6-week Poetry + Somatics Series

"Poetry encourages us to put words to feelings that we can’t otherwise describe,”... “It allows us to communicate our fears and passions and joys and memories in a way that preserves them, honors them and lets other people interact and share in those moments, too.”

 

-Stephanie Wytovich

 

This unique and passion-centred collaboration is one born of wanting to unravel and express all that is rising and falling within us, within our bodies, minds, hearts, and communities.  There is so much polarity to hold at this juncture in time... grappling with all that is possible, while also recognizing the peril.  It's nothing shy of challenging.  

 

Thus, we wanted to offer a series that both plays with creativity, imagination and expression, while practicing embodiment, movement, contemplation and everything in between. 

 

What you can expect in this 6-week series:

 

•Author and professor, Almeda Glenn Miller will guide us through different writing exercises as we unravel and form a  relationship with an already written poem.

 

•To compliment this 'unravelling', Danielle Hachey will offer various yoga, movement, meditative and ritualistic practices that support us in feeling, sensational awareness of joy, rage, humour, grief, confusion, and becoming ever more aware of how those feelings can be expressed and moved.

 

•We will offer up previously written poems to work with and become intimate with over the weeks, practicing somatic exercises and writing techniques as we unpack the poems in many ways, and re-write an writer a new.

 

**You do not need to identify as a poet or a writer, this could be the first time you are dipping your toes into anything like this... or perhaps you are a seasoned writer wishing to uncover your authentic voice... either way, this will be a supportive, creative and communal experience in investigating our imagination and voices, and all we can dream up!

 

Join Almeda and Danielle starting next Tuesday Jan. 20th, 6:30-8:00 PM at Madhu Wellness Collective in Rossland.

 

Investment: $210 + tax

Pre-Register : https://madhucollective.janeapp.com/#/yoga-series

 

Poems provided.

Bring a journal and pen, wear comfortable clothing.

 

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