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Moving Alchemy Improvisation Workshop

Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA

January 4-9, 2025 / 1:30-4PM
January 10, 2025 / 1-4PM

From the ground up, bringing you deeply inside, we will explore segments of the physical structure and converse with the energetic structure. There will be a lot of breathing, hands on, time for questions and sharing. We will also do grounding work, protection and releasing modalities. This workshop is structured with Chi Cultivation as a beginning, moving into improvisational research, to partnering, integration and sharing.

Price:
Early Bird! Full Workshop $200 (pay by December 15)
Full Workshop $250 (after December 15)
Drop ins $40-60 sliding scale
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To register, email saramannworkshop@gmail.com

The golden thread is a single strong line that holds everything together and helps both reader and writer find meaning.

Whether it be in Ariadne’s meandering thread to escape the Labyrinth, literally weaving a golden thread into a piece fabric, writing copy that conveys a central message, crafting a central theme or narrative plotline that runs through a story, creating a guiding principle that runs through a legal process, or creating a core value, or a metric that leads to or measures success, the golden thread is what gets us there.

This workshop applies the concept of “the golden thread” to writing, especially poetry.

In this interactive poetry reading, poet, storyteller and teacher, Alexandra Kostoulas, reads poetry written during different aspects of her own life and shows the golden thread in her own work, and invites the audience/participants to find their own golden thread that weaves throughout their life and through looking at key pivot points in their own lives and see how they wove their way in and out, and through them.

Artist’s Bio:

Alexandra Kostoulas is the Founder and Executive Director of the SF Creative Writing Institute.

She is a poet, short story writer, novelist, nonfiction writer and sometimes ghostwriter. Her writing has won awards, and her poetry has been studied by students at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the current writer in residence, 2025-26 Hellenic Research Fellow at CSU Sacramento for her fiction. She has coached many writers to publication and performance of their work. (You can work with her too!) Learn more about her or join her mailing list here: https://linktr.ee/sfcwialexandra