Have you suspected that your creativity and your body might be connected?

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 Embodied Writing classes, individual online session, weekly audio meditations, resources for deepening practice and a small care package to get you started. 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 individual support beyond the introductory session, 20% off additional individual sessions (regularly $100) through December, 2021.

What folks are saying

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.

 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?”

 Writing Ourselves Awake is an 8-week immersive course to explore embodiment and writing towards awakening our creative selves.

Schedule. Embodied Writing classes meet Tuesdays from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST on the following dates: May 3rd, May 10th, May 17th, May 24th, May 31st, June 7th, June 14th & June 21st.

Individual sessions (of 45-minutes each) will be scheduled in early May.

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.

  • Option 4: $750-If you’re feeling financially abundant and want to extend support to others with less means, this option pays above the course cost to help subsidize those in need.

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.