Align Your Story:
A Holistic Writing Program
Revitalize your writing from the inside out.
A unique online integrated writing class with
writing
reading
yoga
meditation
designed to incorporate mind, body, and spirit
Get a step-by step program that takes you from first draft to polished pieces.
Unblock, trust your voice, and write your best work—
all with more power and ease.
AND also get the support of a vibrant community and access to lost of group coaching from me.
I'll be there to support you every step of the way.
NOW CLOSED FOR ENROLLMENT
Say YES to your voice!
Total Value: well over $6,000 but it's hard to put a price on this transformative practice! Only $797 or three payments of $276.
Sign up FOR the waitlist to be notified when the course opens again.
30-day money back guarantee for those who take action; see details below.
Tap into creative, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being
Write the work you've been dreaming of!
In Align Your Story, we un-silo the writing process. This is more than just a writing class—it’s a holistic writing program that integrates reading, writing, meditation, and yoga.
This class is for writers across experience levels and genres because when you incorporate a new, holistic practice like this into your writing and life, new possibilities open.
When you enroll, you get lifetime access to all the teachings, and you can access them on your own schedule. AND you get 2 months bonus access in my writer's community PLUS access to 4 coaching sessions only for AYS students—this year and in future years for FREE
Welcome!
I’m Nadia Colburn.
I bring together my background as an Ivy-League-educated literature professor and award-winning writer with my training and experience as a yoga teacher, meditator, mother, and activist. I've guided thousands of students to embrace their creative voice and create work they truly love, and I'm so glad to be here with you!
Why Align Your Story?
Your story and your voice hold the key to your well-being, your power, and your purpose.
BUT most of us don’t have the tools to access our full experiences or to write with our full voice. Most writing programs focus only on the limited left brain and on the words on the page.
Align Your Story is different because it focuses on both process and product.
It teaches craft with a holistic approach. It gives you tools to come into silence and then translate that to voice, to listen deeply, and uncover those parts of your experiences and the experiences around you that want to be expressed. In the class, we use writing and holistic practices to heal, and we use healing to then step into more courage and vision as writers.
In this out-of-balance time, it's all the more important that we dive deep and think big. This class is for writers of any genre who want to expand their creative expression.
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“For a long time, trying to write felt like poking at a hot bruise of self-doubt and fear. Nadia’s writing workshop...which combines yoga, meditation and serious literary work, catalyzed a fundamental change in how I approach my writing, and now, I write with enthusiasm and minimal anxiety. Align Your Story finally allowed me to achieve coherence between my spiritual, physical and creative lives—something I’d been looking for all of my life without knowing where to find it.
I recommend this course to everyone who wants to take their creative lives to the next level. I'm now a coach helping other people write and achieve coherence. After all, the world needs creative people to align themselves more than ever these days; we are the superheroes the world needs.”
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Katrin Schumann
Bestselling author of
The Forgotten Hours and
This Terrible Beauty.
"Nadia's astonishing class, Align Your Story, marked a turning point in my professional life. I was utterly dejected, lacking the energy and hope to keep going with my writing. I’d published one book but wasn’t sure what the future held. In desperation, I signed up for Nadia’s class, knowing that I needed to reset my mind, figure out what mattered to me, and make some important decisions about my career. Right away, with Nadia's expert and soothing guidance, I started softening my death grip on life and work. I was able to be playful again, to explore and relax. I started chanting (loudly!) and stretching, and playing around with words. My mind opened up again and I realized I would be okay. I decided that I wanted to keep writing, even if I never managed to get my novels published. The rest is history! Shortly after finishing the class, my novel was accepted for publication. That is not a coincidence. I've now published two best-selling novels, and my third is on its way."
How does the class do this?
What is Align Your Story?
A one-of-a-kind online holistic writing workshop with reading, writing, meditation, and yoga & community
Close Readings
Close Readings of work by some of the world's most inspiring writers help you learn new techniques and strategies, read as a writer, and encourage and inspire you to strengthen your writing skills.
Writing Exercises
Writing exercises guide you on a well-structured, step-by-step process to deepen your writing, stretch yourself, revise, and create a strong, coherent body of work.
Meditation
Meditation quiets the constant chatter and stills the anxiety so that you can listen more deeply to your insights and inner wisdom.
In this program, meditation and writing come together, with carefully selected meditations paired with each module to support your writing process.
Yoga
Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body and unlock its messages. Carefully selected yoga is paired with each module for a full mind-body experience.
In Align Your Story, we bring together these four distinct components through intentional integration, and the welcoming support of community.
Most writing programs only teach from the head, the intellect, alone; they don't teach you how to bring your whole self — mind, body, and spirit — to the creative process.
I believe that's a great disservice.
Align Your Story guides you to go deeper, quiet the mind, listen to your body, and be inspired by other writers and thinkers so you can write your best work.
It’s a space to reclaim your whole story, to come out of secrets, to embrace your full experiences and the emotional and embodied dimensions of your creative vision and voice.
You'll write with a larger range, with more freedom and more power.
In this online holistic writing workshop, you’re also invited into a wonderful community of supportive and inspiring writers around the world.
We feel better — and we write better! — when we bring our full selves to the page and create from an integrated place.
And, while you can take the course as a self-guided retreat, you don't need to be alone in the process—you'll get lots of support.
A student who found new peace, ease and well-being
A video from Bettina Ricks about her experience in Align Your Story, how the course helped her come to more peace and ease with her own story and show up more fully for her physical wellbeing.
Who is Align Your Story for?
Align Your story is for anyone who wants to write with greater aliveness.
Whether you're a beginner or a professional writer, a fiction writer, memoir writer, poet or business writer, Align Your Story is designed to help you fall in love with the creative process.
You also don't need to consider yourself a "writer" to benefit from the course. This holistic writing program welcomes professionals, parents, yogis, meditators, trauma survivors, teachers, therapists, painters, activists, business people, retirees, anyone interested in growing, and stepping into the full range of your creative voice.
Align Your Story meets you where you are and will guide you to develop and honor your unique voice.
How can a class be for people writing across genres and with different levels of experience?
The course asks you to reconsider many of your implicit assumptions about writing —that writing should be siloed, that different genres can't learn from each other, that if we're expert in one area, we're expert in all areas, that we write from the head.
We also learn from some of the world's most inspiring literature across genres, texts that anyone can tap into, whatever our experience level.
Most importantly, the class asks you to consider your own life experience as your area of expertise. You get to be an expert on writing because you are an expert in your own life.
It also comes with six different tracks, so that you can choose what you want to focus on depending on the genre you work in, your skill level, your level of time, and more. Do you want to focus on writing as a practice or are you working on finishing a work-in-progress? We have a track for those with minimal time and those who want to dive deep and spend many hours weekly.
