Poetry
Learn more about our poetry offerings and resources tending to your creative faculties, writing skill and spiritual wellness
Poetry Workshops & Courses
We offer a range of different poetry programmes focussing on different elements of constructing poetry and practicing varying pathways to connect to our creative spirit.
All of our programmes begin with creative affirmations and warm up exercises to ease us into creative writing practice from an energetically and mentally open foundation, then proceed in three parts, the content of which varies workshop to workshop:
The Harvest - gathering material to write on through spiritual wellness exercises and creative poetry activities that open our creative spirits, our perspectives and our imaginations.
The Craft - practicing poetic devices and writing techniques to help us enrich and refine our expression into poetry.
The Poem - utilising all we have channelled, gathered, learned and created thus far to draft a poem, with additional guidance.
Details of a few of our existing programmes can be found below, all of which can be booked as two-three hour workshops or longer courses, and are available as online resources to practice in your own time. We can also create tailored workshops and courses to your needs!
Form &
Structure
The philosophy of unified spirit and science that underpins Spirit of Creation’s work speaks wonderfully to the art of poetry, with its balance of expressive license and demanding technical craft. This is especially true when it comes to using rhyme schemes, metre, structure and form.
Form & Structure also create inspiration as we figure out the puzzles of them. They provide guide, a framework, and invite us to think and create in new ways.
This workshop invites you to explore both the spirit and the science poetry and creation, harvest the creative fruits already ripe within you and equip you with the skills to refine that into poetry boasting formal form and structure.
The Realm
Of Dreams
Dreams, like creativity, are an inherent part of our being.
Dreams, like both poems and the language of spirit, are full of symbols, imagery, suspended disbelief and wild imagination.
Dreams, like creative endeavours, wellness activities and poetry, are gateways to understanding and experiencing oneness with our spirit.
In this workshop we connect to our dreams to spiritually connect to our inner realm, harvest poetic material and open up our imaginations, as well as undertake writing techniques to further encourage our creative faculties and enhance and refine our expression
As Within,
So Without
Creativity is our true nature and the crux of our unity with the nature around us - it is the spirit of life itself. When we harness this creative energy in creative and spiritual wellness activities, we unify with the nature outside of us and channel our own truest nature, which is inherently creative.
Notice how beautifully the flowers bloom, the stunning spiral in a shell... these are beauties of creation that we might call art. All you have to do to produce glorious art is tune into and express your true nature.
This workshop invites you to use your creativity to connect with the spiritual and biological life forces within and around us, tuning into and tending to your internal creative life force, as well as learning poetic techniques, to express the truth of your soul and capture to the wonder of the creation around you.
Yoetry
Harness the energetic magic of yoga's breathwork, mantra, meditation & movement, explore yogic philosophy, and practice creative wellness & writing techniques to nourish your spirit and channel your Truth into expressive poetry.
If you’re wondering why Yoga & Poetry are such a brilliant pair, you can simply look to our ethos: When we nurture our creativity, we nourish our spirit, and when we nourish our spirit, we nurture our creativity.
When we engage our creativity in any practice, just like when we engage in yoga, we experience divine union by connecting our mind, body and soul and connecting to the great eco system of natural life, of creation, of which we are all a part. This is one reason why we experience a comparable sense of spiritual bliss when we create and when we practice yoga - because we embody our most natural state of creative oneness within and with all.
Yoga is also a great warm up to creative writing. When we practice yoga, we engage our energy in ways that open us up our full creative potential and we harness the creative life force, that is our creative nature, itself. Poetry then gives us an expressive yet precise framework to alchemise this energy into art, providing a balance of structure and freedom as well as further tending to our creative facilities such as imagination and articulation, and our wellness through its expressive and reflective qualities.
Both poetry and yoga celebrate the harmony of energy and matter, the physical and the abstract, to create experiences and beauty. Poetry also unifies the liberty of license with the craftsmanship of technique much like yoga unifies discipline and expression, and both thrive on the unity of mind, body and soul that allow you to flourish into your highest self.
And all this is really just the beginning!
Come and experience the magic for yourself at one of our Yoetry workshops!
The theme of Yoetry changes workshop to workshop, though we do offer each theme more than once, and you can also book a Yoetry course to explore many topics.
A few of the themes we explore include:
Yamas &
Niyamas
The Yamas & Niyamas are the first two foundational steps of yoga according to Patanjali’s eight limb path of yoga.
They are the philosophies by which an individual on the yogic path must live. They are akin to moral codes that speak to how we treat ourselves and the world around us respectively.
Although they are the first steps of yoga, even before pranayama (breathwork), asana (postures) and meditation, our physical practice in the studio and our creative wellness and poetry practices can help us achieve these states of consciousness and behaviours in our daily lives off the mat and inspire our souls words to reach the page in how they serve our mind, body and soul.
Chakras
Chakra’s are energy vortices or storage points located throughout the subtle, energetic body, often depicted along the spine. When we engage certain chakras we harness the specific energy that they hold, and when all of our chakras are engaged and aligned we are able to reach our full potential. Working with the chakras is therefore an ideal pathway to tuning into and opening up our creative spirit - to reaching our full creative potential.
