Distraction-free writing time
with a yoga chaser

Thursday, May 15 – Sunday, May 18, 2025

Lake Arrowhead, CA

Join me for 3 nights/4 days of writing time in a beautiful wooded setting,
with an amazing private chef, daily writer-centric yoga and meditation,
and a fabulous community of other writers.

Lodging and food: $695-$1595
Tuition: $495

$250 deposit holds your space

The idea behind these retreats is simple: time. Time to write, to brainstorm, to clear your psychic space from distractions. To sit with your manuscript. To revise. To remember why you love this. To finish something. To start something. To remind yourself how good you are. To feel refreshed. To be supported. To not have to think about anything else. To rest. To eat amazing food that someone else has prepared for you (and cleaned up after!). To read. To hike. To create To be. 

There are no critiques, no readings, no workshops, no cooking, no cleaning, no distractions. Just you and the incredible spaciousness of uninterrupted time in a supportive community of other writers. There are daily optional yoga classes and guided meditations, both geared specifically for writers. Our private chef for the retreat, the extraordinary Chef Dan, cooks fresh, organic meals and desserts prepared with everyone’s dietary needs taken into account, and there are a plethora of snacks and things to nosh. The surroundings are quiet and beautiful, and Lake Arrowhead is only a fifteen minute drive away. All writers of anything are welcome, whether it’s a book or a blog, a dissertation or a business plan, poetry or screenplays, articles or songs, or anything else.  

Likewise, all levels of physicality and yoga experience are welcome. You do not have to have a current yoga practice, and all yoga is optional. I lead two yoga classes each day: one intermediate and one beginning. You may come to either, both, or neither, whichever serves you best. The yoga is there to help you get out of your mind (in the best possible way) and let the body unwind from hours at a laptop or notebook. There are also daily guided meditations, to slide you into your hours and hours of protected time.

Whatever it is you need in the moment — whether that's writing or reading or sleeping, having a fabulous conversation with another writer, or simply sitting on the wood porch of your cabin, listening to the rustling of the leaves and letting the birdsong wash over you — this retreat is about the time and the permission to do just that. I’d love to see you there.

If you are a writer who identifies with any group that is historically under-represented in traditional publishing and who has some financial need, consider applying for an All Voices Fellowship! These cover the entire cost of the retreat other than travel. Apply here for an All Voices Fellowship.  If you’d like to read about past All Voices recipients, go here.