Embodied Writing and Spiritual Practice

Part writing workshop and part tantric retreat, this unique blended workshop explores the relationship between personal writing and subtle body practices.

Religious historian and Tantric practitioner Sravana Borkataky-Varma will lead experiential sessions largely stemming from Hindu Goddess Tantra practices. Author and journalist Erik Davis will then guide the group in reading and writing exercises for skills and techniques to help us creatively express our direct experiences of the meditations. 

Exercises and opportunities will include:

• Chakra and subtle body meditations.
• Reading short texts to understand how writing can capture subtle embodied experience.
• Using writing skills, including metaphor and creative language, to capture and express your own inner work.
• Techniques to develop a writing practice that supports a deepening engagement with meditation and embodied life. 

Over the days, we will collectively cultivate a feedback loop between writing, discussion, and inner work. Through this alchemical process, participants will learn to more intimately and poetically clarify their subtle experiences, while at the same time using the power and energy of such practices to fire up and inspire their writing life.