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Begin Again :: A Webgasm w/ Lidia Yuknavitch & Jen Pastiloff
March 6, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
$150WHAT: A two and a half-hour online webgasm.
WITH: Jen Pastiloff and Lidia Yuknavitch
WHEN: Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 11am to 1:30PM PST
WHERE: ZOOM (But of course.) Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time.
HOW MUCH: $150. Payment plans are always available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com
SCHOLARSHIPS: Click here to apply.
How many times do you find yourself returning to a stuck place or the end of something, only to find that you
must begin again? All endings contain beginnings, all beginnings mark the end of something–a feeling, a state
of being, a process, a choice, a piece of art, a relationship, a self moving from stasis through change to a new
form. Just as we are coming through cultural endings and thus beginnings, we are facing personal ones as well.
In this generative collaboration Jen and Lidia will map out and guide participants on how to BEGIN AGAIN both
in terms of the page and writing, and as humans moving through change. The living creative practice of writing
can reflect back to us our endless possibilities even in times of STUCK or WHAT THE FUCK. Come step through
six real-time writing portals with us. Come step into your next becoming.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the short story collection Verge (Riverhead Books), the novels The Book of Joan (Harper Books), The Small Backs of Children (Harper Books), and Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books). Her TED Talk “On the Beauty of Being a Misfit” has received over 3 million views, and spawned The Misfit Manifesto (TED Books/Simon and Schuster). She lives and collaborates in Portland, Oregon at Corporeal Writing. She is a very good swimmer.
Jen Pastiloff travels the world with her unique workshop “On Being Human” a hybrid of yoga related movement, writing, sharing out loud, letting the snot fly, and the occasional dance party. Jen has been featured on Good Morning America, New York Magazine, Health Magazine, CBS News and more for her unique style of teaching, which she has taught to thousands of women in sold-out workshops all over the world. When she is not traveling she is based in Los Angeles with her husband and son and a cup of coffee. Please help us celebrate the JUNE 2020 paperback release of her memoir On Being Human, which will be available to the first 100 registrants.