages, Artist Dates, Walking, and Writing for Guidance. / 7:00—8:30 pm EST / $39.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Monique Schubert October 2 | Creative Activation: What if what the world needs right now is for you to spend more time in your creative practice? In this workshop we will activate curiosity and self-expression through a series of accessible exercises in looking, listening, feeling and intuiting. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Victoria Erickson October 7 | Writing Alchemy: Transforming Your World and Nervous System Through Words: Writing is a profound way to enter a grounded yet transformative state called flow state. You will be guided through riveting prompts and lecture to help you move toward being a more masterful, embodied writer and emotionally inspired and balanced human. / 10:00 am—12:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Tracee Stanley October 7 | Rest and Create: Discover what it means to allow creativity to emerge from a rested mind, body, and spirit. You will be guided through several short rest practices designed to help you rest in the liminal space, followed by prompts designed to activate and amplify your creative impulse. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Miles Borrero October 9 | Remembering as a Way of Reimagining: Every family has its lore with characters cast in familiar roles. Through guided prompts, reflection, and gentle excavation, we’ll explore the legends we’ve inherited or unconsciously built around our past, especially the ones that shape how we see ourselves, as a way to reimagine our future. / 10:00 am—12:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Asif Ullah October 9 | A Flash of Possibility: Flash Creative Nonfiction: In this workshop, we will learn how to write for brevity, to delve deep into a moment pregnant with possibility, and in turn bring us closer to that possibility. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Brynn Saito October 14 | The Poetics of Possibility: Poems are a place for our wildest imaginings, our truest longings. In this workshop, we’ll read poems and engage in simple, generative exercises that invite us to summon other universes while imagining wildly into the past and future. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Amber Chand October 16 | Seven Lanterns: Writing Your Way into Your New Story: Discover the transformative power of the Seven Lanterns as a way to guide you into a new story. With each lantern, there will be a potent question for you to reflect upon, for it is the questions we ask, the questions we don't ask, and the questions we are afraid of asking that shape our journey. / 10:00 am—12:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Eric Maisel October 16 | Brave New Mind: The Art and Practice of Serene Readiness for Writers: In order to write, we must acquire the right mind, a mind that is serenely ready to write. Transform your writing life and change your very relationship to writing in this unique and important workshop. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Jessica Durivage October 21 | Body as Portal: Writing Our Future Through Inspired Movement: In times of change, our bodies remember the way forward. Join us for a sacred Qoya gathering where movement becomes the gateway to intuitive knowing, writing becomes the voice of the soul, and the natural world becomes our altar. / 10:00 am—12:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Jess Frey October 21 | Creative Journaling: Rebirth in the Name of Love: Slow down and reconnect with ourselves and each other. Through guided mini-meditations and thought-provoking prompts, we’ll listen inwardly, reflect honestly, and write freely. Our pens will become tools of intuition, insight, and inspiration. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer October 23 | Risk and Play: Flirting with the Unknown: Let curiosity and uncertainty drive your writing into fresh, resonant new regions. We’ll read poems that make us laugh, shake our heads, open our hearts and show up, and then in that vein, we’ll write. Play is a secret weapon for meeting failure, vulnerability, uncertainty, and humility. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Rebecca S'manga Frank October 28 | The Written Breath: Exploring our creative impulse down to its roots, we will write around the senses and the legacy of human resilience. Breathe new life into your creativity, current projects, and our collective future. / 10:00 am—12:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
| Jessica Durivage and Monique Schubert October 28 | Closing Ceremony and Writing Circle Share: Imagining New Worlds, Together: Join us for the final gathering—a sacred close to our collective journey and a celebration of the stories, sparks, and shifts that have unfolded along the way. We come together in the spirit of reverence and joy—to witness one another, to be witnessed, and to honor the voices that have been stirred during our time together. / 7:00—9:00 pm EST / $29.00 / REGISTER HERE |
Program at a Glance
Presenter(s)
Jessica Durivage is a transformational leader, ceremonialist, and Director of Online Programming at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, where she stewards visionary programming, strategic innovation, and the Kripalu Online Studio—home to a vibrant and growing global community.
Full Bio and ProgramsMonique Schubert, MFA and lead Kripalu faculty member, uses her 20 years of experience as an artist and educator to develop yoga and mindfulness programs for schools, workplaces, and cultural institutions.
Full Bio and ProgramsJulia Cameron, author of 40 books, is a songwriter, memoirist, novelist, award-winning playwright, and poet with extensive credits in film, television, and theater.
Full Bio and ProgramsVictoria Erickson is an author, poet, and founder of world-renowned creative writing workshops and immersions.
Full Bio and ProgramsTracee Stanley is an author and the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and tantric teachings.
Full Bio and ProgramsMiles Borrero is an New York-based E-RYT 500+ senior yoga teacher, embodiment guide, speaker, music-maker, craniosacral therapist, and author of Beautiful Monster: A Becoming.
Full Bio and ProgramsHailing from Astoria, New York, yogi medicineman Asif Ullah is a creative writer and healer.
Full Bio and ProgramsBrynn Saito is a poet, organizer, and associate professor of Creative Writing and English at California State University, Fresno.
Full Bio and ProgramsAmber Chand is a visionary guide, global storyteller, author, and inspirational speaker whose programs and retreats offer a potent vision for living into a new story from a place of courageous love, fearless imagination, and enlivened wisdom.
Full Bio and ProgramsEric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than 50 books, a diplomat coach, and coach trainer who founded the profession of creativity coaching.
Full Bio and ProgramsJess Frey (she/her), E-RYT 1000, is a Kripalu Yoga educator, life coach, and artist known for her authenticity, motivation, and depth.
Full Bio and ProgramsRosemerry Wahtola Trommer is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice, and her poetry album Dark Praise explores “endarkenment,” available anywhere you listen to music.
Full Bio and ProgramsRebecca S’manga is a writer, actor, story doula, and culture worker whose monologues, psalms, essays, comedy, poetry, and plays have been featured in Lilith Magazine, Hadassah Magazine, Hillel International, and at Elm Shakespeare Company among others.
Full Bio and Programs