The Yoga of Writing (and Living) with Wonder
A WORKSHOP with JEFF DAVIS
For writers
of all backgrounds and genres, the Yoga of Writing (and Living) with Wonder
Workshop gives you daily writing tools--both at the desk and way from the
desk--to keep your writing and your writing life full of surprise and wonder.
- how a mindful re-connection with the phenomenal world can refresh and hone your writing sensibilities
- techniques and habits that renowned writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry use to keep their writing fresh, vital, and wondrous (with sample readings)
- how simple words can vibrate with meaning and how metaphor can emerge naturally, not ornately
- how yoga principles inform you of the imagination’s embodied nature
- how very simple yoga practices, appropriate for anybody, can help you access surprising imagery, dwell in original questions, and keep our plots and poems novel at every bend
You can
bring existing pieces of writing to work with, come with the intention
to devlop new work for an existing project, or approach the workshop free
and open to whatever surfaces. In each workshop, participants have plenty
of time to write, reflect, and share.
Join me in 2005
on this Journey
to Wonder.
POSSIBLE RETREAT SCHEDULE
Day 1 Focus on the Feast: A Way to Write
“Spell”-ing Words, the Spell of Words
What If and Luminous Questions
Day 2 Writing with Presence
Bliss in a Toothbrush: Writing About the Ordinary
Night Writing
Twilight Writing
Day 3 What If and Luminous Questioning
Wondrous Re-visioning
Going Back versus Returning
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