Class

Writing from Meditation: Exploring Body and Breath as Creative Inspiration

What wisdom breathes in the body? What does the body know? This four-week contemplative writing series integrates guided mindfulness meditations with generative writing inquiries to access embodied knowledge and to inspire creative writing. Together, we will explore how the process of meditative writing can help to reveal and realize the creative potential of body and mind.

Our creative explorations will be grounded in body and breath awareness meditations, preparing us for embodied writing, reading, and listening. We'll write in response to and in relationship to our own sensory experiences, memories, observations, and insights. We'll read inspiring embodied writing and consider how such writing may invite participatory exchange between writers and readers. Through embodied listening, we'll extend our meditative focus to the words and ideas of the writers in our classroom, supporting and celebrating each writer's creative process, and pursuing new connections through writing and thinking together. No previous meditation experience is needed to fully participate in this series.

This class takes place in-person, at the Loft at Open Book; we encourage participants to be fully vaccinated and masked in the interest of everyone’s safety. Please see the Loft’s website for the most up to date information about the Loft’s COVID policies.