Eva Weaver
author & coach
Writing from the Body
a powerful 12-week online writing adventure!
starts 17th of October 2024
12-week Autumn Writing from the Body Programme
starts 17th of October Thursdays 6.30-8.30pm UK time
WHEN: Thursday evenings 6.30-8.30pm UK time from 17th of October 2024. For time converter click HERE
WHERE: Online, Zoom
WHAT: We will tap into the stories of our bodies and write about what we find there. You will learn potent, innovative tools to unlock your creativity, release resistance & find your unique, authentic voice.
WHO: Eva Weaver, Creative Embodiment Coach & Author of 'The Puppet Boy of Warsaw' & 'The Eye of the Reindeer'
WHY: Writing from the Body is a powerful approach and methodology that can revolutionise your writing and how you relate to yourself!
If you want to write from a more embodied place, join us!
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Writing from the Body offers a treasure trove of tools to show you ways to still your mind, address procrastination and creative blocks, spark the beginning of a project and support you through to completion. Learn how to bring consciousness to the body and use tools to drop into the present moment; a powerful antidote to mental blocks and resistance.
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The exercises will create spaciousness by releasing stagnant energy and emotions through the body. They include: writing from movement, tuning into the senses, breathwork as a gateway to creative writing & wellbeing, writing from inner body journeys and listening deeply to the body’s voice, and writing inspired by prompts & engaging with our eroticism and pleasure.
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Writing from the Body also offers exciting ways to investigate and express aspects of identity: gender, sexuality, race &culture, to support recovery, healing and resilience and to find an empowered, expressed voice.
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Writing that emerges from such an embodied place is often more vibrant, authentic, visceral and original. New inspiration that is rooted in sensory detail and breath and the stories our bodies are sharing with us in expanded & wild ways. As we as we inhabit our bodies more and get comfortable in our skin, so are we!
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We will explore how to cultivate permission, kindness, self-compassion, and gentleness alongside commitment and discipline. You will learn about nervous system patterns and your individual responses, and find effective ways to self-regulate and deal with anxieties that can arise on the writer’s path.
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Writing from the Body can also be a lot of fun and a supportive and bonding experience, as we take it with a group of fellow explorers. In camaraderie and solidarity, we counter isolation, fears of ridicule, criticism and feeling of ‘not being good enough’ .
"Write your self. Your body must be heard." Helen Cixous
Writing from the Body is a potent experiential 12-week programme.
Guiding you deep into the body and into your own wild creativity, you will learn powerful methods for original writing and to free your voice. Writing can be an alchemical, revolutionary force for change, personally and collectively.
Whether you are a seasoned writer, interested in embodiment or someone who always wanted to start to write - if you have a desire to write and an interest in embodiment, Writing from the Body is for you!
Writing from the Body offers you exciting entryways to embodied writing, such as through deep inner listening, breathwork, exercises in nervous system regulation, movement, and many others tools. You will excavate the stories held and hidden in your body, learn to listen to the voice and wisdom of your body and write authentically.
When we foster ways to connect with the body - compassionately and in consistent, sustainable & doable steps- and listen to what it has to tell us, we can tap into the huge reservoir of resources, stories, ideas, wisdom strength & resilience that the body truly is.
The course is limited to 12 participants. No experience in creative writing or embodiment practices necessary, only curiosity and a willingness to experiment.
I would love you to join us on this journey!
Anyone. All ages, all genders, and all abilities.
Some reasons you might join Writing from the Body:
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You are interested in your connection with your body and how you express yourself creatively. You would like to feel more empowered and alive, tapping into your passion and the wisdom of your body.
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You want to feel more grounded and connected to your body and make steps to heal disassociation or just get to know yourself better through cultivating a connection to your body and to your writing.
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You have always dabbled with the idea of writing and know you have a story to tell, but never quite had the confidence to begin. You seek inspiration and have a desire to explore writing in innovative and adventurous ways.
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You are already engaged in a project and want to work more deeply, applying this exciting methodology to your project. You want to get out of your head and write from an embodied, visceral place; unblocking your creativity and addressing resistance and challenges such as writer’s block or procrastinating.
