​Marin Heinritz

Winter 2026 Zoom Offering: 

Writing From the Body

Connect with Self and like-minded community to drop into the body and discover what emerges through the pen--enjoy a regular creative practice from anywhere in the world!

7-9 p.m. ET the first Wednesday of each month

new semester begins Jan 7 and runs Feb 4, March 4, and April 1

$108 registration before Jan 1

 at Beacon Health and Fitness (formerly Borgess)

Mondays 

Chair Yoga

10-10:45 a.m.

Vinyasa Flow

6:00-7:00 p.m.

Wednesdays

Vinyasa  Flow 8-8:45 a.m.

Chair Yoga 10-10:45 a.m.

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​​​Special Events

Moving Creatively Through Grief 

Feb. 6-8, 2026
Gilchrist Retreat Center ~ Three Rivers, Michigan

To be human is to know loss and be transformed by it. Facing grief takes “the outrageous courage of the bodhi heart” as Pema Chödrön calls it. Many of us struggle to move through the threshold between loss and revelation, often feeling grief stuck in our bodies, which keeps us from opening up to the riches available to us through the process. Grief becomes problematic when we are forced to carry our sorrow in isolation, we are pressured to return to “normal” too soon, or we are denied the time required to fully process a particular loss. But safely bringing grief, death, and loss out of the shadow and moving through it, perhaps in new, creative, deeply compassionate, guided ways, may allow us to feel our desire for life once again and remember who we really are, where we belong, and what is sacred.

In this retreat, we will create safe space to unearth embodied grief and use physical and creative tools to literally and figuratively move through it. Through working with gentle yoga, including breathwork, coupled with guided writing and optional sharing, self-massage, puppetry, and Internal Family Systems witnessing, we will create the conditions in which we can honor our grief, grant it space and time in our frantic world to do the creative soul work to help open our hearts, reclaim the joy that is our birthright, and embody love for our lives and the world.





 

Writing From the Body: Yoga & Writing Retreat

October 16-18, 2026
Gilchrist Retreat Center ~ Three Rivers, Michigan


“Imagination is evidence of the divine,” wrote poet and visionary William Blake more than 200 years ago. And yet we experience the world, imagine, and create through our very human bodies. In this retreat designed for artists and dreamers of every ilk, we will drop into the body and connect to the deepest parts of ourselves. 

Through immersive yoga practices, including asana, guided breathing, and relaxation, coupled with writing exercises and playful ritual, we will unleash and explore the power that is our birthright, face our fears, generate new material, make resolutions, and discover the stories that emerge from and are written on the body. Between facilitated sessions participants will have time for solitude, reflection, and play in nature on the sacred grounds of beautiful Gilchrist.

Photo by Russell Cooper