Author: inkinherveins

• Retreat Lessons

  

  Over Labor Day weekend, I went on a yoga retreat in Utah, guided by my dear teacher and friend, Mary. To say that this was a long-standing dream is an understatement. I’ve been wanting to go on retreat with Mary ever since she mentioned going to Italy, back before the pandemic started. Though Mary’s presence…

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• And life goes on

  

  Fall is touching the Valley. Since I got home from retreat (I’ll write about that soon), I’ve been writing and revising, a lot, to prepare two short collections of writing to submit for a chance at publication. Along with all that writing, I had to go to work at the book co-op, catch up on…

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• Am I Forgetting Something?

  

  The phone alarm clock chimes and I smack it to turn on the snooze. A few minutes later, it chimes again and then a few minutes after that, the next alarm sounds. It’s a cascade effect of annoying sounds, set 15 minutes apart, so that I’ll (theoretically) become so irritated that I just get out…

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• Stargazing and Night Dreaming

  Monday, July 17th, was a new moon and I found myself out at the Great Sand Dunes National Park, preparing to hike in the last moments of daylight. Around June or July last year, a friend and I started talking about getting out onto the dune field so he could get some shots of the…

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• The poetry month that wasn’t…

  

  Several years ago, when I was in my doctoral program, I started doing 30/30 for National Poetry Month: thirty poems in thirty days in the month of April.  It started in 2015, and I’ve been relatively consistent most years since then. While I never really viewed myself as a poet, and I still don’t like…

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• A week without reading…

  

  I’m on week four of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (I posted about the beginning of that in my last post. I’m satisfied with myself for keeping up with the morning pages, and for managing time for the artist’s dates (sort of). I have some mixed feelings on the book, though I am trying…

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• Uncovering Creativity

  

  This week, I started Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Several people have recommended this book to me, one of them being a therapist, and I purchased it during the pandemic, thinking it would be a perfect time to complete it. As with many of my planned pandemic projects, I…

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• Making Space

  

  After resigning from my full time position last year (in 2022) I stayed on to adjunct, thinking I could balance that with the other things in my life that I wanted to invest my time in. It turns out that making space for my creative endeavors, and for being self-employed, wasn’t working. It was like…

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• Retreat Sessions

  

  Back in January, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a retreat for a local nonprofit organization. I was asked to lead a yoga session and a journaling session. My classes were the first of the retreat, so I had the daunting and special task of setting the tone. The nonprofit organization coordinates its…

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• 30 Days of Yoga

  

  It’s been a little bit since my last post, again (though I did post a video), but let’s just say that my slow December turned into a busy January (and February), despite my best efforts to maintain my slow-flow chill of winter break. In January, teaching yoga started up again, the semester started up again…

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