Speaking From Your Heart

Speaking From Your Heart

April 12-15
At the Ratna Ling Retreat Center

Laying the groundwork through different kinds of movement and meditation, gently guided by Jean-Claude, you’ll center yourself according to his unique disciplines,. Taking your time and staying in movement, you’ll address the circle of your encouraging fellow workshop participants. Slowly performing the powerful practice of speaking from your heart, your breath will be liberated from anxiety. You’ll easily enter remembered or imagined places, giving voice to what you see, hear, smell, touch and taste. An astonishingly muscular, personal language will spontaneously emerge from you. Words created in this way are visceral, rhythmical, and, if written down by a fellow participant, alive on the page too. Poets Homer and Rumi “wrote” by spontaneously speaking and singing.

Everyone is welcome in this workshop. Come if you write or perform, if you want to write or perform – or simply to deepen your ability to speak from the heart.
“I take Jean-Claude’s workshops because they’re fun.” – Kathy Benners
“I came to my first workshop with Jean-Claude to learn to be a better writer and speaker, and left discovering a hidden part of me…” John Adams
“Jean-Claude is the only playwriting teacher I ever had.” – Tony Kushner

Jean-Claude van Itallie was central to the explosive American theater of the 60′s. Author of “Playwright’s Workbook,” his over 30 works include acclaimed anti-Viet Nam war play “America Hurrah;” “The Serpent” (ensemble piece with Open Theater); “Tibetan Book of the Dead,” often-produced translations of Chekhov’s major plays; “Light; Voltaire, the Mathematician, and the King of Prussia;” and his one-man show, “War, Sex and Dreams.” He’s taught play writing and performing in colleges and retreat centers for many years. He’s currently co-writing the libretto for “Mila, Great Sorcerer,” an opera about Tibet’s singing yogi, Milarepa. (www.vanitallie.com)

Cost: $360 – Early-bird discount ($425 after February 29th)

Watch Jean-Claude van Itallie’s compelling video of what the workshop will inspire in you:

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