Events.
Support for connecting your body and your creativity.
Join us for Writing Ourselves Awake: Autumn, an 8-week immersive process to explore inhabiting our bodies while creatively telling our stories. Fall invites us to soften our grip and go inward; in the spirit of the season, we’ll explore themes of release & letting go, listening for the stories, beliefs and habits that might be ready for composting. What might we find in this newly-opened space?
Course includes: live online Embodied Writing classes, weekly audio meditations, resources for deepening practice and a small care package to get you started. Group size limited to 8-10 participants. Find out what happens when you invite your whole self into the room.
Writing Ourselves Awake is the support I wish I’d had in my own journey to inhabit my body and creativity.
Eight Embodied Writing classes: We’ll meet weekly to write, move, and (optionally) share in the context of a small, supportive group
An individual session to focus on your personal intentions and synthesize material before we get started
Resources to support your own explorations, including videos, prompts, & articles
Weekly audio recordings created for the group to take themes deeper on your own time
A sweet little care package sent by mail to welcome you including a ball for gentle body rolling explorations we’ll do in class
If you’d like additional individual support, 20% off additional individual sessions (regularly $100) through December, 2022.
What folks are saying.
“There truly are no words that come close to expressing my gratitude for your infinite love, exquisite skill, and generosity in these offerings to all of us… As a group we are swimming in the sweetness of your invitation to come alive together.” - B.E.
“Embodied writing is an invitation to write from the heart of your own lived experience. It is writing from the inside out, a bold exploration of the interior world as a pathway to deeper connections and clarity of purpose in our outer lives.
Johanna crafts a setting where creativity sparks community and students find joy in sharing their written work. Thoughtful prompts to both move and reflect offer new avenues to approach writing practice that can bring honesty and liveliness into your work. Take this class if you have longed to pay closer attention to your daily life or ever wondered if you could write about it. “ — L.M.
"I am so grateful for how deeply nourishing a 45 minute video session with Johanna feels during these uncertain times. Even over the internet, which can potentially feel distant and impersonal, Johanna knowingly tunes in to my field, co-creating spaciousness for discovery and healing through words and biodynamic connection. Each session, she offers grounding and calming exercises for the body that I frequently use as supportive tools in the days following our conversation." - Client
Themes
Week 1: (Invent)ory. Attending to how our bodies are organized right now. Building language for knowing ourselves in the present.
Week 2: Bone. Getting acquainted with structure, electricity and the place where blood is born.
Week 3: Breath. Tuning into the ways we are in movement and rhythm.
Week 4: Sense. Waking up to our ways of knowing.
Week 5: Elements. Bringing the language of natural form into the body.
Week 6: Space & Pace. Exploring how much space we actually need and our organic sense of timing.
Week 7: Release and letting go. With expanding self trust, what habits and stories are ready for composting?
Week 8: Play, Wildness. What happens when we tune in, as Saeed Jones writes, to “the intelligence of honey?”
Cost & Details
Writing Ourselves Awake is an 8-week immersive course to explore embodiment and writing towards awakening our creative selves.
Schedule. Embodied Writing classes meet Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST on the following dates: October 13th, October 20th, October 27th, November 3rd, November 10th, November 17th, November 24th, December 1st.
Individual sessions (of 45-minutes each) will be scheduled in late September & early October
Location. Anywhere! We’ll meet via Zoom.
Cost. With a bow of gratitude to Sage Hayes and Alexis J. Cunningfolk for the inspiration, I am offering a new pay structure:
Option 1: $650—Reflects the true cost of this course. This cost reflects the value of the total number of hours invested to make this class happen. If you have financial security, own property or have personal savings, this is the appropriate price for you.
Option 2: $550—If you have access to steady income but you have been financially affected by the pandemic, or are struggling to conquer debt or move away from paycheck to paycheck living, you belong here. However, using the sliding scale can limit opportunities for others. So, if you have the option to ask others for financial support, such as family members, partners, or friends, please consider using those personal resources before choosing this option.
Option 3: $450—If the first two options would prevent you from being a part of this session, then this option is for you. If you struggle to maintain access to basic needs, you likely belong here, and deserve a community that honors you exactly where you are. If this option is still prohibitive, please be in touch to explore extended payment plans and other solutions.
Payment plans are available. $200 deposit to register. In addition, scholarships are available particularly for marginalized folx and those in great financial need. Please contact me if you’d like to learn about scholarships or donate to make this option more widely available to others.
Writing Ourselves Awake is limited to a small group of 8-10 participants.
I’m Johanna
a biodynamic craniosacral therapist, a teacher, a writer, an audio producer, and someone who knows autoimmune disease from the inside out. I create spaces where we can listen to what our bodies are actually saying in order to inhabit ourselves more fully. I believe in abundant permission, reverence, and the vitality of creativity. Read more.
What is Embodied Writing? When we inhabit our bodies, we include more of our selves in our lives. And when we combine this vital occupancy with writing and deep listening? Magic.
Embodied Writing explores what happens in our writing when we invite our whole selves into the room.
Past Events & Workshops
Reverence begins January 1st, 2022
Living into our bodies takes practice and support. Join us for a 30-day course to help you inhabit your actual home. Weekly audio, writing prompts, bodied practices, and live Zoom calls focus on living fully in the bodies we have. Our work speaks to those with chronic conditions, but also to anyone with a body who'd like to live with more ease. Neither fixing nor self-improving, Reverence invites us to hear what our bodies are speaking.
Week 1 : Fall / Inventory
Week 2 : Winter / Structures
Week 3 : Spring / Fluidity
Week 4 : Summer / Alchemy
“I have made a habit of being true to myself.”
There are no upcoming events at this time.