An experiential workshop where somatic tools
meet writing practice for all storytellers.
In this workshop you’ll:
• Learn simple somatic self-regulation tools that release tension, open creativity & build flow.
• Explore the body as your primary creative tool.
• Get structure, prompts, and creative feedback to feel safe and supported in how you tell your story.
• Experience the magic of radically inspired storytelling.
The nervous system is
the gatekeeper of voice.
Our bodies carry our stories—in tension, in breath, in hesitation—before words ever reach the page.
When your relationship with your body leads, writing becomes more expressive, more integrated, more impactful.
18 January 2026
10 am - 4 pm
details
Hosted at Magic Hour Tea
217 E Matilija St, Ojai, CA 93023
Registration $77 includes tea & light snacks
hosted by
Kristen McGuiness
Kristen McGuiness is a bestselling author, seasoned editor, and the CEO/Publisher of Rise Literary based in Ojai, California. With 25+ years in publishing, she’s helped writers shape and sell their work, earn major advances, and craft stories that land with power and impact.
vyana novus
is an ecological artist and educator based in Ojai, California, exploring how creativity sustains and heals us. Blending earth pigments, somatic practice, and multimedia storytelling shaped by deep time, their work supports intergenerational healing and legacy-making.
Their work & facilitation is heavily inspired by their near death experience bringing a blend of levity & reverence, humor & awe to their workshops & retreats.