SAMANTHA WARWICK | WRITER

From our treasured pool of ever-changing elements to yours, happy thanksgiving 🧡 ...

G4 electromagnetic solar storm over Bragg Creek last night! The build-up of colour grew increasingly vivid between 10-11pm MST before launching into a wild dance of movement. Incredible.

10.10.24 — time stamp 10:24! ...

No albums or witty captions (yet) to encapsulate my busiest and most overwhelming summer in YEARS. While I procrastinate over words, inbox, decisions and the staggering chaos of my phone’s storage-crushing camera roll — a moment of proof that I also work from a desk. This is us. At our desk. Working. Thanks for the photo @maniakat 💕 ...

river sit solstice season is on with my pathfinder ✨ ...

Earth day, every day ...

“April is the cruellest month,” wrote T.S. Eliot. Do we agree? Spring is such an interesting season 😉 🌱

A handful of spots left for anyone interested in joining meee — thank you always @yogasantosha + @writersguildab for hosting and supporting these sessions. And to those of you already registered!

The yoga portions will be (mostly) yin/restorative — for those wishing to flow before or after the session (or anytime!) consider joining @minakha at Noon or Tamara Terry @fieldofyoga at 4:00.

Both amazing classes/teachers! 💚
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Write & Restore, Spring Reset with Samantha Warwick

Sunday, April 28th, 1:30–3:30pm MT
Yoga Santosha,1800 4th Street SW Calgary
Small studio, in person (warm)

Springtime brings a shift and shove of new energy: renewal, purpose, inspiration, and drive! Interestingly, the emotion traditionally associated with spring is anger. If we imagine feisty buds and stalks pushing their mighty way from the dark ground toward sunlight, we may extrapolate from this metaphor that healthy force—processed with intention and curiosity—can help us move forward in alignment with our true purpose.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore our notions of purpose through expressive writing prompts, gentle (mostly yin) postures, and select readings. A space to sit with the present moment and consider the core beliefs that exist under the surface of our decisions, what our social or cultural environments deem purposeful, and how we may wish to redefine our idea of purpose. In this context, we will ask: how do we most wish to show up for ourselves and others this season?

Register online, link in bio! ...

My next yoga & writing workshop is on Sunday, April 28 where we will move into themes of spring — renewal, purpose, release and growth 🌸

Warmest thanks always to the wonderful folks @yogasantosha and @writersguildab for their collective support and the opportunity to continue growing — as a human and a teacher!

Full description below. Link in bio to register. Please reach out with any questions.

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Love yoga and writing? Join us at Write & Restore, Spring Reset with Samantha Warwick

Sunday, April 28th, 1:30pm to 3:30pm MDT
In-person at Yoga Santosha,1800 4th Street SW (2nd floor), Calgary

Springtime brings a shift and shove of new energy: renewal, purpose, inspiration, and drive! Interestingly, the emotion traditionally associated with spring is anger. If we imagine feisty buds and stalks pushing their mighty way from the dark ground toward sunlight, we may extrapolate from this metaphor that healthy force—processed with intention and curiosity—can help us move forward in alignment with our true purpose.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore our notions of purpose through expressive writing prompts, gentle (mostly yin) postures, and select readings. A space to sit with the present moment and consider the core beliefs that exist under the surface of our decisions, what our social or cultural environments deem purposeful, and how we may wish to redefine our idea of purpose. In this context, we will ask: how do we most wish to show up for ourselves and others this season? ...

slow to readjust after spending February on the road, tracking the half moon of cenotes, caves and coastal villages that mark the periphery of the Chicxulub impact crater (research trip) 💫

Intrepid Lulu — undaunted by all forms of travel, jungle off-roads, cave adventures, tropical storms, flying seed pods, power outages, new beds, resident frogs, new friends. Another (sigh) Mayan pyramid?
“If I must,” she says, surveying the ancient ruins of her empire from the summit.

—a somewhat existential and disorienting return to winter and domestic orbits, ever-functioning wifi (what’s this?), deadlines and appointments. But her smile — this one — keeps me going.

Indomitable spirit Lulu! ♥️

Album soon. ...

Full wolf moon in Lulu! 💛 🖤

Thank you for this beautiful gift @ejbaird3 and @matthewaequitus — looove it!

portrait by talented wizard @black.cat.creative 💫 ...

Yoga & Writing Session this Friday! 💫 Theme: Winter (Blue January)

Friday, January 19 | 5:00 - 6:30p (warm, with music)
@yogasantosha Mission location, 1800 4th St. SW
Community partnership with @writersguildab
Capacity 16 or so 💫 Advance registration.
Link in bio!

Answers to some recent questions & elaborations on the inspiration behind these sessions 💫

Yes! Do consider this session a happy hour reset. Many of us benefit from an uplifting outlet in a warm (not hot or humid) studio to reset our minds and bodies, perhaps especially at the end of the week and during the coldest month of the year.

Imagination and creative writing are muscles that grow stronger from use in the same way our physical bodies benefit from movement.

The purpose is to harness embodied presence, creative flow and clarity — in writing and in life. The writing prompts are designed for those interested in developing craft and voice, as well as for those looking to broaden perspective to process emotion. Widening the aperture of our narratives and awareness is a practice!

Yoga sequences and postures are deliberately straightforward. Our intention is to create a warm, inspiring and uplifting atmosphere where all participants can enter a meditative state in both mind and body and leave feeling lighter.

Looking forward to seeing those of you who’ve registered! Please reach out directly with any unanswered questions, curiosities or for the WGA member or low-income promo code.

Which reminds me — mats are available to rent for $1 at the studio, parking is $2.50 in the parkade and please arrive 15 min early 💙 ...

Still grinning into space one week after reuniting with author and friend Charlotte Gill @wordfest

It seems impossible that our lives have been intersecting for almost 20 years. So grateful for the time we were able to steal, holed up in a booth nursing a 64 oz carafe of coffee while circling the sun in much overdue conversation.

Charlotte’s new book, Almost Brown, is a thought-provoking, moving and unforgettable memoir that I will devote a separate post to when I resume weekly book content!

In the meantime — with an abundance of highlighted passages I love — I’ll close this post with a short quote drawn from one of many poignant sections:

“My true ethnic home is really no place at all. It’s a small island nation of the imagination that doesn’t exist on any map and not in geologic form. You can’t get there via any airport. You can only be born there by fateful accident. Half in and half out, formed from two worlds, belonging to both and neither.” ...

last day of summer ...