RUIN AND RESURRECTION

The redwoods surrounding the remains of Jack London’s devastated Wolf House have grown back as Fairy Rings; circles of young trees sprout from the roots of burn-hollowed stumps. Ruin and Resurrection is designed to help us discover, through experiential writing, that we each possess the resilience to re-emerge from our own personal ruin in magical ways.

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READING AND WRITING

An opportunity to write with the third eye open.

I’ll guide you through two timed, experiential writing prompts evoked by personal divination. Afterwards, we’ll meet at Rumi Cafe for refreshments and (optional) sharing with positive feedback.

3-hour guided writing experience, individual private psychic reading with a professional Psychic Eye psychic (and notebook and pen!)

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Karen Kasaba
HAPPIER HOUR

Witness the transformative power of letting go. Then, together, let's reflect on our own relationships, and the gifts hidden within loss. Or, keep it strictly fictional and mine current exhibits for character studies. Either way, here is an opportunity to reflect on our own emotional history to embrace a new perspective.

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GETTING AND HAVING AT THE GETTY

Acquisition happens. All life-long, we continually acquire experience and history. How do we choose what to keep? And what we can use?

Through writing, we can make good use of everything. We have the power to transform emotion and recollection into shared experience, infused with our unique point of view.

Simply transforming the blank page with written words is a kind of magical alchemy. I'll guide you toward freeing up your process, and where to take it from there.

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CALM

Yoga Nidra is a Tantric deep relaxation meditation, designed to systematically release stored physical, emotional and mental tensions. This powerful practice can help to relieve anxiety, insomnia, chronic fatigue and PTSD.

Through writing, we'll discover our individual 'before' and 'after,' and uncover ways to modulate our state of being in order to intentionally return to a state of calm and free our writing process.

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PASSAGES

We will board a train called Freedom, departing daily on an 18.5" gauge railway, and embark on a mile-long emotional journey. We'll end up back at the station, but in ways we may not anticipate, we won't be the same.

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FEAR AND ILLUMINATION

I’ll guide you through 1-2 timed, experiential writing prompts evoked by Michael Heizer’s “Levitated Mass” and Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” at LACMA.

Afterwards, we’ll meet at COFFEE + MILK for refreshments and (optional) sharing with positive feedback.

This tour is designed to ignite your imagination and inspire significant inner shifts in how you view yourself and your writing now. You’ll leave with pages filled and new ideas taking shape.

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WRITE INSPIRED BY ART

This fun, art-filled experience, offered in partnership with Airbnb, enlightens and engages anyone who writes or wants to write, from beginners to professionals, in any format - prose, poetry, screenwriting. We’ll discuss elements of process and craft, such as:

- How to become fluent in your authentic storytelling voice

- How to improve your writing practice

- How to distract the ‘critical voice’ in your head so you can keep writing

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Karen Kasaba