Dear Writers,
As June gets closer, we have opened a few more spaces for the Solstice Retreat and will be taking rolling admissions until full. So, if you have been intrigued, but couldn’t commit in this wild, fast-moving world, now is your chance to apply.
We are offering mornings for writing and communing with nature; evenings for tarot pulls, a sound bath, and communing with each other, and an afternoon workshop every day designed to inspire and let loose your wildest self. As Albert Einstein probably did not observe (but it’s still a great quote!): “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” And that’s the extent of the plan: to have fun, to play, to go beyond the habits and expectations we live with and move through a portal into a new imaginative space.
First up, Elena’s workshop: Divine Lines
The first divine line: Your imagination already knows the way.
In this generative workshop, we’ll draw on stichomancy—divination through randomly selected lines—to open new pathways into our writing. Through a series of guided invitations, you’ll be supported in generating fresh material and reconnecting with work that may have gone quiet.
Some practices will build on one another; others will invite spontaneity and surprise. Together, they are designed to help you move gently but meaningfully into your work—both during our time together and as you return to your own writing practice.
A bit of context for this offering from Elena:
“Many of us carry words that are not our own—language that has settled into the body over time, shaping how we think, speak, and write. It can become difficult to hear what feels most true or most urgent beneath that accumulation.
“We search for the words to begin.
“We search for the words to continue.
“In this session, we’ll meet that threshold with curiosity rather than force. Using a kind of “Word Aikido,” we’ll work with what arises—redirecting rather than resisting. By divining lines, we’ll allow the words of others to become a point of entry, helping us return to our own voice and momentum.”
So join us, if this is calling to you. As the endless click-bait on YouTube tells us, “If you are reading this, it’s no accident that this found you right now.” Get off the video scroll, but consider, in the realms where stichomancy is your guide, that right now, right here, that message is possibly true!
We hope you are writing, thriving, loving and whole. And we would love to see you on the old Goddard campus for the Two Trees Solstice Retreat in June.
Until soon,
Elena, Reiko, and Sherri
