Online Writing Classes and Coaching Nadia Colburn, Boston

I first heard the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness several years after I started working with my therapist. By then, I was able to acknowledge the pain and confusion I had felt as a child but had not been able to name. I had developed tools to listen to and care for myself. But I wanted a different level of healing.

I began to study with a Tibetan Lama. The first night I went to his teaching group, he lectured on the Diamond Sutra. He spoke for an hour about the Buddha’s insight that the glass of tea was empty—not just of liquid, but of form, of self.

By looking deeply at his own experience, Buddha was able to have insights that modern-day physicists would have millennia later: that this world of solid things is an illusion of our own perception. We now know that matter is full of almost infinite, empty space between moving electrons. Everything is always moving, impermanent, changing.

To see things as empty is not the same as to see the glass as half empty. When we see the glass as half empty—or half full—we still live in a world where there is a solid glass. But Buddha taught that all things are empty. He takes the solid ground out from beneath all things, and all of us.

Emptiness in Buddhism is sometimes seen as depressive, but I find it quite the opposite. Seeing the emptiness in all things paradoxically allows me to experience fullness. The question is not is the glass half full or half empty? Rather, can you see the glass as both empty and full at the same time? Can you see past duality?

I know life is busy, but spending time with poetry can help center and re-energize you for everything else you need to do.

Have you ever been in a yoga class and felt something rise to the surface? What do you do with that emotional information? How do you give it space, process it safely, and allow it to move through you? 💫

This Kundalini Yoga & Writing Workshop — open to all levels — is a powerful evening of movement, breathwork, meditation, chanting, sound healing, and writing practices designed to help you access, process, and express what’s stored in your body and cells. 🌙💛

Together, we’ll move through the chakras, building core strength and opening the heart, before turning our attention to the throat chakra — the seat of creative expression — to unlock your voice and awaken your creative potential. 🔵🔥

Throughout the class, you’ll be invited to write from a place of deep embodied awareness. Whether you’ve never journaled before or have written many pages, this workshop offers a safe and inspiring space to connect more deeply to yourself and your inner truth. 📖💗

Come ready to move, sweat, meditate, feel, and express — and leave with new tools to communicate more courageously with yourself, your loved ones, and the world. 🌿🕊️

Please bring:
📝 A notebook
✍️ A pen
💖 An open heart

Led by:
Hari Dass Angelova, MA, MEd, RYT 200

Nadia Colburn, PhD, RYT 200

Join me and the wonderful yoga teacher Hari Dass Angelova this coming
Friday, May 15th from 7-9 pm in Somerville for a yoga and writing
workshop.

Have you ever been in a yoga class and felt something rise to the
surface? What do you do with that emotional information? How do you
give it space, process it safely, and allow it to move through you? 💫

This Kundalini Yoga & Writing Workshop — open to all levels — is a
powerful evening of movement, breathwork, meditation, chanting, sound
healing, and writing practices designed to help you access, process,
and express what’s stored in your body and cells. 🌙💛

Together, we’ll move through the chakras, building core strength and
opening the heart, before turning our attention to the throat chakra —
the seat of creative expression — to unlock your voice and awaken your
creative potential. 🔵🔥

Throughout the class, you’ll be invited to write from a place of deep
embodied awareness. Whether you’ve never journaled before or have
written many pages, this workshop offers a safe and inspiring space to
connect more deeply to yourself and your inner truth. 📖💗

Come ready to move, sweat, meditate, feel, and express — and leave
with new tools to communicate more courageously with yourself, your
loved ones, and the world. 🌿🕊️

Please bring:
📝 A notebook
✍️ A pen
💖 An open heart

Led by:
Hari Dass Angelova, MA, MEd, RYT 200
Nadia Colburn, PhD, RYT 200

Hope to see you there!

Reborn by Forough Farrakhzad, one of the most beloved 20th century Iranian poets, is a powerful poem of reawakening, of both looking forward and looking back, of loneliness and love, of desire and the creative force.

👉 You can read the full collection of morning poems on my blog

Many poets write out of those measureless oceans of space where they were confused, without direction, feeling alone–who hasn’t felt that way at times?

We write towards something we can hold onto, as a way to find shape, meaning, connection.

In my Poetry of Attention masterclass, we look closely at work by Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, and Lucille Clifton, all poets who bridge divides and ask us to translate from silence into language and connection.

You can watch my free Poetry Masterclass here:
https://nadiacolburn.com/free-poetry-masterclass-fb/

Often, people make a distinction between writing as art and writing to heal. But I don’t believe in that distinction.

We write to make connections, beauty, order, meaning–and those things are ACTIVELY good for us.

James Pennebaker has shown that writing can decrease symptoms of chronic illness by 50%. That is powerful medicine.

Poetry helps us slow down, balance, recenter, and find new energy and excitement.

Watch my free Poetry Masterclass, you can sign up at the link in my bio.

Get a pen and paper and hit play.

Our humanity is collective, but it's also individual.

We care about the collective because each individual is precious;
writing reminds us of the individual.

I’m honored to be part of the Writer Igniter FLOW Summit with so many wonderful writers and with the wonderful Gabriela Pereira!

I’ll be talking about how writers can find focus through meditation and mindfulness.

Gabriela asked some really wonderful questions, and we went deep :)

Join us!

You can register for free here:

https://flow-summit.heysummit.com/?sc=YThHIEmA&ac=l56UvJ4h