Writing & Creative Retreats with Michaela Trimble
Hello, nice to meet you!
My name is Michaela, and I’m a freelance journalist and novelist based in Mexico City. For the last decade, I’ve had the joy of writing lifestyle and culture stories for publications like T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, and Travel + Leisure. As a devoted mystic, I credit my spiritual practices and tantric rituals as the most profound way to access my creativity. By being completely dedicated to nourishing and expanding my creativity, doors have opened for me that I could have only dreamed of as a little girl. This way of life has taken me all over the world — from places like Vietnam and Antarctica to Peru and Sri Lanka — and allowed me to write my debut fiction novel with ease, a thriller exploring the intersection of art and mysticism in Mexico City.
Meet Your New Creative Community
While each retreat is unique, Michaela’s curated experiences are all imbued with spiritual practices and creative exploration to guide you on the path of unlocking your most prolific artistic potential.
As you explore your depths and the ideas inside of you that long to be told, you’ll be held by the sweetest community of creatives on Earth!
Tantric Creativity & Spiritual Rituals
It’s Michaela’s belief that the creative process is never quite as linear as we may think. Through her deep study of tantric practices, embodied journaling, and somatic healing, she’s been able to harness her direct line to divine inspiration — whenever and wherever she wants. In each of her retreats, she teaches these practices as anchor points to dive into the writing process, often resulting in surges of creative expression.
The best way to create a piece of work is to truly feel it, to embody it, and to go on a journey with it, as it. To write a book, you must feel the book. To write a deeply personal essay, we must have the capacity to go to that emotional response, to touch it, to digest it, and to ultimately transmute it to words. Through somatic movement and mindful rituals, we do just that.
Tantric Breathwork
Embodied Journaling
Embodied journaling entwines our words with the senses of the world. Instead of freeform writing to express our experiences or emotional responses to experiences, embodied journaling is more pleasure-based and intentional practice that connects the words we write to our physical reality —our actual human experience—by portraying the textured senses of the body.
Movement & Somatic Rituals
Tantric breathwork serves as a powerful practice to clearn your central channel, which extends from the sacrum bone at the base of the spine, through a three-part breathwork. Through accessing the sacral chakra and awakening our sexual energy, Michaela believes we can access our highest, most profound sense of creativity.
Writing & Tantric Creativity Workshops
Whether you hope to write freelance articles for your dream publications or begin drafting your non-fiction or fiction novel, Michaela’s workshops challenge you to open your mind and consider new ways to help you realize your desires.
Idea Mapping & Visioning
The best way to unleash your creativity is through conscious play and exploration. Art is meant to be joyous, pleasurable, euphoric — like a giant wave bursting forth from you, impossible to stop and delicious to ride. Through an out-of-the-box approach to creative practices, Michaela teaches you how you can enjoy the ride.
Inspired Play & Exploration
Michaela believes there are many routes to arrive to a creative idea — and, more often than not, the path is not linear. Through her method of idea mapping and visioning that focuses on desires instead of goals, you are able to more clearly and confidently arrive at your creative mission you’re meant to share with the world.
Structure & Guidance
Imagine creativity as a box of confetti — now imagine that box spilling out. This is how harnessing our creativity can feel, like a wild dance that we can’t seem to figure out. Through Michaela’s structure and guidance, she can easily take what feels like a jumbled idea and help you transform it into a concise concept you can create with ease.
Inside Our Past Retreats
Whether writing together while staying at a farmhouse on a dreamy Mediterranean island off the coast of Spain or enjoying the wild desert bounds of Mexico’s Baja California Sur, each retreat location is expertly selected to insure utmost comfort and luxury so you can unwind, relax, and dive deep into your creative process.
Baja Sur Writing Retreat
If you have the perfect story idea and know where you want to take it but need help refining the messaging, this offer is for you. You’ll tell me about your story idea and what magazine you have in mind. I’ll refine your pitch and get it ready to send to an editor.
Menorca Writing Retreat
If you have the perfect story idea and know where you want to take it but need help refining the messaging, this offer is for you. You’ll tell me about your story idea and what magazine you have in mind. I’ll refine your pitch and get it ready to send to an editor.
