Write It Out®
Special Writing Retreat Workshop
Tuscany, Italy

Saturday, May 15 - Saturday, May 22, 2010 New dates!

Includes writing, expressive painting, gentle yoga, editing consultations and salons

Write, paint and experience gentle yoga immersed in the culture of a Renaissance-era Tuscan estate. The historic Villa Le Barone is surrounded by vineyards and olive groves in the hills of the Chianti region. Our retreat locale provides modern amenities, a gracious atmosphere and a natural setting to experience sensory writing workshops, the freedom of expressive painting, and time to write on your own. The retreat also includes individual consultations on your work with a published writer, evening salons where work is shared, and dinners together with other writers at the Villa's gourmet restaurant serving regional specialties. This special retreat is for the novice as well as the experienced writer.

Write It Out is proud to announce our partnership this year with the Longboat Key Education Center of Sarasota to offer you yoga exercise as a part of our creative relaxation and revitalization program. Arrangements can also be made to sightsee in the local village of Panzano and Greve in Chianti and the nearby cities of Florence, San Gimignano, and Siena by private van.

Workshops

Sensory Delights. A sensory based writing workshop coordinated to the Italian experience and culture. Spontaneous writing methods develop insight and authenticity used for fiction, poetry, plays, and nonfiction including creative journaling.
Facilitator Ronni Miller

Expressive Painting. An expressive painting workshop designed to free the inner spirit, and release feelings and thoughts through paint.
Facilitator Ronni Miller

Easy Yoga. A workshop of gentle but highly effective stretching, conditioning, breathing and relaxation exercises for all ages and fitness levels. Simple routines incorporate a range of several hatha yoga styles designed to provide maximum safety and enjoyment.
Facilitator Susan Goldfarb

Facilitators

Ronni Miller is Founder and Director of Write It Out®, an expressive and motivational writing program for students of all ages that she created in 1992. She is a charter institutional member of the National Association of Poetry Therapy (NAPT) and on the Sarasota board of the National League of American Pen Women. Miller is the author of two books, Dance With The Elephants, Free Your Creativity And Write, and Where To Go With Your Lover, as well as other published stories, essays, articles and poems. She holds a BA in English from Boston University and has done advanced training at the prestigous Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Her professional experience spans work as teacher, reporter, editor, theater director and expressive arts facilitator. In her private practice she councels clients in expressive writing techniques for healing and wellness, as well as editorial guidance for manuscript publication.

Susan Goldfarb is Executive Director of The Longboat Key Education Center. She holds a BA from York University, Toronto, and a Instructor's Certificate in physical fitness from the YMCA. She has completed Sivananda, Kripalu and Iyengar teacher training. Susan has taught yoga at The LBK Education Center for over 23 years. She was also a health columnist for the Longboat Observer newspaper for ten years.

Registration and Accommodations

Registration and Payment: Write It Out® has offered writing and painting workshops in Tuscany for the past twelve years. To celebrate our partnership this year with LBK Education Center we are offering a special reduced price of $399 per person for the workshops and salons. A $50 deposit is required and balance of $349 paid by MARCH 15, 2010. Thereafter, if space is available at the Villa, the registration price will be $799. Refunds after March 15, 2010 will be at the discretion of the directors. For workshop registration: include name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and a brief essay on why you want to take the workshop. Make checks payable to Write It Out and mail to Write It Out - P.O. Box 704 Sarasota, FL 34230. For more information contact Ronni at RMillerWIO@aol.com, or call 941-359-3824.

Accommodations: The cost of room accommodations and board is additional to the price of the workshop. Arrangements for rooms and recommended half-board (breakfast and dinner) must be made separately with the Villa Le Barone in Panzano, Italy. Lunches are additional. Contact the Villa at info@villabarone.com or by telephone: 011-39-055-85-2621. When making arrangements with the Villa and to receive a 15% discount on room rates, be sure to tell them you are part of Ronni Miller's Write It Out writing program. If you prefer, we can recommend a travel agent who will handle your trip arrangements and trip insurance.