Minton Sparks
SOUL QUEST 2019
INHABITING THE BODY AND SOUL OF YOUR STORY: A YEARLONG QUEST WITH MINTON SPARKS AND JANE HOUSE
You are invited to join a circle of Soul Questers for 2019 where we will celebrate the feminine capacity for communion with the mysterious. Honoring any limitations of the physical body while never forgetting the limitlessness of the Spirit. Find your inner balance through writing and yoga!
How might an intimate circle of like-minded soul seekers hold your story while it transforms? We will have your back so that you can create something unimaginable. The body is a doorway and the Art is sitting there holding it’s breath waiting to find the light of day.
- Our first weekend was February 1-3, at the beautiful Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee where we studied with questing expert Melea Seward from Brooklyn, NY.
- The second weekend was March 22-24 at the stunning Gray Bear Lodge in Hohenwald, Tennessee.
- The third meeting was July 12-14 at Scarritt Bennett.
- The fourth meeting will be a Vision Quest at a TBD site.
Your leaders:
Minton Sparks is an internationally celebrated performance artist who also is the founder of the Nashville Writing and Performance Institute. She has been teaching writing and performance for 20 years. Minton has opened for Punch Brothers, Nanci Griffith, Ben Folds, and John Prine. She’s been a part of the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center (NYC) and has performed at the Grand Ole Opry here in Nashville. She is the featured teller at the 2019 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. To learn more about Minton, click here.
Jane House has been working, training and nourishing her interest in the realm of embodiment arts for over 20 years. She holds a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a B.A. in Psychology from Georgetown University, and has completed a thesis titled ‘The Yoga of Embodiment’- available for (free) download at janehouseyoga.com. In 2001, Jane co-founded a yoga school in San Francisco that became her home for teaching and learning for nearly a decade of her young adulthood. From years of devoted inquiry, Jane unfolded a practice that works to serve body, mind & soul herself– a gentle, self-guided approach to asana and breath that aims to wake up the body’s most intuitive and self-healing processes. To learn more about Jane, click here.
What to expect:
Writing is a birthright, a language into your truth. We will write. The doorway of imagination is the body. We will move. We will support you in writing your way into the next era of your life. Using breath, togetherness, movement, and the sound of our truest/deepest voice, we will work together as midwives to birth the next phase of your courageous journey.
Writing is a birthright, a language into your truth. We will write. The doorway of imagination is the body. We will move. We will support you in writing your way into the next era of your life. Using breath, togetherness, movement, and the sound of our truest/deepest voice, we will work together as midwives to birth the next phase of your courageous journey.
Reading List:
Bird by bird – Anne Lemott
If You Want to Write – Brenda Ueland
Conscious Femininity – Marion Woodman
Theater of the imagination – Clarissa Pinkola Estes on Sounds True
Please email msmintonsparks@gmail.com with the subject line “Soul Quest 2019” if you are interested or have any questions about this incredible opportunity.
Minton Sparks
Minton Sparks fuses music, poetry, and her intoxicating gift for storytelling to paint word pictures of the rural South that put you square in the middle of the people and the places she knows like the back of her hand.
“I have seen Minton Sparks. And if she’s not the ghost child of [Flannery O’Connor] and [Hank Williams], then cotton doesn’t grow in a cotton field.”
— Rocker, Marshall Chapman
Latest Work: Time Flies
The official music video for Minton Sparks’ title track, “Time Flies.”
In the News
Read a review of Minton Spark’s work in The Huffington Post, a feature article in Native magazine (p. 57), or an interview with Southern Literary Review.
Check out Minton’s interview with NO DEPRESSION magazine.
Check out Minton’s interview with Lonesome Highway.