YOGA OF WRITING: 
the ritual of putting pen to paper 
​SATURDAYS, 2-5PM   | $55 EARLY REG | $65 WEEK OF    Nina Schnall, Artistic Dir. 
Yoga is not only physical postures, but a practice to help us transform our lives.  
In our Yoga of Writing series, we explore writing as a practice of liberation and transformation.  Receive guidance to access your authentic voice, tell your story, and discover ways to bring your
​writing and yourself more fully alive.   
 - SOLDnina schnall
HOW TO
​LOVE OUR BODIES
March 20, 2-5PM -SOLD OUT
Artistic Director Nina Schnall returns from hiatus with a deeply personal start to open this year's Yoga of Writing Series.  Limited enrollment.  ​ Details TBA.

We’ve been living in turbulent times: Covid, political unrest, fires, unbreathable air, financial uncertainty are shaking the foundations of our lives, and the effects can be felt in our bodies. Our nervous systems are wired to respond to immediate danger and may automatically react in ways that don’t serve us today. In this workshop we will use writing, asana, breath and rhythm to face and transform fear and vulnerability, opening to the possibilities of connection, comfort and inspiration. We’ll use writing prompts and free writing to put feeling to words and movement practice to transform the way we feel in our bodies.

NINA SCHNALL's   writing workshops are informed by 20 years of writing, yoga and movement practice. As a recent cancer survivor, she has used these three tools to recover, heal, and return to life.  Her embodied writing workshops help people find their voice, discover their story, and heal. Nina has an MA in Cultural Anthropology from UCSC and an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from CIIS. She is the Artistic Director of the Yoga of Writing series at Mountain Yoga..
"To lose confidence ​
in one's body 
is to lose confidence 
in oneself."    
​​~ Simone De Beauvoir
christopher delorenzo
ECO GRIEF June 19, 2-5PM   
​
​Melting polar ice caps, devastating forest fires, flooding, drought, species on the verge of extinction: we are inundated every day with information about how our planet is suffering from climate change.

We need ways to address this eco-grief, to acknowledge and express our deep feelings of loss, and to share this with others. This workshop will give us a safe space to do just that.

​Using the Amherst Writers and Artists method (AWA)—free writing and voluntarily sharing our work out loud—we'll explore this grief in the written word, discover coping strategies, find inspiration in the heroic work of others, and map our way forward in a rapidly changing world.

CHRISTOPHER DE LORENZO is the author of the memoir cookbook, Kitchen Inheritance, and has published poetry and personal essays in various literary journals. He has led writing workshops in the Bay Area since 1999, and writing retreats in Hawaii, Mexico, Italy, and France. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he teaches at USF.