Name: Yoga and Writing For New Beginnings ~A Workshop with Lisa Blower and Natasha Arnfield
Start: 2026-01-31T12:30:00+00:00
Location: 143a Belle Vue Road , SY3 7NN Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Yoga and Writing For New Beginnings ~A Workshop with Lisa Blower and Natasha Arnfield
Saturday 31 January | 12:30-3:30pm | £30
As we near the end of the longest month and look forward to awakening Spring, we will explore how to re-energise our minds and bodies through a blend of words and yoga practice.

Thinking about new beginnings and our intentions for the year ahead, we will pause in our practice to allow creativity to flow, reflecting upon how our bodies can generate ideas for new stories be them fictive, poetic or autobiographical.
This is an opportunity to think differently about how and where you can write, the connections between embodiment & creativity and how to capture ideas through movement and everyday routines.
A bit about your hosts ...
Winner of the VS Pritchett Prize,2025, Lisa Blower is an award-winning writer of novels, short stories and plays. Her two novels, Sitting Ducks (Fair Acre Press, 2016) - shortlisted for The Rubery Award, the Arnold Bennett Prize and The Guardian's Not the Booker - and Pondweed (Myriad Editions, 2020), pay homage to the Potteries where she grew up, whilst her collection of short stories It's Gone Dark over Bill's Mother's (Myriad Editions, 2019), which won the Arnold Bennett Prize, is tribute to the working-class matriarch. She has contributed to a number of anthologies including Common People (ed. Kit De Waal, Unbound, 2019), and was a columnist for The New Issue during 2020. She has written two plays - 'The Miner Birds' commemorating 40years of the North Staffs Miners' Wives Action Group debuted at The New Vic, July 2024, and Blessing in Burslem (Aug 2025, The New Vic). She holds a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing from Bangor University and is Reader in Creative Writing at Keele University.
Natasha Arnfield has been practicing yoga for several decades. She is drawn to its philosophy as a non-competitive physical and spiritual practice that unites the movement with the breath allowing the mind to quieten. Natasha is passionate about the inclusive nature of yoga and believes that yoga can benefit anyone and everyone potentially creating a transformative experience each time we arrive on the mat.
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