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Women’s Poetry Circle at the Farmhouse
A small and intimate poetry circle at the beloved farmhouse. We will gather around the woodstove to read and discuss poems, then be led through writing exercises based on the prompts from the poems. Tea and snacks provided. Registration : $25 can be sent through Paypal or check email motherskylark@gmail.com
Find out more »Restorative Yoga and Poetic Medicine : An Embodied Poetry Reading
Your body and spirit will sing with joy at this new way of experiencing poetry. Instead of sitting in one position and ignoring the signals of your body, you will be guided into a variety of gentle yoga postures with ample props to support full relaxation. While in each of these shapes, a poem will be offered and you are invited to either listen fully or allow the rhythm and cadence of the poetry to wash over you. Included are…
Find out more »A Year of Poetic Healing : Asheville, NC
A Year of Poetic Healing : Women's Circle will lead women through a year long intuitive journey to their creative center. A poetry circle is not a class or a workshop, but rather a formed vessel of rich sharing, communion, and collective healing. It is where we begin to lay the foundations for the life we most want to create for ourselves, and by extension, the world. It is where we hold witness to the soft and tender voice of…
Find out more »“The Peace of Wild Things : Rewilding the Soul through Poetry and Presence.”
Cleveland County 2018 Earthday Conference, Healing with Nature: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind sponsored by Cleveland County Mental Health Association "The Peace of Wild Things : Rewilding the Soul through Nature and Poetry" : a day of workshops and Keynote address by Mary Ellen Lough on poetry and nature as teachers of cultivating joy, beauty, solace and renewal in the world.
Find out more »Women’s Multicultural Leadership Conference
Strengthening leadership among local women and youth and to create strong community bonds through common cultural interactions in Far Western North Carolina by 1) developing and strengthening leadership and entrepreneurship, 2) building bridges between races, and 3) preserving African American culture.
Find out more »Soup and Poetry Night at the Farmhouse
Poetry and soup to get us through the dark months! The night before Valentines, come explore mystical love. We’ll be reading from poets and mystics that have a lot to say about drawing from the deep well of love, and writing as a way to shape a little dented tin cup that we can place Under the waterfall. A continuation of the famous Farmhouse Poetry Sundays, this winter we’ll be gathering by the woodstove twice a month with hearty soups…
Find out more »February Farmhouse Soup and Poetry Night
Poetry and soup to get us through the dark months! A continuation of the famous Farmhouse Poetry Sundays, this winter we’ll be gathering by the woodstove twice a month with hearty soups to read and write poetry together, to wade into the deep interior waters together. No previous writing experience necessary. All are welcome. $30 per session covers a meal (hearty vegetarian soup, local bread, snacks, and tea) and two hours of poetry and discussion in the tradition of Poetic…
Find out more »Creativity Salon at the Farmhouse with James Nave
Join us at the farmhouse for a collective creative experience and poetry salon facilitated by James Navé and influenced by all. We’ll be producing some rough drafts, sparking the imagination, inviting the muse. The goal is to glow. The goal is to learn that you can not only lead yourself creatively, but lead others. The wilderness is a little darker than it once was and we need to find ways to shine a little light, for ourselves and others. Gather…
Find out more »Spring Poetry and Restorative Yoga
Resource your way to blossoming through a unique offering of restorative yoga and poetic medicine. You will be led through gentle and restful poses as you deeply relax into live music and poetry. In the second half of the workshop, you will have a chance to discuss your experiences and be participate in self-exploratory writing exercises. And beautiful integrated experience you won’t want to miss. Mary Ellen Lough is a poetry therapist & single mother living with five children in…
Find out more »::: thresholds ::: an spring equinox day retreat
Join yoga teacher and somatic and expressive arts therapist, Maeve Hendrix, and poetry therapist, wildcrafter, and writer, Mary Ellen Lough, for a half day retreat. Threshold retreats are a time to create needed ritual between the cycles of the year and the natural movements of the body and heart. It is time to navigate transition, find balance, metabolize the lessons of the past and welcome the unfolding to come. It is at once to nourish, to cleanse, and…
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