Bani’s Book Club presents: I Say the Sky Poetry, Mindfulness, and the Power of Deep Listening with Nadia Colburn
Date: December 15th, 2024
Via Zoom
Time: 3pm PST
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In this workshop, teacher, yogi, meditator, and award-winning poet Nadia Colburn, PhD, RYT 200, will lead participants in an interactive experience exploring what happens when we bring silence and voice, meditation and poetry together. Sharing from her own experience and poetry, Nadia will offer meditations and writing prompts that will lead participants to access deeper levels of creativity and insight. This workshop will use poems from Nadia’s book, I Say the Sky, poems that sing as they search for meaning, greater acceptance, and beauty. In the words of poet Andrea Cohen, “The poems in I Say the Sky are both a hymn to what is lost and a hymnal for how to carry on.” Like the book, the workshop will be a journey to meet the self from personal and collective traumas, through the act of attention and appreciation. Come meditate, enjoy poetry, and write your own work from whatever space you find yourself in.
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About Nadia Colburn:
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 Yale Review. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, is a certified yoga teacher and 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.
