Emerging from our Inner Mitzrayim: A Journey toward Creative Freedom
Thu Apr 21, 2022 12:00 PM - Thu May 12, 2022 1:30 PM EDT
Online, Zoom
Description
Thursdays, April 21, 28, May 5, 12 @ 12–1:30 p.m. EDT
$144 for 4 sessions
What would it look like for you to fully step into your creative freedom? Do you long to express yourself artistically, but something holds you back? Do you find yourself struggling to make your creative expression a priority? Do your inner critic and perfectionism block you from writing as deeply as you’d like? Or writing at all? As the Jews who were enslaved in Egypt did not know what freedom was until they had tasted it, we too do not always know what is keeping us from our most authentic expression. In this four-session workshop, we will use embodied practices, including breathing, sound meditation, and movement to quiet the inner critic, calm the nervous system, and open the creative channel. From that place we will explore generative prompts designed to free your creative expression. You will leave this workshop more deeply connected to your authentic creative voice and ready to put it to use. Creativity is not a luxury. It is your birthright.
All sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and sacred creative. She facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support individuals and groups in accessing their authentic voice and alchemizing raw experience and emotion into artistic expression. Elana is the author of Mother Country (BOA Editions in 2020), poems about fertility, motherhood, and mental illness. Elana’s debut collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones (LSU Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and brings her complex heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Elana has taught literature and creative writing at CUNY College of Staten Island and Brandeis University, and currently teaches poetry to the first-year drama students at the Juilliard School.
About Ritualwell
Ritualwell is the most extensive online resource that curates original Jewish rituals for Jews and fellow seekers. We publish rituals, ceremonies, prayers and poems to mark sacred moments in Jewish life. Through creating and sharing rituals, hosting Ritualwell Immersions (online learning experiences), curating an online Judaica shop and hosting Rabbi Connect, Ritualwell fosters a supportive environment for Jewish creativity, spiritual growth and discovery. Learn more at www.ritualwell.org.
Ritualwell is committed to offering an accessible space to our community members. We commit to:
- Providing participants with all the session materials ahead of time
- Providing automated captions on all live sessions
- Providing subtitles for all recorded sessions
- Using the chat function and read it aloud during the sessions
- Asking for participant accessibility needs and doing our best to accommodate them. Please feel welcome to contact us at ritualwell@reconstructingjudaism.org.