May 14 2024 48 mins
Writing and mindfulness together can help us come into more aligned stories about who we are, both individually and collectively. In today's interview, Nadia Colburn is here to share about the art of writing, poetry, and her path of following her interests back to her purpose [not as planned!]. Now she's blending so many elements of who she is including her talents, passions, and her personal life story to help others do so much of the same.
Flowing through points on finding one's voice, taking words beyond the words and into the body, writing for creative expression and attention, the rise {again} of poetry, using meditation as a writing tool for block removal and creative access, and so much more!
Her latest publication, poetry book 'I Say the Sky' weaves in Nadia's own journey of mindfulness, writing, healing trauma, along with noticing the injustices and the environmental destruction around us, and how they all come into this process of awakening individually but also collectively. And, from there, coming to a place of peace, acceptance and, ultimately, also, a place of greater action.
ABOUT NADIA: Nadia Colburn is the author of the poetry books 'I Say the Sky ' and 'The High Shelf', and her poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty publications, including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Spirituality & Health, Lion's Roar, and the The Yale Review. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, and a BA from Harvard, is a kundalini-trained yoga teacher, a serious student of Thich Nhat Hanh and is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings traditional literary and creative writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. The school has a community of over 30,000 mindful writers. Nadia lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.
MORE ON NADIA :
:: buy 'I Say the Sky' book here & receive a 7 day meditation and writing challenge!
:: her website [https://nadiacolburn.com/] - free meditations and resources for writers and more!
:: free 5 day mindful writing challenge
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