A mountain Retreat In Meditative Writing
September 18-20, 2026
Tuition, $420; Room and board, including chef-prepared vegetarian meals a day, starting at $419.
join us at this two-night, three day, all- inclusive writing retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains designed to bring harmony to your body, mind, heart, and spirit. september 18-20.
Our sessions will include guided meditation, lessons in creative writing, and freewriting exercises that help you to find freedom and inspiration.
You will heighten your clarity, deepen your intuition, heal old stories, and open new channels to ancestral insight. together we will create a warm and supportive, multigenerational community of writers. All are welcome!
Room and board includes lodging, chef-prepared vegetarian meals, and optional wellness activities including yoga, sound healing, and guided hikes.
Tuition, $420; room and board starting at $419.
You may also consider booking a service with the Art of Living’s Award-Winning Ayurvedic spa.
❋ Claim your wisdom and cultivate your intuition through creative writing
❋ Learn from the caring and visionary teaching method of Rachel J. Webster, award-winning author and professor.❋ Get to know a supportive community of like-minded writers.❋ Develop meditation techniques that help you clear stagnant energy and access new guidance and brilliance.❋ Enjoy an eco-friendly retreat in a breathtaking landscape. ❋ Experience a healing as you compassionately meet your earlier self on the page.Feel free to choose an earlier arrival on Thursday, September 17, for an add-on package.This package includes an extra meditation and writing class, a sound-healing especially for writers, and a small group workshop.To participate, choose an add-on day at checkout for 20% off of Thursday’s room and board. Then pay your $80 workshop fee here.
“I haven’t felt grounded in a while. And Rachel’s class reminded me that the ground exists -- the whole lot of it, down to the magma in the core. My cosmic awareness, too, is more clear and sustained than it has ever been. The meditations, freewriting, and break-out rooms planted the seeds for so many of the things I know I will accomplish in my lifetime. Thank you for reminding me what it’s like to be in time the way one can be in love.” —Olivia, course participant
what to expect
DAY ONE: Friday, September 18
Arrive at the art of Living retreat center in boone, NC.
4 pm Check-in at the Art of Living.
5-6:30 pm Dinner overlooking the mountains, informal meet & greet
7 pm. Property tour and orientation.
7:30-9 pm Session 1. Energy clearing meditation. Introduction to Meditative Writing and to one another. Cultivating non-judgement and non-duality in our writing and ourselves. Writing from the place of neutral witnessing. Accessing the expansive present moment.
Day Two, Saturday, September 19
Deepen your practice
8-8:45 am Breakfast overlooking the mountains.8:45-10 am Embodiment practice. Optional Yoga for All Bodies, Nature Walk, or Ayurvedic Spa Treatment.10:15-12 Session 2. Life-force Meditation. Returning to the senses and to the gift of embodiment. Freewrites and prompts that foster descriptive writing and the reclamation of our origin stories.12-1 pm Lunch overlooking the mountains.1:15-4 pm Session 3. Heart-opening meditation. Cultivating courage through the warriorship of writing. Compassionately meeting our earlier selves. Revisiting the stories we have lived for new awareness and meaning. Sharing in small groups.5-6:30 Dinner overlooking the mountains.7-9 pm Session 4. Sharing fire circle and open mic led by Fatima B. Jalloh. Listening and welcoming every voice in our community.
Day Three, Sunday, September 20
elevate your inspiration
8-9 am. Breakfast overlooking the mountains.9:15-11 am Session 5: Crown-chakra meditation. Opening to increased inspiration. Calling in guidance, clarity, and the writing that is needed for these times. 11 am. Room checkout. 11:30-12:30 Lunch together.
Optional Add-on day and a Half
Thursday, September 17- Friday, September 18
create Lasting community
4 p.m. Check-in at The Art of Living Retreat Center.5-6:30 Dinner overlooking the mountains. In-person introductions.7 pm Property orientation.7:30-9 pm Session A: Meditation attuning to mountain clarity, working with inspiration for greater healing, insight, and artistry. Circle sharing, hearing everyone’s voices. Friday, August 21, 20268-9:30 Breakfast overlooking the mountains9:30-12 Embodiment practice. Optional Yoga for All Bodies, Nature hike, or Ayurvedic Spa Treatment.12-1:15 Lunch overlooking the mountains1:30-2:30 Sound healing with Benji designed to clear blocked energy and open our ear and throat channels for greater clarity and inspiration in our writing.2:45-3 pm Introduction to the principals of generative workshopping.
3:30-5 pm Small group workshops. Participants will submit your pages two weeks before the retreat so everyone has time to read and comment on each other’s writing.5-6:30 Dinner overlooking the mountains, welcoming participants to the full retreat.ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Rachel Jamison Webster is an award-winning writer and an acclaimed instructor of Creative Writing. Rachel’s students go on to write best-selling books and to participate in creative culture with genius and authenticity. Her teachings combine practical guidance for writers with meditations and energy-clearing rituals. These practices are designed to bring our intellectual, emotional, and spiritual gifts into flow and communication. Participants in Rachel’s courses learn to trust their intuition, to honor their stories, and to open to visionary inspiration. Read more about Rachel here. And check out her author site here.