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You want to investigate and express aspects of your personal identity such as cultural and racial identity, sexual orientation or gender identity, in empowering and creative ways.
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You feel isolated as a writer and would like to learn new approaches within a community of fellow explorers. Or you are a creative who wants to learn a new methodology to create material for creative projects such as performances, theatre pieces.
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Your writing feels stale and you would like to bring more authentic expression to your creativity and re-wild your writing. You want to become more productive and resilient to inner and outer criticism.
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You are looking for greater well-being through self-expression & embodiment.
Writing from the Body can be an excellent methodology for:
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Writers of all kinds: academics, fiction- & non-fiction writers, poets, memoir writers who want to access personal material
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Creative writing students and tutors
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People who use writing as a healing practice and to support their mental health
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Blocked writers & those seeking new inspiration
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Embodiment professionals & students of massage, Five Rhythms, yoga, martial arts, movement practices, dance
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Counsellors, arts therapists, psychotherapists or those in training
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Health and mental health professionals
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Creative professionals of all kinds
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Other creatives who want to generate material such as theatre professionals, screen writers, performers, performance art & theatre students
Who is Eva Weaver?
I believe passionately in the healing power and birthright to creativity. I’ve been interested in the connection between our bodies and how we express ourselves creatively for a very long time.
My intention is always to support people to feel more empowered and alive and I bring my heart, passion and wisdom from my own healing journey and my experiences as a performance artist, writer, art therapist, bodyworker & creativity coach to my work and offerings.
This informs Writing from the Body, as well as my experiences in the area of embodiment with trainings in breathwork, Urban Tantra, Somatic Sex Education and Sexological bodywork.
I love coaching writers and facilitating creative spaces, such as my WILD WRITE and WRITING FROM THE BODY programmes, building nourishing communities and supporting people in their unique creative expression.
I have developed and worked with the methodology of Writing from the Body over many years. My varied professions and life experience have inspired many of the tools, having worked for ten years as an art psychotherapist in the area of adult mental health, as well as my work as a writing coach, breathwork facilitator, sex coach and bodyworker.
My interest and engagement in shamanism, tantra and transformational empowerment practices such as firewalking also informs my writing.
Writing is my passion and my main creative expression. I have written creatively all of my life and have published two historic novels :’The Puppet Boy of Warsaw’ (2013) which has been translated into 13 languages, and ‘The Eye of the Reindeer’ (2016) . I am currently working on an erotic novel ‘The Upholsterer’s Game’ and a poetry collection ‘Firewolf and Gazelle’.
I feel the beauty of ‘Writing from the Body’, and the methodology it offers, is that it holds both the universality of us as humans who have an embodied experience in this life, because all humans live in and with a body, as well as our unique differences.
For example, I am living and writing from a white body and this experience is vastly different to the experience of a person of colour, given the society we live in. That I am able-bodied and cis-gender also shapes my experience and adds to my privilege.
Writing from the Body can allow us to create dialogue about shared and different experiences and help us explore issues around health, sexuality, gender identity, race and cultural identity in deep and creative ways. It can also support us to face, listen to and dismantle shame. It is inherently empowering.
Listening to my body I can hear my body’s stories and the stories of my ancestors. To let those stories flow onto the page means they become mirrored back to me and can be witnessed by myself and also be shared.
When we do this work in a workshop context, we can not only find refuge in our own writing and on the page, but also in the community of fellow explorers.
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The cost for the 12-week Writing from the Body programme is £888.
This includes:
* 12x 2-hour live zoom calls
* all extensive course material
* one coaching session with Eva
* the possibility to repeat the course (for a fee of £150 which includes another coaching session and admin fee)
You can book your place with a non-refundable but course-transferable £111. Up to 6-months payment plans and one subsidised place are available. Contact me info@evaweaver.com or register for the FREE introduction to discuss pricing.