Use the robust teachings of the course in the ways that suite you best. And then come back another time and work with the materials in another way. You get lifetime access to the teachings, bonus access to my writers community and an invitation to come through future live sessions for Align Your Story students this year and future years!
Do any of these sound familiar?
✦ Do you have something important to say but can’t quite access it?
✦ Do you wish that writing were not as difficult and want to have a more spontaneous, freer experience on the page?
✦ Do you feel out of joint in your mind and your body that get in the way of your creative life and wish you had practices to bring you back into balance?
✦ Do you worry that if you write the difficult parts of your story you might be be trapped by its negativity?
✦ Do you want to express joy and positive experiences but you aren’t sure how without sounding cliched?
✦ Do you worry what people will think of you if you tell your truth and what the consequences will be?
✦ Do you ever feel isolated in your writing and wish for the support of a caring writing community?
✦ Do you start pieces but not finish them? Do you need greater structure and connection in the pieces that you start?
✦ Are you ready to write your best, most original work with your full powers?
✦ Do you want to write work that you'd love to read yourself?
NOW CLOSED FOR ENROLLMENT
Say YES to your voice!
Total Value: well over $6,000 but it's hard to put a price on this transformative practice! Only $797 or three payments of $276.
Sign up FOR the waitlist to be notified when the course opens again.
30-day money back guarantee for those who take action; see details below.
Are you a teacher or a therapist?
Do you use writing or healing in your work?
You can get continuing education credits, and the course is tax-deductible for you!
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A therapist whose life — and marriage — became more joyful
A video from Erin Mitchell and her husband Stephen Mitchell about Erin’s experience in Align Your Story and how it helped not only her writing, but also their relationship and family life. They're now the co-authors of a bestselling book on parenting!
A woman who re-examined her life story after divorce and came to love herself more
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JILL BURGCHARDT
“Align Your Story is an amazing course. I was recently divorced after 40 years, and AYS provided me a safe space for exploring and writing about tough memories. Being part of a community...working hard to find their voices and invest in their own healing through writing has been an important part of the journey. The course has helped me write more fluidly and opened up a process of deep healing.
I am stronger, more authentic, and have more love for myself as a result of Align Your Story. And my writing has improved, too! I write every day now. I can now write more objectively and compassionately not only toward myself, but also toward others. Thank you for this transformational course!“
My Story
Tap into creative, emotional,
spiritual, and physical well-being
Hi! I’m Nadia Colburn,
founder and creator of Align Your Story.
I believe that your voice and your story matter.
I was always a good student, and I loved to write. I had all the bells and whistles of a successful writer-I went to Harvard, and then to Columbia, where I got a PhD in English, and my writing was being widely published in such places as The New Yorker, slate, and The Kenyon Review.
But the truth is, I didn’t really know my own voice or my own story. And while I looked “good” on paper, I wasn’t really expressing myself fully.
I needed not just to express my story, but also to understand and heal the places that were wounded. I needed to learn how to be my own best witness.
To do this, I stepped away from a successful academic life to do the hard inner work of healing and growing and of showing up for myself—and also for my children.
I needed to learn how to put the different sides of me together, the mind and the body and the heart and the spirit; they all felt fragmented.
There wasn’t a model for me to do this: my creative writing community focused on what was on the page; my healing, yoga, and spiritual communities focused on the inner work. I didn’t have a way to integrate the inner work with the outer expression.
So I needed to create my own method.
When I started integrating these different modalities (writing, literature, yoga, and meditation) for myself, amazing things began to happen.
I found that I could write from my center, with more ease and more power. Because I knew better who I was, I could access my own authority and write about my authentic experiences as a woman.
I came to love my own difficult, twisty, painful, wonderful, joyful, unique story.
I came to write about what it means to me to be a woman with a body, a woman who was once a girl and is now a mother, a citizen, a survivor, a lover, a thinker, an animal.
In the process, not only did I feel less anxious, but also, many of the health problems I had had for years cleared up!
And soon I began to share this holistic writing program with my students...
I’ve now taught thousands of students and have seen the exciting transformations this integrated process can bring to others.
Interested in my more "professional" bio? Here it is:
I’m the author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf. My poetry and prose have been published in more than 80 publications, including The New Yorker, Spirituality & Health, American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Yale Review, Tiny Buddha, Lion’s Roar, Truthout and many other places. I also teach the Poetry of Attention course, focused on reading and writing poetry.
My essay, “The Language of Silence: Listening to the Body” is published in The Anatomy of Silence: 26 stories about all the sh*t that gets in the way of talking about sexual violence. I’m a founding editor at Anchor Magazine: where spirituality and social justice meet, and have taught workshops in a wide variety of places including Copper Beach Institute, The Muse and the Marketplace, The MA Poetry Festival, The Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern and many other places. I founded Align Your Story as a holistic writing program to help writers (and non-writers) step into the full power of their voice, and it has been an honor to work with the thousands of students who've come through and grown in my classes, programs, and the Align Writing Community.
What you'll learn in Align Your Story
This robust program takes you from first drafts to finished projects. You'll learn from some of the world's best writers across genres to listen deeply, expand your range, hone your work, take risks, and discover your unique voice.
Modules 1, 2, and 3 focus on process and
provide the supports you need to develop
a healthy, ongoing, holistic writing practice
Module 1 — Free Writing/writing As Discovery
Learn how to be surprised, to discover, and to let go. Get past your inner critic, embrace your writing, and connect your mind and body. Set up a sustainable writing practice that works for you.
Get comfortable with not knowing, with play, experimentation, and mistakes, with the ugly, the beautiful, and non-judgment.
We will look closely at a wide variety of voices exploring a wide variety of themes and ideas to give you more freedom in your own range of expression.
Includes Meditation and Yoga for unlocking the spine.
Studied Texts: Sappho, W.H. Auden, Rumi
Module 2 — deep Listening
Learn how to listen deeply with both your mind and body. Come into greater awareness and write from that attentive space, supported by practices that combine meditation, movement, and writing.
In this module, we will write from listening—and then we will practice listening to and reading our own work. In this module, we will practice finding a place of stillness and exploring where that takes our writing. We will read pieces that encourage us to go deep within ourselves.
Includes Meditation and Yoga for stretching, opening our hearts, and more.
Studied texts include pieces by Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Rumi
Module 3 — Resistance, Shame And Judgment
Gain practical tools to get out of the blocks that so often stop our writing and also get in the way of living. Learn to approach resistance as an opportunity for growth and for better, not harder, writing (& living).
What can we learn from our shadow side that can help us embrace our truest power? Sometimes we need to go into the difficult places before we can move forward. This module will give you the tools to approach resistance without fear and to move through it with curiosity and grace.
