JOIN JEFF & THE JOURNEY THIS SUMMER.

 

NOVA SCOTIA Coast: "Stone & Flesh: The Yoga of Writing with Lucidity," Aug. 7-10, 2008

with JEFF DAVIS. A Few Spaces Left at the idyllic Tatamagouche Centre, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia near Halifax

 

NEW YORK CITY: "The Journey from the Center to the Page," Sept. 5 & 6, 2008

The journey gets richer. The second (revised & updated) edition of The Journey from the Center to the Page is out and available. Significant updates include a new preface, new exercises, new photographed sequences for writers, and three new chapters - "Craft & Consciousness," "A Call to Teachers of Creative Writing," and "Yoga As Muse Lab: Muses of the Other Arts."

Support your local bookstore, buy online at B&N or Amazon, or buy from us.

Recent online reviews of the new edition:

Linda L. Richards of January Magazine

Alicia King of Suite 101

 

 

Receive a free copy of the DVD CENTER TO PAGE: YOGA AS MUSE that offers a glimpse of the experience and a taste of the teachings.

 

A Note from Jeff

The journey from your center to the written page may be challenging, but it doesn't have to be self-destructive.  Joyce Carol Oates unravels her revision problems while she runs.  Alice Walker attributes her loving-kindness meditation to getting her through writing The Color Purple.  

You will find here no panacea that suggests writing is easy.  You will find, however, ideas and inspiration for bringing to the page your whole embodied mind and heart - not just the little ego.

This journey can help you fend off that smart-aleck inner heckler and to shape time and show up to write amidst an otherwise demanding life. The journey also might help you muster the concentration and courage and wit to write with verve and with heart, to shuck off scaly cliches and write what is real, honest, and necessary - regardless of genre.

And writing from the center to the page does not mean you compromise quality for "authenticity."  Center To Page workshops offer substantial guidance and instruction in craft from the role of salient imagery to the narrator-character-author triangle in fiction and non-fiction to organic forms of organizing longer works, and more.

In most workshops, we also read ahead of time at least two longer works by poets such as Jane Hirshfield or Billy Collins, novelists such as Nicholson Baker or Marilynne Williamson, and memoirists such as Joan Didion, Mary Karr, Scott Russell Sanders, or Daniel Asa Rose. And of course, we draw from the new edition of The Journey from the Center to the Page.

 There's a slight twist, albeit a profound one, in these workshops and retreats: Yoga.  We explore Yoga as a way to understand how creative faculties facilitate images, stories, characters, poems, & more.  Based on extensive experience and study, these workshops show writers & artists how to embody creative immersion that helps them alter their concentration, imagination, intuition, energy, and clarity. Craft, process, and embodiment complement one another.

Discover what brain scientists and thousands of writers have confirmed about Yoga as Muse.

It works.

~Jeff

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