Breathe/Read/Write is a welcoming circle where people meditate, free-write, and share together. In the coming weeks, BRW is hosting these sessions:

[Notes - Times listed are for NYC/Eastern Standard Time. Info updated on June 29.]

* Thurs. June 30 from 10 am to 12 pm

* Tues. July 5 from 10 am to 12 pm ~ Interdependence Day!

* Friday, July 8, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm ~ a sunset special for East Coast & Australian BRWers (All welcome, no matter where you are!)

* Monday, July 11, from 10 am to 12 pm

* Thursday, July 14, from 10 am to 12 pm

* Sunday, July 17, from 4 pm to 6 pm ~ a return of BRW's Sunday Tea-Time Circle

Sign up for as many sessions as you like.

Contact Lisa at LisaBFreedman@gmail.com for a "frequent flyer" discount when you sign up for three or more.

BREATHE/ READ/WRITE

To sit with Lisa and quiet down, then write, is a great feeling....no one knows what will surface, and the sharing is such a relief from the noise of daily nothings. Highly recommended for poets and for all those who feel. Dr. Pamela Allen Brown, UConn Professor of English

WHAT IS BRW?

Breathe/Read/Write combines short periods of meditation with timed free-writes off a prompt. Lisa Freedman facilitates the breathing, the writing, the sharing, and the responding. According to Lisa, “It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and reactive these days. Every time we guide our wandering minds back to the breath, we offer ourselves a fresh start. Every time we meditate and then pick up our pens to write in response to a poem, we are in a realm of unlimited possibilities. Free-writing (just letting the pen move, non-stop) gives us a way to express the vastness of our unfettered minds.”

These sessions are open to everyone. Bring a notebook and pen or pencil. Bring your curiosity and be ready to listen with your whole body. No meditation or writing experience required.

Lisa brings together a lovely group of perceptive and mindful writers in her Breathe/Read/Write sessions. These experiences are exceptionally valuable for the person as well as the writer, in strong part because of the care, both formational and emotional, that Lisa shares in guiding us through her unique process. Cate Dolan

LISA’S BIO:

Lisa Freedman is a writer, creative writing teacher, and coach who celebrates complex stories that push beyond neat forms and get to deeper truths. She graduated from Georgetown University with a major in English Literature. She got her MFA in creative writing from the New School where she has been inventing and teaching her own courses for more than 15 years, including “Starts in Silence: A Meditation and Writing Workshop.” Lisa has taught meditation and writing workshops with the International Women’s Writing Guild, the Poetry Barn, and the New York Zen Center and more. In 2016, she created Breathe/Read/Write, a process rooted in the intimacy of shared silence and fed by the “wild mind” surprises that find their ways to participants’ blank pages.

Lisa’s poems and prose have appeared in Satya Magazine and the anthology Resist Much Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance among others.

For more information, contact Lisa at (917) 319-4100 or at LisaBFreedman@gmail.com. Or visit BRW in Facebook. See Lisa’s coaching page at LFWritingCoach.com.