Sense Writing: An Ecology of Creative Practice

What if you didn’t have to wait for inspiration to connect to your deepest urge to create?

Sense Writing merges somatic principles with the art of writing to help you tap into the rich landscape of your stories, memories, and imagination — whether you already think of yourself as a writer or simply want support to bring your whole self into a creative project. 

Developed by Madelyn Kent, Sense Writing teaches students of all levels how to work with the body and nervous system to develop a writing practice full of trust, possibility, and resilience.

In this workshop, you’ll learn to use foundational neuroplastic techniques and time-tested sequences to increase your capacity to regulate your nervous system, access your internal landscape, enhance sensation, and discover creative flow. 

We all recognize that feeling of connection when we sit down to write and the words seem to emerge organically. But it can often feel like magic, not something we know how to replicate or create for ourselves. Instead of waiting for the seed of an idea to sprout or fighting with a blank page, in this workshop you’ll discover potent strategies to access the rich terrain of sensation, imagination, and story — and grow your own sustainable creative practice. 

Who This Program is For

• Both beginner and experienced writers
• Anyone feeling the urge to write
• Anyone who’s sensed the connection between their own bodies and creative flow

What You’ll Experience

• Creating through pleasure, curiosity, and play 
• The ease of starting from where you are no matter…
• A place before language where you can return, before thought, before all the stories that we tell ourselves.
• Gentle guided somatic sequences based on Feldenkrais to bring you into more regulated states
• Writing sequences with greater access to internal landscapes of memory, imagination, and story
• Working safely within

What You’ll Learn

• Discover the connection between movement, thought, and imagination.
• Learn neurosensory sequences and principles that help you bypass anxiety and melt creative blocks.
• Identify the inherent structures forming within your writing.
• Learn the three steps for getting started in any story 
• Tools to harness your nervous systems to intentionally bring yourself into a state of creative flow, where internal and external landscapes

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.