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Each of the 12, weekly 2-hour online live sessions, is self contained and introduces specific embodiment and creativity tools as entryways to embodied writing. The exercises will be recorded, so if you miss a session you can catch up in your own time and you will be sent video & audio recordings after each session, which you can download and keep forever.
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You will receive handouts, the ‘Writing from the Body Handbook’ and videos in addition to the live sessions. These complement the programme, but are not a pre-requisite to watch or read before in order to fully participate in the live sessions. This means, if you have only time to show up for the live session you still get the full benefit!
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The 12-week programme includes a personal one hour coaching session with Eva. You can take this anytime during the course and up to one month afterwards and use it however you like, such as to talk about a writing project, how to begin, any aspect of writing or to process anything that has come up for you in the course.
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You are welcome to bring a project you are working on at the moment to the programme. You can apply the tools and methodologies you are learning straight away and generate new material in the sessions. Equally, you don’t have to have a project on the go, but just show up.
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The course is trauma informed – you will be encouraged to feel into what is doable for you and go at your own pace, exploring your personal edge and ‘learning zone’. All exercises can be adapted to different abilities and any stages of a writing project. I encourage you to play with the tools, practices and exercises and make them your own.
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You will be offered homework/play in between sessions. It’s completely up to you whether you would like to engage with it. If you like, you can pair up or join a small ally/accountability group that can check in in between sessions.
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You have access to a private Facebook group throughout the programme and a Writing from the Body Community group afterwards.
"We store memories in our bodies. We store passion and heartache.We store joy, moments of transcendent peace. If we are to access these, if we are to move into them and through them, we must enter our bodies to do so."
Julia Cameron ‘The Artist’s Way’
About writing in Community
Being in community is an important part of the Writing from the Body experience, supportive communities nourish and support us. Many writers suffer from a sense of isolation and, contrary to the myth of the lonely writer, this programme will show you that powerful, deep and original writing can absolutely happen in community.
For this reason, Writing from the Body is kept to an intimate group of 12 companions.
Community creates camaraderie and accountability, which in turn supports us when we work on our own. In this powerful cauldron we learn from one another and experience that we are not alone, but part of a rich fabric of fellow writers, all on their journey as embodied, creative beings.
I would love to welcome you to our WRITING FROM THE BODY COMMUNITY!
Each module is one 2-hour live zoom session each week plus optional activities in-between.
Session detail is subject to change
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MODULE 1 - Laying the Ground: Resourcing & Orientating for the JourneyIn this first module you will learn several simple yet powerful tools that we will re-visit throughout the programme, such as body-scan, orienting and grounding exercises and a movement and a potent writing practice ‘from the body to the page’. By moving our bodies in different ways; gently or with large, expansive movements, shaking, stretching etc, we can move blocks and obstacles, shake out difficult emotions, shift stagnant energy and create space for inspiration and flow. We will explore how to stay in the learning zone & explore powerful exercises you can apply to in your every day life and writing.
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MODULE 2 - Understanding & Befriending Our Nervous SystemArriving in the NOW. Writing from the Body aims to help us to arrive in the present and to become aware and educated about our nervous system. You will learn about your habitual nervous system patterns when it comes to writing and learn tools to regulate your nervous system. How do we meet the various challenges of the writing life, such as writer’s block, anxiety in regards to creating new material, completing or showing work to others? You will learn about: How fight, flight, freeze and fawn/appease responses might show up when it comes to creativity and writing Effective somatic tools to self regulate the nervous system, deal with hyper arousal, anxiety & distraction Exercises such as Heart-Math breathing, down-regulating breath and a powerful technique that combines breath and affirmations
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MODULE 3 - Transforming Resistance: Breathwork for Inspiration & WellbeingIn this module we explore breath as our most important life force energy and ally and how we can harness it for inspiration and wellbeing. If we consciously engage with breath, we can give breath to our writing and release blockages. In becoming aware of breath and by consciously breathing, we can still our minds, release resistance and what no longer serves, and draw in life force energy to expand and invigorate ourselves and our writing. This week I will introduce different breathwork techniques: Open mouth breathing vs nose breathing Conscious connected breathwork process I also offer a chakra breath journey. All exercises can be adapted.