Includes Meditation and yoga for strengthening the lower chakras.
Studied texts include: Maxine Hong Kingston, Sapphire, Charles Bukowski, Rumi
Modules 4 and 5 teach you how to
expand your range as a writer.
Module 4 — Joy
Learn how to make your writing (and your life) come alive by accessing joy in your body and putting it on the page so that your writing has a greater range of emotion and experience.
What have been unexpected moments of joy in your life? When have you had sustained periods of joy? Find your true voice, even if it is deeply sad or hurt or angry; there is joy in the creative act itself. This module will help you come into a more nuanced relationship with joy and bring it into your writing life in new ways.
Includes Meditation, chanting and yoga to stretch, strengthen, open your throat chakra, and get comfortable in your body!
Studied texts include: Leo Tolstoy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Oliver, Ross Gay.
Module 5 — Childhood
Learn how to write from the richness of childhood without getting trapped in it; bring the aliveness, physicality and wisdom of childhood experiences to whatever genre you're working in.
The good, the bad, the funny, the ugly, the beautiful, all can be found in childhood. This module will give you the tools to connect with the source of your own power as a writer by reconnecting with your power as a child.
Includes Meditation and yoga for flexibility, strength, and relaxation.
Reading includes texts by: William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Jacqueline Woodson, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Modules 6, 7, and 8 give you the tools to revise, put your pieces together, finish your work–and keep going for the long term with your writing practice.
Module 6 — alignment
Learn how to put the different pieces of your story — or any story — together. Explore different techniques and possibilities and gain the tools you need to craft finished pieces.
How do you narrate a story, whatever genre you're working in? Where do you start? What is significant? What do you put in and what do you keep out? What tone do you take? What images do you use?
In this module, we’ll put together our pieces in a variety of different ways and come into alignment so that we can write polished, finished pieces.
Includes Meditation and yoga for alignment, vitality, and stamina.
Studied Texts: Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, Walt Whitman, Rumi.
Module 7 — Revision and Re-vision
Learn how to re-imagine revision so that it makes your writing process freer, richer, and more vibrant. Fall in love with the revision process, and make it as creative as the writing process itself!
In this module, you will experiment with revising, rewriting, re-seeing. Try on different hats: play, experiment, align. We won’t stress perfection, but will be open, curious, and diligent in the process of writing and revising our work so that it can be polished and shine on the page.
Includes Meditation and yoga for letting go, balancing, strengthening, and heart opening.
Studied texts: Basho, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi.
Module 8 — Love: Writing for life
Learn how to keep going for the long term, write what you love, and love the writing process itself.
So how do you keep going? In this final module, you will gain the tools you need to keep your writing practice going for as long as you like–perhaps your whole life. Full of inspiration and encouragement, this module will make you fall in love–if you haven’t already (!)–with your own writing.
Includes Meditation and yoga for elevating and uplifting our spirits.
Studied texts: Malcolm X, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Emily Dickinson, Rumi, Hafiz.
Each Module comes with 5+ integrated components...
Reading
Lesson
Each lesson—on themes like resistance, joy, childhood, revision and more—will explain and develop the theme of the module, bring together the different elements of the course, and help you connect to your voice and to the full range of your story and creativity.
The program takes you on a step-by-step journey to write with more power and ease, get clear on your story, and write with a fuller emotional range.
Course material is made available as text and as downloadable audio so that you can either read or listen at your convenience.
Close readings
Good writing comes, in part, from good reading. Each module offers carefully chosen close readings of literature that illustrate the module’s theme. The close readings offer lessons in craft, technique, and literary vision. We read and learn from writers such as Sappho, Rilke, Rumi, Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Oliver, as well as inspiring thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh, and many others.
A bonus section of extra suggested readings is also included in each module so that you can go deeper if you want.
Course material is made available as text and as downloadable audio so that you can either read or listen at your convenience.
Writing
Writing exercises and prompts
Each module contains numerous in-depth writing exercises and prompts that guide you through a step-by-step process.
Extra prompts are available so that you can come through the course again and again...for a lifetime! These prompts are designed for writers working in any genre and can be adapted for writers working on a larger writing project.
Meditation
Integrating meditation and writing
In each module, I guide you through a carefully chosen meditation to help clear the static from your mind and come into greater concentration, clarity and insight. The course guides you to establish a home practice that integrates meditation and writing.
I provide a short teaching video about the meditation as well as an audio recording of the meditation to practice with.
Yoga
Bring mind and body into integration
In each module, I lead a carefully selected yoga set to complement the theme of the week, deepen the focus of the lesson, and bring mind and body into integration. Our bodies as well as our minds carry our stories, and the yoga is designed to help you listen to your body, release what you no longer need, and heal and harness the power of your body’s wisdom. The yoga can be rigorous for those looking for good physical, emotional and mental strength-building and stamina, but it can also be modified for all body types and be taken very gently. Yoga is optional.
I provide a teaching video about the yoga set for the week as well as an audio recording of the sequence to practice with.
PLUS: lots of support and access to me and to a vibrant community of writers around the world.
While one-on-one coaching packages with me start at $3000, I will be there every step of the way to support you through Align Your Story.
Whether you're just starting to write or working on your third book,
I'll be there to offer guidance and answer questions.
And you'll have access to a wonderful, supportive community of writers around the world.
BONUS #1: COMMUNITY ($1000 value)
As a special bonus, you'll receive TWO MONTHS of FREE MEMBERSHIP in the Align Your Story Community which includes:
Private, Online Community Space
The course comes with 2 months of FREE 24/7 access to a private, online community space (we use Circle) where you can connect with supportive, inspiring writers from around the world. Share work, ask questions, get support, offer feedback, be inspired.
We have students in Israel, England, Germany, Australia, India, South Korea, China, Canada, California, Texas, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other places.
Some students prefer to take the course as a self-guided retreat. If that’s you, don’t worry! Everything in the community is optional. :)
But if you're interested in sharing your work, getting feedback, having accountability, and connecting more deeply, the community space is a great place to be.
I'm very active in the space and am there to guide you and support you. Many students have made lasting friendships and formed ongoing writing groups from this community.
Bi-Monthly ZOOM COACHING SESSIONS
Each month inside the community, we meet live twice a month on Zoom for 75-90 min to look at literature, engage in discussion, get personalized coaching, practice together, and connect in small breakout rooms. You can ask questions in advance, whether you can be there live or not. All sessions will be recorded and can be watched on your own schedule.
This is an amazing opportunity to get coaching at an amazingly low price (ten one-on-one sessions with me typically costs $5,000.) Come with questions. Nadia is here to support you!
