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The Spirit’s Language: The Healing Power of Sacred Poetry
with John Fox
"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born." -- Rainer Maria Rilke. Drawing on his long-time involvement in meditation and reading mystic poets, poetry therapist John Fox offers experiential exercises to help you engage with poetry as a healing and spiritual practice. This workshop is intended to rekindle your inner life and provide inspiration for putting spirit into action. Throughout the workshop John will draw on the poetry of Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Rumi, Denise Levertov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Merton, Jane Kenyon, William Stafford, Mary TallMountain, the Songs of Solomon, Zen poets, young children and the Psalms of David to help tune us to a sacred presence that can inspire our own writing.
About John Fox: John Fox, poet and certified poetry therapist, is an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He also teaches at John F. Kennedy University, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, throughout the United States and in Europe. He is the author of Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making. John is president-elect of NAPT.
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