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MODULE 4 - Writing from the Senses: Generating Authentic, Original Writing by Tuning into the Senses"Consciously connecting with all of our senses is crucial for writers and anyone who wants be be fully alive. As we take in the world through our senses, it is also where the juicy, visceral details of our writing originates. This week we explore: How we can generate alive, original writing from engaging with all our senses Exercises to harness deeper awareness of our senses for our writing Attending to smell, hearing/sound, touch, taste, extra-sensory perception/intuition Writing from prompts that relating to our sensations A powerful exercise by Betty Martin, author of ‘The Wheel of Consent’
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MODULE 5 - Releasing Blocks & Stuck Energy through EFT/TappingThere are excellent exercises from the world of body-psychotherapy that can support us to relief tension, stress and even trauma, such as EFT/Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique), TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) and Bioenergetic Exercises. Even though deep trauma work is best done in the context of therapy and with experienced trauma-informed practitioners, EFT techniques to release stress and tension can be learned easily and practiced by oneself. Combined with free-writing after such exercises, they become potent healing tools.
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MODULE 6 - Gut Feelings & Speaking from the BellyDeep Listening & Inner Body Journeys When we show up with openness, curiosity and a willingness to learn, we can listen to parts of our bodies and engage in deep inner dialogue. This deep listening to what our body wants to communicate with us can be a radical tool to unearth powerful personal material, beyond cliches. This week I will introduce an inner guided journey into the body and inner dialogue as a way into embodied writing. We will: Write from what we discover on an inner body-journey, guided dialogue and deep body listening Engage with different parts of the body: a journey into the gut, the back, the heart, the lungs
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MODULE 7 - Writing Down the Bones: Writing from our Deep EssenceIf we excavate the bones of our personal, ancestral and bodily histories, what will we find? This week we will look at our skeletal system, back and spine. The adult human skeleton has over two hundred bones, each with its own story to tell. The skeleton is our scaffold, our support, protecting our organs, allowing us to move. Bones are what will remain long after we die. As ‘backbones, they connect with structure and essence in our life and our writing. We will: Explore the symbology of bones, back and spine and harness this for our writing Ask about our WHY, and what the essence of our writing is Explore our support system: what stories can we find in our back and spine?
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MODULE 8 - The Map of our Body: Body Cartography, Writing from Marks & Scars"Approaching the body with compassion, we pay attention to the physical scars on the body and write the memories of how the scars originated, such as though childhood falls, accidents, childbirth etc. This can also be done with areas of the body that experience pain or have experienced pain in the past. Of course this can also bring up memories of emotional scars, but wherever the journey takes us, to write it down can bring release and lead us to self-compassion, acceptance and self love. This week we will attend to and write from and inspired by: The map of our bodies Scars, wounds, marks, tatoos - body inscriptions
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MODULE 9 - Writing the Wild: Re-Wilding the Body, Re-Wilding our Writing"Sometimes our writing becomes stale and predictable and we, in turn, might feel stale and ache for adventure and to give space to the wild parts in us. How we can nurture our wild, untamed parts and harness those for our writing? This week we attend to Re-wilding: as we re-wild our writing, our writing supports the re-wilding of our lives and vice versa. By connecting or re-connecting with the aliveness of our bodies, we can enliven our writing, find more depth, break through stagnation and boredom and move beyond superficiality. We can find pleasure through exploring our five senses and nourishing our wild soul, our untamed nature, through immersing ourselves in nature. Writing from such a source often surprises us - it brings flow, authenticity, depth and expansion - as if when we dive deep into the body and into our wild nature, our writing can gain a different perspective: it too gets expanded and wild. This week: We become aware of where our conditioning shows up: in our habits, our bodies and in our writing. We explore how we can move from outworn cliches to original writing, digging deep into our most personal metaphors. We tap into writing prompts about our Wild Soul and explore what ‘re-wilding’ means to each of us in our lives, such as deepening our connection with nature or engaging in ecstatic practices.
