“To keep my writing and yoga practices fresh and sustainable, I am always adapting and experimenting with ways to integrate them into my daily life and create an energetic balance.”
Join award winning poet and writer Kathrine Sowerby for a playful exploration of bringing the creative practices of writing and yoga together - to notice the effect that writing and yoga have on each other, and the effect their combination has on both mind and body.
Together you will alternate between short sequences of breath work, asanas (postures) and imaginative writing exercises that relate, visually and anatomically, to the movements you are making.
The writing exercises, while allowing space for a very individual response, will connect to each other and progress towards a final piece of writing, which can take whatever form feels right on the day.
And after a guided relaxation there will be time to come together and share your writing, or how you found the experience, but this is entirely optional.
No experience of either yoga or writing is necessary to attend, variations will always be offered. Just come along with comfortable clothes, a curious mind, and a pen and paper, or whatever you prefer to write with.
I look forward to sharing this practice with you!
Workshop Cost £30
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About Kathrine
Kathrine Sowerby is an award winning poet and writer and a graduate from our 200 hour yoga teacher training programme here at MCY.
After practising Iyengar yoga for many years she’s a convert to the Ashtanga series and loves using props to make postures accessible.
She is author of poetry collections (Find Yourself) at Constant Falls (Blue Diode Press), Tutu (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), House However and a collection of novellas, The Spit, the Sound and the Nest (Vagabond Voices).
Collaboration is key to her practice, working with other poets and visual artists, and she has taken part in poetry translation projects in Latvia and Pakistan.
Kathrine has facilitated writing workshops in galleries, schools, libraries, community gardens and is Lead Reader at Glasgow Women’s Library monthly Open Book creative writing sessions.