Welcome to Breathe/Read/Write
connect with yourself / connect with others / let your voice grow strong
BRW is a welcoming circle where people meditate, free-write, and share together.
BRW combines short periods of meditation with timed free-writes off a prompt. Lisa Freedman facilitates the breathing, the writing, the sharing, and the responding.
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.
P. Brown
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.
The BRW circles are open to everyone. Just bring your curiosity.
No meditation or writing experience required. And the free-writing is free, as in wide open, no need to be correct or logical. We just let the pen move non-stop. This gives us ways to express the vastness of our unfettered minds.
After each round of meditating and free-writing, everyone has the option to read what they’ve written. We listen deeply to one another and briefly reflect back (without evaluation or criticism) what stands out. This is where the BRW magic happens. As June F. says, strangers become family.
Most BRWs happen in Zoom. Most last two hours and include three cycles of meditating, free-writing, sharing, and responding. BRW is also excited to host a gathering in the garden on Friday, May 3 from 4:30 – 7pm EDT to welcome the month of May. Get tickets here, and I hope to see you in Anne’s Garden.
And here are our UPCOMING BRW CIRCLES.