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Focus :) Free Mini Retreat Online this Week
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Dear Reader, I hope you're well! I'm spending these last few days of summer in Maine with my husband, Eric, and in this precious pause before the busyness of the fall begins, I've been thinking a lot about silence. One of my teachers, the Buddhist monk and activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, writes: If you don't have silence in yourself, you cannot hear the call of life. Your heart is calling you, but you don't hear. You don't have time to listen to your heart. So many of us don't have the silence and focus that we need to truly listen to our heart. Too often, we are like seagrasses tossed here and there by the waves, unable to really focus. Our contemporary world cultivates attention that is shallow, scattered, and short-term. But we can cultivate a different kind of attention that supports connection and true creativity. Join Me this Thursday for a Free Mini Writing Retreat Online.In this 75-90 minute retreat, I'll guide you to tune in to the silence in yourself so you can listen to your heart and set intentions for your writing this fall. Come with a project you're working on, a question, or just your curiosity about what might want to emerge. You can use the retreat to write in any genre. A FREE Mini Writing Retreat (75-90 minutes)
I'd love to see you there. And feel free to invite any friends who might like to join us. Setting intentions is even more fun with friends :) with love and peace, PS: UPCOMING EVENTSFree Online Mini Writing Retreat: Thursday, August 29th, 3:00pm-4:30pm ET. See more and sign up for free here. Find Joy through Writing Poetry: In-Person Immersive Retreat at the beautiful Omega Campus in Rhinebeck, New York. September 29th-October 4th. Learn more and register here. Poetry of Attention Online Poetry Class (asynchronous) with live coaching, community support, and lifetime access to teaching materials. Fall in love with poetry as a contemplative practice, read, write and live with greater attention, and write your best work. We start October 11th. See more and join the waitlist to be notified when enrollment opens here. |
Hi! I'm Nadia Colburn—writer, teacher, yogi, activist
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