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MODULE 10 - Writing from the Erotic Bosy/Reclaiming the Pleasure Body‘I feel like all my wounds have been painted golden in this process.’ Participant ‘Writing from the Erotic Body’ Creativity and sexuality are our birthright and hold incredible power, but often we have been shamed or censored in our expressions, leading us to hide, dampen or shut down those powerful sources. Yet they flow like an underground river of unlimited energy through our lives, a source we can tap into whenever we chose to. Writing from the Body can support our sensual, erotic & sexual being. Connecting with eros can support our writing; through raising erotic energy in the body we create more embodied aliveness and a beautiful foundation for expressing our creativity. This week we will explore: A meditative practice How writing from the body can support sexuality and the reclamation of pleasure How to wake up our erotic bodies through movement, breathwork and, if wished, conscious self-touch What happens when we bring sensuality and pleasure to our writing and write from a juicy, sensually awake place
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MODULE 11 - Body Metaphors: Get Your Teeth into it and Write From Your BellyThe body as a symbol system. We will collect body metaphors and explore the personal metaphors and symbols significant in our lives and our writing. We also attend to the theme of skin: The skin is our container, boundary between ourselves and the world Feeling at home, in our skin (or not); the politics of skin, skin colour Shedding skin - what does not serve us any longer What happens when the skin speaks?
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MODULE 12 - Completion, Celebration, Visioning"We will revisit some of the tools and you will have time to review your notes, share in small groups and the large group. You might want to set some intentions for the journey forward to implement the teaching. We will explore: What were the treasures of the programme for you? What tools were most powerful for you and why? How can you apply these in your life and in your writing?
"We do not write from our minds alone- this is the treasure I took from Eva’s fierce and powerful workshop. In an atmosphere of trust, she showed us how to unlock the body’s memory and wisdom – not only as a source of creativity but also as a source of healing. Thank you for this journey!"
Johanna Kompbacher, Vienna
"Thank you so much for writing from the body and for guiding us with the intelligence of the body. What came up for me blew my mind: my body spoke."
Sharmila
"I highly recommend this course- it was such a helpful space over the last months of lockdowns to have this creative process with the body. Especially in these times with so much uncertainty and nervous system dis-regulation, having a creative process with your own body in the here and now, is priceless and so needed.
It is such a miracle how through creative writing a part of you talks back to you, sharing insights and wisdom and you think “ha, where did that come from?”
Eva´s work is trauma informed and queer- among many other things- and she has created a space where you can dive deep if you want to- without being pushed to do that. Your authentic choices and processes are always treasured here. Yet, Eva always brings in amazing ways to help you go into dialogue with the body. With that it’s an ideal space for people who are new to this approach as well as people who create regularly and are familiar with bodywork."
Sara Ablinger, Coach & Bodyworker ‘Big Body Love’
"This workshop gave me so much; new ways to connect to my writing, deeper characterisation, and scenes magically unfolded. Yet, I received more than that, an understanding of how our stories are in our bodies, and though Eva’s gentle, warm and nurturing facilitation, I also had some incredible healing shifts for my personal life.
Highly recommended."
Kate Marillat, bestselling Author of ‘Transform your Beliefs, Transform your Life.’
"Eva’s Writing from the Body workshop, that could easily be called ‘writing from, through and beyond the body’- gradually takes you deep inside, quite effortlessly and much deeper then you realise, thanks to her gentle ways and playful strategies.
I have found it inspiring and nourishing and went away with lots of food for thought, snippets of good writing to develop as well as a palette of techniques to continue playing with."
Emmanuelle Waeckerle
"The workshop was a playful way to process deeply and find entry points into creative flow. Assisted Embodied Souldiving!"
KC
"A unique set of powerful tools to take me into a writing process, from deeply felt, often surprising places."
Anonymous
"Attending Eva’s brilliant ‘Writing from the Body ‘workshop during the summer certainly reignited my passion for writing from a more embodied place.As a Yoga teacher I knew that any encouragement would need to be both creative and also resonate with me holistically, whilst being practical too."
