"One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly. One walks among elementals, and elementals are not governable."
— Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
I want to tell you of a place I know. My favourite place to be and receive nourishment from the depths of the Earth. I have found it, in the opening of a labyrinthine forest.
It is a place of spring, often called headwaters.
Headwater is the source of a river. The underground water surfaces, small streams meet into one. It’s where life force energy steps over the threshold and makes itself visible in the world.
In writing and creative work, headwaters is a place where you create your most authentic, enlivening work. This is where you and your soul are nourished from the depths. The river, from then on, continues its course, and nourishment multiplies into your communities and ecosystems.
In a world of pollution and dams being built daily to corrupt our sacred streams, those who are called must gather to clear the life-giving waters.
I invite you to join me to purify your own creative life force river with me, and to write in a deeply nourishing 8-week container.
In Hadwaters, my number one goal is to bring you closer to your creative essence and allow yourself to fully embrace it and express it — especially in writing.
We will work with the true, vulnerable, authentic, essential parts of the self that are the most foundational to the writing process.
Because the most interesting, alive, invigorating writing comes from the place of inner truth. Which is where we're going to journey.
Your writing "level" doesn't matter here. You might be just starting, or you might be writing for years. We welcome all.
We begin on April 22nd and will journey for 8 weeks together.
The 8-week container is designed to transform your relationship with writing and self-expression. You will learn how to prioritize your writing and communicate your high creative value to the world by integrating the inner creator. The work that your soul has been asking you to create starts here.
Here’s a small overview of our time together. You can find a more detailed schedule here.
At the beginning, we will be connecting with your authentic, creative self essence so you know what it feels like to write from an authentic, soul-aligned place. Here we will meet your personal Headwaters, a place of deep inner nourishment. A sacred place of the spring, where we gather to drink, get inspired, and begin to create.
In this week, we will work on unblocking your deeply rooted limiting beliefs that hold back your creative potential, your writing, and your authentic creative self, so you don’t waste any more time second-guessing your creative self-worth in the world.
We will predominantly work with the inner critic and inner rejector. Understanding these parts will lead us into a deeper sense of freedom when it comes to expressing ourselves with truth. This is the clearing of the river.
This is a new beautiful addition! This week, we will spend a good amount of time training and expanding our capacity to be seen in our creative work and writing. This practice has been deeply medicinal for past participants.
Here we will further integrate the previous two weeks and make space for words that are already coming through.
Learning to write from the body, so you can be attuned to the subtlety of the inner sense of truth when telling a story. We will uncover your personal voice and learn to discern what makes good writing that your readers want to come back to.
Creating a positive relationship with creative writing systems, structure, standards, and discipline. Knowing how to resolve resistance is the most crucial part of the creative workflow. I will share my systems, structure, and how to work with a part of us that helps to materialize our creative vision.
Becoming an Idea Synthesizer, someone who can integrate differing topics into each other, so you can build a diverse audience at the hearth of your deep, authentic expression. We will build out your own personal niche, pillars of writing, so you always know how to move forward in your practice.
Two final weeks are twined. We will be integrating the identity of a writer, understanding your personal myth, and most importantly—integrating the identity of a deeply deserving creative. Lasting change happens when we shift our identities. Identities shift when we are brave enough to connect with the truth of our being AND when we practice being in that identity long enough.
An additional week to help us absorb better everything we have learned so far, share our writing, and deepen our new neural pathways of a new relationship with writing in our lives. Celebrating the transformative journey we have gone on.
During the 8 weeks, we will have additional calls to sit down and focus on our writing. These sessions usually last 90 minutes. Here we come together without distractions and get straight into the zone. These sessions might be used for journaling and working through course materials, or just writing and experimenting.
I am very excited to be alongside you and begin this journey of writing, healing in community, dreaming, imagining, and transforming from within.
Much love,
Rūta
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