Writing With Hope, When Often I Feel So Alone
Join me for Writing, Breathwork and Yoga on the Summer Solstice 21 June 2025
“I’ve got no-one. I’m all alone,” I told my therapist last year or maybe it was the year before.
“Community will hold you,” she told me.
“It won’t,” I almost sobbed.
“It will, you’ll find it.”
I didn’t believe her. Yet, somehow, it has. So now what?
Welcome. I’m Amy Beeson, a writer with a yen to organise creative gatherings. Over the last year writing every day and being part of a creative online community that meets up in London has reignited my belief in myself and others.
It’s given me a space to dream and turn some of those sparks of inspiration into reality. Partly, thanks to my notebooks and morning pages, but also in response to the generous people I’ve connected with.
We’ll be coming together for a Writing, Breathwork and Yoga Workshop with Author Amy Beeson and Yoga Teacher & Psychotherapist Claudine van de Vvyer on Saturday 21 June from 12.30-2.30pm in Hammersmith, London, W6. Book your place here. It’s going to be fabulous.
If you’d like to know a little more read on…
Experience deep connection
I’d been dreaming of creating a space that was safe and gentle. I needed to unlock the energy I could feel pulsing underneath my skin, just at the edges of my fingertips but stuck, just like I was, completely blocked.
At first, I was desperate to escape. After my mum died suddenly, I couldn’t write, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t breathe. I was locked. In a city filled with millions of people I felt so alone. I dreamed of running away so I could heal and find who I was now.
Before experiencing deep deep grief, I’d been guilty of feeling superior to friends who’d signed up to practice with guru after guru. I’d thought, why are you doing that? What are you looking for? Now, I was the one looking for a way through the loss, trying to make myself well again as fast as possible, because I had children, a husband, a mortgage, and not a minute to spare for recovery. I couldn’t buy my way out of it. I couldn’t fast forward through the pain.
A year ago, I started writing again on Substack, though I had no idea what I was doing, who I was writing for, what I was writing - I just needed to write. A community opened up for me that I never expected. I organised a Meet Up, then another and another. Started running workshops and people came. We gathered, we talked, we created, we felt like old friends reunited. I’ve always thought writing is magical, but I see now that people are too, way more than modern life allows us to be. I hear a call to honour the seasons as they change, to connect with a wise energy even in the city, it’s there, I just have to stop and feel awe. To choose hope over fear, joy over needless worry, community over isolation.
Yoga and therapy continue to be part of how I care for myself, but I don’t see them as a fix anymore. They are beautiful in themselves. Sometimes joyous, sometimes uncomfortable if an unwelcome feeling arises or a lack of movement.
Yoga and meditation
This beautiful workshop is a time to feel rooted in the moment. To draw on the energy of the seasons. I’ll be facilitating the writing exercises, offering prompts and making the tea.
The yoga, breathwork and meditation will be led by wonderful Yoga Teacher and Psychotherapist Claudine van de Vvyer. I’ll ask her whether she can do some mini head massages too, those make my day. We’re very lucky to have such an inspirational and grounded teacher. I will be bringing a big fat bolster and a padded mat with me as I have dodgy knees, and she never makes me feel less for that.
"I'm honoured to be sharing this space with you as we come together to go deeper and support each other. By inviting this connection between mind, body, and breath - my hope is to guide you in discovering hope and a creativity you can tap in through a combination of therapeutic practices, breathwork, and physical movement. Alongside my work as an integrative psychotherapist and clinical supervisor I teach weekly yoga and spin classes. I see the interplay between releasing physical and emotional energy and how we can channel it into healing.” Claudine
This workshop is an invitation to value your ideas, your time, your energy in a space focused on restoration and creativity. You don’t have to be a writer. You don’t have to be a yogi, you only need to show up as you, because sometimes in all the hustle of life, the endless news cycle and feeling overwhelmed, we need to gather, we need to feel hope.
For the Spring Equinox we had a workshop that focused on finding your voice, your purpose. Here’s a little video for a feel of the afternoon.
We were delighted to have a few Substackers join us
and . Thank you.
The spring workshop was so special we knew we had to do it again. I immediately started searching for a venue and found this beautiful circular room, filled with natural light. The acoustics are perfect, and it’s on a peaceful quiet street, tucked away with a little garden we can drink tea in on a summer’s day with a bowl of strawberries and cream. It’s going to be glorious.
Celebrate the Summer Solstice
On the Summer Solstice we will step into the full light of the sun on the longest day of the year in a magical circle of creativity and support. Join us for an afternoon of quiet, joy, connection and intuition. Explore through guided writing exercises, deepen your connection to your breath, and find peace and energy in your body with gentle yoga practice. This workshop is the perfect way to welcome summer and nourish your mind, body, and soul.
Our focus will be on stepping into your creativity and how to do that when there are so many pressing things on your time and energy. Finding the clarity and shift to create your best work not from fear but from hope.
Workshop Details
Light refreshments provided. Please bring a yoga mat and a water bottle, a notebook and pen. Feel free to being any props that make you feel more comfortable. (We will have a few spares in case you forget).
Saturday 21 June. We’ll start at 12.30pm (please arrive 10 minutes before to settle in) and finish at 2.30pm. There’ll be time to chat and drink and have strawberries and cream in the garden as we clear up. The space is a ten minute walk from Hammersmith Broadway and Ravenscourt Park Underground Stations in London W6. Places are limited as we like to keep this small.
£49.46 (includes booking fees, writing, yoga and refreshments)
20% discount for paid subscribers. DM Amy to get it.
Thanks for stopping by
Maybe I’ve met you over the last year of this Substack journey? Maybe you’re thinking you’d like to come along this summer. Maybe it’ll be when you’re passing through London sometime next year. Hopefully, I’m not going anywhere soon.
I love this! Will keep an eye out for your events so I can line it up with visits to London 🥰
Gutted I will miss this again (am at a wedding in Canada this time!) but I've no doubt it'll be a gorgeous gathering for those who make it x