What can the creative practices of writing and meditation teach us about intimacy? And how are they connected? How do we gain intimacy with ourselves and others, with all our experiences and emotions, with our impulses and needs, our innate desire for connection?

Breath, Heart, Story is a skill-development program: we brainstorm and practice together with a set of skills and tools for creative writing and meditation, both of which can easily apply into our everyday life - to feel and respond to life from a place of intimacy with ourself and others.

We will weave together these practices of creative expression: meditation, journaling, and creative writing - as vehicles to explore all emotions and experiences as honorable and to hold them with curiosity, compassion, and a sense of humor.

Each workshop is designed around an aspect of intimacy - generosity, resilience, love, gratitude, vulnerability, compassion, humor, the senses, the…