Body Soul Writing Workshops
and Retreats for Women
"Twelve Women with Birds" courtesy of Emily Balivet
Thiasos
A congregation of women attentive
to the mystery in things.
~Nor Hall
Marlene offers a wide variety of writing circles, Jungian workshops and study groups, Body Soul Writing intensives and retreats, and a series of ongoing monthly programs - in person and via Zoom. Though each program has a unique focus, they all invite participants to step back from the busyness of daily life and slow down to the speed of the soul.
Every gathering of women is a temenos, a sacred space in which we step into the boundless realm of imagination and creative exploration. Together we are a thiasos, a congregation of women attentive to the mystery in things. In the safety of the circle we enter our own lives more authentically and courageously, and listen to each other with open hearts and deep receptivity. We write and share, speak and listen, meditate and move, dance and draw, laugh and weep, as we explore our stories with wild and audacious abandon. We welcome our stories, essays, journal entries, and poems onto the page as mirrors of our soul’s journey.
Comments of previous participants are scattered throughout the website and offer glimpses of these workshops. Please browse through the current offerings, and reach out if something catches your interest. I would love to hear from you.
Upcoming Workshops
Writing the Body, Dancing the Soul
November 10th - 15th, 2024
→ Download the registration form
Wild Women Writing Circle, online
February 7th - May 1st, 2024 (no class on March 27th)
Finding the Red Thread: Creativity, Passion, and the Dance of the Feminine
May 21st - 28th, 2024
“Writing is a gesture of love.”
“Let your body become the music.
Let her sing. Let your pen walk in the twilight between consciousness and unconscious.
There, it will find such images, such ideas as you could never find.”
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The archetype of the Wild Woman is patroness to all writers, painters, sculptors, dancers, thinkers, prayer-makers, seekers, finders – for they are all busy with the work of invention, and that is the Wild Woman’s main occupation. The Wild Woman is the female soul, the source of the feminine. ”