Break your writers block!
Inspire your muse!
Reclaim your passion and creative expression!
Join us for an inspiring, relaxing retreat in Costa Rican paradise.
Our group will be small and you will receive individual guidance on your writing. This workshop is perfect for all writers, whether this is your first foray into the wilds of creative writing or if your are a seasoned writer ready to expand and deepen your craft. Clive is a renowned and popular writing instructor, author of Let the Crazy Child Write! (New World Library, 1998).
• Practice the fine art of doing nothing.
• There will be ample time to enjoy: swinging in a hammock, siestas, community, reading, taking in the spectacular sunset.
• Our comfortable lodgings invite you to completely unwind, watch the monkeys and listen to the birds.
• Enjoy the warm ocean, swimming and floating aimlessly a five minute walk from Nosara Retreat.
• You will return home recharged and profoundly rejuvenated.
Price $1600 (not including airfare).
Included in your stay:
*Private double occupancy rooms at quaint colorful Nosara Retreat.
*Three healthy gourmet meals daily and two dinners out on the town.
*Two group excursions, A river boat tour and Miss Sky Canopy tour.
*Shuttle service from and back to Liberia Airport.
The workshop includes:
*A three hour morning writing workshop
*Optional daily yoga class
*An optional two hour writing class every evening
Afternoons will be free for exploring Nosara, resting, or private sessions of Wellness Counseling or JIN SHIN JYUTSU. *(see below)
CLIVE MATSON'S BIOGRAPHY
Clive Matson (MFA Columbia University) has published poetry since 1964. Mostly he writes from the itch in his body. Impulse and strong feeling, a signature of hip writers of the 1960s, drew him to New York City. Herbert Huncke became his guide, and Diane di Prima published his first book, Mainline to the Heart (1966), scheduled for re-release in 2009.
He has taught more than 2,000 workshops nationwide, and his how-to book Let the Crazy Child Write! (New World Library, 1998), honoring the creative unconscious, is being used by a number of groups around the world.
His seventh book, Squish Boots, was placed, amazingly, in the coffin of his mentor, John Wieners.
The insight on how unconscious processes are fundamental to creative writing supplied the impetus for the nonprofit www.WorldSwell.org. 9/11 gave signature examples, with Towers Down (2002) rising as an inescapable fountain through Matson’s body. The late Allen Cohen realized many people were having a similar experience, and together with Matson edited the anthology An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind – Poets on 9/11 (Regent Press, 2002), which won the 2003 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award.
His new book is Chalcedony's First Ten Songs. "Extravagant, rich and powerful - these poems are a vibrant call to body and spirit and earth through the sensory world. It's as if Clive Matson's early voice lost its anger and returns to embrace sensual life in all its joys and pains."
He likes playing table tennis, basketball, and collecting minerals in the field. He lives in Oakland, California, where poet Gail Ford shares the parenting of their eleven-year-old son, Ezra.
Mary Serphos, founder and owner of The Aware Body
Mary Serphos, founder and owner of The Aware Body, offers health and wellness counseling and coaching with an emphasis on gradual, positive and healthy change. Through support, guidance and education, clients learn techniques to reduce pain, find renewed vitality, and learn to integrate these methods into everyday life.
What to Expect From Wellness Coaching: An Individualized Self-Care Action Plan will be created to address the unique and specific needs of each client. The Plan highlights health promoting goals focused on reducing stress, healing, and gaining energy through nutrition and wellness.
Mary is a licensed psychotherapist and is currently enrolled in a certification program through The Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York City. Mary has cured herself from Lyme disease using her own unique program and she is passionate and dedicated towards helping others heal and improve their lives.
JIN SHIN JYUTSU
This ancient Japanese art of circulatory reawakening is also called the Art of happiness, longevity and compassion. With the hands placed on specific locations of the body over clothing, vitality is restored to harmonize ones' whole being. The stimulation of energetic pathways in the body enliven its natural healing response, enhancing breath, blood, lymph and nerve flow and an increased sense of well-being. By cleansing and rebuilding, more efficient assimilation and elimination of oxygen and nutrients occurs, allowing a deepening of the body?s ability to function on every level. It can be applied by a trained practitioner as well as applied to oneself. This simple healing art is a complement to any other healing modality as well as western medicine as it integrates spirit, mind and body.
