The Writing Room

Dear Peeps,

At 4-5pm today (Sunday) on Youtube there is going to be a livestream by Adriene and I'm sharing the link with you in case you wanted to tune in and join me, Chris and Ted - we will be watching it from home - in fact we have got the projector set up so we can now watch things on a big screen i.e. the wall!

For those who don't know about 'Yoga with Adriene', Adriene is an amazing yoga instructor who has been posting regular yoga home practice videos for years - I have been using them for nearly 8 years now and her approach is really special - very down to earth, very positive and compassionate, always encouraging - it's not about doing yoga (doing it right, getting into a pretzel shapel, doing it better than anyone else...) it's about having an experience, coming back to yourself and feeling good.

'Join me for this blend of story, inquiry, love, laughter, mindful breath work, connection, and poetry. I’ll also be giving some suggestions for what yoga to focus on when the YWA/FWFG library or plethora of online options seem overwhelming.'

I think all we need to do is follow this link at 4pm and we will be able to see the livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

Me, Chris and Ted will all be watching it. If you can't make it at that time but would like to see it then I'm certain it will be viewable later as a recording. The impression I get is that we won't be doing 'yoga on the mat' but there will be some breathing exercises - which I strongly recommend.

I've also just seen that she's uploaded a new playlist called 'Yoga for Uncertain Times,' which looks great - this is a collection of yoga practices that are particularly relevant right now.

However, if you're new to yoga, you'll find that if you explore the Yoga With Adriene channel, there are playlists of 10 min vids, 20 mins etc.... a little goes a long way!

Do share this info with anyone you think might benefit from it.

Lots of love to you all,

Mollie # # #

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Thanks to Wendy Haslam for sharing this:

An opportunity for writers: Any writers interested in reading their work
to a small cafe audience in Lancaster, contact the Brew coffee shop
[email protected] to give them your email and they will let you
know when reading evenings are arranged. Or pop into the cafe in Brock
Street, Lancaster to let them know.

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Since FB likes photos, here is one of my Mum at Brew Coffee shop last week faced for the first time with a set of 3 sand timers to gauge tea strength. She's so woke.

Two weeks before the deadline on Feb 6th!

http://northernwritersawards.com/enter/

Enter - Northern Writers Awards

A. D. Whitfield at Pier Writers this morning with his new novel 'The Charismatics'. Congratulations, Andy!

'It is 1830. The church is in disarray. Ordinary people, still recovering from the privations of the Napoleonic wars, are desperately seeking a renewed spirituality.
A phenomenon of 'speaking-in-tongues' is sweeping Britain and Emily Cardale, a young girl on the verge of her first love affair, finds herself caught up in it. When she is hailed as a prophetess and her brother as the first New Apostle, her sudden celebrity in the sect threatens to undermine the family unity and Emily finds herself having to choose between her young musician and her service to God.'

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charismatics-Andy-Whitfield-ebook/dp/B0842XXZGF/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Charismatics&qid=1579860455&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Merry Christmas! Xx

Today's Pier Writers was the last Writing Room session of 2019 (sniff!)
So we wrote seasonal fey tales and made each other Christmas cards with extracts of our writing on them... and ate mincepies... a and cheese and crackers... and the Pavli pitta party special.

Session programme for 2020 will be coming out over the next few days... online and face-to-face courses and groups aplenty!