Restore and Re-story!
Wake up to living with creativity,
wisdom, and renewed intuition.
Workshops & Retreats
Gift yourself with time away! Easily learn to meditate and develop a mindfulness practice with our Just This Day programming. Enrich and empower your writing in the Wake Up! Mindful Writing offerings.
Classes
Deepen your skills and cultivate life-long habits in Just This Day and Wake Up classes designed to provide ongoing instruction and support.
Meet Joanne Nelson
Joanne Nelson’s Wake Up! Mindful Writing programs and Just This Day Meditation offerings allow participants to engage and awaken their creative and intuitive best selves while learning to restore and re-story.
Coffee Musings Blog
Have Good Sentences in your Ears
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours. Jane Kenyon
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Don’t Give Yourself Away
“Whenever you override what matters to you in favor of others’ opinions or wishes, you can gradually become alienated from the subtle nuances of your interior world.” Sarah McLean
read moreWriting Your Mindful Journey
A relaxing day-long version of Writing the Mindful Journey will be held at the beautiful Cedar Valley Retreat Center in West Bend, WI on Oct. 14th, 2017 from 10 am to 3 pm. For registration information contact Joanne at 262.361.3316 or wakeupthewriterwithin@gmail.com. Cost is $75 and includes lunch.
Discover how to awaken and transform your creativity through mindfulness practices and writing exercises that allow you to combine awareness of the present moment with writing that deepens every experience. Give your true voice space to roam and reawaken your intuitive self through guided exercises, discussion, and reflection.
Appropriate for beginning meditators/writers as well as those with more experience, all that is necessary is the curiosity to listen deeply to yourself and to explore your imagination.
Coffee Musings
Read the latest posts from Joanne in the Coffee Musings Blog.
Attend or Host a Class
Contact Joanne to learn about hosting or joining one or more of these classes.