The Center To Page Visions & Missions

Writing Services: I build personable relationships with seasoned writers and fresh writers alike. You have your vision and voice. My job is to help you maintain your authenticity and write from a surprising source of verve, confidence, and richness.

Workshops & Retreats: I create safe yet challenging spaces for writers and people curious about their creativity. Participants come away not just with extraordinary experiences that  integrate yoga's principles and practices into a creative journey; they return home equipped with a set of tools and the confidence and versatility to change their writing habits and process.. 

And Beyond: We're also committed to building an intelligent, forward-thinking community of other teachers, artists, writers, and visionaries who are imagining how creativity can help bring intentional change to the world. 

Jeff Davis, DIRECTOR  jeffdavis@centertopage.com

- Publications: Author of The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing (hardcover, 2004; paperback, 2005, Penguin) and City Reservoir (Barnburner Press 1998).

- Essays, articles, short stories, and poems have appeared in publications around the country and in London including The Comstock Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Conscious Choice, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, and Wisdom Publication's You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction.

-Teaching: Faculty mentor for students at Western Connecticut State University's MFA Program in Professional Writing, and teaches or has taught creative writing workshops at The University of New Mexico's Taos Writer's Conference, The Cape Cod Writer's Conference, The Writers Lab in Skyros, Greece, and the Block Island Poetry project among other places

Former senior yoga teacher at Bliss Yoga Center in Woodstock, NY; founder of WEN Barn & Gardens in Accord, NY

- Current Projects: Revising and updating the second edition of The Journey from the Center to the Page (due out in April 2008 by Monkfish Publishers, researching for next nonfiction book and iscompleting his next poetry collection Woman Burning Another Woman; conducting study of yoga's effects on MFA - Writing students

- Personal: Resides near Woodstock, NY, between the Catskill Mountains and the Shawangunk Mountains with wife Hillary.

from Jeff

Yoga screwed up my life in all the right ways.  I took my first yoga class when I was nineteen, and I had little idea what I was doing. Still, it felt right. It took over another ten years, though, before yoga transformed my writing practice and profession.  It helped me let go of the things I thought important and tend to what truly was important.   I regained my concentration and imagination and uncovered those things called emotions--facets that deepened my writing if not my humanity.  My skeptical inquiry into ancient yogic texts and into neuroscience and psychology have confirmed much of my experience as has my training in the Vanda Scaravelli Method with Michelle Andrei and Irene Beer, Jivamukti-inspired vinyasa with Debi DiPeso, and the principles of Anusara Yoga alignment with Joe Palese. I have traveled to Greece to study with Angela Farmer and Victor von Kooten and to Southern India to study with TKV Desikachar and his family of teachers at the Krishnamacarya Yoga Mandiram. From my own experiences & experimentation, research, and training, I founded the Yoga As Muse for Authentic Writing workshops and CenterToPage Writing Services. I'm always secretly pleased that this integration works so magically for other writers (and musicians and artists).  Learn more about Jeff's story.

 

Ron Rozman, ADMINISTRATIVE & CREATIVE DIRECTOR  ron@centertopage.com

After spending the past thirty years founding, starting up, and running three diverse and successful businesses--including the still-thriving Hudson Valley Magazine in 1972--Ron Rozman was looking forward to early retirement.  Then, the  untimely death of his wife to cancer in November 2004 and an unyielding wanderlust took him on two cross-country car trips in two years.  Upon returning, Ron understood that his talents and experience would be valuable to the correct kind of business.  In October 2006 he met with Jeff Davis and has come on board as Center to Page's Administrative and Creative Director.  Ron says he looks forward to contributing his vision and experience to help Center to Page forge a mindful and exciting path forward.  We're excited to have Ron's grounding force--balanced with dry wit.

from Ron

The services offered and the business ethics that are a hallmark of Center to Page's mission resonate clearly with me.  I am pleased and excited to be part of a journey that is so grounded and centered in its methodologies and its business goals.  I cannot think of a better endeavor than that of helping writers to communicate clearly and from the heart.

 

Center to Page, LLC MOVING WRITERS FROM THE CENTER TO THE PAGE
156 Upper Whitfield Rd.
Accord, NY 12404
845.679.9441
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