There will also be time at the end of each coaching session to go into breakout rooms so you can meet other students, share work, and engage in conversation.
All sessions will be recorded. If you can’t make the sessions live, you can email questions in advance and watch the recording later!
Some people prefer to take the course as a self-guided writing retreat and choose not participate in the live calls. That's fine! But you can always submit your questions ahead of time and listen to the recording later :)
If you're looking for community, these live sessions are a great way to feel supported and connect with other writers.
Monthly EXtended WRiting SESSIONS
Each month we also meet at least once to meditate/ move and write together for a longer period. This is a great time for
**And after your first two months in the AYS Community, you’ll have the option to continue your membership at a very low returning student rate, so we can connect, write, get inspired, and uplift one another all year.**
BONUS #2: Extra Sessions only for AYS Students ($2300 value)
PLUS #2: 4 EXTRA COACHING/ Discussion SESSIONS ONLY FOR AYS STUDENTS
Extra live sessions in July and August only for AYS students; get extra support and accountability. We'll also be exploring topics such as how to write about (and through) anger, writing and women's lives, writing and silence, and more...These are smaller sessions only for AYS students. ($800 value)
*****AND: Get access to these bonus sessions each year for free as an AYS student ($1500+ value)*****
BONUSES #3-7: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ($600+ value)
The Writers Checklist: Get Over Blocks
A proven method For Great Writing SEssion
Do you ever sit down and find that, whatever you do, you can’t get out of the way of your nasty inner critic, even after meditation? Or that you just are getting distracted? This checklist, available only as a bonus to Align Your Story, will give you some powerful tools to shift those voices, stay focused, and have your best writing sessions--any time.
Map your Piece: Find the Perfect Structure
A Step-By-Step Process
Do you ever find that you have lots of snippets of writing that you aren't sure how to put into a whole? Or even finished pieces that you want to put into a collection? This bonus teaching shows you how to see the the larger shape and structure of your pieces.
The Revision Checklist: Empower Revisions
A proven method to the revision process
We’re more successful at asking the inner critic to get out of the way if we have a plan for what to do when she comes back during revision and editing time! This revision sheet will give you the tools you need to make sure you’re doing your most successful editing.
The Finish your Piece Manual
BRING YOUR PIECES TO THE FINISH LINE
This guide will give you the steps you need to put the finishing touches on your piece so that it shines and you can confidently finish what you're working on and move on to the next piece or writing project!
A meditation for women writers
AFFIRMING THE POWER OF YOUR VOICE: COME INTO GREATER EASE AND POWER
This beautiful meditation and writing prompt is designed especially for women; it'll empower you to access your inner feminine power and allow it to emerge.
Savasana for writers
A GUIDED MEDITATION RECORDING FOR AFTER YOUR WRITING SESSION
This bonus recording is savasana for writers. Finish your writing session with a calming wind-down meditation. Integrate what you've written, be ready to put it down and go about your life, and come back to your work fresh the next writing session.
NOW CLOSED FOR ENROLLMENT
Say YES to your voice!
Total Value: well over $6,000 but it's hard to put a price on this transformative practice! Only $797 or three payments of $276.
Sign up FOR the waitlist to be notified when the course opens again.
30-day money back guarantee for those who take action; see details below.
30-DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Signing up for this course is a commitment to your voice and to the artist in you. I want to encourage you to honor that commitment. So I ask that you at least try the material. Because the course comes with lifetime enrollment, not having time to do it is not a reason to get a refund. I stand 100% behind the quality of the course. If you’re not satisfied, I offer a 100% money-back guarantee. I only ask that you show me you've engaged with the teachings and done some of the assignments for the first three modules.
When is Align Your Story?
On your own schedule... for a lifetime!
You have lifetime access to the teaching materials!
And you also get BONUS 2 months access to my online community for accountability, support, live coaching and practice sessions, community, and more.
PLUS you can come through the AYS coaching / discussion sessions in future years.
In other words, you have support AND flexibility.
The course offers enough support so that you have structure and accountability but ALSO enough flexibility so that you can fit it into your own schedule.
In Align Your Story, you can...
Go at your own pace. Because you have lifetime access to the materials, you can go at your own pace and don’t need to worry about “falling behind.”
Enjoy lessons on-the-go! The lessons and close readings also come in audio format, so you can enjoy them (like you would a podcast!) while you walk, do the dishes, drive, etc. Save your "course" time for your meditation, yoga and writing times!
Customize the course to YOU. The course has six different tracks and offers guidance on how to work with the teaching materials based on your schedule and interests.
Spend as much — or as little — time as you have each week on the teachings. Most students spend 2-4 hours per week on the course. But some only spend an hour and some spend much more if they want to take a deeper dive into their writing and practice.
Use the course to support YOUR writing projects. You can use the course to write all new work or to go deeper with a writing project you’re already working on.
Get lots of accountability and support. Inside your bonus membership to the Align Collective, you get coaching with Nadia, 24/7 community access, group writing times, and much more. There is plenty of accountability. You don't need to feel alone!
Return to the materials again and again. Because you have lifetime access to the teachings, you can come back to the material whenever you want.
Take a Tour Inside the Course
Learn more in the video below :)
JAMIE Weaver
“This will be my fourth time through Align your story, and every time my story becomes clearer and clearer. I thought I was crazy for spending this money on a class for writing. But in reality, it’s been the best money I have ever spent.“
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story”— Zora Neale Hurston
A Yoga Teacher, Qi Gong Teacher & Cancer Survivor
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Susan Falkenstein joined Align Your Story when she was healing from cancer. The course allowed her to get through a difficult time while getting more clear on her own story; now she shares what she learned with students in her Qi Gong classes.
A Medical Doctor & Survivor of the Iranian Revolution
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Sara Parvinian, a medical doctor, has been carrying the story of her teenage years in Iran during the Iranian Revolution for decades. Now, with the help of Align Your Story, she finally has a method to put that difficult chapter of her life on the page.
A Beginner Writer who became a Published Author
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“I had always dreamed of writing, but before AYS my writing consisted of personal journal entries. Nadia’s writing prompts and teaching style gave me the structure to start writing with awareness and intention and gave me the confidence to share my writing with others. It was wonderful to be part of a supportive community and get constructive feedback on my work. After completing the program, I started a blog on Medium, and my first book, The Goddess Solution, (Harper Collins) was published in spring 2021!
I’m so grateful to have found Nadia’s course, which got me on this path of writing my book. If you are interested in adding more structure to your writing practice and integrating it with your mindfulness practice, you’ll love Align Your Story; it might be the first step for your book, too.”
