Create + Flow Retreat
June 22-28, 2025
Daily Yoga, Creative Writing, & Healthy Meals
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Find your bliss in the quiet Carribean town of Puerto Morales.
Included:
- Two daily yoga classes, including hot vinyasa, Bikram, yin yoga and core & cardio classes
- Creative writing & improv workshops
- Yoga posture clinics
- 6 brunches and 4 dinners prepared and served on site
- Yoga mats and towels provided
- Laundering of yoga clothes and fresh linens 2x/week
- Pool and meditation garden on-site
- Complimentary pure drinking water, coffee machine, mini fridge, and Wi-fi in each room
- Shuttle transportation to and from the airport ($100 value!)
- Practice & create as much or as little as you like!
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Writing & Yoga
WORKSHOPS
Starts: October 28, 2024
6:30PM ET - 8:30PM ET
Ends: December 02, 2024
6:30PM ET - 8:30PM ET
Virtual via Zoom
Writing about Grief and Loss
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6 session Workshop With Alex Hewett
In the class, we will focus on reading excerpts from nonfiction works about grief by Joan Didion, Sloan Crosley, Isabelle Allende, and Zadie Smith.
Participants will write an essay about a personal experience of grief and loss, workshop each other’s essays in class, and revise their essays based on the feedback given during class.
LEARN WITH ME
Why Learn from Alex?
I have the Passion - and the background
University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
MFA Creative Writing and Publishing Arts, 2022
Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland
MS Counseling Psychology, 1995
Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey
BA Psychology, 1992
Education background
worked with and trusted by
Lecturer, Fall 2016 - Present
Johns Hopkins University, Odyssey Program
Presenting workshop entitled: “Creative Power: Techniques for Finding the Authentic Artist Within.”
This interactive workshop, inspired by Julia Cameron’s “The Artist's Way.” Discovering creativity through writing, self-exploration and a guided encounter with the student’s imagination. This course is a combination of lecture and creative clusters (interactive experience with the group).
Producer/Storyteller/Host. 2015 - Present
Mortified Baltimore/DC
Storytelling stage show that features adults sharing their childhood archives such as
diaries/poetry/art/media in front of total strangers. Duties include scheduling and conducting screening sessions for potential participants, casting, curating and editing stories, coordinating rehearsals, producing, marketing and hosting live shows.
Lecturer, November 2015
Towson University, Towson, Maryland
Presented workshop entitled “Finding the Authentic Artist” based on the teachings of Julia
Cameron incorporating relaxation exercises, writing and improv to explore one’s creative potential.
Theatre Teaching Artist, January 2014 - Present
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Baltimore, Maryland
Teaching artist working with Veterans of the United States armed forces. Exploring acting techniques and scene study and performance of the works of William Shakespeare.
Theatre Teacher, Summer Program, June 2012 - Present
The New Century School, Baltimore, Maryland
Full and half-day summer camp focusing on voice, movement, improv, and storytelling.
Kindergarten through eighth grade.
Psychotherapist, May 1995-June 1997, May 2005-October 2014
Aaron Noonberg, Ph.D. Private Clinical Practice, Towson, Maryland
Conduct therapy sessions for adults and children in a private clinical psychology practice. Focus
on chronic pain and PTSD treatment through biofeedback and relaxation techniques.
Theatre Teaching Artist, September 2007 - 2018
Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland
Conduct Classes that introduce relaxation techniques, voice and movement exercises,
improvisation creative writing and script analysis in the geriatric inpatient unit, child/adolescent
day program and day program for adults with schizophrenia.
