Online Program
Creative Expression

Fall Online Writing Program

The Second Annual Fall Writing Program: Sharing Wisdom
October 3–26, 2023

Join us and immerse yourself in a community of creative beings. Led by world renowned authors, Grammy-award winning songwriters, healers, story tellers, poets, and folks who make the power of words the way they weave magic in the world.  

Whether you are seeking to connect more with your creativity, hone the practice and habit of writing, deepen your healing journey, or publish a book, you will delight in this incredible writing journey with an amazing panel of professional writers from a multitude of backgrounds and disciplines. When you write from your truth and tap into your authentic inner voice, you offer wisdom and medicine to the world. This wisdom is not only needed, it can only be uniquely shared by you. 

With over 24 hours of curated content with facilitators such as Julia Cameron, Waylon Lewis, Junauda Petrus, Brynn Saito, Eric Maisel, Ayesha Ophelia, Valerie June, and more—plus two Writer’s Coffee House sessions and a Share Out Writing Slam—this full immersion can be done live or at your own pace. 

NOTE You will have access to the video recording(s) for 30 days after the program ends. All recordings will be available within 72 hours of the end of each session.  Please note Kripalu gathers information on our preregistration form for internal purposes only.

BOOK THE BUNDLE FOR $329.00

Explore the Sessions

October 3 Write For Life
with Julia Cameron
Join Julia along with her longtime publisher, Joel Fotinos, for a candid conversation about her latest creative endeavor in The Artist’s Way Series. Learn practical tools to start, pursue, and finish your writing project.
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October 5 Ancestral Poetics: Exploring Poetry’s Portal to Wisdom 
with Brynn Saito
Poetry can be a portal to the past and the future. Explore how poems—with their mystery, metaphors, images, and rhythms—invite us to access our inner and outer worlds.  
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October 5 The Wisdom of the Book Proposal 
with Eric Maisel
Whether you are a memoirist, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer, understand what makes for a stellar book proposal and why starting on the book proposal early in the writing process is such a wise idea. 
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October 10 Unleashing Your Most Authentic Voice in a Polarized World 
with Xavier Dagba 
Go on an in-depth exploration of why we censor ourselves and distort our voices, and how we can dissolve these hidden forces to unleash the purity of our authentic self expression through writing.
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October 10 The Poetry of Yoga 
with Hawah Kasat
Excavate the stories buried within your muscles and bones. Write your own poetry and prose inspired by heart-opening, spine-lengthening asana, somatic exercises, and deep breathing. With any luck, there will be droplets of sweat on your paper.
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October 12 Writing Alchemy: Finding Creative Flow in Embodied Writing 
with Victoria Erikson 
Creative writing begins with a feeling first. Our words are the beautiful afterglow. Learn Victoria's tried and true tools to help you drop into your body, find your flow state, and bring out your inner genius.
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October 12 ReWilding Our Writing: Imagination and Play with the Teen Self 
with Junauda Petrus 
Through thoughtful embodiment, playfulness, and creative writing, come channel the seasons of discovery that helped shape you into who you are today. Writers of all experiences, genres, and interests are welcome including writers of children's and young adult fiction.
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October 17 How to Turn Confusion into Wisdom through Writing
with Waylon Lewis
Catharsis. Alchemy. Fancy words for the simple thing that happens when you write truly, and turn your experience into wisdom. In doing so, you help others feel less alone.
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October 19 Presence Palace
with Rebecca S’manga
Alchemize your experiences and inner knowing into creative gold with tools that help transform divine imagination into their most potent and present iteration. This session builds off an exercise called "The Memory Palace" and is inspired by poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights.
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October 24 The Art of Getting Everything You Desire Through Everything You Already Are
with Ayesha Ophelia
Journey into the heart of your story and unearth that which will guide you into the next chapter of your life. Through a series of prompts to find the gold buried just beneath the surface, we will create an oracular experience of wisdom, intuition, and beauty. Bring a journal, note cards, markers, and stickers—and be in a space that allows light movement. 
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October 24 Opportunity Doesn't Knock, You Do
with Ava Taylor
Join this lighthearted and confidence-instilling session to learn best practices for creating more opportunity for yourself, including how to network, master the partnership pitch, craft an effective partnership letter, and identify potential partners and publishers. 
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October 26 Light Beams: A Workbook for Being Your Badass Self
with Valerie June Hockett
Building upon the themes of mindfulness and authentic connection in Valerie's debut poetry collection, Maps for the Modern World, Light Beams uses contracts and agreements, self-healing wishes and spells, and maps and prescriptions in creative exercises that guide readers deeper on a journey of self-love. 
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October 26 Share Out Writing Jam
with Monique Schubert and Jessica Durivage
Join our Fall Writing Community for an evening of sharing out their poems, essays, and other works that have been inspired by the incredible writing classes that have taken place during the program. Get your “snaps” at the ready! 
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Program at a Glance

Yoga Experience
None
Suitable For
All
Program Theme
Writing

Presenter(s)

October 3–26, 2023
October 3, 2023

Julia Cameron, author of 40 books, is a songwriter, memoirist, novelist, award-winning playwright, and poet with extensive credits in film, television, and theater.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 5, 2023

Brynn Saito is a poet, organizer, and associate professor of Creative Writing and English at California State University, Fresno.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 5, 2023

Eric Maisel, PhD, is a creativity coach, therapist, and author of more than 50 books who founded the profession of creativity coaching.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 10, 2023

Xavier Dagba is a trauma-informed transformational life coach and shadow work facilitator.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 10, 2023

Hawah Kasat is an artist, author, educator, community organizer, and yogi. For over two decades, he has been teaching yoga, mindfulness, social-emotional literacy, conflict transformation, the healing arts, and trauma-informed care to all types of students from around the globe.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 12, 2023

Victoria Erickson is an author, poet, and founder of world-renowned creative writing workshops and immersions.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 12, 2023

Junauda Petrus is a writer, soul sweetener, runaway witch, filmmaker, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 17, 2023

Waylon Lewis is the founder of Elephant Journal and author of Things I Would Like to Do with You and It’s Never too Late to Fall in Love with Your Life.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 19, 2023

Rebecca S’manga is a writer, actor, story doula, and culture worker whose monologues, psalms, essays, comedy, poetry, and plays have been featured in Lilith Magazine, Hadassah Magazine, Hillel International, and at Elm Shakespeare Company among others.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 24, 2023

Ayesha Ophelia author, speaker, transitions guide, dreamworker, spiritual provocateur, and creator of a thriving community called The Girlfriend Manifesto.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 24, 2023

Ava Taylor, an avid yogi and creative entrepreneur, the founder of YAMA Talent, author of Your Yoga Business: Tools and Techniques for Success, and the Regenerative Community Manager at Kripalu.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 26, 2023

Valerie June Hockett is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and author of the children's book Somebody to Love: The Story of Valerie June's Sweet Little Baby Banjolele.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 26, 2023

Jessica Durivage is a certified yoga teacher, Qoya teacher, and Yoga Nidra facilitator who currently oversees online programming for Kripalu.

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October 3–26, 2023
October 26, 2023

Monique Schubert, MFA and lead Kripalu faculty member, uses her 20 years of experience as an artist and educator to develop yoga and mindfulness programs for schools, workplaces, and cultural institutions.

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