Dear Reader,

Happy year of the DRAGON!!!

The beginning of the new lunar year marks the year of the dragon. Dragons represent power, vitality, wisdom, and good luck. Some of my favourite stories I read to my children were about amazing dragon characters and adventures. If you like dragon stories, let me know and I will send you a few titles;)

How would you like your 2024 adventure to begin? It's a lovely time to build your Qifield, consider your goals, and reflect on values.

Over the next few weeks I'll be working on some information to share with you on Ren Xue buckets of skills both here and in Wisdom for an Awakening World. It's a great time to consider where we're at and what may be helpful as we walk along this path towards True Self and its inherent freedom, expansiveness, and joy.

Also a quick reminder that registration for Free Verse from Your Heart (8-week online generative poetry circle) closes tomorrow at noon (Sunday Pacific time). We begin on Monday with a look at where our inner voice comes from, building a Qifield for creative expression, and connecting deeply with our hearts to inform our pens.

It's the first time I'm offering this class. Please feel free to share with others if you feel it may be beneficial for them.

Wishing you all a powerful year of manifesting growth, creativity in all of life, and joyful surprises. Your true potential rests within.

Wu Xin,
Stephanie​
​https://www.stephanierossauthor.com/​

What’s inside you that wishes to be expressed?

Free verse is freeform poetry but ‘Free’ is also a verb - allow the verse, story and messages to arise from your heart and spill onto paper/keyboard.

Free Verse from the Heart is an 8-week online generative poetry circle.

This circle focuses on generating poetry by exploring where your poetic voice comes from, connecting deep within, using a variety prompts to spark your writing, sharing with each other, and providing feedback.

The discussions will be strength-based and grow into more structural components for those who wish to receive that level of feedback. We will hold the heart of your poems tenderly and with respect.

You’ll learn specific ways of listening and looking at poetry so that these cognitive components naturally begin manifesting in your writing.

During our time together, we’ll explore these questions:

❤Where does your inner muse come from?

❤What is poetry and how do you connect with deeper layers of self-expression?

❤How do you inspire fresh and evocative writing?

❤How can writing poetry and participating in a generative writing circle be healing, informative, and a gift from your heart?

❤How do you give feedback in an uplifting way to yourself and to others?

❤What can you look and listen for when revisiting poetry you’ve written and when helping others?

❤How do you develop a personal writing process?

❤In the last class, we’ll celebrate and share polished poems you’ve developed over the 8 weeks.

This circle is suitable for beginners, seasoned poets, and the curious.

Your Facilitator:

Stephanie Ross is a Ren Xue Yuan Qigong teacher and Vancouver Island poet. She's spent over a decade helping people grow from within and learn what it means to walk along an inner path towards True Self.

Stephanie’s poetry began with practicing Yuan Qigong and since then she’s studied storytelling, writing, expressive arts and poetry formally, informally, in community and as a personal practise.

She was a contributing writer for Ren Xue America’s Qiblog and her work has appeared in global journals and forthcoming anthologies.

Her life cultivation process is her inspiration.

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