Writing Workshops

Move and Muse: Writing and Movement with Juliana Roth

$125

1 Session

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Saturday, 11:00 am EDT - 3:30 pm EDT October 28, 2023

Online via Zoom

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Movement and writing may seem like activities that are disconnected from each other. To write, one often imagines the self alone in a room, but many forms of movement require a similar level of internal solitude. From a team sport, like basketball, to taking a long walk alone, much of experience is perceived as existing solely in the mind even though our bodies are in motion. Our interest will be in exploring the ways writing and thinking are processes of movement, and how attending to our somatic experiences may mirror and facilitate how we engage in the world around us as artists.

Course Outline

At a craft level, connecting writing to movement influences tone, word choice, pacing, structure, rhythm, visual design, research methods, etc. By heightening our attention to these elements, the writer may begin to think of their text as a malleable thing, and process as a way of shaping this thing. We will integrate the tools of yoga to explore new possibilities as writers. Whether you leave using these tools for self-care or to expand your writing practice, this course offers you:

A set of breathing techniques to calm and expand the thinking mind
Practices to heighten the somatic experience of your writing, such as integrating sensation as part of the revision process
Yoga sequences that can be done at your desk or in a small studio space
Creative visualizations to draw in a closer relationship with your characters and the worlds they inhabit
A basic understanding of yogic philosophy that may combat difficult feelings evoked by a writer’s life, such as scarcity, unknown futures, decision fatigue, creative lulls, and competition

All sequences and practices can be modified to support bodies with disabilities.

Capacity: 20

Led by

Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction and is currently seeking a home for her novel and collection of short stories. Her writing appears in the Breakwater Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Irish Pages, and Entropy as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing. Currently, she teaches writing at NYU and writes the newsletter Drawing Animals featuring essays, interviews, doodles, and podcast episodes celebrating our interconnection with nonhuman animal life. She also holds a 200-hour yoga teacher certification and is a current Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction. She formerly lived out of a backpack in the La Sal Mountains and as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine.

Photo Credit: Roque Nonini

About this series

Writing Workshops

We strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you’re a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you’ll find a perfect fit here.

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