Wolf at the Door has been reborn!  From early 2012 Ananda and Satyalila will be co-leading workshops and retreats around the country. These events have been running for the past 16 years under the skilled leadership of Ananda and Manjusvara. Since last summer when Manjusvara tragically died Satyalila has been working with Ananda designing a new programme of workshops.They focus primarily on encouraging and developing the imagination. Without imagination it is very hard to motivate ourselves to be creative through all the inevitable distractions and setbacks that life puts in our way. So these workshops address the question: how can we awaken our imagination and bring its energy and insight into our daily lives? This is achieved partly by being in a beautiful environment with others who are embarked on a similar quest. But we help this process along with writing exercises, ritual and guided discussion aimed at achieving an atmosphere of trust and openness to experience. Longer retreats On the longer retreats there will be study sessions to look at how published writers make

their writing effective. We will look at how stories and poems are put together and discover how few words are necessary to create their effect. Throughout all these activities the emphasis will be on exploration of the inner process rather than achieving a finished, finely polished piece of work. As well as the scheduled workshops we hope you will also make friends and enjoy your creative journey together. In the afternoons there will be free time for personal work and socialising. You will not be expected to have any prior knowledge of writing: full instruction will be given, and there is no obligation to read out or present your work to the group or to the tutors. Meditation  On the residential retreats each day will begin with a group meditation in the shrine-room, and there will be a short devotional ritual (puja) later in the day. We would ask that you attend these activities, as they allow the mind to go deeper and integrate your emotional and conceptual experiences. For this reason we ask that you will already have a meditation practice, as we do not normally give meditation instruction as part of the course.

“As a team you have applied your talents and knowledge very skilfully to create a safe place, where even the most vulnerable can express themselves without fear. I’ve learned much and grown a little too!”     —Wolf at the Door student Ruth Walker, Falkirk “Positive criticism and feedback from a genuine place of care.”  —Nicole Moore: New South Wales.

“These retreats are the highlight of my year and have given me a perspective on what writing is, that I can’t imagine I would have found without you. I feel so fully alive when I’m writing - what a gift!”    —Varasahaya, South Wales. “Wolf at the Door goes to the heart of Buddhism and meditation.” – Sarvamitra, Helsinki