A Writer’s Life in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca
Oh, goodness. Where to start? Since Thursday evening, January 2, I have participated in a women’s creative writing workshop retreat in the Oaxaca village of Teotitlan del Valle. I have produced this workshop (or something like it) for the past fourteen years (minus the last two, when we took a break). We end on Wednesday […]
Day of the Dead in Five Parts
I wrote the draft of this last year during Day of the Dead during our Women’s Creative Writing Workshop, and recently rewrote and edited it to read at SOMOS The Taos Literary Society last night. It was well-received and I want to share it with you. Creative writing is an important aspect of my life […]
News and Updates: A Brief Report
Good morning, everyone. I’m still in Taos and won’t be returning to Oaxaca until just before Day of the Dead. So, far, it’s been a whirlwind of a summer. Hot, dry, filled with non-stop activities and I’m holed up now, taking it easy. I’ve hosted my son’s 50th birthday party, joined a reunion of Chiapas […]
Day of the Dead 2019 Women’s Writing Retreat: How Memory Inspires Us
Arrive Wednesday, October 30 and leave Monday, November 4, 2019. The retreat can accommodate up to 10 women. We gather for Day of the Dead 2019 in the traditional Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico to write with intention for five nights and four days. Day of the Dead inspires us to revisit our […]
Women’s Writing Retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico: Take a Discount and Express Yourself
This is our 8th year to offer the Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing and Gentle Yoga Retreat from June 22-29, 2018. We want a full-house and are offering a 10% discount off the already high-value, low price of $895 for a shared room and $1195 for a single room. It’s not too late to get on […]
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Lower Price, Return to Teotitlan del Valle: 2018 Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing Retreat with Gentle Yoga
2018 Writing Workshop is Cancelled We are moving the retreat back to the quiet of Teotitlan del Valle from Oaxaca City and lowering the price to make it more affordable for you to attend! This is our 8th year for the Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing Retreat. We welcome neophyte women writers and those of us […]
2017 Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing + Yoga Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice
For the 7th year, women will gather in retreat for a week of creative writing, daily yoga, meditation and exploration in Oaxaca, Mexico. Our workshop is limited to 10 people. Will you be one of them? Some of us are novices. Others are published poets and writers. All are welcome and encouraged. If this is […]
Memoir Writing Workshop: Pilgrims, Immigrants, and Travelers
Memoir is a way to express where we are, where we have been and where we are going. Both women and men are welcome to participate. Everyone has an important story to tell. Arrive Sunday March 13, 2016 and depart Saturday, March 19, 2016. This six-day intensive writing workshop uses memoir to position the self and understand […]
2016 Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice
This is our 6th annual Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat and we hope you can join us! Many retreat participants return each year and we limit registration to 10 women. So, if this is something you have always wanted to do, please do not hesitate. Starting at $995 per person. Arrive by Friday […]
Women’s Words, Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat Closes for Another Year
Our fifth annual Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing Retreat just ended. After an intensive week of writing, listening to each other’s words and offering feedback, our participants dispersed to upstate New York, Denver, Manhattan, North Carolina, the north coast of British Columbia. We are a diverse group. Our words resonate, are distinctive and universal. I have […]
Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat 2015: Lifting Your Creative Voice
Announcing the 5th Annual Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat. Arrive Friday, March 6, depart Saturday, March 14, 2015–8 nights, 9 days with market tour, plus options for traditional Oaxaca cooking class, and temescal* sweat lodge. SOLD OUT! JOIN THE JULY 28-AUGUST 6, 2015 SESSION. You are a woman with something to say. You keep […]
Market Town Sunday in Oaxaca, Mexico
Our Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat 2014 is coming to a close. We have been furiously writing this week, opening up to truth, reality, powerful voices, memories, love, comfort and despair. Tonight, we will speak at a reading. Tomorrow, most will return home. Today, I share this creative non-fiction piece with you as […]
Memoir and Fiction: Creative Writing Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico: Lives in Motion
You write or have always wanted to write. You may be experienced and published, a raw beginner or somewhere in-between. Wherever you are, this 5-day creative writing workshop will help you become a better writer of fiction or memoir — or both! Writing memoir and fiction can be an exploration of self that becomes integrated […]
Third Annual Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing + Yoga Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice
Arrive Friday, March 8, leave Saturday, March 16, 2013–8 nights, 9 days. Our Third Annual Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice is a workshop based in the Zapotec weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle. Imagine a setting so beautiful that it inspires all the best within you to write and […]
Tribute to International Women’s Day Through Poetry
Who knew there would be a full moon illuminating the courtyard at Las Granadas Bed and Breakfast last night, March 8, when Professor Robin Greene and I planned our Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat a year ago? And, who knew that it would coincide with International Women’s Day? Who knew that nine magnifient women […]
Creative Writing: Wherever you go is where you are.
Creative writing is creative ignorance, according to Robin Greene, MFA. Robin is the author of several books: poetry, non-fiction and memoir, and fiction. As she gathered us around the table for the women’s creative writing and yoga retreat, she talked about what it means to write for her. Then, she opened it up for our […]
Oaxaca, Mexico Women’s Writing and Yoga Retreat 2012: Lifting Your Creative Voice
Oaxaca Women’s Writing and Yoga Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice, Arrive March 2-Depart March 9 — 7 nights, 8 days Add-ons: Arrive March 1 and take a regional cooking class on March 2. Depart on March 10 and go on an artisan villages excursion on March 9. Imagine a setting so beautiful that it inspires […]
A Gift: Lifting Your Creative Voice Chapbook from the Oaxaca Women’s Writing Retreat
Today I received an extraordinary gift. Morgen, one of the participants from our women’s writing and yoga retreat, has collected the product of what we wrote and spoke during our week together in March and created a chapbook. I received this just moments ago as did the other women who were with us. It came […]
Oaxaca Women’s Writing Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice
Click on this link for March 2012 program http://wp.me/p1v1Ek-1hB You are invited to join Professor Robin Greene, MFA, for six days of writing, renewal, and self reflection. In a supportive small group atmosphere, you’ll be encouraged to find your own creative center and to surprise yourself with the power of your words. You’ll have the […]