The chakras each relate to many areas of our lives: body parts, colours, senses, elements, emotional and mental states… they each offer profound creative inspiration and opportunity for self exploration, expression and development.
Four Elements
of True Love
The Four Elements of True Love are a Buddhist teaching. This Yoetry workshop allows you to energetically harness each of these aspects of True Love within and around you as well as ruminate on each through a poetic lens.
The Four Elements of True Love speak to how we love ourselves and others and are fruitful lessons on our artistic journey to creatively opening up and tending to our creative spirit.
Get Creative at Home!
Grab one of our resource packs to learn and practice writing poetry in the comfort of your own home, or to use with your friends or students!
Featuring expert creative guidance and eight bespoke creative wellness and writing activities, in this workshop you will connect to your dreams to spiritually connect to your inner realm, harvest poetic material and open up your imagination, as well as undertake writing techniques to further encourage your creative faculties and enhance and refine your expression.
Dreams, like creativity, are an inherent part of our being. Dreams, like poems and the language of spirit, are full of symbols, imagery, suspended disbelief and wild imagination. Dreams, like creative endeavours, wellness activities and poetry, are gateways to understanding and experiencing oneness with our spirit.
Perfect for use at home in your own time or to share in a workshop or amongst friends. We only ask that you please do not share or make them public online.
You will receive one pack including friendly instructions guiding you through our gorgeous bespoke worksheets and two flashcards packs to use alongside some exercises when prompted.
Featuring expert creative guidance and seven bespoke creative wellness and writing activities, this This workshop invites you to explore both the spirit and the science poetry and creation, including exercises that will tune you into your soul and harvest the creative fruits already ripe within you as well as equip you with the devices and knowledge to refine that into poetry boasting formal form and structure.
Form & Structure may seem like restrictions on our creation, but it is in this restriction that they also create inspiration as we figure out the puzzles of them. They provide guide, a framework, and invite us to think and create in new ways.
Spirit of Creation’s reverence for the unity of spirit and science speaks nicely to the art of poetry with its balance of liberating license to imaginatively express and demanding technical craft to achieve meaning. This is especially true when it comes to the formal use of rhyme scheme, metre, structure and form.
Perfect for use at home in your own time or to share in a workshop or amongst friends. We only ask that you please do not share or make them public online.
You will receive one pack including friendly instructions guiding you through our gorgeous bespoke worksheets and two flashcards packs to use alongside some exercises when prompted.
Featuring expert creative guidance and seven bespoke creative wellness and writing activities, this workshop invites you to use your creativity to connect with the spiritual and biological life forces within and around us, tuning into and tending to your internal creative life force, as well as learning poetic techniques, to express the truth of your soul and capture to the wonder of the creation around you.
Creativity is our true nature and the crux of our unity with the nature around us - it is the spirit of life itself. When we harness this creative energy in creative and spiritual wellness activities, we unify with the nature outside of us and channel our own truest nature, which is inherently creative.
Perfect for use at home in your own time or to share in a workshop or amongst friends. We only ask that you please do not share or make them public online.
You will receive one pack including friendly instructions and gorgeous bespoke worksheets guiding you through your creative process and a flashcards pack to use alongside some exercises when prompted.
Kids Classes & Courses
Poetry is a beautiful unifier of intellect and creativity, of craft and expression, and boasts a boundless array of artistic and technical activities that are great for both sides of our young creative spirit’s brains and their souls.
The technical side of poetry offers a chance to improve children’s English, reading and creative writing skills whilst the creative side provides brilliant opportunity for self expression and learning to think and imagine in new ways.
Our after school clubs, longer courses and regular lessons explore all of these elements in depth, combining poetic technique exercises and creative wellness activities in an evolving manner that advances with the children’s development.
All of our poetry offerings are available for all ages and abilities, and can be taught to up to 30 participants at once.
After School Clubs
& Long Courses
Studying and practicing the art and craft of poetry over a longer period of time means that children are able to develop high quality skills and creative faculties that they can truly integrate into their writing and artistry.
Children will have the opportunity to explore an advanced range of poetic devices, forms and structures as well as benefit from prolonged engagement in writing, creativity and wellness activities that nourish their intelligence, imagination, emotional state and nervous systems.
Students in our after school clubs and longer courses also get the opportunity to showcase their work in performances and exhibitions.
One - Three
Hour Workshops
We offer one-three hour workshops in Reading & Writing Poetry and in Poetry for Self Expression.
Reading & Writing Poetry - Discover and analyse existing poems to improve artistry and understanding as well as participate in interactive creative activities and learn poetic forms, structures and devices to create a formal piece of poetry
Poetry for Self Expression - Explore creative wellness activities, therapeutic writing exercises, poetic techniques and performance tips to open up your imagination, find your voice and express the words of your soul
Private Classes
Raising a young poet?
Molly Sapphire can mentor, tutor and guide them with fun, informative, interactive one-off or regular poetry classes, online or in-person, to really help them find their voice, improve their poetic impact and enhance their creative writing skill.
Get in touch
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