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6-week Writing Series  |  4 dates to choose from

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”44px”][vc_column_text]Bodies break and bodies heal, and sometimes they thrive – dancing and walking and making love – and the stories stored inside our bodies are burning to be included in your writing. Years ago, I was working so hard and running so fast, I started to disappear from my life and myself.  And then I got sick, really sick. The kind of disease that’s so rare and so deadly, most doctors had no experience with it.  There were no research dollars being spent to cure it, and no treatment plan.   I was a single parent, an executive and a writer, but I had pushed writing aside until my body wouldn’t let me anymore.  

Author John Lee says the call to write is a call that’s received in the body first.

For hundreds of years poets and writers have described the creative process as a physical urgency, a sense that things will fly apart if they don’t get the pencil to the page in time.

For me, things flew apart. I found my pen again.

And years later, when I was still gloriously alive and thriving, I began to realize that our bodies are like filing cabinets for our stories, and when we honor that, our stories flow out of us, spilling onto the page with the help of all our organs.  Memories are stored in our lungs, lower back, liver and hearts.  They live on our skin, our feet, our mouths and our sex organs.  Nancy Mellon, author of Body Eloquence, tells us that “every organ embodies a purpose and has an influence that goes far beyond its biological function.  As every organ contributes to your life story, it embodies a specific theme, holding its important piece in the cosmos’ great mysteries.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1564012166665{padding-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1560159260287{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1564006231257{background-color: #000000 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1564011143488{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 15% !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 15% !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”]

 

“Let the body go.

Let it rise inside language

and shatter the story.” 

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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Translating the body into story

 

This writing course will help you decipher the language of your body, explore the deep relationship your body has to your ancestors, your organs and your body traumas. Through writing prompts and exercises, you will mine your body memories  and magically turn them into compelling stories.  Every day our bodies are adjusting to weather, aging, illness and exercise regimes.  It adjusts to joy, grief and movement. It adjusts to a pandemic.  When you pull your stories out and put them on the page, something magical happens.

Not only are you in a place of discovery, but your body is also listening to you.

We strive to balance our bodies every day – knowing they will never be in perfect balance, and yet our journey when it’s out of balance brings up all the big questions of psychology and philosophy. Examining our body experiences creates compelling stories in the tangible theatre of the body trying to thrive.

Writing from your body will introduce you to the great storyteller inside of you, looking at all the conflict in your organs and the adjustments you make on this challenging journey.

 

 

 

Two and Three part Writing Exercises

 

In each class we will explore themes and include two and three part writing exercises –  including making lists, writing letters to organs, pulling memories from our heart brains and exploring the way our liver is asking us for more.  We will create compelling stories, exploring this long body journey through poetry, excerpts from literature and even the way our body responds to music and movement.  A deeper exploration with one longer write each week, writers will be surprised by the way stories are pulled out of the universe of our bodies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1564012166665{padding-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”44px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]

Inspiration for the Course 

 

This course was inspired by my own journey in my body and using my body to pull out my best stories.  Authors who have inspired me for this course are Rafael Campo, Anne Sexton, Nancy Mellon and John Lee and the many healing books in my personal library that speak to healing, epigenetics, biology, grief and mythology.

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In this writing course you will explore:

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In this course writers will:

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Writing Teacher: Laura Lentz

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Author Laura Lentz has taught creative writing workshops online and on the north shore of Kauai for ten years. Her workbook, STORYquest, helps writers turn their story into a Hero’s Journey through 12-weeks of writing prompts and examples out of best selling books. Laura is also a developmental editor and helps writers expand their body of work through unique methods – offering challenging and thought provoking writing prompts inspired by poetry, mythology and segments from literature. Her exploratory writing workshops include Love, Skin and Eros, The Poetry Room, and STORYquest, Make Your Story a Hero’s Journey. Her 6-week workshops are online and on the north shore of Kauai.  Workshop students have the unique opportunity to appear in an annual spoken word shows and in Literati Academy’s online magazine exclusively written by Literati Academy’s writing community in LITerari.us, Laura serves on the faculty of The Kauai Writers Conference and is conducting a Master Class for writers who want to write in sacred places on Kauai and allow Kauai’s beauty to influence their work.

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Share Your Writing  in a Private Facebook Page

Throughout the course, you will have access to up to thirty writers in a private Facebook page who are also taking this course – writing to the same course material.  You will share in a private Facebook group, and receive positive feedback from your peers.

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THURSDAY

ONLINE – SOLD OUT

Aug. 15th — Sept. 19th

4 p.m. — 6:30 p.m.

[Pacific Time]

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$220

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TUESDAY

ONLINE – SOLD OUT

Aug. 20th  – Sept. 24th

4:00 p.m. PST — 6:30 p.m.

[Pacific Time]

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$220

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SUNDAY

ONLINE – SOLD OUT

Aug. 18th  – Sept. 22

10:30 a.m. — 1:30 p.m.

[Pacific Time]

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$220

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WEDNESDAY

KAUAI – SOLD OUT

Aug. 21st – Sept. 25th

6:30 p.m. — 9:00 p.m.

[on the north shore of Kaua‘i]

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$190

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Questions? Thoughts? Contact Laura.

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