A ritual space for reading and writing, sharing words, lived experience, and the alchemy of expression.
Living Language
Writing from the body, sharing food for the soul, learning new sounds, each offering here invites a renewed relationship with words and communication. This is about slow reading, holistic writing, remembering and imagining in community. Some offerings are gifted freely, others ask for a contribution to honor the time and care it takes to host. All are invitations to explore the spaces between language and life.
Gatherings
Coffee and Creative Vibes
at Merci Café in Sarasota
1-2:30PM
Saturday, August 16
6112 S. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL
A playful poetry gathering to inspire your creative voice! Author and yoga teacher Sandi Higgins will read from her newly released bilingual poetry collection Unholy, Holy, Whole, then guide an embodied writing session open to all experience levels. Bring your pen and paper!
Offerings
Embodied writing Circle
Dance on the page. Write from your body. These circles connect body-mind-breath before writing to support your holistic self-expression.
Guided embodiment exercises and creative writing prompts in English
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Book Club REad Aloud
Monthly book club and read aloud gatherings to engage discussion and share reflections. Slow down with stories, explore context and authorship. One title per month.
Open to all genres: Mythology, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Ecology
Facilitated in English
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intro to French
A poetic portal into the French language where you learn to engage in basic conversation with confident pronunciation while also starting to write playful bilingual poems. Just for beginners.
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“Tending now
to the soil of my soul
in the dirt is my body
in the dirt is my mind
and I am seeking in the toil
the very work that I find”
— Sandi Higgins, Unholy, Holy, Whole