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Since 2000, we offer workshops & retreats that awaken the whole writer from vision to re-vision. Taos, New Mexico (March & July). The renowned Omega Institute in New York's Hudson Valley (September). The Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts at Kripalu Center (May). Our unique focus is to show writers - regardless of background - how Yoga informs their process and craft. No yoga experience required. We understand that a safe space, creative challenge, intelligent guidance, and an inspiring locale make for the ideal writer's or artist's retreat. Delicious food. Creativity-busting experiences. Conviviality.

We also offers writers - veteran and aspiring - full literary services, including mentoring, coaching, ghostwriting, book packaging, book proposal consultations, and more.

Our director, Jeffrey Davis - a national workshop leader, writer, editor, and yoga teacher - is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing (Penguin 2004; paperback 2005; One Spirit Book Club Choice) and City Reservoir (1998). His retreats and teachings have been featured in Poets & Writers, The Writer, and Yoga International magazines.

Founder of M15660 and WEN Barn & Gardens in upstate New York, Jeff leads workshops and retreats throughout the country. He serves as Contributing Editor for Wildlife Watch Binocular, and his essays, articles, short stories, and poems have appeared in publications around the country and in London including The Comstock Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Conscious Choice, and Wisdom Publication's You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction. He is faculty mentor in creative non-fiction at Western Connecticut State University and leads creative writing workshops at the Taos Summer Writers Conference, The Writers Lab in Skyros, Greece, and the Block Island Poetry project among other places.

Reviews and Comments
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 1  Claire Robin Yoga As Muse Retreat 2007-10-17
"The Yoga As Muse Retreat has changed the tone of my days. I'm much calmer and can focus better. My body feels so revived! I've realized that I ... view more must create the beauty and the space within that will allow me to 'retreat' whenever I desire. I have kept to my schedule, several mornings rising early for yoga and writing. The practice works so far. I'm excited that my poetry notebook is filling. A life-changing experience - both physically and spiritually! Now I actually understand the body-mind connection and how it relates to writing... Yoga combined with writing somehow has changed my essence."

 2  Diane Viscio Yoga As Muse Retreat 2007-10-17
"I have made time for the 3x a week for 45-minutes commitment of writing with my muse since I have returned from Taos, so I celebrate (I've been pleasantly surprised.)."

 3  Leigh Ann Simmons Yoga As Muse Retreat 2007-10-17
"My muse and I did well the first week after the retreat - I continued work on the cemetery chapter that I shared, and I am enjoying the unexpected twists ... view more and turns that have emerged.
What's been very fun for me is finding ways to weave Yoga As Muse into my academic life. While I always set an intention before teaching a yoga class, I've never done it before teaching my university classes. So the last couple of weeks I've gotten to class a few minutes early and spent a few minutes meditating and setting an intention for my teaching. I've also incorporated Yoga As Muse into my research writing. I keep a yoga mat in my office, and before working on a grant or paper draft, I've done a few minutes of yoga and focused on my intention for the project. I've found that I'm more productive in a shorter amount of time. What an unexpected gift!

Another shift I've experienced is that I'm literally looking up more. I'm often so in my head, that as I walk around campus I look down, watching my feet as I think about to do lists and research ideas. Students joke that I'll walk right by them, because I'm in another world. When I was in Taos, the sky was so expansive and beautiful that it constantly drew my gaze upward. I realized when I got home that Taos and Lexington share the same sky. So I've been looking up and around and taking in as much wonder as I can. Thanks for being such an inspiration."

 4  Grace Welker Yoga As Muse Retreat 2007-10-17
"Your heartfelt presence creates a magic that is quite extraordinary ~ I think it is the ease with which you do this that ultimately invites everyone into ... view more their authentic knowing and then expression." Grace Welker,
writer & editor, New York
participant at Hudson Valley Retreat '07

 5  Rose Havron Yoga As Muse Retreat 2007-10-17
"This is the first time that I really understood and appreciated what Yoga is all about. I gained the confidence that I can write, that I can tell a story that will engage an audience."