Class

Present Moment Writing

Do you want to live more in the present moment, but find yourself too distracted or too busy to get down to traditional forms of meditation? Hoping to connect more viscerally and emotionally to your writing process? Your life? Whether you’re looking to cultivate a deeper, more harmonious and intuitive felt sense to your writing process and outcome or simply wish to learn a generous form of meditation, or both, this workshop introduces you to the meditative qualities of writing through a series of simple, present moment exercises inviting playful awareness of personal narrative, rhythm, imagination, and memory as you integrate new pathways for body, mind, and heart. Our day together includes writing together, sharing, with discussion around how to apply these practices to your new and ongoing works in progress (memoir, essay, novel, short story, poetry, essay, etc), how to maintain a meditative writing practice, and how to generate personal prompts from today's practice and onward. Students can expect to gain insight into landing more deeply into the moment on the page—emotionally, physically, and cognitively—both for process and outcome, discover peace in writing practice, fine tune flat, lost details and scenes into fully alive writing that sings! All welcome!