Your sensual voice awaits discovery. Ready to write with the courage your life and stories deserve? Escape to the beauty of writing within the beautiful walls of an olive press in the heart of a sweet Greek village, 10 minutes from Arillas and a gateway to the beaches of north Corfu. This isn't just another writing workshop: it's a time to awaken your creative spirit wrapped in a holiday, a time of finding your voice, focus and time to write.
For writing novices and seasoned writers, for anyone ready to shed inhibitions and discover what happens when life experience meets permission, encouragement and space. October sunshine, ancient olive groves, and the writing breakthrough you've been craving.
Transform Your Writing: Go to the Beach
Break free from the inner critic that keeps your words polite and safe. In three transformative days, you'll discover the language of desire, emotion, and embodied experience that makes readers lean in, hearts racing. In just three days, you'll master the art of writing with sensual authenticity, turning your experiences into stories that pulse with life and emotional truth. And you’ll go to the beach. Nakedness and clay are optional.
Workshop Schedule:
Pre-call on Zoom: date tbc.
Day 1, Thursday: Anatomy of Desire
10-13:30 Welcome circle and introductions, body meditation, intention settings
Finding your sexy voice with writing exercises focused on exploring sensuality and bodies. Letting go of embarrassment and coyness, we explore the words needed for writing embodied and erotic pleasure. Shed the embarrassment around writing bodies, pleasure, and raw human experience. Through guided exercises and body-based practices, you'll unlock the vocabulary of sensuality in your depth of experience.Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections on writing.
Day 2, Friday: Vocabulary of Desire
10-13:30: A day of exploring the feeling wheel. Dive deep into the emotional landscape that fuels unforgettable writing. Learn to translate sensation into story, feeling into prose that pulses with life. Allowing love, desire, wildness, or seductive sultriness to emerge, find your style and break through shyness. Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: Reflections/sharings/thoughts/writing.
Day 3, Saturday: Alchemy of Desire
The intimate storytelling of emotion offers creative expression for conjuring up mood and atmosphere. There’ll be space to write and share as we remember or imagine moments of desire, loss and beauty. Transform your experiences—both lived and imagined—into powerful narratives. Master the art of intimate storytelling that evokes atmosphere and intrigues your reader's senses.
Lunch at Mandala House and free time.
Evening: closing circle.
Aftercare zoom call: date tbc.
Your Guides:
Nath and Ali bring years of creating brave open spaces—from Sensual Salons to Spaces to Write and The Sex Lectures—where writers can discover their fearless voice. Their unique blend of intimacy work and literary persistence helps writers break through to find their expression.
From Ali:
”Nathalie and I met in zoom during lockdown, she read poetry every day and I was enchanted. We’ve each taken different journeys through the sexual realms with stories to tell. We started holding Sensual Salon online gatherings together online and more recently we’ve held space for nascent and experienced writers. 28 days of Space to Write has just finished and I’m going to miss that group of committed souls showing up, day in day out, to find their voice and habit.
As our shared love of creativity and sensuality has simmered away, Nath is visiting me in Corfu and we’re going to hold a writing workshop, bringing together the Madame and Muse in real life. So if you fancy some sunshine and a creative or erotic boost to your life you’re warmly invited.”
https://nathaliedewalhens.com
Costs and what’s included:
- 3-day workshop: €330
- Includes: All lunches, refreshments, pre-and after call.
- Not included: Travels to and from Mandala house, breakfast, dinner and accommodation. A shared car is advisable. We suggest you allow a longer time for your trip to enjoy yourself outside of the workshop. So we recommend you book flights accordingly. You know you want to!
Accommodation:
3 rooms are available at Mandala House - ask Ali for details. Varied options in Arillas (guidance provided). Limited to 12 writers for intimate, personalised attention. https://mandalamagic.posthaven.com/about