MARK YOUR CALENDAR - JANUARY 25, 2025

The LVW Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker will be held virtually on Zoom on January 25, 2025, 10:00 a.m to Noon.

Your 15.00 Ticket can be ordered at Zeffy: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2025-lvw-annual-membership-meeting-with-guest-speaker

• We will be electing a New Slate of Officers. If you would like to know more about becoming an officer of LVW, please click this link  - I WANT TO KNOW MORE - and our Nominating Committee will get in touch with you and answer all of your questions. 

• We will have a guest speaker, Nadia Colburn. 

Title of Session: I Say the Sky: Poetry, Mindfulness, and the Power of Deep Listening

Description of Session: Poetry can be a means of waking up, of insight and orientation. 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 read her poems and offer short meditations and writing prompts that will lead participants to access deeper levels of creativity and insight for the new year, times of transition--or any time.

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, and come into a space of wonder.

Come enjoy poetry, and write your own work from whatever space you find yourself in. This workshop is designed for writers and meditators of all levels. Leave with practices to take home with you.

Bio: 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. The school has a community of over 30,000 mindful writers. Nadia lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. Find her at nadiacolburn.com, where she offers meditations and free resources for writers.