A Professor whose relationship to her writing — academic writing and creative writing — transformed
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BERNIE LLANOS
professor of modern languages and literature
“I’m a professor of modern languages and literature and do a lot of academic writing, but I wanted to work on my creative writing, so signed up for Align Your Story. I found that connecting the mind/body with the act of writing creatively helped me to find my own voice within my body. To my surprise, this method of writing from a place of connection not only helped me write creatively, but also helped make my academic writing more productive. I wrote chapter drafts for a book I have in progress while also working on several creative pieces. I learned that finding time for my creative work is absolutely possible and that these two types of writing can actually coexist. And I now have two creative pieces that I've finished.
I really enjoyed the literary pieces chosen for each module and the ways they connected to the writing prompts. The yoga and meditation blended in a way that encouraged me to write every time I sit down in front of my computer. This course has really changed my relationship to my writing.
Thank you so much, Nadia, for a beautiful experience!“
A Visual Artist and Busy Professional
who discovered a "new way of looking at life and art"
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Robin Reynolds
business owner and artist
“I’m a busy professional with a career which doesn’t allow much space for creativity and over the past few years, my writing had gotten crowded out, then pushed to the side. I’m also a visual artist. I didn’t realize that the writing was the foundation of the visual work. Over time, I began to feel a little lost without a consistent writing practice but I couldn’t figure out how to fit it in. At about the time that I decided to re-focus and prioritize my creative writing, I came across Nadia’s course, Align Your Story (AYS). I hesitated a little before signing up; I wondered about the practicality of committing that much time and money to my writing. Wasn’t it just a hobby? Eventually, I decided to dive in, and I haven’t regretted it for a second. This course was worth every penny and more.
Since working with Nadia, I have been writing more consistently and deeply than before, but it’s not just that. Nadia’s approach is so much more than a writing workshop – it’s a new way of looking at life and art. AYS combines yoga and meditation along with the study of great works by other writers then merges it all together in a way that opens up new ways of thinking and being. She designed the AYS curriculum to be flexible and easily tailored to each person’s needs and available time. I love that I can go back later to review modules or take a deeper dive whenever I like. Nadia has built a supportive and loving community, and by taking one of her courses, you are welcomed inside with open arms. The atmosphere of the course is safe and encouraging – no judgment, just appreciation for the magic and healing power of creativity. Through Nadia’s live calls and coaching, I found new confidence in my writing. Since taking the course, I've devised a practice which integrates my writing and visual art. This course has been a revelation for me!“
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Do you have questions about Align Your Story? I answer the most common questions below.
But if you have a question that isn't answered below, email me directly at nadia@nadiacolburn.com.
There are great benefits to online writing classes that in-person classes can't offer.
In this online course, you get more teaching material than could be delivered in an in-person class. You get not only writing instruction, but also meditation and yoga instruction.
You can take your time with the course and keep the materials for life, going deeper and deeper into them with time.
You can go through the course at your own leisure and on your own time-table.
You get to focus on your own work and not spend lots of energy on other student's writing.
You can enjoy the benefits of returning to the material in this course many times.
Like an in-person class, this online course also offers a community of supportive, dedicated writers—and after the first three months of the class, you can extend your community membership so that you have ongoing, lifetime access to this amazing online community of writers from around the world.
This course also offers direct access to Nadia in the Circle community space and on the live coaching calls, so you can get all of your questions answered.
While one of the benefits of a writing course can be the feedback from the teacher, that is only one benefit of a writing course–and sometimes that benefit has its shadow side.
In Align Your Story, students are often amazed at how much freer they feel in their writing. Even if they didn't feel "worried" about teacher feedback in the past, they realize that they've become accustomed to writing for affirmation, for feedback, for judgment.
This class, instead, will encourage you to experiment with and explore your writing, understanding, and voice. Students feel free to put things on the page they never would have written for a more traditional class.
And at the same time, they become better readers, editors and witnesses of their own writing. They learn to listen to themselves and are able to give themselves feedback more fully.
The unique format of AYS allows students to unlock their creativity and authenticity, connect mind, body and spirit, and become better readers, editors, and writers. .
Students in AYS learn to become their own best and first witness. This is essential for our long-term health as writers (and people). Even if we get feedback, we need to have the tools for how to receive feedback, what feedback to take and what to let go of, etc. because in the end, we are always the best authority on our own work.
Writers have told me that they have grown in this course more than they have in their MFA programs because of all the tools they are given and the ways in which the course invites them to trust their own voice, develop it authentically, and get the skills to be their own best reader.
If you want to take this course as a private writing retreat, that is one option, but if you want to connect with others, there is lots of community and support.
Students can also share their work in the supportive, active Circle community space, where I am also reading and commenting on work. Students learn to ask for the kind of feedback they want--and to learn what they don't want. There is also time to share work in the breakout rooms on Zoom.
Students have often formed writing groups and lifelong friendships with other writers in the community, so while this course does not offer traditional teacher feedback, you will feel held and supported by the community. And I'm there every step of the way to answer questions and guide you through the course and journey. If at some point you’d like more individualized support, you can also explore my writing coaching.
If you can make the live calls, that’s great. They will be offered at different times on different weeks to fit as many people’s schedules as possible. But if you can’t make the live sessions, don’t fret!
Everyone will get a recording of all the live sessions. You can email me your questions in advance and I’ll be sure to answer them in the session.
You will also have access to the Circle community group, where you can also reach out for support.
No new material will be offered in the live sessions. All the material for the course is housed online where you have lifetime access!
Yes! If you want to deepen and align your writing practice, this class is for you.
I find that experienced writers are often the people who most need this class–we need to get out of our heads and reconnect and re-integrate our writing with our hearts, bodies, and souls. We need to reconnect with our authentic purpose as a writer–writing not just for others, but for ourselves.
Often the most experienced writers have forgotten that it’s okay to be vulnerable in their writing. But the vulnerability hasn’t gone away–this is a place to explore that vulnerability with grace, compassion, wisdom, and humor -- and ultimately to allow that vulnerability to become your greatest strength.
Yes! If you want to deepen and align your writing practice, this class is for you.
I find that experienced writers are often the people who most need this class–we need to get out of our heads and reconnect and re-integrate our writing with our hearts, bodies, and souls. We need to reconnect with our authentic purpose as a writer–writing not just for others, but for ourselves.
Often the most experienced writers have forgotten that it’s okay to be vulnerable in their writing. But the vulnerability hasn’t gone away–this is a place to explore that vulnerability with grace, compassion, wisdom, and humor -- and ultimately to allow that vulnerability to become your greatest strength.
Absolutely! This class is perfect for beginner writers. It will give you a step-by-step guide to get started. You don't need to know what you want to write about. Just follow the prompts, and they will guide you on a journey of discovery through different topics and genres.
