Write Yourself Free: Early Bird Registration Now Open
And a poem for your Tuesday
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
for my upcoming six week (online) “WRITE YOURSELF FREE” writing series for women, with a focus on Staying in Love during these troubling times in our world.
The circle of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry us when we’re weak and sing with us when we are strong. —SARK
I would so love to circle with you!
In this six-week writing series, we will explore that holy field that poet, Rumi, speaks about, that field "beyond wrongdoing and rightdoing." The field beyond "good" and "bad." The field beyond censoring and judgment.
"Write Yourself Free" is all about freeing ourselves so that we can write & live from true, rather than writing and living from a place of trying to be "good."
During our time together, we will let our pens go where they need to go. There will be no editing, no critiquing, no push to perform, no trying to be good—no trying, period.
If you would like to read more about my personal journey with writing practice, click HERE.
Click below for more information & to register…
NOTE: If you register by Friday, July 11th, you will receive the early bird special, which is $25.00 off the listed price. Use coupon code: EARLYBIRD to receive the discount.
For those of you who are currently paid subscribers of my Substack page, or/and have taken a “Write Yourself Free” class in the past, or have been a part of my “Write Yourself Free” writing community, please use the coupon code: EARLIESTBIRD to receive $35.00 off of the listed price (no deadline).
Registration for both classes closes on Monday, July 21st.
NOTE: These classes typically fill quite quickly.
SERIES #1:
Tuesdays, July 22nd—August 26th, from 4-6:00 p.m (PST). This will be an intimate circle of women, limited to 15.
SERIES #2
Wednesdays, July 23rd—August 27th, from 9-11:00 a.m. (PST). This will be an intimate circle of women, limited to 15.
CLICK BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION & TO REGISTER.
I would so love to make a merry, playful mess with you…
And now for a poem that very much speaks to what it means to write yourself free…
CLOSER TO FREE
It does not matter if it is good, if you use the right words, or the prettiest words, if you craft sentences complete with commas and metaphors all in the right place. It matters that it feels good, that you splash around with joy, that you forget the world for more than a while, that you make a merry mess, feel the flap of wings against ribcage, that you mix yellow and blue to make the just-right shade of green, the green that reminds you of the field you rested in when you were still considered young. It does not matter if you win the contests, collect the rewards, the credentials, the most pats on the back, if all your As are straight, if all your sentences come to a full stop. It matters that you forget the push of performance while you lean in close to opening crocus, that you let something in you open too. It matters that you drape words off the page, miles off the page even, that you write your way to true, that you feel the shake of a voice finally found— the flutter of a voice finally free.
The above poem is one of 99 poems in my book “Staying in Love.” Signed copies & signed poetry prints are available HERE