Event: 2-Day Retreat: Fire in the Heart:
Writing and Living the Poetry of Your Life.
NB: As a result of Jay Ramsay's passing, then this event will not now take place.
Facilitator: Jay Ramsay.
Venue: Studio, Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AB.
Dates: Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 September 2019.
Time: Registration: 9.30am-10am. Retreat: 10am-5pm.
Event Description: In this challenging and destabilizing time of change, we need to open up more and more to our own guidance, our own wisdom and our own authority. We can find this in what we create, out of the most authentic and even radical part of who we are, that we can also see as the poet in us.
Here is a space for you to open up to your own inner riches through poetry and creative writing, alongside your own personal development. Using a series of tried and tested exercises designed to spark and unravel; your own expression, you will be working through imagination and feeling, on your own, with each other, and in the natural environment. Thee will also be time for one to one work and feedback/tuition within the group sessions. Come home feeling recharged and more able to find the way on your journey through life.
‘You made me feel very valued and listened to…you are very authentic and enabling of other’s human flourishing.’
- Prof. Angie Titchen.
Jay Ramsay has pioneered the use of poetry with personal development for over 20 years. Also a UKCP accredited psychotherapist, he has contributed poetry and book reviews to Resurgence for many years. Poetry editor of Caduceus magazine, his most recent books include The Poet in You (O Books, 2009), Crucible of Love (O Books, 2012), Monuments (Waterloo Press, 2014) The Most Venerable Book—Shang Shu, with Martin Palmer (Penguin Classics, 2014), and Dreams Down Under—celebrating Australia (2016). He has worked on some key Chinese classics with Martin, including the Tao Te Ching, I Ching and Kuan Yin (HarperCollins, 1995). He has also, with Andrew Harvey, edited an anthology of spiritually conscious poetry, Diamond Cutters, with poets on both sides of the Atlantic, from Tayen Lane (San Francisco) in 2016; and his most recent work in progress is a new lyrical version of The Bible.
'Jay Ramsay is one of our most eloquent and passionate visionary poets, someone who knows that the highest role of poetry in a catastrophic time is to keep the flames of spirit burning steadily.'
- Andrew Harvey.
What you will gain from this course:
• access to your own creative imagination, intuition, wisdom
• learning how to read your own images and dreams
• encouragement in writing as a soulful and spiritual practice
• deeper awareness of your own edges and where your potential is held
• what matters to you in relationship to the world
• a renewed sense of your own individuality
• fellowship and connection with like minds, ongoingly
• one to one therapeutic guidance, also using the I Ching
NB: As a result of Jay Ramsay's passing, then this event will not now take place.
NB: There will be no refund if you cancel your booking.
Cost: £100/£80 (Concessions). For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 0131 331 4469.