Colette Nolan, yoga teacher
"What these sessions offer me is spaciousness to drop into myself, to drop into the treasures within, into my own being and I look back on all the words with fondness."
Anonymous
"I feel there’s a change in myself in that I can appreciate the writing as a moment in time that didn’t need to be a masterpiece, but it’s a snippet of a moment. And that’s very beautiful- I can see the layers, how I start with something that sounds almost practical and by the end of the session, the poetry of my being is there. Thank you Eva for creating such an amazing space that makes that possible."
Bayari Lou Beegan
I would love to welcome you to our Writing from the Body Community!
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MODULE 1 - Laying the Ground: Resourcing & Orientating for the JourneyIn this first module you will learn several simple yet powerful tools that we will re-visit throughout the programme, such as body-scan, orienting and grounding exercises and a movement and a potent writing practice ‘from the body to the page’. By moving our bodies in different ways; gently or with large, expansive movements, shaking, stretching etc, we can move blocks and obstacles, shake out difficult emotions, shift stagnant energy and create space for inspiration and flow. We will explore how to stay in the learning zone & explore powerful exercises you can apply to in your every day life and writing.
-
MODULE 2 - Understanding & Befriending Our Nervous SystemArriving in the NOW. Writing from the Body aims to help us to arrive in the present and to become aware and educated about our nervous system. You will learn about your habitual nervous system patterns when it comes to writing and learn tools to regulate your nervous system. How do we meet the various challenges of the writing life, such as writer’s block, anxiety in regards to creating new material, completing or showing work to others? You will learn about: How fight, flight, freeze and fawn/appease responses might show up when it comes to creativity and writing Effective somatic tools to self regulate the nervous system, deal with hyper arousal, anxiety & distraction Exercises such as Heart-Math breathing, down-regulating breath and a powerful technique that combines breath and affirmations
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MODULE 3 - Transforming Resistance: Breathwork for Inspiration & WellbeingIn this module we explore breath as our most important life force energy and ally and how we can harness it for inspiration and wellbeing. If we consciously engage with breath, we can give breath to our writing and release blockages. In becoming aware of breath and by consciously breathing, we can still our minds, release resistance and what no longer serves, and draw in life force energy to expand and invigorate ourselves and our writing. This week I will introduce different breathwork techniques: Open mouth breathing vs nose breathing Conscious connected breathwork process I also offer a chakra breath journey. All exercises can be adapted.
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MODULE 4 - Writing from the Senses: Generating Authentic, Original Writing by Tuning into the Senses"Consciously connecting with all of our senses is crucial for writers and anyone who wants be be fully alive. As we take in the world through our senses, it is also where the juicy, visceral details of our writing originates. This week we explore: How we can generate alive, original writing from engaging with all our senses Exercises to harness deeper awareness of our senses for our writing Attending to smell, hearing/sound, touch, taste, extra-sensory perception/intuition Writing from prompts that relating to our sensations A powerful exercise by Betty Martin, author of ‘The Wheel of Consent’
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MODULE 5 - Releasing Blocks & Stuck Energy through EFT/TappingThere are excellent exercises from the world of body-psychotherapy that can support us to relief tension, stress and even trauma, such as EFT/Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique), TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) and Bioenergetic Exercises. Even though deep trauma work is best done in the context of therapy and with experienced trauma-informed practitioners, EFT techniques to release stress and tension can be learned easily and practiced by oneself. Combined with free-writing after such exercises, they become potent healing tools.
