Workshop with RS & Amanda Yates Garcia
Sonnets for the Muse:
Working with Ritual & Poetry
to Activate Creative Potential
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Saturday 26 July 2025: 10am-5pm
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre,
Edinburgh (UK)
25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh EH12 5AP
With Amanda Yates Garcia and Rebecca Sharp
$260.00 / £213 full price*
*Early Bird (20%) offer @ $208 / £170
until Ostara / Spring Equinox 20th March
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Sonnets are ‘little songs’. Become a sonneteer to your Muses, creating devotional objects to energise, celebrate, honour and invoke power.
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In Sonnets for the Muse, a new, day-long workshop in Edinburgh (and Amanda’s first offering in the UK!), Rebecca Sharp & Amanda Yates Garcia will help you take these traditional forms into radical embodied invocations to revitalise your creative and spiritual practices.
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Taking place at the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, we will collaborate with the ecology and other spirits of place to investigate cultural, elemental, mythological and magical relationships as they interact on both the personal and collective realms.
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By cultivating a sense of belonging, and dialoguing with the ecological and imaginal worlds, we will build tools to pull together through these times of profound and urgent change.
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Join us to energetically declutter, access the voice/s of inspiration and create pathways for future work.
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In the Sonnets for the Muse workshop you will:
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practice this historical poetic form (no experience necessary, beginners welcome!)
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generate new strategies for these enduring vessels of the imagination
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collaborate, heal and celebrate the past that still lives inside of us; using it to seed vibrant, Venusian futures
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dispel creative blocks
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reclaim joy in our practice
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dissolve barriers
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access our full voice
Participants will leave the workshop with their own original sonnet, and a finely crafted bespoke ritual designed to invoke clarity, courage, and creative fire.
Across the full day (with lunch break), Amanda and Rebecca will guide a series of connected activities, including:
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Opening and Closing ritual practice
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meditation and some light movement for embodied magical practice
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creative/cultural grounding around historical practices of the sonnet
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traditional strategies for invoking Muses & Guides
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exercises to identify and engage energies to work with in the session (you may come with some in mind!)
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supported writing time to create and refine your work
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opportunity to share your work in a supportive environment
This workshop is a unique collaboration between the two practitioners, and a unique opportunity to connect with Amanda in-person in the UK.
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Come raise your voice and energy to celebrate the Muse. She will create beauty in your life that resonates deep into the future.
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Any questions, please email: info@rebeccajoysharp.com
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Otherwise, head straight to booking, here.
You’ll receive confirmation and other practical information ahead of the day.