http://centertopage.com/wordpress Tips & News to Move You From Your Center To the Page Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:34:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Ah, resistance to change. I admit I like my routines and cringe at change, but I’m not the dig-your-heels-in-the-ground sort. I don’t invite the dramatic change, but even when my first wife said adios and even when lightning said hello! to my farmhouse rooftop, I cried and yelled and ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=27 The following words I delivered March 19, 2010 at the close of the 5th Annual Yoga As Muse for Authentic Writing & Creativity Retreat held at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM. Our focus for six days had been on writing into “layers of truth” – the layer ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=26   Is the muse out there? To be inspired or to inspire one’s self? Is the muse inside or outside? That question has gnawed at me since I coined the phrase “Yoga As Muse” years ago. And over the years the phrase has rubbed more than one writer with whom I’ve worked ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=22 Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature seeks high-quality fiction for its upcoming issues in 2010.  With a few exceptions, we print only work that has not been published previously. We look for writing that helps to express the complexities of spiritual experience.  "Spiritual experience" does not necessarily translate to "religious," ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=21 Two bits of good news: First, I am honored that Tiferet Journal accepted my short story "Nail on the Head" to come out this February. Second, I am especially honored that the publisher of Tiferet has invited me on board as fiction editor. Tiferet publishes four online issues and two beautiful and ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=20 In a 2006 issue of TIFERET, I came across an association with massage to writing that resonated. In an interview with writer Brenda Miller, Miller (also a massseuse) says that in massage a masseuse must be intuitive and listen intently to what is going on. Writing, she says, is similar: ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=17 It’s a precarious way of life, this writing from some place where “will” steps aside and something else altogether takes over. I don’t mean to imply that divine agency is afoot or that little daimons in my brain relay signals from my imagination to my hands, mere five-limbed workers that ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=14 Cindy Anne Duncan received a yogic bolt to her writing life following a Yoga As Muse retreat in 2008. Soon after, she received a regular writing gig and now has landed a publisher - Good Sound Publishing - for her Grace Anne children's book series. The first one ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=11 Journalist and Yoga As Muser Michael Belfiore's latest book The Department of Mad Scientists has just come out (Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins). It promises to offer engaging stories about a little-known department of Pentagon scientists who have invented the Internet, the bionic arm, and some impressive solar technology.  If ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=10 A client recently sent me this quotation from Junot Diaz: "Because, in truth, I didn't become a writer the first time I put pen to paper or when I finished my first book (easy) or my second one (hard). You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because ... http://centertopage.com/wordpress/?p=9