Deep Travel Workshops

Deep Travel Workshops If we are lucky, our expectations are scrambled. We are reminded that there are larger forces at play. DeepTravel demands even more. Our tools? What did it mean?

"The passage of the mythological hero may be overground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward—into the depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost powers are revivified …"
—-Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

In its simplest form, travel is physical movement from one place to another: a flight from Seattle to South Africa, the long drive through Nebraska, or came

l trek across the Sahara. Along the way we encounter new sights and smells, sounds and sensations: the taste of curry, the notes of a sitar, snow-peaked Andes, fresh mint mingling with dyed leather in the souks of Marrakech. Most travelogues stay safely on the surface, tracking like mile markers our horizontal movement through space. When infused with carefully collected details and vivid action, these stories can transport the reader. It asks us not just to recount what we saw, but to elicit that sensation we often have on return from our journeys that we are changed. Deep Travel is a three-session workshop that invites you to write about your vertical travels--the downward venture into the deepest strata of your experience and psyche. Like prospectors searching for a vein, we’ll dig through layers, starting with surface impressions and tracing them to their primal sources. Sharpened intuitive skills, an openness to risk, and creative revisioning techniques that pinpoint focus. Where a travelogue only requires us to write “Last summer I went to the Eiffel tower,” Deep Travel asks Why did I want to go there? Perhaps my expectations got shattered the moment I was ripped off by a con-artist who handed me a rose. Who was this rose seller? What is his story? Where does my romantic fantasy of Paris come from, and how does it collide with his reality? Deep Travel draws us into the molten core of our experience. Join award-winning writers Christina Ammon and Erin Byrne as we forge connections between our personal journeys—and the political, cultural, and mythical contexts in which they unfold—and the essence of our own selves.

12/07/2024

A little Yelapa nightlife… swoon!

Colette Hannahan will be bringing her paintbrushes on our Deep Travel Mexico trip this March. Her paintings graced the p...
12/05/2024

Colette Hannahan will be bringing her paintbrushes on our Deep Travel Mexico trip this March. Her paintings graced the pages of The Best Women's Travel Writing Anthology Volume 2. How many of these places do you recognize?

Oh, and three spots left for March in Mexico! Trip detail here: https://www.deeptravelworkshops.com/current-trips

This year's Deep Travel Mexico is a double-feature: We not only get to have Lavinia Spalding lead us in writing, but al...
12/02/2024

This year's Deep Travel Mexico is a double-feature: We not only get to have Lavinia Spalding lead us in writing, but also Colette Hannahan on board if you want to try a little painting! Writing, painting, and travel play very well together!

More about Colette:

"Colette Hannahan is a painter based in San Francisco who often travels around the country and abroad to paint and teach workshops.

Floored by nature, she paints to toast and connect with the moments that cause her to look up, slow down, and remind herself how a place felt.

Colette has illustrated the books Letters and Postcards from Paris and The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12, and has illustrated essays for Hidden Compass.

She has taught painting classes and workshops for the past 16 years to students of all ages and skill levels, often weaving in mediation and mindfulness. Colette is also a certified yoga teacher.

Colette shows her paintings regularly around the Bay Area and recently had her first international exhibition in Catania, Sicily — Paintings of a Traveling Artist — which celebrated the glory and glamor of Mount Etna and the islands of Ustica and Ortigia.

Visit her at www.colettehannahan.com to see travel paintings and work in progress or on Instagram . Stop by her studio at 1890 Bryant Street Studios in San Francisco’s Mission District to see some of her work in person.

For workshop deets and how to register: https://www.deeptravelworkshops.com/current-trips

Vibrant Yelapa ❤️
12/01/2024

Vibrant Yelapa ❤️

A favorite spot…
11/26/2024

A favorite spot…

breakfast with the bay🤤

What is a day in Yelapa like? Read my description in this San Francisco Chronicle article--and then grab one of the rema...
11/26/2024

What is a day in Yelapa like?

Read my description in this San Francisco Chronicle article--and then grab one of the remaining spots on our March 9-15th trip there!

(For workshop details visit https://www.deeptravelworkshops.com/current-trips)

"In Yelapa, endless diversions lead you off trail: A quick milk run leads to a game of kickball on the street; a hike to the Waterfall is delayed by a stop at Hortensia's Tienda, where you can get corn slathered with butter, lime, chiles and cotija for five pesos - about 38 cents. Once I set off to the coin laundry, only to find myself wading the lagoon at midnight after dancing cumbia at the disco - dirty laundry still in hand."

https://www.sfgate.com/mexico/article/yelapa-walks-lead-to-delightful-detours-3796491.php

To love this car-free village on the Bay of Banderas, you need energy for walking, and a...

Travel, like writing, is a creative act and like all creative acts, is best not planned too much in advance. But there i...
11/22/2024

Travel, like writing, is a creative act and like all creative acts, is best not planned too much in advance. But there is alchemy in the first step. You can’t know what an essay is really going to be about until you’ve written it. The writing itself is generative.

The same goes for travel. The first step is generative: one step is followed by the next in the way that one word suggests another.

If you want all the details ahead of time, either you won’t begin or the writing/travel will have a stiff and disappointing quality. That step into the unknown can feel risky and painful though.

At first, you'll wander around feeling lost, and you wonder if you are wasting time.

We're here to tell each other: Keep Going!
https://www.deeptravelworkshops.com/current-trips

Always love the poetic daily posts of our favorite Yelapa cafe!
11/13/2024

Always love the poetic daily posts of our favorite Yelapa cafe!

Deja Tu lo bonita,
aparte de talentosa y creativa,
es la mera mera rotulista del Cafe Pacifica …
Good Morning a todos de parte de Mesa 🤍

Los esperamos! Ya está el café 📣📣
Llega a vernos antes de irte al trabajo ☀️✅

Meet Lavinia Spalding! Lavinia has taught on several Deep Travel Workshops and will be inspiring our pens in Yelapa this...
11/11/2024

Meet Lavinia Spalding! Lavinia has taught on several Deep Travel Workshops and will be inspiring our pens in Yelapa this March! Lately we've been admiring Lavinia for the two Modern Love essays she's had published in the New York Times, but she's also edited a bunch of our favorite travel anthologies and magazines. She's won awards, written books, hosted travel podcasts (www.laviniaspalding.com). But the main things we admire? The way she nurtures not only professional writers, but also aspiring writers who are finding their way from journal-keeping to publication. Aside from all that, she's fun, she's cool and a blast to travel with! Join Lavinia with Deep Travel Mexico in Yelapa this March! https://www.deeptravelworkshops.com/current-trips

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“The true journey is the one within...” -Rilke

Sometimes it’s plain luck. You stop for lunch at a truckstop in France and your ideas about food are transformed. Or you’re hiking the Granada hills and come across a band of flamenco dancers. But, very often, finding what Richard Halliburton calls the “blood and thunder” of a place takes time.

The problem is, we don’t always have this kind of time. We have to water gardens, walk pets, support families.

This is the dilemma that inspired Deep Travel. How can we short-cut deeply into a place and yet keep our travels rich? We’ve concluded that the ideal sojourn is an elixir of camaraderie with independence, effort and relaxation, the exotic with the familiar, structure with serendipity—all accompanied with friendships forged over great food and wine.

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