Price: $549. Spots are limited.
Invitation
Join Amy Conn and Jeannette Snyder for a weekend of writing, creating, yoga-ing, and adventuring in Moab, Utah! Allow Utah's red-rock desert to inspire you as you step away from your daily life and into the expanse of the creative process.
We invite you to nestle in with us at a Spanish Valley Vineyard home where like-minded creatives for a weekend that balances focus and fun.
You’ll enjoy both facilitated and self-directed writing opportunities, yoga and movement, meditation, hot tub, camaraderie, and the unmatched beauty of Southern Utah.
Whether you are writing your sci-fi opus, memoir, a short story, lyrics, poetry, or if you simply know you have something to write/say and you crave space to get it unstuck, you’re invited. We also extend an invitation to dedicated painters, illustrators, photographers, knitters and crochet mavens, or even magicians (who can keep quiet and self-contained at the appropriate times) to join us in this space. While our focus is on writing—and we absolutely will invite you to do some of that!—you get to decide how you’d like to focus.
Your Instructors
Jeannette Snyder
Jeannette is an editor and writing coach, facilitator, writer, and mischief maker. She works collaboratively with authors to help them take their work to the next level. She also teaches Toward Erotica, a live writing circle that invites you to share your intimate truths. In her former career as a Learning Experience Designer and Technical Writer, Jeannette infused dry-as-toast training with as much humanity, humor, and joy as they let her get away with!
Jeannette is currently writing about Bigfoot, her cat, and what it’s like to be a stepmom—different projects, she assures you. She is a poet-at-heart whose soul was cracked wide open by the full moon on the Kaibab plateau in 2008, and she’s (thankfully) never recovered.
Amy Conn
Founder of Yoga for Wellness, Amy Conn, author of Revealing Grace: A Story About A Cancer Adventure And A Community, is a veteran yoga teacher who loves to work with people of all ages; Yoga for Wellness is her specialty. In 2006, after a year of completing her own regiment of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Amy began the program A Quality Life Community (QLC): Yoga for Survivors, Caregivers, Loved Ones; a free class for people who desired a healing program that would extend beyond the doctor’s appointments. Currently, Amy conducts Yoga for Wellness Retreats, Workshops and is currently teaching a weekly in-person Power Hour class with Mosaic Yoga, on Wednesday Mornings at 6:00 a.m. (1991 South 1100 East in Sugarhouse Ally, Next Door to Best Friends and Sugarhouse Coffee in SLC, Utah). Amy has been a school teacher for 34 years and currently teaches at the Salt Lake Arts Academy as a Reading Specialist, Yoga Instructor and Physical Education teacher.
What To Expect:
Great Food
Setting intentions
Story circle
Writing
Creating
Reflecting
Pranayama
Gentle and rigorous yoga
Wilderness
Quiet/Down Time
Hot-tubbing
1:1 consultations about writing
Facilitated Group Work
Chatting
Details
When: February 24–27th 2022.
Where: Spanish Valley Vineyard and Winery, Moab, Utah. 4h:15 min (244 miles) from SLC.
You will arrive and get settled on Thursday, February 24th and will leave Sunday, February 27th.
Tuition includes:
Writing invitations and writing coaching from Jeannette
All-levels yoga with Amy
Meals
Lodging
Organized and unorganized Walk to Write adventures!
Other activities may include:
Get familiar with downtown Moab
Self-guided petroglyph viewing
Wine-tasting
You are responsible for travel, but we will help coordinate carpooling from SLC where possible.
INTENTION
Our intention for this retreat is to offer you movement, both literally and figuratively—movement of the body, movement of the mind, movement of the soul. We intend to help you find flow and inspiration as you disconnect from the responsibilities and distractions that keep your project on the back burner. We intend for you to connect with your body, your creative center, and the other writers to come out of the weekend refreshed and available to your creative life.
Register Today. Spots are limited!
Normal Price: $549. Spots are limited.
Please fill out the form below and send your full tuition using one of the QR codes. Please note that $100 of your tuition is non-refundable. You will receive a welcome email shortly. Check your spam or promotions folders if you don’t see it right away.
COVID CONSIDERATIONS
Please know that we are committed to ensuring that all participants and organizers remain safe in all ways, especially as it relates to COVID-19. You must show a negative COVID-19 test taken 72 hours prior to the retreat to attend. If you test positive or COVID-19 or display symptoms you will not be allowed to attend the retreat. You must also agree to forfeit your deposit ($100) if you cannot come to the retreat because of COVID-19. If you cannot come due to COVID-19, we may be able to credit your deposit for another retreat or sell your spot of there’s a waitlist but neither of those options are guaranteed. If by February 16th if it seems most prudent to postpone the retreat because of general COVID concerns, we will and will let you know of future dates.