You never need to worry about being judged, and you have the support of a community and coaching calls if you have any questions.
Absolutely! This class is perfect for beginner writers. It will give you a step-by-step guide to get started. You don't need to know what you want to write about. Just follow the prompts, and they will guide you on a journey of discovery through different topics and genres.
You never need to worry about being judged, and you have the support of a community and coaching calls if you have any questions.
If you don’t want to do the yoga or meditation, don’t do it. They are optional; it’s all optional.
But you might surprise yourself...I recommend giving it a try–and just seeing what happens….I believe the yoga and the meditation will deepen your writing practice, as well as your experience of yourself, your body, your mind and the world!
All of the yoga sets can be modified, and I offer a special chair yoga practice for those who can't do the more rigorous positions.
This course is about listening to yourself. You’re not being graded. You can do what you want to do and leave the rest. That said, I encourage you to at least try all the topics and see where they take you. This course has a step-by-step method to get you writing your best work.
If you are taking the course to help you with a pre-existing project that you are already working on that has nothing to do with childhood, following the course will still guide you to go deeper with that project.
For example, even when you are writing about a completely fictional bank robbery, some part of you is writing from your childhood self. Many of our best details come from being able to connect with our own childhood experiences, even if we then use them in different ways in our final drafts.
So take the time to really dive in and explore writing from all the different modules. The course guides you through a process that will give you new levels of energy -- on and off the page.
If you come to the course with a project that you’re already working on, I have specific steps in the course to guide you to use the course for those purposes. (See more below!)
My course is similar in some ways to Julia Cameron’s excellent Artist’s Way method and different in others.
Much as I admire that groundbreaking book and method, my course offers much more than it, and truly integrates mind, body and spirit, going more deeply into each of these three areas. And my course unfolds in real time with a community of real people and a live teacher -- me!
So that said, here are some of the ways our work is similar:
Like Cameron’s work, my course gives you tools and encouragement to tap into and stick with and value your creative self. Like Cameron’s work, my course helps you move through blocks, and like Cameron’s work, my course also has a spiritual dimension.
And here are some of the ways my course is different:
First of all, my specific method and insights are different from Cameron’s.
Second, you get to have live check-ins with me and a community of supportive writers, with whom you can have a life-long connection.
Third, my course is released module by module, so that you can chart your own progress, and really develop a writing practice over time.
Fourth, while The Artist's Way focuses mainly on writing exercises, my course also develops deep reading skills. I believe that good writing comes from good reading. And I also believe that good reading awakens and fuels our creative selves. Included with each module is suggested reading of great published texts and close readings of those texts, that help you understand both content and technique.
Fifth, my course also offers a true mind-body-spirit integration and includes yoga and meditation along with the writing exercises and close readings.
Yes! The course will lead you through a process with writing prompts, etc. so that you get comfortable with writing and create a body of work.
Yes! The course will lead you through a process with writing prompts, etc. so that you get comfortable with writing and create a body of work.
Yes! Most people who are working on a long project find this course very helpful. If you want detailed feedback on your project, this course is not for you. But if you want to deepen your relationship to your project, to come at it from some slightly new angles, to get through blocks and to invigorate your writing, then yes, this course is for you. You can work through these modules to fit specific writing projects that you are already working on. If you want some support doing that, feel free to reach out to me (nadia@nadiacolblurn.com) for some suggestions about how best to do that. Many students have taken this course as a way to get through a memoir-writing project or other book-length project and have had great success.
If you have no interest at all in writing, this course is probably not for you. But if your primary interests are yoga and meditation and you are curious about how to bring writing into those practices to support them and to deeper in your own personal growth, this course is definitely for you! You don't need any writing experience, and the course is very flexible and guides you to develop your own personal interests and pursue your own growth.
If you have no interest at all in writing, this course is probably not for you. But if your primary interests are yoga and meditation and you are curious about how to bring writing into those practices to support them and to deeper in your own personal growth, this course is definitely for you! You don't need any writing experience, and the course is very flexible and guides you to develop your own personal interests and pursue your own growth.
I use the word, "story," to point to any meaning-making system. Stories come in every form: in our bodies, in our emotions, in our dreams. They need not only be narrative. Any time we have an act of creative expression and meaning making, we’re tapping into some story. This course encourages you to go deeply into your art, to let go of a traditional path, and to open up to the creative process.
I am a serious student of Thich Nhat Hanh, who teaches breathing meditation and meditation in everything we do in our everyday lives. I have a lot of experience with Vipassana meditation, have sat 10 day silent retreats, and am a certified kundalini yoga teacher. I bring all of these practices together in Align Your Story, pairing individual teachings with the focus of each lesson.
For example, in our Deep Listening module, we practice attention to our breath.
But in the module in which we are overcoming Resistance, I lead students in an uplifting chanting meditation that helps break through old habit energy and quiets the mind in powerful ways.
I practice a mixture of hatha, vinyassa and Kundalini yogas personally and bring a mixture of these practices into the course. I focus on kundalini, especially for writing courses, because of Kundalini’s powerful ability to help us break through old energetic blocks and come into greater awareness of the movement and power of our own internal energy systems.
That’s a great question, and I have many people ask me that!
Align Your Story is infinitely flexible. Even half an hour a week can help you start a writing practice and a home meditation or yoga practice and get your creative juices flowing.
What is great about the course is once you sign up, you have access to the teaching materials forever. So whether you want to take the course as an intensive retreat during a sabbatical or in retirement when you can devote several hours a day to the course, or whether you want to just dip your toes in whenever you can while you're working full-time, this class is for you!
What is important is that you make this first commitment to yourself; the first step is always the hardest internal barrier to get over, but once you do, the course will give you all the support you need to keep going. :)
No worries! All the material is housed on a website, and participation in the Circle community forum is completely optional. The course is very low tech. All you need is a basic computer to access the website–and a lot of the course material can be done off-screen! I sought to create a rich experience that doesn’t depend on being on a screen for hours. :)
Taking the course as a self-guided retreat is a beautiful way to interact with the material. While the community of writers in this course is a strong and vibrant one, the focus of the course is on listening to yourself, which you may feel you can do better on your own. Many students have chosen not to interact with the Circle group and the coaching calls. Do what’s right for you. And if another year you want to interact with the course differently, you can do that, too.
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A woman who came to love herself in a new way — and whose creative life blossomed
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Renee Chandler has found a new relationship with almost every aspect of her life through the transformative method of Align Your Story, which she has worked through for several years. As Renee listened more deeply, she found a new relationship to spirituality; she came to love herself in a new way; she started dating again; even her physical health improved. At the same time, her creative life blossomed.