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MODULE 6 - Gut Feelings & Speaking from the BellyDeep Listening & Inner Body Journeys When we show up with openness, curiosity and a willingness to learn, we can listen to parts of our bodies and engage in deep inner dialogue. This deep listening to what our body wants to communicate with us can be a radical tool to unearth powerful personal material, beyond cliches. This week I will introduce an inner guided journey into the body and inner dialogue as a way into embodied writing. We will: Write from what we discover on an inner body-journey, guided dialogue and deep body listening Engage with different parts of the body: a journey into the gut, the back, the heart, the lungs
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MODULE 7 - Writing Down the Bones: Writing from our Deep EssenceIf we excavate the bones of our personal, ancestral and bodily histories, what will we find? This week we will look at our skeletal system, back and spine. The adult human skeleton has over two hundred bones, each with its own story to tell. The skeleton is our scaffold, our support, protecting our organs, allowing us to move. Bones are what will remain long after we die. As ‘backbones, they connect with structure and essence in our life and our writing. We will: Explore the symbology of bones, back and spine and harness this for our writing Ask about our WHY, and what the essence of our writing is Explore our support system: what stories can we find in our back and spine?
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MODULE 8 - The Map of our Body: Body Cartography, Writing from Marks & Scars"Approaching the body with compassion, we pay attention to the physical scars on the body and write the memories of how the scars originated, such as though childhood falls, accidents, childbirth etc. This can also be done with areas of the body that experience pain or have experienced pain in the past. Of course this can also bring up memories of emotional scars, but wherever the journey takes us, to write it down can bring release and lead us to self-compassion, acceptance and self love. This week we will attend to and write from and inspired by: The map of our bodies Scars, wounds, marks, tatoos - body inscriptions
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MODULE 9 - Writing the Wild: Re-Wilding the Body, Re-Wilding our Writing"Sometimes our writing becomes stale and predictable and we, in turn, might feel stale and ache for adventure and to give space to the wild parts in us. How we can nurture our wild, untamed parts and harness those for our writing? This week we attend to Re-wilding: as we re-wild our writing, our writing supports the re-wilding of our lives and vice versa. By connecting or re-connecting with the aliveness of our bodies, we can enliven our writing, find more depth, break through stagnation and boredom and move beyond superficiality. We can find pleasure through exploring our five senses and nourishing our wild soul, our untamed nature, through immersing ourselves in nature. Writing from such a source often surprises us - it brings flow, authenticity, depth and expansion - as if when we dive deep into the body and into our wild nature, our writing can gain a different perspective: it too gets expanded and wild. This week: We become aware of where our conditioning shows up: in our habits, our bodies and in our writing. We explore how we can move from outworn cliches to original writing, digging deep into our most personal metaphors. We tap into writing prompts about our Wild Soul and explore what ‘re-wilding’ means to each of us in our lives, such as deepening our connection with nature or engaging in ecstatic practices.
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MODULE 10 - Writing from the Erotic Bosy/Reclaiming the Pleasure Body‘I feel like all my wounds have been painted golden in this process.’ Participant ‘Writing from the Erotic Body’ Creativity and sexuality are our birthright and hold incredible power, but often we have been shamed or censored in our expressions, leading us to hide, dampen or shut down those powerful sources. Yet they flow like an underground river of unlimited energy through our lives, a source we can tap into whenever we chose to. Writing from the Body can support our sensual, erotic & sexual being. Connecting with eros can support our writing; through raising erotic energy in the body we create more embodied aliveness and a beautiful foundation for expressing our creativity. This week we will explore: A meditative practice How writing from the body can support sexuality and the reclamation of pleasure How to wake up our erotic bodies through movement, breathwork and, if wished, conscious self-touch What happens when we bring sensuality and pleasure to our writing and write from a juicy, sensually awake place
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MODULE 11 - Body Metaphors: Get Your Teeth into it and Write From Your BellyThe body as a symbol system. We will collect body metaphors and explore the personal metaphors and symbols significant in our lives and our writing. We also attend to the theme of skin: The skin is our container, boundary between ourselves and the world Feeling at home, in our skin (or not); the politics of skin, skin colour Shedding skin - what does not serve us any longer What happens when the skin speaks?
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MODULE 12 - Completion, Celebration, Visioning"We will revisit some of the tools and you will have time to review your notes, share in small groups and the large group. You might want to set some intentions for the journey forward to implement the teaching. We will explore: What were the treasures of the programme for you? What tools were most powerful for you and why? How can you apply these in your life and in your writing?