Anna Ferguson & James Navé ~ Artist's Way Workshop Facilitators

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Anna Ferguson is a yoga teacher who specializes in therapeutic yoga, an artist who creates and facilitates The Artist’s Way, and the co-founder of yoga trainings for yoga teachers and mental health professionals on how yoga can help build resiliency and heal trauma. She is an E-RYT 500 level yoga teacher (one of only 16 in Asheville, NC), which means she has over 2,000 hours of experience teaching yoga and completed 500 hours of training in yoga. She dedicates herself to the study of yoga and its practices and techniques, as well as fostering her own creativity through writing on her blog, and designing/painting murals.

James Navé is a poet, storyteller and arts entrepreneur. He is the director of The Taos Storytelling Festival, The Taos Poetry Festival, The LEAF Poetry Slam, and an organizing member of TEDxNewYork Salons. He is also a co-founder of Twice5Miles, a content and creative collective based in Taos and Brooklyn. An early contributor to the creativity and spoken word renaissance, Navé established The Artist’s Way Creativity Camp in Taos NM with Julia Cameron and Poetry Alive! with Bob Falls, a theater company that has performed traditional poems for millions of students. He has been on three National Poetry Slam teams, and his work has appeared in two books of poetry and numerous journals and magazines.

Anna co-founded the The Artist’s Way with Mado Biddle in Asheville six years ago  and have since guided over 200 people through the the 12-week course.  Anna and James have a course starting February 10, 2016.

Enjoy this one-hour podcast of Living Well where Anna and Navé share how we are all inherently creative beings and how the the Artist’s Way is a wonderful process for unlocking the creativity that lies within.

Living Well with Anna Ferguson & James Navé on AshevilleFM, January 25, 2016