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Easy as Breathing: Wild Heart Writing for Women, ZMC 9/1–9/6 – Canceled
Description
Loosen your creativity, fill your page with words that want to be written, and share your stories in an inspiring, supportive setting.
Authentic, compelling writing comes from a place of emptiness and mindfulness. By showing up, listening, and writing what arises, we discover the ideas we need to bring to light. We calm the mind, then follow playful and provocative prompts to start our pens flowing. With timed exercises, we bypass our inner critics and write consciously and freely. Words appear. Memories stir. Tales breeze in and land on the page. After writing, we read aloud and encourage one another, without critiquing.
This practice can serve as a form of meditation or a way to discover the writer within, jumpstart any writing project, or add new tools to your writer’s belt.
Writing experience is not needed. A willingness to be quiet and to play is all.
No special materials or advance reading are necessary. Participants should bring pen and a notebook or paper, since laptop use is not fitting for this modality.
This retreat welcomes all self-identified women.
Fee Information
- Benefactor Ticket Price: $550 — supports others’ participation
- Standard ticket price: $440 — covers full program costs
- SFZC Member Ticket Price (Become an SFZC Member): $374 — for current SFZC members
Please note that the retreat fee does not include accommodations. Retreats begin at 4 pm on the indicated start date and end by noon on the indicated end date. Visit the Rooms & Rates section and determine your preferred accommodations before making your reservations request online.
This event has been canceled.
Cynthia Cummins
Cynthia Cummins has led Wild Heart Writing workshops for 12 years in an array of settings, including SF Zen Center, Tassajara, Green Gulch Farm, SF YMCA and Shasta Yoga. Visit the Wild Heart Writing website to learn more. https://www.wildheartwriting.org/
Chikudo Catherine Spaeth
Chikudo Catherine Spaeth was ordained in 2013 by Susan Tokudo Jion Postal, a student of Darlene Cohen. A resident attendant for Susan Postal, upon her passing Catherine returned to Tassajara to become a student of Ryushin Paul Haller.