Writing your story is alchemical. When you allow your experiences to flow from memory bank to page, you cast the lead of personal experience into the flames of creativity and they are transmuted. A golden elixir spills into the world and the senseless begins to make sense. The catastrophe reveals its quiet beauty. The seemingly mundane is imbued with luminosity.
Memoir can be a mystical experience. It connects us to the web of interbeing and reminds us that we belong.
This Retreat Is For You If...
You're interested in more than journaling and approach writing as a transformational practice
You have had significant life experiences you wish to chronicle with authenticity, specificity and vibrancy
You've had mystical experiences (big or small) and want to write about them with embodied language
You're a beginning or seasoned writer seeking to access deeper creative flow
You want to generate a significant amount of raw material in a short time
You desire a reliable technique to continue your writing practice for publication or personal growth
You're seeking community with others engaged in writing as a spiritual practice
Through This Weekend, You Will...
Access a deep flow state where the writing becomes effortless and leads to deeper self-awareness
Experience the freedom of creative flow and the power of community through small circles of deep listening
Open blocked creative channels and bolster your courage to tell authentic truths
Generate a significant amount of material you can later distill and shape into polished pieces
Walk away with a simple, powerful technique you can use on your own or in small groups
Create writing that is both therapeutic for you and an offering of beauty to the world
Experience a community of companions on the transformational writing path
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Resources to Carry With You
The weekend is just the beginning. These offerings will continue to stoke the flames of your practice long after we've written together.
"The Alchemy of Art"
Mirabai's luminous essay from Wild Mercy on how creativity transmutes suffering into beauty, exploring why the feminine mystics understood art-making as holy work.
Writing Through the Fire
A downloadable guide to navigating the heat of truth-telling. Mirabai shares what it takes to write the stories that frighten and liberate us in equal measure.
The Sacred Unspoken
Full replay of Mirabai's gathering on freeing your authentic voice. If you missed it, here's your chance. If you were there, return to these teachings as you continue the work.
Mirabai & Natalie Goldberg: A Conversation
Two beloved teachers discuss ordinary mysticism, the discipline and wildness of the writing life, and what it means to be held by mentorship across the decades. Intimate, inspiring, essential.
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