Jumpstart – or refresh! – your writing practice in 2025 with the FREE Five Day New Year Meditation & Writing Challenge!
Reignite your creative spark in 2025 with the FREE Five Day New Year Meditation & Writing Challenge! Sign up today to start tomorrow. 🙂
In my 20+ years as an award-winning creative writer, teacher and coach, I’ve seen three main challenges in people’s writing lives. Maybe you’ll relate:
1) Time: You have a busy schedule that doesn’t allow you to write as much as you want.
2) Feeling Blocked: You’re not able to come into your creative flow.
3) The Inner Critic: Your inner critic comes up in uncomfortable ways: How do you know what to trust about your own writing–when it’s working, and when it’s not?
I’ve seen these challenges in thousands of students and also in my own life.
Though I was a published writer and professor of creative writing, for many years, I had a challenging relationship with my own writing, which often made me anxious and tense. It brought up those parts of myself that I didn’t want to look at.
Though I’d meditated for years, it was only when I consciously brought my meditation together with my writing that I came into a new level of flow. I had a completely different relationship to the things that were blocking me–I was able to have more distance and curiosity, and I saw they actually fueled my work. I had more insight and pleasure in my writing. And my writing got more powerful, too.
I started to share this practice with my students, and they started writing work that was much more alive on the page and gripping.
So I created a completely free five day program that will guide you in a process to bring together mind and body, silence and voice, and come into your full creative power.
Each day, for five days, you’ll receive a 15-minute recording with a short guided meditation, an inspiring poem (by Lucille Clifton, Mary Oliver, Rumi, etc.), a writing prompt, and supported writing time. Hit “Play” on your own schedule and enjoy the magic of this practice!
Come with a project you’re already working on or create 5 new pieces of writing in 5 days. This is for writers of any level, across genres.
You’ll be amazed at how much writing you can do in a short time under the right conditions.
Join 30,000+ other writers who have used this unique method to come into an aligned writing practice, reclaim their voice, and fall (back) in love with the creative process.
What exactly is an aligned writing practice?
In order to have an aligned writing practice, we need three things:
1) CLARITY—in mind and body; if we don’t clear the body and mind first, we won’t be able to write well.
2) LISTENING to inspiring writing and allowing the language to sink into our ears and body.
3) WRITING—if we don’t write, we won’t write well. We all know from experience the best way to learn something is to do it ourselves.
The result of putting all three of these ingredients together is a path to better, more easeful, more inspired writing.
In other words, maybe we don’t need more time to write – but, rather, a more effective way to write…
It’s completely free, so try it for yourself. Join me in the FREE New Year Meditation and Writing Challenge.
We’ll be writing from the senses as we go on a journey of discovery.
And then join our private online community space here for support, accountability, inspiration, and more!
See what happens with this simple but transformative practice. Sign up today to start tomorrow!
Led by Nadia Colburn, PhD, RYT 200
Nadia Colburn is the author of two books of poetry, The High Shelf, and I Say the Sky, winner of the 2024 American Bookfest Book Awards for Best Poetry Book: General and Best Poetry Book: Nature. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been widely published in more than eighty national publications including The New Yorker, The Sun, Lion’s Roar, and The Boston Globe Magazine.
Nadia holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and a B.A. from Harvard. She’s a certified yoga teacher and serious student of Thich Nhat Hanh. She’s been a professor at MIT, Lesley, is currently the writer-in-residence at Northeastern’s Center For Spirituality, Dialogue and Service.
