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In living and making art, we can be quite creative in laying subconscious traps to inhibit our full authenticity. As teacher or coach, I help you access the deeper, more life-giving reasons for enacting your unique artistic path.
Pulling from an endurance and enthusiasm born of many years of personal experience, I will serve as a mirror for your deep wisdom and wellness as you take healthy risks to realize your own deepest creative aliveness.
10 minutes a day of Poetry & Meditation
An on-demand video series
with Brooke McNamara
Each day for a month, enjoy a 10-minute video by Brooke McNamara that includes a poem shared aloud followed by a simple guided meditation. Investing in the nourishment of daily small doses of poetry and meditation practice, you might be astonished at what blooms in youand naturally serves others.
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Awakening to the Poetic
An 8 Week Series of Meditation and Poetry
How do you awaken and tune to the poetic? Do you remember your ways as a child of connecting to this animate, breathing world?
In these times of rapid change, challenge, and opportunity, it is vital that we connect in brave, supportive community to remind ourselves of the nutrients embedded in reality – the powerful ways that pain and loss carve through our beings, the delicious refreshment of beauty in all its forms, and the ultimate satisfaction of resting as our true nature: vast, unborn, and indestructible.
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Art of Meditation
Seasonal 11-week Practice Series / Yearlong Program: ONLINE
Winter Series: January 13 - March 31 (no class January 27)
Spring Series: May 5 - July 21 (no class July 7)
Fall Series: September 15- November 24
The Art of Meditation Practice Series are an opportunity for you to come home to your life, awakening to who you really are and to the liberation and vitality that is available in each moment.
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Feb 22-28, 2026
Join beloved somatic educator and animist creativity whisperer, Rachel Blackman, and award-winning poet and transmitted Zen teacher, Brooke McNamara, for 7 days and 6 nights at a gorgeous, family-owned, beachfront villa surrounded by the magical coastal world of the Riviera Maya in Paamul, Mexico.
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Awakening to the Poetic
An 8-Day In-Person Retreat in Lana, Italy
October 1-8, 2026 - At the Schwarzschmied Hotel
You’re invited to adventure inward and outward to the naturally poetic territories of this Life. Experience 8 days and 7 nights in the cozy, elegant Schwarzschmied Hotel & Spa, surrounded by the magic of the natural world in Lana, Italy. Come remember and share the aliveness of who you truly are, under whatever busy-ness, distractions, and habits have accumulated. Write your tender curiosities, fierce declarations, and alchemical questions, in connection with other awakening adventurers.
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Writing from Connection with the Wider Web of Life
- with Brooke McNamara & Rachel Blackman.
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Write to the Heart of Motherhood - Mother's Day Retreat
Rest, Connection & Creativity for Mother's Day ~ May 7-9
Write to the Heart of Motherhood is an invitation for Mamas into lush rest, quiet reflection, natural creativity, and nourishing connection. In the 3 days before Mother’s Day, fill your cup deeply with the potent resources cultivated together with other mothers in creative and spiritual practice.
Led by poet, Zen teacher, and mama, Brooke McNamara, we’ll enjoy together both silence and expression, stillness and movement, depths of feeling and fun play. Through writing, meditation, and more, we’ll stoke the powerful love that animates the heart of motherhood.
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with Brooke McNamara & friends
~ A great adventure in sitting still, in silence and spaciousness, experiencing our deepest nature. ~
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