About Literati Academy’S BODY HEALING Workshops

WRITING IS AN ACT OF PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL HEALING

There could not be a better time in history to write about the body – which is forver adjusting to our changing lives inside a changing, chaotic world. Our bodies are on a long spiritual journey as well as a physical journey, and how we speak about our bodies, write about our bodies and challenge our bodies matters on our mortal quest of this one, beautiful life we are given – a life filled with griefs and joys and challenges.

Within this course we will have the opportunity to write our deepest truth, and perhaps discover those truths through the writing process. You will join a community of writers and share the stories of your journey in a private Facebook page, and each month you will enter a deep, comprehensive creative exploration, be inspired, write your stories and read them out loud to other people on a similar body-healing-spiritual-journey.

Each class will have simple exercises to teach you how to create lists ask questions and find the magic through metaphor. Virginia Woolf wrote in her essay on being ill, “Illness is the great confessional . . . Things are said. Truths blurted out which the cautious respectability of health conceals.”

Writing through our bodies is an act of resiliance and reconciliation and even protest,

and may result in a spiritual or physical healing that is unexpected.

Writing about our body challenges is also n act of forgiveness and self blessing – and sometimes, acceptance.

Who is this Workshop For:

Our monthly writing workshop is for writers of all levels – anyone who is in the middle of a medical challenge or has overcome a medical challenge. It’s also for those of of living in grief, because grief often lives in the body, and writing to grief releases the body from carrying the grief, allowing it to spill onto the page.  The workshop is also for anyone wanting to explore writing through their bodies and about their bodies.

This workshop creates a monthly practice, and heart connecting support of a community of writers all taking the same course. In the end, all our physical challenges offer us a unique wisdom and a new lens of compassion – for ourselves and others.

“We come to writing when we are diagnosed

because we are silenced in many ways

through the experience of being inside the medical world.

Doctors create the narrative—

the biopsy report, the CT count, the prognosis.

Writing gives patients an opportunity to say  –

‘Wait – I am not just my disease,

this is my grief –

this is my life

and my memories and my story  – 

the illness can’t take that from me.’ “

— Laura Lentz

TOPICS EXPLORED IN THIS CLASS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:*

DECEMBER  9 – HEALING WITH ANGELS 

They come to heal us and guide us – they come as doctors, they come in dreams, they come as friends with healthy soup and they also sometimes come as disrupters, asking us to change course when we resist change. There are Earth Angels and Angels from the other Side. We will write how our angels show up for us, and share those stories.

JANUARY 13th – RELEASING & EMBRACING

We will release the year and look at renewal – with several prominent astrologers helping show us how to navigate what is ahead, and what it means to let the old self go and the new self emerge, as we enter (gasp!) 2024. We will also explore the Quantum Physics of time and the body.

FEBRUARY 10TH – MESSY BODY LOVE – 

The Heart is the emperor, the Ruler of our Bodies, and the basis for all our stories. ​Love is patient, love is kind and love is also messy. When love gets messy, what does it do to our bodies, our ego, our life-force?  Love and Self Love is the most healing aspect for our bodies, 

NOTE: THEMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON GUEST AUTHORS AND NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS 

By participating in these live classes, you learn the art of writing by practicing, deeply listening,

reading out loud and hearing what is good reflected back to your by students.