Writing and Yoga WorkshopWorkshop
Write. Breathe. Move. Connect with nature and your creative self.
Write. Breathe. Move. Connect with nature and your creative self.
"Whatever our interest in life, yoga is always indispensable because it makes it easier to access everything."
Gérard Blitz
Bio28 offers a weekend combining yoga and creative writing, showing how much the method and purpose of the former can support the latter and how they can complement and support each other.
How is it possible for yoga to be so effective? It is because in yoga there is a clear understanding of what prevents us from being well. In one of the reference texts, the Patanjali's Yogasutras (3rd century), five evils are listed that afflict our actions: they coincide with those we find in every area of our lives. Patanjali also suggests the “method” (one of the many translations of the word yoga) to overcome the afflictions and arrive at a “state” (also translatable as yoga) in which the mind is quiet and present.
Writing is a field in which we act simultaneously as authors and as the first readers of our pages. Therefore, if yoga is indispensable everywhere, it is even more so in writing: it helps us to gain clarity, to free ourselves from conditioning, to defeat fear, to remind us of the importance of assiduous effort. It does so by bringing us back to an awareness of the body that we too often forget, as if writing were not a need that starts in the gut.
This three-day event will be hosted by Lorenza Pieri and Michela Volante, writers and yogis, as well as experienced explorers of almost every nook and cranny of the publishing world (translators, editors and consultants to major publishing houses).
Michela, who is a certified teacher by Yani - Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti Yoga (National Association of Yoga Teachers), will lead practices that can be adapted for those at a beginner's level; Lorenza, a former creative writing teacher at the Belleville school in Milan, will provide an introduction to the basic techniques and tools of narrative writing, invention, the construction of a plot and credible characters, and the choice of a style that is both appropriate for the writer and right for the story we want to tell.
For more details and to sign up, email us at info@bio28.it.
Friday, November 8
4 / 6 p.m. - Arrival at Bio28 and check in
4 / 6 p.m. - Access to the pools and spa; possibility to reserve a massage
7 - 7:30 p.m. - Welcome meeting and short practice
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Dinner
9:00 - 10:30 p.m. - Collective discussion on expectations and perspectives
Saturday, November 9
7:30 / 8:30 a.m. - Awakening practice
8:30 / 9:30 a.m. - Breakfast
9:30 / 11:30 a.m. - Writing
11:45 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. - Yoga
1 / 2:30 p.m. - Lunch
2:30 / 5 p.m. - Writing
5:30 / 6:30 p.m. - Yoga
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Dinner
9:00 - 10:30 p.m. - Feedback on the work done during the day
Sunday, November 10
7:30 / 8:30 a.m. - Awakening practice, with mindful walk
8:30 / 9:30 a.m. - Breakfast
9:30 / 11:30 a.m. - Writing
11:45 a.m. / 12:45 p.m. - Yoga
1 / 2:30 p.m. - Lunch
- Experience in a single tent € 580
- Experience in a double tent € 500
- Experience in a triple tent € 420
* Free cancellation within 48 hours
Bio28 provides shared housing in the Glamping, a series of comfortable and technological geodesic domes located on campus just a 5-minute walk from the studios:
Geodesic domes made of thermal insulation material and placed on wooden platforms.
Modern-design bathroom units in close proximity to the domes.
Simple and practical furnishing, with standard beds on wooden platforms
Capacity: Participants will be housed in 4-person domes (diameter 5.1 m / height 3.35 m) and in 6-person domes (diameter 6.3 m / height 3.75 m).
Heating and A/C system available in each tent.
Besides housing, the Bio28 experience includes:
Fresh meals made with locally grown produce.
Access to the pools and spa for swimming.
Bicycle rentals are available for an additional fee.
