Meets monthly on second Fridays (free follow up meeting 2 week after the meeting)

ONLINE | By donation $0, $5, $10, $15 sliding scale, pay what you can.
Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

In these times of great change we will explore a path toward meeting ourselves where we are to give voice to all that matters!

As we live with interruptions and chaos, we can deepen the roots of our creativity, encouraging the river of expression to flow.

Beginners and seasoned writers are welcome, as we explore various forms of writing: poetry, prose, short stories, memoir, among others. Through writing exercises using everyday life, place, family, images, poetry of others, while using pranayama, meditation and the guidance of the Sutras we will build a body of work. Participants are encouraged to go at their own pace.
Tools we will Practice:

• The Art of Paying Attention
• Acceptance
• Play
• Writing from the Heart

Together we will combine self-care with our writing and discover what a writing practice means to us and how it may take shape.

Free follow-up, New Beginnings Writing Group with Susan Ford is
Friday, September 24 ⋅ 4:00 – 6:00pm PT (Monthly on the fourth Friday).

Susan Ford, C-IAYT, RYT-500, began teaching in 2011 and has been an assistant trainer for the Basic Yoga Teacher Training at Integral Yoga Institute (IYI) since 2012. She specializes in gentle yoga and yoga therapy working with people with disabilities, cancer, heart disease, arthritis, aging, bone health, anxiety, depression and asthma. Her focus is to help students to meet their bodies where they are by introducing and incorporating Therapeutic Yoga, Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, pranayama and meditation.
Susan has been a writer of poetry, short stories and plays most of her adult life and has been repeatedly featured in storytelling events in Northern California. She has led writer groups, tutored many in writing, and regularly hosts poetry reading Satsangs at the IYI.

ONLINE | By donation $0, $5, $10, $15 sliding scale, pay what you can.
Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

Meets monthly on the second Friday.
A free follow up session is included two weeks later at the same time on the 4th Friday, to share and explore together the assigned and/or other writing work.

In these times of great change we will explore a path toward meeting ourselves where we are to give voice to all that matters!

As we live with interruptions and chaos, we can deepen the roots of our creativity, encouraging the river of expression to flow.

Beginners and seasoned writers are welcome, as we explore various forms of writing: poetry, prose, short stories, memoir, among others. Through writing exercises using everyday life, place, family, images, poetry of others, while using pranayama, meditation and the guidance of the Sutras we will build a body of work. Participants are encouraged to go at their own pace.
Tools we will Practice:

• The Art of Paying Attention
• Acceptance
•  Play
• Writing from the Heart

Together we will combine self-care with our writing and discover what a writing practice means to us and how it may take shape.

Susan Ford, C-IAYT, RYT-500, began teaching in 2011 and has been an assistant trainer for the Basic Yoga Teacher Training at Integral Yoga Institute (IYI) since 2012. She specializes in gentle yoga and yoga therapy working with people with disabilities, cancer, heart disease, arthritis, aging, bone health, anxiety, depression and asthma. Her focus is to help students to meet their bodies where they are by introducing and incorporating Therapeutic Yoga, Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, pranayama and meditation.
Susan has been a writer of poetry, short stories and plays most of her adult life and has been repeatedly featured in storytelling events in Northern California. She has led writer groups, tutored many in writing, and regularly hosts poetry reading Satsangs at IYI.