| Mon, April 12, 2010. 7 pm - 9 pm |
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| Tracking Wonder to Awaken, Connect & Create |
| A Workshop with author Jeff Davis |
Cost: $20 if registered and prepaid by Apr. 10th; $25 if registering after the 10th.
Teacher Bio: Jeff Davis knows the challenges of writing - literary and business. After yoga screwed up his writing life in beautiful ways, he authored the breakthrough writing guide, The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing (hardcover, 2004; paperback, 2005, Penguin; revised edition, Monkfish 2008), which has been adapted for writing workshops, yoga and writing workshops, and college writing courses from Rollins College to UC-Berkeley.
Jeffrey works with writers from all backgrounds. His clients include or have included NYT best-selling memoirist Julie Metz (Perfection, Hyperion/Voice, 2009), an art critic whose first book sold to Penguin, scholars seeking publication guidance and sabbatical applications, short story writers and novelists, a world-traveling financial consultant ready to write his first business book and other business professionals, essayists, professors of creative writing, and poets - and hundreds of people wishing to develop an authentic writing life and to transform creatively.
He is faculty mentor at Western Connecticut State University's MFA Program in Professional Writing, and teaches or has taught creative writing workshops at The University of New Mexico's Taos Writer's Conference, The Cape Cod Writer's Conference, The Writers Lab in Skyros, Greece, Nova Scotia's Tatamagouche Centre, and the Block Island Poetry Project among other places.
For over twenty years, Jeffrey's essays, articles, short stories, and poems have appeared in journals and magazines around the country and in London including The Comstock Review, Conscious Choice, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, and Wisdom Publication's You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction. Author of the poetry collection City Reservoir (Barnburner Press, 1999), he also has completed his next poetry collection Woman Burning Another Woman and is working on his next non-fiction book.
A member of the Green Yoga Association's Council, Jeffrey has completed yoga teacher training in Vanda Scaravelli's Scaravelli Yoga and in Bliss Yoga's Jivamukti-inspired program in Woodstock, NY. He has studied with yoga iconoclasts Angela Farmer, Victor VonKooten, and Shandor Remete, and he has traveled to Chennai, South India, to study in-depth with his teacher Sri TKV Desikachar and his family of teachers. Jeffrey resides in Accord, a small farming hamlet south of Woodstock, NY, between the Catskill Mountains and the Shawangunk Mountains with his wife Hillary Thing and their daughter Dahlia. He maintains the grounds and small orchard where they live and which they steward.