A writer who stepped into her power
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Since joining Align Your Story, Monica Lehner has been meeting regularly with a group of other AYS students to share work and experiences as writers and has stepped into her full commitment to herself as a writer.
A writer who prepared for her MFA in fiction
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Khadijah Abdul-Haqq is grateful that she took Align Your Story before starting an MFA program in Fiction. She's much better able to receive comments now and is even teaching her daughter some of the methods from AYS!
A Writer who found new ease in her writing
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“I stumbled upon Align Your Story in a moment of sheer desperation. From day one, Align Your Story is a thoughtful, engaging and inspiring series of modules that takes the writer on a deeply spiritual, soul-filling journey, and it shifted my own life dramatically. The yoga and meditation exercises were an unexpected bonus and gave consciousness and clarity to each of the writing practices. I had never before written with so much freedom and personal insight as I was compelled to during Nadia’s course. Her genuine interest in bringing out your authentic voice, and gently teasing out the parts of your personal journey that lend weight and meaning to your work keeps you coming back for more each week.
I look at this course as my own personal spiritual spring cleaning…the fact that I can access the course anytime I want offers endless opportunities to regularly clear out the “dust” that collects in the crawl spaces of my soul.”
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A creative writing teacher who developed a new, more loving relationship with her body and soul
Carol King is a teacher of creative writing herself. She especially appreciated the close attention to other literature that the course offered, but what surprised her most about the course was the way it shifted her own relationship to her body, pleasure, and intimacy. As she listened more deeply to herself, she had a whole new relationship to pleasure.
A retired HR professional who found a new relationship to herself
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LISA HUMPHREY
Retired from career in Human Resources
Chillicothe, OH
“When I retired , I was determined to move into my most creative self without the constraints and rules of others’ expectations. I just was not quite sure how I was going to get there. To my delight and surprise, this writing workshop...came along and lit the way.
Align Your Story’s approach to writing as storytelling made me lighter and happier; once I saw myself as a storyteller I also became a story writer. And with that realization came freedom.
I was amazed by how the simple act of writing a new ending to an old memory brought me into a different relationship with that memory. What I have found with Align Your Story is a new relationship to myself!
Align Your Story is a wonderful writing course; I could not have wanted for more content, personal connection, creative support or input. I see its effect in all of my life.”
A professional screenwriter who came back to who she is underneath it all and is blazing along her new screenplay.
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Jill Baer
Screenwriter
Nadia is among my best writing teachers ever. (I’ve studied with many, including Alison Lurie (Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction). Noted poet AR Ammons, Robert Morgan, and here in LA, John Truby, the screenwriting guru.)
I’m a professional screenwriter, and I found Nadia’s work after my little sister passed away. She had Down syndrome; she was the sunshine of my life. I became her co-guardian at 17, and was a big part of her care and life throughout its 56 years. Her death hit me like a tidal wave, and it became very hard to write.
In that period, I also realized that for a long time, writing and story editing as a profession had imposed its own constraints. I’d set a very high bar for myself, and those standards can cause a lot of self-judgment and paralysis. Especially when I yearn to write stories that are the closest to my heart.
SO... Align Your Story set me free! It brought me back to who I am, underneath the resume, the dramas of life, the coping, the adjusting, the relentless thinking... I am also finding that the muscles in my neck, jaw, ears, chest, and diaphragm are loosening up. All the "stuff" around the physical source of my voice!
The AYS course has been an incredible experience for me. I'm suddenly writing with so much energy and passion, and working on a piece I was sort of afraid to touch with enthusiasm and fearlessness. It's a screenplay, And I'm blazing along.
One day in the AYS class, I suddenly saw the pattern of it I'd been circling around. The process has been like that. I just dive in, expect nothing, allow.... and then often -- usually the next day, something just tells me what it is. Or what it could be. Or that whatever it is, I should write it down.
The confidence and connection the course gave my engine a kick start, and the new channels it's opened up for me as a writer and human being have been game-changers! Thank you for helping me every single day! You recharged that worn-out, sleeping writer in me, and brought her back to life. I can't thank you enough.
Align Your Story is NOT your traditional writing class
A movelist who left behind a torturous writing life
Brittani Sonnenberg
author of Home Leave
Austin, TX
“People often talk about how tortuous the writing life is. That was my experience as a professional novelist. This writing workshop...offers a different path, one that incorporates community, physical exercise, meditation, readings, writing prompts, and Nadia’s own gentle, insightful presence and listening. I loved the diversity of resources I found here and how the course (quite literally) strengthens the muscles needed for a regular writing practice.
I now incorporate the yoga exercises from this course, as well as meditation exercises, into my daily writing schedule. It puts me in a better mood and reminds me of the rest of myself, the entirety of me, on days that feel frustrating at the computer.
I’ve made exciting progress on my second novel, and I’ve felt a lot less alone. AYS has given me the chance to re-examine my relationship to success and self-worth, in a way that serves not just my writing, but the rest of my life, too. It’s been an important way for me to honor and embrace my own voice, both on and off the page.”
A poet and Dream-Worker who stepped into her power
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JENNIE MEYER
mother, meditation teacher, dream-work facilitator
Gloucester, MA
“At last I discovered a writing mentor, Nadia Colburn, who dares to value both the craft of writing and one’s personal journey of body, mind, spirit and voice. What I did not expect was how intentionally and lovingly Nadia would hold herself, her students, and the world to that vision throughout Align Your Story.
Her profoundly powerful lessons, readings, supporting yoga movements, meditations, and guidance in the weekly phone conversations, met me exactly where I was on my own path. Her insight and candor reached directly to parts of my own unconscious.
I responded to Align Your Story with an unexpected and welcome shift in a long-standing, difficult recurring dream. And this shift, in turn has been the start of a long series of changes. I now am working professionally myself as a dream-worker, helping others interpret and shift their dreams. Working with Nadia through Align Your Story allowed me a depth of internal movement and self-integration that infused new life and strength into my path and voice.”
A writer who found a supportive community of writers who inspire her and keep her from "staying small"
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A poet who found a renewed joy in writing
CHRISTINE POREBA
Poet and Teacher author of Rough Knowledge Tallahassee, FL
“I was in the final stages of putting together a manuscript when I first signed up for Align Your Story, so I wasn’t sure it was the best time to start the course. I was soon to discover, this course is so adaptable to any stage in which you find yourself that there is truly no wrong time to take it. Align Your Story meets you where you are.
The writing and revisions I’ve done since taking this course have seemed so much truer to my own voice, from which I had felt fairly removed for a while. Nadia’s teachings helped me find a renewed joy in writing. I feel overall freer, and my work is much more powerful as a result.”
