In addition to my ongoing classes and coaching, I teach day- and week-long workshops and seminars at retreat centers, schools, team-building events, private homes, and body-mind-spirit venues. I am happy to custom design curricula to meet your needs or the needs of your organization. Take a look at my unique, multi-disciplinary offerings and contact me if you’d like to discuss my presenting a workshop at your studio, university, or retreat center. I look forward to speaking with you!
BodyTalk: Creative Writing & MovementCreative movement and writing are exquisite muses that work well together. Intuitive movement breaks habitual patterns and helps you discover untapped resources. It creates additional pathways in the brain, which lead to new and original ways of thinking. In this workshop, you will learn to listen to your body and explore how it wants to move, shed inhibitions, give voice to specific body parts, expand your creativity, access the longings of your soul, and kick-start your writing practice. You will also have fun, play, and stand in your stillness. The wisdom that arises from your creativity may be startling, revealing, painful, funny, illuminating, and healing. This is a powerful, integrative, life-expanding creative process.
Guided Meditation & WritingMeditation is focused attention. It helps bring people into the present moment. I use a variety of guided and freeform meditation techniques—seated, lying down, moving, silent, sounding, chanting, and gibberish—to prime the pump so that your writing flows in fresh, original ways. In my “Guided Meditation and Writing” workshop, we explore archetypes, such as the fool, child, hunter, wife, lover, crone, and more—as well as an array of gods and goddesses. We also use our five senses, seasons, earth’s elements, darkness, and light as insight metaphors. We may meditate on a word or object, such as a mask or a common household item, like as a pair of scissors. We journey to inner sanctums and meet wisdom guides, spirit animals, or other messengers. These are just a few of the themes used in this workshops. Meditation, like writing, is a creative process, and I’m always finding and sharing new ways to practice both. |
Conferences |
Body Maps
Come and create life-sized body drawings, front and back. That’s how this workshop begins. Participants then decorate with crayons, markers, pencils, and images cut from magazines to create a Personalized Body Map with unique signs and symbols. These signs and symbols may be obvious or obscure. Drawing skills are appreciated, but not necessary; what you’re after are clues and images--sparks you can fan into flames while you explore, through movement and writing, your maps. This process might reveal roadblocks or detours, but can just as easily--
or additionally--point the way to buried treasure you might not have known was there!
or additionally--point the way to buried treasure you might not have known was there!
Altar Building
Group
In this workshop a group of people come together to build an altar with a particular theme or purpose in mind. Each person brings an object to place on the altar. We build the altar slowly, with intention, as each person describes why they selected their particular object, what it signifies, and what they hope will come of sharing it. The altar, a living art project, is a powerful tool for community building, intimacy, and deep sharing. This activity is a great way to mark meaningful occasions in life, especially birthdays. Guests might be invited to bring a stone and a flower, and as they place these offering on the altar, explain why they chose that stone and that flower, why it’s an expression of themselves, and how it relates to the person being celebrated. People enjoy these lively, fun, soul-affirming events.
Individual
I’m also available to advise people who want to build personal altars, which are beautiful and potent places to set intentions, meditate, pray, and offer thanks for blessings.
I love working with people on empowering creative projects. Please contact me to help you (or your clients) stretch into your next big dream!
In this workshop a group of people come together to build an altar with a particular theme or purpose in mind. Each person brings an object to place on the altar. We build the altar slowly, with intention, as each person describes why they selected their particular object, what it signifies, and what they hope will come of sharing it. The altar, a living art project, is a powerful tool for community building, intimacy, and deep sharing. This activity is a great way to mark meaningful occasions in life, especially birthdays. Guests might be invited to bring a stone and a flower, and as they place these offering on the altar, explain why they chose that stone and that flower, why it’s an expression of themselves, and how it relates to the person being celebrated. People enjoy these lively, fun, soul-affirming events.
Individual
I’m also available to advise people who want to build personal altars, which are beautiful and potent places to set intentions, meditate, pray, and offer thanks for blessings.
I love working with people on empowering creative projects. Please contact me to help you (or your clients) stretch into your next big dream!
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” —Leonardo da Vinci