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The Somatic Writing Circle
Our next topic:
Writing with the Ancestors:
Liberate Your Voice + Embody Your Magic to Write and Publish Your Culturally Relevant Book
Thursday, May 4th at 7:00 PM Central Time
If you'd like to join us, sign up below:
Welcome, friend.
At Somatic Writing, one of the foundational magical writing practices is writing to your ancestors.
In my 20+ years as a memoir and story coach, I’ve seen this practice help thousands of people liberate their voices from shame and trauma, and write their deepest and most potent story.
Your ancestors are your greatest support system, helping you create the safety you need to write a powerful book that impacts your audience and platforms your soul work in the world.
These relations include your blood and familial ancestors, as well as your connections to ancestors through the land where you live, your creative and spiritual ancestors, to animals and planets and the Earth herself.
Leaning into the guidance of your ancestors as mystics, magicians, master teachers and healers will lead you down unexpected paths to uncovering your own hidden or marginalized identities, buried grief, shame, and trauma (individual or collective), your unconscious shadow.
There are no greater guides in confronting and integrating your hidden truths than the ancestors that will show up for you when you listen. Those ancients, also known as the mighty dead, run through your blood, your bones, your spinal fluid, your deep intuitive psychic knowings.
In this circle, you will tap into those voices through guided meditation and embodied writing practices – practices you can return to again and again to channel their guidance throughout your writing journey.
Register now to get a taste for what it means to be a Somatic Writer in this guided meditation and writing circle.
Love,
Tanya
What to prepare:
Please plan to show up on camera in a quiet and private space, if possible. Bring a candle, paper and something to write with, and if possible a photo or heirloom from an ancestor you want to call in.
Somatic Writing holds a sacred and vital space where writers can come more fully alive. The processes are profound and spiritual. They access not only the root stories of our lives, but also uncover and reclaim visions and dreams we may have long forgotten or lost. Somatic Writing builds community and welcomes the uniqueness of each of our voices.
- Teresa Whitaker
Storyteller, Finding Home Productions
Somatic Writing’s program has helped me uncover poetry and myths in my body, relationships, lineage, and soul that I had no idea were there. Each week I craft new narratives and rewrite old ones, composting and penning personal stories that are empowering, mystical, healing, and full of life. This process has helped me connect to my essence as a writer and as a woman.
- Sara Vos, Creative Director at Vos Holistic Services
Somatic Writing creates a deep soul-sustaining space where a writer's depth can emerge. It's extraordinary and rare, an oasis in an unrelenting world that often bypasses meaningful inner inquiry such as this. Somatic Writing's process is like a writer's life-line, something I always want to be connected to. There are places one can go as a writer in a facilitated group that one can't go alone. There is safety in numbers, but specifically well-facilitated numbers. Each class allows the writer to plunge into their material without fear of performing well or producing a product - which ironically yields better performance and product. I'm so happy to be part of these writing circles. I miss them when I can't come. They bring me home to myself. The ever-changing writing prompts provide soulful, soul-quenching, soul-safe, deep dives into the terrain. I love this precious environment and hope to be a part of it for a long time to come.
- Sarah Brown, Award Winning Playwright & Author
The supportive space created by the Somatic Writing team has allowed me to explore different entry points into my story and go far deeper than I ever imagined possible. I’m a much better writer since I began Somatic Writing.
- Cheryl Brown, Political Community Organizer, Writer
I love the structure that Somatic Writing offers—the guided visualizations, the way the process threads in spiritual wisdom with trauma-informed prompts, and the gentle encouragement to go deep and not be afraid of what emerges. This approach integrates key lessons around my writing and creative self: to practice self-compassion around wherever I am at in my writing process; to bring a sense of pleasure and discovery to my writing; and to trust in the support and wisdom that my body, my ancestors, and the earth gifts me with when I am still enough to listen.
- Yael Flusberg, Yoga Therapist & Resilience Coach
Somatic Writing is a body-centered writing process that will empower and inspire you to live from your wholeness, embody your depth of leadership, and serve your soul’s gifts as an offering to the restructuring world.