Lion's Gate Portal Imagining:: Poetry & Affirmation workshop (8/8)
The power of writing it down.
8/8 is the Lion’s Gate portal, a time for deep imagining and affirmation for personal and collective dreams. This virtual writing workshop, held and hosted by Amara Amaryah, is an invitation to unleash your most abundant, brazen, vital imagination. It is an opportunity to meet and clarify what sits in your heart, mind, and spirit while writing it into being. I envision this workshop as a space to witness and create together and in sacred solitude. Too often we underestimate our power to initiate our dreams and this 8/8 energy is one way to remind us of our magnetism. As your host, I will offer plenty of poems, writing exercises, templates and examples, and space to share, affirm, and listen to the dreams and offerings of others.
Writers have been creating worlds for us to believe in and pull from page to present reality from the beginning of time. As creators, the dreamworld is one of our most necessary resources, and this will be a session devoted to that creative energy. This workshop is for writers of all levels.
Intentions for the session::
🧲 ✨ Understanding and making good use of the energy from the Lion’s Gate portal
🧲 ✨ Writing and sharing dreams that will enable us to create loving change
🧲 ✨ A space to practice being unapologetic
🧲 ✨A space to practice being radically affirmed
🧲 ✨ Learning new poetic techniques
🧲 ✨ Allowing vulnerability to guide us towards brave visions
I hope you’ll leave this workshop with::
✺ Audacity to imagine deeper
✺ New poems and affirmations written in response to intentional prompts
✺ New writers and reading materials to inspire future creativity/world-making
✺ Resources and language to affirm confidently
✺ Aligned community
Additional info::
~ Bring along your journal, something to write with, a knowing of the dreams you’d like to give life to and a beverage for this Thursday writing session.
~ This session will be offered via Zoom. The link will be made available a day before the event.
~ This session will not be recorded but I will send out a document with resources and materials after the event.
~ Closed captioning will be available for accessibility.
~ This is a virtual event set for 1 hour and 45 minutes. This is a guideline and keeps in mind space for connection at the start and end of the workshop.
About your host::
Amara Amaryah is a poet, travel and wellness writer, author, and nomad. She writes the Life Is In Love With Me newsletter, a landing place for travel memories and love stories. After graduating from the University of Birmingham with a first-class English Literature degree as the recipient of the Tess Winnall prize (awarded for the highest dissertation on the course on Maya Angelou’s autobiographical series), Amara discovered her literary love rested in Caribbean poetry and Black women’s autobiographical fiction. As a young professional, Amara ventured into the world of digital marketing, only to quickly understand that her gifts were not well placed in an office environment nor the hyper-online nature of life as a Digital Marketing Manager. She packed up her apartment, pivoted her career, and left the UK to travel the world, teaching English and travel writing for various publications. Amara’s travel and wellness writing has been published in Time Out, Condé Nast Traveler, ESSENCE, AMAKA studio, The Good Trade, SELF, Well+Good, Travel Noire, Black Ballad, and more. She has made homes in car-less islands on the Caribbean coast of Central America and small mountain towns in Mexico. Solo travelling introduced Amara to the possibility of shaking limiting beliefs and choosing life. She loves this the most and is committed to writing about it while travelling slowly in her favourite places in the world.
Her debut poetry pamphlet ‘The Opposite of an Exodus’ was published by Bad Betty Press in 2021. Amara’s poems have since been published in The Caribbean Writer, Lolwe, Wasafiri, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Under the Radar Magazine, PREE Lit Mag, and translated into Spanish in the Colombian publication Arcadia. In 2019 the poet was invited to perform a collection of poems at the Cosmopoética literary festival in Córdoba, Spain. Recently Amara was invited to read poems virtually at the USVI Literary Festival & Book Fair 2023 as part of the Writer’s Bachanal. She has also read on various stages in the UK including Birmingham’s Hippodrome as a part of the Hippodrome Young Poets collective and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Prior to her poetry, Amara was selected as a writer for the TYPT:16 sold-out production HATCH, by Talawa Theatre Company, the leading Black British theatre company in the UK. A few workshops that she has most enjoyed teaching include an experimental poetic form session with Trust + Travel and a virtual poetry and storytelling session with The Mix UK.
~
I can't wait to write and imagine with you! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Sign up to The Easeful Place for more updates.