The Root of This Longing: Listening to the Call Within
An Interactive Year-End Workshop
Saturday Dec 28th 2024
7:30-9PM CET, 10:30AM-12PM PST [remember to convert to your time zone if necessary]
In the threshold space between this year and the next, we invite you to join an intimate virtual workshop exploring life's deepest aspirations through poetry and movement.
Celebrated Rumi translator and musician Haleh Liza Gafori will surface poems that speak to human yearning and possibility, offering these verses as springboards for reflection and writing.
Yoga & movement teacher Fiona Hayhoe-Weiland will guide a short practice that anchors these explorations in the body's wisdom.
Together we'll create a unique space in which to examine our core longings — those persistent pulls of the heart that can reshape our choices and life direction. This workshop offers a rare pause at year's end: a chance to listen deeply to what calls us forward, to articulate it for ourselves, and explore how our individual longings might light the path ahead.
There is no charge for this workshop. It's offered in the spirit of a gift.
If you'd like to join us simply RSVP here, and you will receive a login link and further details. We look forward to the possibility of having you with us!
Haleh Liza Gafori is a New York City-born translator, performance artist, writer, and educator of Persian descent. A 2024 MacDowell fellow, she has translated the poetry of the Persian mystic and sage Rumi. Her book of translations entitled Gold: Poems by Rumi, was published by New York Review Books in 2022. Her second volume of translations, Water: Poems by Rumi, will be released in April 2025, also by NYRB Classics. Gafori has created a musical and cross-media performance based on the book and has presented her work, via performances and lectures and workshops, at institutions such as Lincoln Center, Stanford University, the Academy of American Poets, and Sarah Lawrence College. Her book of translations Gold has been incorporated in the curricula of universities across the United States.
Fiona Hayhoe-Weiland offers yoga practices for self-empowerment - supporting her students to return back to their aware self through movement and stillness. She aims to offer a space where students can take responsibility for their unfolding life journey, and live fully with joy. Part of her work is supporting women with breast cancer through nourishing yoga practices. She is based in Bonn, Germany.
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