Breathe, Move, Write

Release your authentic voice

Breathe, Move, Write will introduce you to body awareness and deep breathing as tools that will help you find purposeful intention for your writing and develop the depth of concentration necessary for clear and creative writing to arise.

You’ll learn a very simple, gentle sequence of yoga movements (you do not need to know anything about yoga to perform them), and you’ll practice three deep breathing exercises (pranayama) that will literally clear out the clutter in your mind, making way for your authentic voice to come forth. This practice will open your mind and your heart, giving you access to new and original images, stories, and ideas.

Our writing focus in this workshop will be a piece that you’ve already written, but for some reason you’re having trouble with. Maybe one that you’ve stalled out on and just don’t quite know where to take it or how to fix it. Or one that you like but you know just doesn’t pop. We’ll use these new tools as a way to come at the writing from different angles. You’ll experience how breathing consciously and moving with intention and focus open your writing in powerful and surprising ways.

Lezlie Laws brings a unique combination of qualifications to her workshop experiences. She holds a PhD from the University of Missouri and has taught writing and literature at a variety of levels for over forty years, the past twenty of those years at Rollins College. A well-known figure in the Central Florida writing community, she regularly conducts workshops for MAD and for two years facilitated the very popular series of writing events called Writing Around Town.

In addition to her experience as a teacher of writing, Lezlie is a serious student of ashtanga yoga, a precise and tangible metaphysical methodology for developing greater clarity in the way we see and know ourselves. A certified yoga teacher, she practices and teaches at College Park Yoga, and has conducted there a number of workshops linking the practice of yoga to the practice of writing.

For the past three years, she as been refining a course at Rollins in Yoga, Writing, and Meditation, showing young writers how cultivating awareness of breath and body can open passageways to imaginative and heart-felt stories told with a clear, authentic voice.

Space is Limited • Reserve Early

When: Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 9 AM to 1 PM

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