Yoga + Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina and Jennifer Lewis
Do you like to write, but need a clear mind and space to get your words on the page? Do you have an idea in your head that you can't even begin? Do you have pieces of stories that you've jotted down that you don't know how to connect? You should spend the afternoon with us.
We will start with a 60-minute asana practice lead by Jennifer Lewis alongside live music from Nick Jaina and interludes of his “Hearts and Brains†musical lecture. Then we will begin to write. After that, Nick Jaina, will tell you how to transform these ideas that you’ve just jotted down into larger projects. He will read you some examples from his Oregon Book Award Nominated memoir, Get It While You Can, and we talk about writing.
The purpose of this workshop is to give you confidence to create a project, organize it, and complete it. Everyone is welcome to join, whether they studied writing in college or have always been unsure how to get going. The focus is on getting over fears so that we can just write. You will gain confidence and realize that writng can be generated at any time. You don't need to wait around for inspiration.
You will also learn how to start assembling little pieces into a satisfying whole, and find ways of creating the structure in your lives that will regularly include writing.
All styles of writing welcomed: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short story, memoir, and essay.
What should you bring: Water, notebook, pen and a light snack. Bananas are good.
Nick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. He has toured the world over the last decade, releasing several albums on HUSH Records and Fluff & Gravy Records. He co-founded the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City, which has collaborated with dancers from the New York City Ballet and Julliard. He has composed soundtracks for feature films and plays. Get It While You Can is his first book, an impressionistic memoir about a love of music and the world. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award.
Jennifer Lewis has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area for 16 years. She is the editor of Red Light Lit (www.redlightlit.com). She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. Her fiction has been published in Midnight Breakfast, Transfer Magazine, Fourteen Hills Press, and Sparkle and Blink. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Leo Litwak award for creative non-fiction and for fiction in 2015. Read her latest story in Eleven Eleven Literary Journal: https://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/2016/11/16/jennifer-lewis/
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Do you like to write, but need a clear mind and space to get your words on the page? Do you have an idea in your head that you can't even begin? Do you have pieces of stories that you've jotted down that you don't know how to connect? You should spend the afternoon with us.
We will start with a 60-minute asana practice lead by Jennifer Lewis alongside live music from Nick Jaina and interludes of his “Hearts and Brains†musical lecture. Then we will begin to write. After that, Nick Jaina, will tell you how to transform these ideas that you’ve just jotted down into larger projects. He will read you some examples from his Oregon Book Award Nominated memoir, Get It While You Can, and we talk about writing.
The purpose of this workshop is to give you confidence to create a project, organize it, and complete it. Everyone is welcome to join, whether they studied writing in college or have always been unsure how to get going. The focus is on getting over fears so that we can just write. You will gain confidence and realize that writng can be generated at any time. You don't need to wait around for inspiration.
You will also learn how to start assembling little pieces into a satisfying whole, and find ways of creating the structure in your lives that will regularly include writing.
All styles of writing welcomed: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short story, memoir, and essay.
What should you bring: Water, notebook, pen and a light snack. Bananas are good.
Nick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. He has toured the world over the last decade, releasing several albums on HUSH Records and Fluff & Gravy Records. He co-founded the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City, which has collaborated with dancers from the New York City Ballet and Julliard. He has composed soundtracks for feature films and plays. Get It While You Can is his first book, an impressionistic memoir about a love of music and the world. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award.
Jennifer Lewis has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area for 16 years. She is the editor of Red Light Lit (www.redlightlit.com). She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. Her fiction has been published in Midnight Breakfast, Transfer Magazine, Fourteen Hills Press, and Sparkle and Blink. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Leo Litwak award for creative non-fiction and for fiction in 2015. Read her latest story in Eleven Eleven Literary Journal: https://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/2016/11/16/jennifer-lewis/
Yoga + Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina and Jennifer Lewis
Do you like to write, but need a clear mind and space to get your words on the page? Do you have an idea in your head that you can't even begin? Do you have pieces of stories that you've jotted down that you don't know how to connect? You should spend the afternoon with us.
We will start with a 60-minute asana practice lead by Jennifer Lewis alongside live music from Nick Jaina and interludes of his “Hearts and Brains†musical lecture. Then we will begin to write. After that, Nick Jaina, will tell you how to transform these ideas that you’ve just jotted down into larger projects. He will read you some examples from his Oregon Book Award Nominated memoir, Get It While You Can, and we talk about writing.
The purpose of this workshop is to give you confidence to create a project, organize it, and complete it. Everyone is welcome to join, whether they studied writing in college or have always been unsure how to get going. The focus is on getting over fears so that we can just write. You will gain confidence and realize that writng can be generated at any time. You don't need to wait around for inspiration.
You will also learn how to start assembling little pieces into a satisfying whole, and find ways of creating the structure in your lives that will regularly include writing.
All styles of writing welcomed: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short story, memoir, and essay.
What should you bring: Water, notebook, pen and a light snack. Bananas are good.
Nick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. He has toured the world over the last decade, releasing several albums on HUSH Records and Fluff & Gravy Records. He co-founded the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City, which has collaborated with dancers from the New York City Ballet and Julliard. He has composed soundtracks for feature films and plays. Get It While You Can is his first book, an impressionistic memoir about a love of music and the world. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award.
Jennifer Lewis has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area for 16 years. She is the editor of Red Light Lit (www.redlightlit.com). She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. Her fiction has been published in Midnight Breakfast, Transfer Magazine, Fourteen Hills Press, and Sparkle and Blink. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Leo Litwak award for creative non-fiction and for fiction in 2015. Read her latest story in Eleven Eleven Literary Journal: https://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/2016/11/16/jennifer-lewis/
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Do you like to write, but need a clear mind and space to get your words on the page? Do you have an idea in your head that you can't even begin? Do you have pieces of stories that you've jotted down that you don't know how to connect? You should spend the afternoon with us.
We will start with a 60-minute asana practice lead by Jennifer Lewis alongside live music from Nick Jaina and interludes of his “Hearts and Brains†musical lecture. Then we will begin to write. After that, Nick Jaina, will tell you how to transform these ideas that you’ve just jotted down into larger projects. He will read you some examples from his Oregon Book Award Nominated memoir, Get It While You Can, and we talk about writing.
The purpose of this workshop is to give you confidence to create a project, organize it, and complete it. Everyone is welcome to join, whether they studied writing in college or have always been unsure how to get going. The focus is on getting over fears so that we can just write. You will gain confidence and realize that writng can be generated at any time. You don't need to wait around for inspiration.
You will also learn how to start assembling little pieces into a satisfying whole, and find ways of creating the structure in your lives that will regularly include writing.
All styles of writing welcomed: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short story, memoir, and essay.
What should you bring: Water, notebook, pen and a light snack. Bananas are good.
Nick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. He has toured the world over the last decade, releasing several albums on HUSH Records and Fluff & Gravy Records. He co-founded the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City, which has collaborated with dancers from the New York City Ballet and Julliard. He has composed soundtracks for feature films and plays. Get It While You Can is his first book, an impressionistic memoir about a love of music and the world. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award.
Jennifer Lewis has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area for 16 years. She is the editor of Red Light Lit (www.redlightlit.com). She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. Her fiction has been published in Midnight Breakfast, Transfer Magazine, Fourteen Hills Press, and Sparkle and Blink. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Leo Litwak award for creative non-fiction and for fiction in 2015. Read her latest story in Eleven Eleven Literary Journal: https://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/2016/11/16/jennifer-lewis/
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