As many of you know, Writer’s Atelier believes that the foundation for any successful writing career starts with adopting the correct mindset. We also believe that mindset work is something that must be practiced on a daily basis. There are many ways to work on your mindset, but one of the most successful ways is through meditation.
Last year, we reached out to one of our favorite yoga and meditation instructors, Rita Sotolongo, and asked her if she could put together a meditation series specifically for writers. Rita has led both meditation and yoga sessions for our writers at our annual retreats for the last few years. This class has been in the works for about a year, so trust us when we say we put our whole hearts into it!
Per Rita, “The Write Meditation for Stress and Anxiety is a 21-day course designed to introduce multiple meditation methods to alleviate stress and anxiety experienced during the writing process. Through short body scan meditations and using breathwork techniques, writers learn how to detach from the emotion tied to anxious thoughts and how to observe them with a neutral acceptance. The result is a calmer mind and an education in developing a personal meditation practice moving forward.”
The class features twenty-one days of guided meditation sessions:
Course Outline:
1. Intro to Meditation and Belly Breathing
2. Meditation Misconceptions
3. Noting Our Thoughts
4. Taking Time to Rest Enhances Production
5. Distractions
6. Befriending the Your Inner Critic
7. Dastardly Deadlines
8. Your Meditation Process
9. Allow for Your Process
10. Problematic Procrastination
11. Power in Gentleness
12. Fear of Rejection
13. Fear of Success
14. The Judging Mind
15. Free Writing as a Practice for Allowing
16. Journaling to Befriend Your Dragon
17. Visualization for Training Your Focus
18. Deciding Your Focus
19. Grounding Through the Senses
20. Walking for Grounding
21. Final Practice with Gratitude
We are so excited about releasing the class! It will be released on April 24, 2020, but you can pre-order it starting today on our registration page! It will be an on-demand class and once you invest, you will have lifetime access. While the meditations cannot be downloaded, you will be able to access them through a private section of our website and through a private YouTube link (should you want to take them mobile through the YouTube app).
The regular investment for this class will be $45, but while we are under stay-at-home orders, and because this is a difficult time for everyone, we have decided to offer 50% off with discount code TWMRS20. We will assess when regular prices will resume at the appropriate time. We will also be putting one free session from the class on The Write Mindset Podcast next week, in addition to a separate episode featuring Rita.
We truly hope this class is helpful!
In the meantime, we would like to officially welcome Rita to the WA team! You can expect more classes like this from Rita in the near future!
Rita Sotolongo is a published poet and registered yoga teacher in Orlando, Florida. Over the years, she’s learned to integrate her two passions in order to keep sane in a chaotic world. This led to the development of her method for self discovery combining yoga with writing—a practice she shares in workshops intended to help people breathe and break through mental, emotional and creative blocks. Her publications include poetry in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Parentheses Journal, and Petite Hound Press as well as a short story in the 2017 Florida Writers Association annual collection, and one in the 2018 Demonic Household Anthology. She is a wife, mother, and step-mom, and when not writing or practicing yoga, she spends her time navigating the domestic arena. Learn more about Rita by visiting yogaandwriting.com.
