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 or resting.
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.
DAILY SCHEDULE
DAY ONE
Arrive at Liberia Airport where we will pick you up by an air conditioned van and will stop for lunch during 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 TWO
8:00-9:00 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, local selection of drinks
9:00-12:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
12:00-1:00 Lunch Buffet consisting of salad, soup, tortillas main course
1:00-6:00 Free Time
3:30-4:30 Optional Gentle Yoga flow
4:30-5:30 guided walk along beach to Giones, the surfer?s beach which takes about a half hour, then walking back to watch sunset at 5:30
6:00-7:00 Buffet Dinner
7:00-9:00 Open talk writing workshop with Clive
DAY THREE
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
8:30-9:30 Breakfast Buffet
9:30-12:30 Writing Workshop with Clive
12:30-1:30 Lunch Buffet
1:30-6:00 Free Time
3:30-5:00 Optional Yoga Class with Deborah
5:00-6:00 Sunset Walk
6:00-7:30 Dinner
7:30-9:30 Optional writing Class
DAY FOUR
8:00-9:00 Buffet Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
1:00-2:00 Lunch Buffet
2:00-5:00 Free Time
3:30-5:00 Optional Yoga Class with Deborah
5:00-8:00 Walk or ride to Lagarta Restaurant for spectacular sunset view and dinner
http://www.lagarta.com/restaurant.htm
DAY FIVE
Free Day
Optional meals will be served
3:30-5:00 Optional Yoga Class 8:00-9:00 class with Deborah, gentle yoga flow
Breakfast: 8:00-9:00
Lunch 12:00-1:00
Dinner 6:00-7:00
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.
DAY SIX
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
1:00-2:00 Lunch Buffet
2:30-6:00 Free Time
3:30-5:00 Optional Yoga Class with Deborah
6:00-7:00 Buffet Dinner
7:00-9:00 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 SEVEN
8:00-9:00 Buffet Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
12:00-1:00 Lunch Buffet
1:30-5:00 Free Time
5:45- leave for town
6:00-7:30 Public Reading at Kitsen Library
7:45-8:45 Dinner in town at Rancho Tiko
DAY EIGHT
8:00-9:00 Buffet Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Writing Workshop with Clive
12:00-1:00 Lunch Buffet
2:00-5:00 Free time, packing
5:00- Walk on beach to La Luna Restaurant for sunset, drinks, and dinner, packing
DAY NINE
Breakfast and ground transport to Liberia Airport for flight back to USA
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: 212-381-1823
Email: info@NosaraRetreat.com
February 16 – February 25, 2012
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