If you are working on a writing project but are feeling stuck; if you are tired of watching movies and are craving a self-directed way to close your eyes and open into your own creative process; if you are curious about trance writing and its connection to the art of somatic healing; there will be something for you to discover in this course.

Perhaps most importantly, you’ll learn valuable techniques from the fields of energy psychology and hypnosis that you can utilize to stay focused in the midst of this public health, economic crisis.

The emphasis in this course is on activating your own innate creative process. It is a deeply individual practice of inspiring inner narratives to bring attention to your innate, generative and life affirming bodymind system.

The online curriculum includes 12 mini-lectures, 15 writing prompts, and 8 guided visualization recordings that I have gathered from over ten years of teaching Trance Writing workshops in a variety of academic, poetic, and healing spaces including: Poet’s House, The Open Center, Small Press Traffic, Spalding University, Manhattanville College, The Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church, Poetry Coop, and Naropa University.

There are three portals for you to experience, and each portal contains a mini-lecture, writing assignments, a guided visualization, and prompts for further reflection:

• The Magic of Metaphor: Aside from being important literary devices for communicating and layering meaning into a narrative structure, metaphors happen in your mind and in your body. They are key to both the stories we tell, and to how those stories play out in the world. Working through the exercises and recordings in this portal will unlock your own metaphors to help you write through any block, as well as to learn the importance of how you hold metaphors in your body that can be transformed and help you to heal emotionally and physically.
• Nested Memories and narratives of past lives
  It’s amazing how old stuff from the past can trigger fear, anxiety, and intense limiting beliefs that stop us in our tracks when we’re trying to do something creative. In this portal, experience walk down memory lane like you’ve probably never experienced before. You’ll investigate memory thought processes that just might allow your creative imagination to process the past in new ways.
• Automatic Writing
  By bypassing intentions and opening yourself to the flow of language, automatic writing is a powerful way to bring forward creative associations. Once you’ve experienced the process, you can practice it on your own at any point in your day in order to focus, find insight, exercise the connection between your mind and your body, or simply just to relax, come into your body, and stop the world.
• Extra: Trance Somatics
  This portal contains guided visualizations for mindbody balancing.
• Access to one year of monthly Sphere Calls: Each month (2nd or 3rd Saturday at 12pm), I host a community Zoom session where members of the course come together for some collective Trance Writing. In each session I pass down a teaching, and open up to questions & sharing.

Certainly, what is important about this curriculum isn’t following the instructions; it’s about unlocking a process—one that allows your creative relationship to language to surface and fire neurons, resurface and fire again, over and over again.

I’m here to field your questions. And, as I’m always integrating new teachings, as this curriculum develops, you’ll receive free updates.

Find space&time for yourself to turn inward. There’s a lot more happening than you think.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MORE THAN AN ONLINE COURSE?

If you’re struggling with the writing process, I offer a monthly salon where we work through emotional blocks, set accountability goals, and offer feedback and support.

And if you want to go even deeper to learn about the many ways that trance, self-hypnosis, energy psychology can help you to navigate your life, you can join my inner circle.

You can find out more about these salons by clicking here: JOIN ME FOR A SALON!