Ordinary Mysticism
Writing Retreat

with Mirabai Starr

October 16–20 | Taos, New Mexico

Reclaim your everyday life as sacred—and write from the holy ground of your lived experience.

Early Bird Rates Available until May 18th!

Discover Writing as a Spiritual Practice

What if your ordinary life was not an obstacle to your writing — but the very source of its deepest power?

Join award-winning author Mirabai Starr in the luminous high desert of Taos, New Mexico, where the veils between the sacred and the everyday grow thin.

Through poetry, presence, and the written word, we'll gather in circle to reclaim writing as a spiritual practice—and your life as holy ground.

Through guided writing, contemplative practices, and soul-deep connection, you'll:

Loosen the grip of perfection and let your authentic voice rise
Unearth the sacred stories buried in your everyday life
Share your words in a circle of fierce tenderness and trust
Weave a rich basket of writing to carry forward
Remember that your ordinary life is enough—more than enough—to begin

"This retreat cracked me open to a deeper level of writing, one that reconnected me with the written word. It's like it unblocked all of these things that were getting in the way of my voice."

— Manny F.

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What Makes This Retreat Special?

"Writing as a spiritual practice honors our stories as holy and mysterious; sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrible. It is in the telling that they open us to a vast new inner landscape." — Mirabai Starr

This retreat is designed for both aspiring and seasoned writers who wish to explore the mysteries of the inner life through words—grounded in the body, anchored in the sacred, and held in beloved community.

You'll Experience:

Daily writing rituals guided by Mirabai's experience and wisdom
Sharing circles where your voice is witnessed and honored
Body Temple movement with Adriana Rizzolo to free your creative flow
Sacred chant and song with Willow Brook to open your expression
Contemplative practices to nourish your spirit
The magic of Taos as creative sanctuary
Nourishing meals prepared with beauty and care

Whether you feel blocked or just long to go deeper, you'll find the tools, community, and inspiration you need to reawaken your creative spirit and write your truth.

Who This Is For:

Writers navigating transitions, spiritual opening or grief
Anyone longing to reclaim writing as a sacred, embodied act
Creatives who feel silenced by inner critics or perfectionism
Those wanting to harvest their everyday life for deep material
Seekers who want writing to feel like prayer, ritual, and revelation

If your voice feels caught in your throat...

If your pen stalls on the page...

If you ache for writing that feels like prayer...

If you crave a circle where your grief and glory are both welcome…

Then come. The threshold is open.

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Your Retreat Experience:

Writing

Each day we dive into guided writing exercises and teachings from Mirabai that connect you to your inner landscape and help you give voice to what has been ripening within.

Dialogue

Share your work in small, intimate circles of soul companions, bearing witness to the beauty and bravery of others who are navigating the terrain of the wild heart.

Movement

Morning Body Temple practices with Adriana Rizzolo bring you into your body, set your creativity free, and offer somatic grounding for the work ahead.

Chanting

Sacred song with Willow Brook opens your voice in prayerful presence and attunes you to the music of your own truth.

Meditation

Contemplative practices offer gentle access to stillness and deep inner listening.

Community

Gather in a loving circle with fellow seekers. Find refuge in connection, and emerge renewed.

By the end you will…

Have a reliable method for generating authentic writing material
Be fed by the landscape of Taos and its creative energy
Cultivate a community of like-minded writers who harvest their material from everyday life
Create pages of first-draft writing to polish and share
Know that your regular life is not an obstacle to your spiritual awakening, but rather a portal

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Your Guide

Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. In 2020, she was honored on Watkins' list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.

Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and the transformational power of grief and loss.

Her most recent book, Ordinary Mysticism, has been praised by Anne Lamott as "a gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life."

The Wild Heart Team

Adriana Rizzolo

Adriana shares Body Temple Dance practices that support integration and celebration. She holds space for somatic healing, deep rest, and energy activation. Through mantra, breath, movement, and imagination, she helps participants awaken soul love and embody their humanness. Adriana has worked extensively with trauma healing and feminine leadership, and is deeply inspired by Mirabai's teachings.

"No matter what your age, or if you have never danced in your life, Adriana's Body Temple Dance opened my body to a new way of loving. In one dance I began to open to my wisdom, my Crone, and my connection to Mother Earth. I felt FREE. I had come home to the joy of the wild ride to life."

— Karin G.

"Body Temple! Broke me open."

— Pat F.

Willow Brook

Willow weaves chant and sacred song from many traditions into our retreat space, offering a deeply devotional and inclusive experience. Co-founder of Wild Heart, she brings a background in interspiritual education, embodiment, and creative ritual. With grace and grounded presence, she helps participants reconnect with their voice as a vehicle for healing and joy.

"Willow is indeed a tree of strength and grace. She has a way of creating order without hindering flow and spontaneity. She was a leader, and she was also a sister, allowing herself to see and be seen. Most of all, as I watched her beaming face leading us in song, unselfconscious and full of love, my own childlike joy in music-making was given back to me."

— Christa W.

"Willow's longing and devotion is healing and connecting to the power of the songs."

— Karen M.

With support from Monika Denise Burkholder, Manny Fassihi, and Nora Logan