Lonner Holden has been practicing and teaching Jin Shin Jyutsu classes for 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as his homeland of Alaska. He brings his love of the natural world and wilderness into the integration of Jin Shin Jyutsu as a self-care and self-awareness way of life. Lonner also offers classes to athletes, students, artists and writers. He and his wife Jill share their practice and have offices in Marin and San Francisco Counties where they offer private appointments, classes, intensives and retreats.
DAILY SCHEDULE
DAY ONE, Friday, January 29 Flight to Liberia
DAY TWO, Saturday, January 30 Arrive at Liberia Airport where we will pick you up and accompany you on ground transport, a scenic three-hour drive to Nosara Retreat.
Welcome Buffet Dinner consisting of salad, main course and fruit smoothies.
You will be shown to your rooms and get a brief orientation about Nosara Retreat and the facilities.
DAY THREE, Sunday, January 31
7:00-10:00 Buffet Breakfasts on the veranda outside Casa de Los Monos
Breakfasts will consist of: fruit, eggs, toast, butter and jam, tortillas, eggs, rice and beans, yogurt, granola, coffee, tea, black and herb, fruit smoothie
8:00-9:30 Optional Yoga class with Deborah, gentle yoga flow
10:00am-1:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:30 Lunch Buffet consisting of salad, main course, and fruit
2:30-4:00 Free Time
2:30 Optional guided walk to beach
4:00 Optional walk along beach to Giones, the surfer?s beach which takes about a half hour, then walking back to watch sunset at 5:30
6:00-7:30 Buffet Dinner
8:00-10:00 Optional writing workshop with Clive
DAY FOUR, Monday, February 1
5:30 Coffee, Tea, Fruit
5:45 Walk together to River Mouth for Boat Tour
6:00-8:00 Boat Tour on Nosara River and Mangrove
8:30-10:00 Breakfast Buffet
10:00-1:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:30 Lunch Buffet
2:30-4:00 Optional Yoga Class with Deborah
2:30-5:00 Free Time
5:00-6:00 Sunset Walk
6:00-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:30 Optional writing Class
DAY FIVE, Tuesday, February 2
7:00-10:00 Buffet Breakfast
8:00-9:30 Optional Yoga class with Deborah, gentle yoga flow
10:00-1:00pm Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:30 Lunch Buffet
2:30-4:00 Free Time
5:00-8:00 Walk or ride to Lagarta Restaurant for spectacular sunset view and dinner
http://www.lagarta.com/restaurant.htm
DAY SIX, Wednesday, February 3
Free Day
Optional meals will be served
Optional Yoga Class 8:00-9:00 class with Deborah, gentle yoga flow
Breakfast: 7:30-10:00
Lunch 12:00-1:30
Dinner 6:00-7:30
You are free to explore the beaches or the town of Nosara, take a surf lesson, rest at the retreat, book a massage, or arrange a local excursion of your choice.
Clive will give a talk at the Kitsen Library and initiate a local Nosara Writer?s Group
DAY SEVEN, Thursday, February 4
6:00 Coffe and Tea
6:15 Walk to Nature Reserve for guided walk for guided walk at 6:30
9:00-10:00 Buffet Breakfast
10:00-1:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:30 Lunch Buffet
2:30-4:00 Free Time
6:00-7:30 Buffet Dinner
8:00-10:00 Optional writing workshop with Clive
Given the proper configuration of this new moon night and their availability, we will go see the turtles laying eggs at the Ostional Wildlife preserve.
http://www.costarica-nationalparks.com/ostionalwildliferefuge.html
DAY EIGHT, Friday, February 5
7:30-10:00 Buffet Breakfast
8:00-9:00 Optional Yoga class with Deborah, gentle yoga flow
10:00am-1:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:30 Lunch Buffet
2:30-4:00 Free Time
5:30- on Sunset, Drinks and Dinner at La Luna Restaurant, optional dancing, packing
DAY NINE, Saturday, February 6
7:30-10:00 Buffet Breakfast
8:00-9:00 Optional Yoga class with Deborah, gentle yoga flow
10:00am-1:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:30 Lunch Buffet
2:30-5:00 Trip to Town for Public Reading at Kitsen Library
6:00 Dinner in town
DAY TEN, Sunday February 7
Breakfast and ground transport to Liberia Airport for flight back to San Francisco
For more detailed information about Nosara visit www.nosara.com
For questions about the Writing Workshop contact Clive:
Phone: 510-654-6495
Email: clive@matsonpoet.com
To register and for questions about the Nosara Retreat contact Deborah:
Phone: 212-931-4826
Email: info@NosaraRetreat.com
January 29th to February 7th, 2010
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