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Writing Hour
Aug
15
7:00 PM19:00

Writing Hour

Join fellow writers — of all genres and backgrounds — for an hour to write in community.

Cohosted with writing coach Sarah Cook, Writing Hour is an inviting and inclusive space to reconnect with your creative writing practice.

Bring a work-in-progress, if you have one. We also offer a creative prompt at the start of each hour to activate new ideas.

We finish with an invitation to stick around, share a sentence, and hear what others have created during our time together.

At Writing Hour, we know that every sentence is an accomplishment, curiosity is more generative than certainty, and creativity thrives in community.

Writing Hour is always free.

Writing hour is currently on a break!

We’ve taken our scheduled September Writing Hour off the calendar, but we’ll have updates to share here (and in our newsletter and social media) in early fall.

What are people saying about Writing Hour?

“I love the ambiance of Writing Hour! Sarah and Cecily create a beautiful and supportive community where there’s no pressure, only lots of space for creativity, play, and soul-searching (if you’re in the mood to get deep)!”
~ Christie

“Thanks for encouraging me to dedicate time to writing! I find that when I sit down in the shared space and energy of Writing Hour, I’m more productive. I’ve even officially started writing a book!”
~ Lara

“Writing Hour is a generative, generous, kind space.”
~ Ivona

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Pleasure Magick
Sep
27
to Oct 25

Pleasure Magick

Pleasure Magick is the practice that connects soulful desire with pleasure, intention, and the energy of creation.

Join sex and intimacy coach Portia Brown and creative coach and mystic Cecily Sailer for a 3-part immersive workshop to guide you towards an accessible and expansive pleasure magick practice.

You’ll learn what pleasure magick is and how it works. You’ll develop and experience a pleasure practice that’s attuned to fully to YOU — unique and authentic to your experience of pleasure and what you desire to create next.

You’ll join a beautiful community of sexy, soulful people invested in lifting up pleasure and enacting powerful transformation. You’ll saunter away from this experience with a deeper connection to your body, your desire, your intuition, and your ability to transform dreams and visions into realities.

Join us for three powerful sessions, aligned with the moon cycle, to help you begin and deepen a life-long practice that honors your body, your pleasure, and your desire.

The Pleasure Magick journey is outlined below… And here’s a video of Portia and Cecily sharing why they created this experience, what they hope to share in the process, and how Pleasure Magick has made their lives richer, more free, and full of all the things they once used to pine for!


GATHERING 1: What is Pleasure Magick?

Tuesday, September 27 / 7-9pm CT
(New moon in Libra)

We’ll introduce you to the practice of pleasure magick — what is it? How does it work? How can you experience pleasure magick in a way that feels safe, exciting, and true to you? We’ll share our personal experiences with pleasure magick and how it’s enriched our lives beyond measure. Then we’ll guide you through a self-assessment to help you notice where you are now in relationship to your body, your pleasure, and your desire. Then we’ll guide you in crafting a beginner’s practice to call in whatever you desire to experience next, whether that’s abundance, personal freedom, creativity, or connection.

GATHERING 2: Collective Learning & Reflection

Tuesday, October 11 / 7-9pm CT
(Full moon in Aries)

We come together as a community to share experiences and insights after two weeks of personal pleasure magick practice. Cecily and Portia will answer questions and help the collective deepen our understanding of this practice and all the questions, challenges, and miracles we encounter along the way. We’ll also explore what it’s like to practice pleasure magick with a partner (or partners), and you’ll hear from one of our partners about their experience making magick as a couple (bring your beloved if you’d like them to learn with you).

GATHERING 3: Closing Ceremony

Tuesday, October 25 / 7-9pm CT
(New moon in Scorpio)

As we prepare to close our time together, we will co-create a collective pleasure ritual (100% PG!) to reinforce and amplify the intentions of the community. This will serve as our closing celebration, an opportunity to honor the work we’ve done individually and to combine our collective magic to manifest abundance, liberation, pleasure, and creativity. Participants will be invited to share final reflections, and Portia and Cecily will answer questions before we take our pleasure magick practice fully into our own hands.

