Roots and Branches

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Roots + Branches

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  • Working with the elements to support your writing practice: Air

    Simple practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature Air is everywhere, and forever on the move, always shifting and changing. I see the element of air as a permission slip to rest and play and let attention wander. The wind has no specific agenda, though it moves in a direction. It doesn’t…

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  • Writing as breath work and movement

    Creating a sacred space for your words to exist within If you want to experience the power and pleasure of a consistent writing practice that fills you up and brings you joy, join me in Symbiosis: A 6-month program that will shape your creativity for the rest of your life. We orient ourselves towards expansion,…

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  • 21 days to a renewed creative practice

    If you’re ready for a big leap up, this is for you At one point last year, I was feeling really stalled out as a creative person: My projects were all going fine, and I had new ideas, but none of them were really getting me excited. I was going through the motions, like I…

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  • Working with the elements to support your writing practice: Fire

    Simple energizing, practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature and align you with your true creative self Fire is intimidating. Its suddenness, its unpredictability, its raw power. Growing up in wildfire country I’ve always had a healthy respect for this element, but today I also have come to see the wisdom in…

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  • Working with the elements to support your writing: Earth

    Simple practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature Our current systems of working, whether on our creative projects or whatever else, separate is from the natural world, divorcing us from our own natural rhythms and from our knowledge that we (like everything else in nature) move in cycles and are interconnected with…

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  • Hello friends! As some of you know, next month Symbiosis starts: it’s 9 months of creative expansion, grounding, energy work and intuition. It’s like a coaching program, MFA, artist’s residency, energy work space, science lab, and mystery school all rolled into one. Each month, we engage in expansion activities, grounding, practical nuts-and-bolts creative coaching, and…

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  • It’s wild out there. For those of you know who me personally or have followed my work closely for a while, you know it’s wild in my own world too: A time of transition for myself, alongside pretty much everyone else on the planet, alongside all our systems and structures we’re used to (for better…

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  • Digital collage, Julia Skinner, 2025 (scroll down for why I chose Mugwort) A decade or so ago, I used to write about things you learn in dreams. Inspired by Gary Burnett, one of my professors and dissertation committee members, who regularly wrote Facebook posts sharing the wild and wonderful lessons from his own dreamscape (and…

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