A women's advocate who discovered
a new way of approaching her passions
MIKKI PUGH
Women’s Advocate
Align Your Story was the first online course I’ve ever taken, and I am so glad I took that leap. Nadia is an amazing facilitator – so warm, welcoming, and inquisitive. Her generous style lends itself well to learning and inner growth. I felt completely held by the group, even though I never met anyone in person! I am deeply grateful for having had this opportunity to combine my interests in writing, meditation, and yoga. I now have a new way to approach all three.
A woman who realized her lifelong dream of becoming a writer
KARALYN WALKER
Eugene, OR
“I have a couple of fused ligaments in my neck, so I am deathly afraid of chiropractors who want to twist my neck, which is always stuck , which gives pain to my shoulder. Several years ago I found a Chiropractor who practices a gentle form of alignment called Nuca, it is a way to align my way without pain or twist. What does this have to do with Align Your Story ? Align Your Story was the first course I did with Nadia. It is a remarkable journey into self through writing, yoga, meditation and community. I started to realize a life long ambition of being a writer, of learning good habits of becoming a writer. I learned to value my story, and share it with others. And I’m now finishing up the first draft of my memoir that I started as a result of Align Your Story. Nadia is an extraordinary guide for these troubled times, she is my guide for my creative soul. One of the perks of being in the class is it goes on forever, so if you sign up you might see me there, I hope so. “
A woman in retirement from corporate America who reconnected with her childhood creativity
JANEt BEDNARZ
At the time I registered for “Align Your Story” I was in my second year of retirement from corporate America and struggling to recover the creativity I’d had as a child. In particular, I was drawn to writing poetry and creative non-fiction, which I was doing in fits and starts with little to show for it. I questioned whether I even had anything of value to write about.
When I discovered Align Your Story it was an affirmation to myself that I deserved to take my interest in writing seriously, and I’m so glad I made that decision. “Align Your Story” immediately gave me the structure and support I needed to practice writing, including a weekly one-hour live conference call led by Nadia and the community of the online group. When I registered for the course, I was afraid that anything I wrote might be criticized and nit picked. My experience was just the opposite. Nadia was supportive and gentle with everyone, helping us see our strengths, providing feedback that further fanned our creative sparks. We followed her lead and treated each other’s efforts with the same respect. Align Your Story showed me I do have a story to tell. Thanks to Align Your Story and Nadia’s support, I continue to write, determined to own my power and let my voice be heard.
A therapist who found community
and healed from unresolved trauma
TAWONA PEARSON
Therapist
The encouragement and level of acceptance I felt from Nadia and the group allowed me to move past the embarrassment and deal with this unresolved trauma around being seen and heard. My authentic voice had been buried under all of this fear and was ready to come alive and Align Your Story was an opportunity to come out of hiding. The course gifted me the opportunity to heal what was in the way of my own inner knowing of my own voice.
I've being more and more honest about what I feel and what I know to be true for me and not twisting up my words on the page or preventing the words from coming out.
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart Nadia! You are an amazing teacher and I am so lucky to work with you. I actually developed my first course on The Emotional Trauma of What Others Might Think or Feel About Us. And I'm in the process of finishing my poetry memoir - I'm doing things I only dreamed of doing - and you are a huge part the reason."
A nonfiction author and writing coach who healed, overcame writer's block, and finished her book
I’ve now taken two courses with Nadia —the 31 Day Course and Align Your Story —and in both cases, the experience was transformative. I also work as a writing coach, but I was going through a hard time personally, healing from illness, and was in the middle of a long-form writing project that I was struggling with when a dear friend introduced me to Nadia and her offerings. I knew writing would reconnect me to myself, but it certainly wasn’t happening on my own. Align Your Story provided the necessary accountability and helped me show up to my writing each day and got me through this difficult time in my life. The combination of meditation and writing was potent, and I continue the practices and have now finished my book. I love that participants have lifelong access to the courses. I urge any writer who finds herself blocked to gift themselves this gift, right away–and then, once she’s experienced it, to gift it to another...writer who finds herself stuck. Because we’ve all been there, and we’ll all be there again.”
A woman who came home to herself, mind, body and spirit after 30 years of medication.
Renna LeGrand
I am so grateful to have discovered your Align Your Story course, and to have had the courage to move forward and move through the course. The timing of the course, for me, aligned with the timing of my last taper of a very strong psycho-pharmaceutical prescription drug that was prescribed to me over thirty years ago, when I was a teen. Over the course of the 30 years, I had tried at least four times to release the medication. So, I'm sharing this with you because AYS was a way for me to truly come home to myself, mind, body and spirit, finally at 0mg of the Lithium carbonate. The sequence of yoga, meditation, and writing, each morning, has become a way for me to truly feel my spirit in my body. I have continued this practice daily, the entire year, and I so look forward to continuing to work with AYS.
AYS has been a journey to come to a place of feeling grounded, not only with ever changing life circumstances, but with the healing that has been happening within me. My writing and art journaling practice has truly helped me to piece together stories that have been kept hidden. Writing has been my way through the forest of the psyche, ultimately allowing me to retrieve lost parts of my self, reclaim my own inner light. Your AYS course guided me to discover a deep well of inspiration, and a way to access it daily, through my practice, which I consider sacred, a way to unify all fractured parts of myself, and my relationships with others and with the Divine.
Now, I am preparing to journey from the safety of a journal to a format where I may share more of what longs so deeply to be seen, heard, recognized. I have never felt so strong, from the very inside, and so aligned with my truth. Even when I don't know what's to come, I am able to be present, confident, and kind to myself, with love and appreciation for the courage to live this life so fully.
An artist who healed then integrated writing into her visual art practice
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Portia Durbin used Align Your Story to process a difficult time in her life, and through the course came to love her writing more and integrate it with her work as a visual artist.
A published author
who fell back in love
with writing
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Robin Clifford Wood joined Align Your Story soon after her first book came out for publication. She was thick in the weeds of publicity and author appearances and worried that she had lost the spark to her own creativity. In Align Your Story, she had a path back to her writing.
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Here’s how it works:
When you sign up for a course like this, you’re making an investment in yourself. I’m here to support you.
If you do the work for the first three modules of the course (and can show me that you’ve done some of the work) and if you aren’t satisfied for any reason, I’ll refund your money.
I don’t offer a money-back guarantee if you sign up but don’t have time to do the course work. Once you enroll, you have lifetime access to the online material, so if you can’t start right away, you can come engage with the material and community later.
When you sign up you are making a commitment to yourself that you’ll invest at least some time and energy into your own life as a writer and in this course, and I want to help you make that commitment to yourself. Just try the material. But if you try it and it's really not for you, then I offer a refund.
The number one step for healing is getting your story straight.
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