In addition to our 3 sessions together, you’ll also receive:

  • Recordings of each gathering

  • A workbook to help you connect with your body, identify your desires, and record your magickal experiences and breakthroughs

  • A meditation and playlist to enhance your pleasure practice

  • The invitation to join our Slack community for the duration of our journey

  • Pillow Talk Office Hours between gatherings where you can receive support from Cecily or Portia around the magickal work you’re doing

  • The opportunity for a one-hour coaching session with Cecily or Portia

This experience is for you if you desire to…

  • Reconnect with your Sexual Self and invite more pleasure — sexual and otherwise! — into your life.

  • Learn what sex magic is all about and try it yourself.

  • Expand your set of magic and ritual practices to support your spiritual work and self-actualization.

  • Feel the support of a community container, with space for new discovery and insight.

  • Explore the intersections of pleasure, magic, and creativity.


INVESTMENT: $133

If you feel called to this offering but the investment is a barrier, reach out — let’s talk!


About Your Guides

Portia Brown

Cecily Sailer

Portia Brown is a sexual empowerment coach, conscious sexuality guide, and facilitator. She supports women and femmes in living authentic, intuitive, pleasure-centered lives. When she’s not talking about sex, she’s indulging in her own pleasure practices, cooking, or watching Survivor with her boyfriend. Get to know Portia in this episode of Hannah Witton’s podcast “Doing It,” on Mindful Sex and Creating a Pleasure Practice. You can follow Portia’s work on her website and Instagram.

Cecily Sailer is a creative coach, Tarot reader, mystic, and storyteller. Her mission is to help Creative Spirits harness, heal, and honor their creative gifts (so we can transform the world together through art and imagination). Cecily’s work with pleasure magick has radically transformed her life — from romantic relationships to earning money and experiencing freedom. As part of her coaching practice, she walks with others as they bring intuitive practices into all areas of life. Get to know Cecily in this episode of The Host Dispatch podcast. You can also follow her work via her website, newsletter, and Instagram.

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Creative Coven
Aug
25
6:30 PM18:30

Creative Coven

White text over a background of three large rose buds resting in a dish. Text reads: Creative Coven: Magic for Creative Spirits

This monthly new moon ritual uses Tarot, astrology, magic, and meditation to explore and revitalize your creativity.

This month, we take inspiration from Virgo season and The Hermit (the Tarot card associated with Virgo), focusing on themes of inner wisdom, solitude, and deep reflection.

Creative Coven gatherings align with the new moon and move you through a ritual that includes meditation, Tarot practice, reflective writing, and other energetic work. We’ll also have time to discuss issues and challenges surfacing in your creative practice, and provide support.

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Sober Witch
May
1
11:00 AM11:00

Sober Witch

Join Typewriter Tarot founder Cecily Sailer as she celebrates 6 years of recovery from alcoholism. Cecily will share her story of addiction, struggle, and hopelessness, and her journey to restore connection to community, spirituality, and creativity.

This event is meant to honor a personal milestone, but also to honor the power of personal story as a source of inspiration and hope, and to help de-stigmatize the shame and secrecy around addiction and recovery.

Bring your questions (or share them anonymously here) and your own experiences with alcohol (good and bad). Because even if addiction is foreign to you personally, we all know someone who has struggled in a similar way. This is not meant to convert anyone to sobriety, but to provide a space where we can consider the nuances of our relationship to alcohol.

Free tickets available here.
$5 tickets — all proceeds benefit the medical fund at Sober Black Girls Club, which provides financial support for Black women seeking addiction treatment.

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Book Coven: Savage Tongues
Apr
5
7:00 PM19:00

Book Coven: Savage Tongues

Join us for a conversation with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues, a novel that explores themes of trauma and healing, love and torture, displacement and belonging, colonization and self-possession, and what it means to rewrite the past and bring language to experiences that seem impossible to define.

Azareen will join us to discuss her creative process, her motivation for writing this book, the story itself, and how magic and divination played a role in the crafting of this novel. This conversation is meant to help you deepen your reading experience and expand your own sense of possibility in your creative work.

It’s not essential that you read the book before this talk in order to reap its benefits, but we encourage you to grab a copy and begin what will be a powerful reading experience.

Free tickets.
$5 tickets benefitting Torch Literary Arts, which promotes and publishes the creative writing of Black women.

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