Point Reyes Books

This winter retreat offers a great feast of stories exploring the complexities that life offers us. From Indigenous Trickster stories to the great European romance of 'Tristan and Isolde', we will gather round the story - fire in the old way and take its affirming, playful heat into our tired bones. Themes include: the value of longing and the trance of disappointment/ creating a Culture of Wildness/ wrestling the paradox of romantic and earthly love/ reclaiming mythic territory/ the addiction to Severance/ Taking the road of the Crow.

 

Supported by the creation and discipline of poetry we will also gaze out into the living world - to celebrate the seasonal impulse to incubate and dream. Martin will offer ancient bardic techniques for approaching the wild - that are both pragmatic and mystical. These weekends are intense, humorous, creative, and are a true invitation to work the ground of the soul. To get a further sense of Martin's work please go to www.schoolofmyth.com and follow his weekly diary at the same site.

 

MARTIN SHAW is an award winning storyteller, mythologist and wilderness rites - of -passage guide. Author of 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree' (revised version out spring 2011 on White Cloud Press), he is lives in the UK but teaches internationally. Guest lecturer on Desmond Tutu's leadership program at Oxford University, Robert Bly describes him as; " A true master. Shaw is one of the very greatest storytellers we have. He presides over an astonishing flow of language"

 

For more information contact bookstore staff person Lisa Doron at lisa@ptreyesbooks.com.

 

Mark your calendar for the 2011 weekends:

 

January 21-23, 2011 *** booked out - waiting list available ***
May 27-29, 2011
September 22-24, 2011

 

Each weekend is $215-$250 sliding scale.