Winter Solstice Workshop: Attuning To The Darkness Through Rest
The darkness at the year’s end is our time to embrace the quiet and turn deep within. This is a critical time in the year’s cycle where we can honour the light that is on its way while befriending the darkness. In the thick of change, we have our inner worlds and each other’s rest to tend to and nurture. What an honour.
Amara Amaryah, author, poet, and founder of The Easeful Place, invites you to share space and words on this sacred occasion. This virtual workshop, held a day before the winter solstice, will be a space to reflect and recharge in community. Come as you are 🌀and welcome the rest and transformations needed for this slower season.
Intentions for the space::
Ground for the coming light
Align with self
Align with hope as we move into a new season
Prepare self and community for new shifts
Spend time resting and writing in community
Honour the darkest night together with stories and encouragement
Hopefully you’ll leave this workshop with::
New writing practices/activities for personal writing
Journal prompts and resources to deepen self-work
Poems to welcome in the Winter solstice
Community
Clarity on your approach to your new cycle
An opportunity to breathe deep with an international community of writers, creators, and mindful souls
Additional info::
~ This is a workshop for reflection, writing and community sharing. All levels are welcome.
~ This online event is an offering from The Easeful Place. Joining the workshop will give you access to The Easeful Place community resources.
~ Bring along: your journal (we usually scribble down each other's wisdoms!), something to write with, and whatever puts you in a state of ease for this 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.
~ Closed captioning will be available for accessibility.
~ This is a virtual event set for roughly 1.5 hours.
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 Bacchanal. 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.
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I can't wait to share space and reflect on rest with you. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Sign up to The Easeful Place for more updates.