Somatics for Writers could be the most vital class you ever take.
Writing isn't just about words. We write and react to them with our bodies.
Photo by Healther Fowler of the Somatics presentation as my part of the Friends of JEF &Now Festival of New Writing: Blast Radius and Other Arts -- in Valencia, CA, 2015, leading audience participation at the Coffeehouse Theater, with some of my movement recommendations
Here are some articles about the &Now Conference somatics presentation that also give more insight into the class.
Entropy
UCLA X Writing Program article
Want to make your writing vividly alive, with muscular prose, big action scenes, fullly-realised characters interacting in their palpable environment? Want your writing to be irresistible? Don't prolong your sedentary time by taking another cerebral class about ideas this time. Listen to the audio to learn about the science relevant to the intersection of your writing and body while you're up, accompanying me as we do specific exercises on video.
I bring my background in dance, and completed Certification classes in Advanced Yoga, Hypnotherapy, Kinesiology, and NLP to play in this class, as well as in-person experience teaching LucidPlay, Dance of Shiva and yoga.
Class comes with a free print workbook mailed to you. The book also stands alone and can be purchased in the store. There is also an Interactive supplement to the course.
Class comes with a free print workbook mailed to you. The book also stands alone and can be purchased in the store. There is also an Interactive supplement to the course.
Read this to see how the new studies are capturing people's attention and people in the know are already taking advantage of the method to stay healthy that's more important that working out.
"For it would seem—her case proved it—that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver." —Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO
"For it would seem—her case proved it—that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver." —Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO
Some of my somatic tips:
Our Bodies Rules Our Characters Like Gods
Spontaneous Movement
How to Create Empathy for Your Characters, Readers, and Students
Writing Exercises -- Literally
Somatics: "Somatic" (Greek "somatikos", soma: "living, aware, bodily person").
"Chronic sitting is the new smoking, actually raising your risk of lung cancer by over 50 percent. Importantly, it elevates your risk for an early death from poor health independently from your fitness and other lifestyle habits..."In study after study we find that it is this intermittent high and low intensity that appears to produce the most significant results...Chronic, undisrupted sitting—even if you maintain an optimum fitness program—has been found to be an independent risk factor for premature death...Whenever you have a chance to move and stretch your body in the course of going about your day, do so. ." Dr. Mercola