On Campus Program

Breakthrough Finding the Narrow, Creative Road Between Crazy and Brilliant

Presenter: David Whyte
Presenter: Owen Ó Súilleabháin
Presenter: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

ACCESS THE WILD PARTS OF YOURSELF

Creative breakthroughs—whether they be artistic, entrepreneurial, financial or emotional—are what we seek in life. Real breakthroughs only arrive, however, when we combine our best gifts with a little wildness.

Join internationally renowned poet and author David Whyte and special guests Owen and Micheal Ó Súilleabháin for a program that examines our individual brilliance. Brilliance can often be found in the ways we learn to ask for help from others. By asking for help, we bring our internal conversation to fruition in the outer world. Asking for help also opens us to a proper experience of radical wildness. It asks us to get over ourselves while explaining ourselves at a deeper and more elemental level.

Through poetry, Zen teachings, and other forms of artistry, you will learn how to:

Understand and gain confidence in your own wild ways.
Build disciplines and "routines" around these abilities.
Allow for your brilliance to come forth.
Make real time for the Self.

Our own eccentricities are to be prized and nurtured. The ability to have faith in our very own, often particularly wild, way is essential for all creative breakthroughs. A tiny bit of crazy multiplied by a little brilliance goes a very long way toward creating a more interesting and fulfilling life.

Evening Concert with Owen and Micheal Ó Súilleabháin
Saturday, October 5, 7:30–9:00 pm EST

Join musicians Owen and Micheal Ó Súilleabháin for a special live concert on the Kripalu campus. Open to registered guests only. Please note the concert will not be livestreamed.

ONLINE OPTION

Can't make the on campus experience? We also offer a livestream online version of this program.

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Included in Your Stay

Daily Yoga Classes

3 All-Natural Meals

Access to the Kripalu Grounds

Program at a Glance

Yoga Experience

None

Suitable For

All

Program Theme

All Self-Discovery

Schedule

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Presenter(s)

David Whyte, author of nine books of poetry and four books of prose, is a speaker who brings his poetry to large audiences throughout the world.

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Owen Ó Súilleabháin is a singer, composer, and teacher—and believes in the power of art to awaken our most dynamic and creative parts of ourselves into being.

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Mícheál ‘Moley’ Ó Súilleabháin is a renowned singer, poet, and speaker from Limerick, Ireland. His artistic identity lives on the threshold between things. He is a master of several worlds of music and poetic performance and composition.

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