The creative practice of writing is one of the most powerful ways of accessing information that inform decision making, develop insight, and help you reconcile with or restructure your relationship to your life. Whether your pleasure is poetry or protest letters, storytelling or song, or your creative pursuits are image-rich and copy-light, writing workshops can help make your words sing.

Y Elements Founder Yael Flusberg has taught writing workshops to teens, teachers, yogis, and others wishing to gain insight through the tool of writing.  She also works with writers of all genres to sharpen their focus and craft.  Writing is a also a wonderful healing modality, and Yael has designed life-affirming health-enhancing workshops that includes this powerful method (and can be combined with other stress reduction techniques, such as yoga, breathwork, guided visualization and coaching.)  

Yael's poetry, essays and reviews have been widely published, in such places as  America! What's My Name?, Beltway Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, Just Like A Girl, Lilith Magazine, Potomac Review, and WAMU radio. She won the 2010 Poetica Magazine chapbook contest for The Last of My Village.  A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and the International Women's Writing Guild, she served as Poet-in-Residence at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2007 & 2008, and has twice won awards for her work from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities. Her short essay "Good People Sometimes Don't Look That Way From the Outside, But They Can Always Spot Each Other" received an Honorable Mention for Creative Nonfiction in Writer's Digest 72nd Annual Writing Contest, Fall 2003.

You can purchase Yael's poetry chapbook, The Last of My Village, from Poetica Publishing.

Samples of Yael's work:

• Therapy And Yoga At Walter Reed
• When Columbia Road Didn't Pass Me Over 
• Waiting Outside the U.S. Capitol 

"Initially, I thought about the book titles I've been working on, but unable to successfully complete. I needed some inspiration and I got it this yoga and poetry workshop given by Yael Flusberg. Wow! She simplified it all. I learned that the reason I am probably not completing my poetry is because I haven't been still enough. I don't center myself or hear my voice. Since I have returned, I have written a poem or line of poetry almost every morning. That is when I'm the most calm, the most still. This was my revelation from this workshop. You may experience or learn something totally different. Check her out, especially if you're in or traveling to the DC area." Ayesha "AQUA" Atkinson, visual artist, author and founder, AyenVision Works