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Living from Wholeness: An Introduction to iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation
Experience iRest, a powerful, trauma-informed meditation practice that enables you to meet each moment of your life with unshakable peace and wellbeing, no matter how challenging or difficult your circumstances. In this 90-minute workshop, youā€™ll discover how iRest teachings and tools help you access and strengthen your inner resources of wisdom and wholeness and bring you home to your true self. You'll learn the many proven benefits of this trauma-informed practice, which include: better self-regulation, clarity, and concentration; deep calm and rest; relief from stress, anxiety, insomnia, and pain; and greater access to joy and meaning. We'll experience together the restorative pleasures of a guided iRest practice, then use poetry to prompt reflection and writing about how iRest practices like welcoming all our thoughts, emotions, and sensations as messengers can support personal healing and growth.
$30.00 USD
Surf Your Creativity: The 5-week Saboteurs & Superpowers Series
If we love to swim in creative waters, why do we find it so hard to get in, stay in, or God forbid enjoy ourselves when we do? Imagine if you could create a surfboard for your writing practice that you could rely on no matter how big the waves of busyness, disappointment, or insecurity. In this workshop, we will dip our toes into Positive IntelligenceĀ® concepts by learning to identify and begin disrupting the patterns we all have that keep us stuck. We all experience stress, frustration, or self-doubt in our writing and in life. These feelings aren't just randomā€”theyā€™re often triggered by patterns in our minds called saboteurs. Theyā€™re automatic habits we pick up early in life that quietly shape how we react to challenges, often without us realizing it. In this 5-week workshop, we will explore the 10 saboteurs that add stress to lifeā€™s challenges, limit our options, and negatively impact our relationships, performance, and wellbeing. Together, weā€™ll learn tools to help us get out of our own way creativelyā€”to more easily find that flow state we all craveā€”and strategies to help us go with the flow when things get challenging.
$189.00 USD
Cultivating Creative Flow: The Power of Ritual
Staying consistent with a writing practice is hard, especially when life gets in the way. In this 90 minute workshop, we'll explore how building a personal ritual, one that's tailored to your own lifestyle, inspirations, and beliefs, can help you reliably shift into the right headspace for creative work. Through exercises, examples, and group discussion, you'll discover what elements resonate most with you and leave with a plan to start making ritual a regular part of your writing practice.In this 90-minute workshop, youā€™ll discover how iRest teachings and tools help you access and strengthen your inner resources of wisdom and wholeness and bring you home to your true self. You'll learn the many proven benefits of this trauma-informed practice, which include: better self-regulation, clarity, and concentration; deep calm and rest; relief from stress, anxiety, insomnia, and pain; and greater access to joy and meaning. We'll experience together the restorative pleasures of a guided iRest practice, then use poetry to prompt reflection and writing about how iRest practices like welcoming all our thoughts, emotions, and sensations as messengers can support personal healing and growth.
