“Guidance to write and publish your book”
4 Day The White Mountain Book Writing Retreat with Daily Yoga and Organic Food in New Hampshire, USA
The Horse and Hound, 205 Wells Road, Franconia, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
Writing Retreat with Yoga in USA
No one but you can share your story, craft your message, or write your book. Think about it. What's really keeping you from doing it? No time? Crazy schedule? You don't know where to start or finish. Maybe you aren't even certain exactly what you want to write about? Retreat with Birth a Book in the White Mountains and let them help you solve those problems and also give you the opportunity to relax, refresh, and refocus.
Meet the instructors
Dorothy, Jessy, & Clementina
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Highlights
- 3 yoga classes
- 6 book writing workshops
- Daily writing classes with Clementina
- 2 performance coaching classes with Jessy
- 1 one-on-one coaching session with Dorothy
- Plenty of time to write and explore nature
- 3 nights accommodation
- Daily organic meals
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
4 days with instruction
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
17:00
Check-out Time:
12:30
Facilities
- Dining area
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Lobby
- Lounge
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Library
You will stay in the historic Horse and Hound, your perfect home away from home. The Horse and Hound is a 12-bedroom historic inn that is the perfect setting for your writing getaway and will be completely private to the group.
This English-style property is complete with several warm community rooms and bedrooms with writing desks appointed with tasteful details. The property has open fields, gardens, a bubbling brook, and walking trails offering the opportunity to connect deeply with nature and yourself.
Program
The world is evolving at an unprecedented speed, allowing for infinite opportunities. Everyone needs time to reevaluate and assess how they want to show up. If you are a writer, teacher, healer, wellness practitioner or advocate, you could use your message to pave your own way while inspiring others to find theirs.
Writing your book can be the best way to make an impact. During the retreat, Birth a Book will help you clarify your book's purpose and strengthen your voice so that you leave ready to take on the role of published author.
This writing retreat's sole aim isn't writing. This is a retreat that’s goal is to reach deep inside yourself and get you on your way to writing and publishing the book that is going to impact your life, your career, and your income.
You are welcome to join even if you are confused, or even clueless about book writing. No matter what your reason is for wanting to write a book, or what level of clarity you have now, you will leave clear and confident on your way to becoming a published author.
This retreat is for you if you
- You long to get your book writing project to the next step and learn what you need to know to get your book published
- You could use a big dose of self-nurturing and a life adventure
- You enjoy hanging out with smart, loving, supportive people, creating and sharing big ideas
- You’ve just decided you want to write a book, been putting it off for years, need to rework a book you have already published, or you’re writing your 10th book. Great! This is a “welcome-all-authors” retreat!
- You are a coach, wellness professional, teacher, or someone who wants to inspire others. You long to get your message out into the world
- You are ready to embrace more career opportunities, more personal and financial freedom
- You are ready to enjoy sharing what you know and feel proud about making your contribution
What you will discover
- Dorothy's step-by-step method to get your book written and professionally published
- How to avoid the common pitfalls most first-time authors succumb to due to inexperience
- How to discover your target audience and connect with people wanting or needing the message you wish to share
- How to best utilize your book to enhance your professional and personal credibility and help make you into an authority on the topics you know and love so well
- How to write better more compelling copy
What will you actually get out of this retreat
- You will feel happy and supported and feel joy. You will laugh out loud often
- You will feel less alone. Do you worry you will not fit in? That will not happen. They work in a big loving community where you will be embraced
- You will get to rest, renew, and deeply recharge and reconnect to your strength and energy
- You will get a fresh new perspective on your book and maybe your life
- You will disengage from habits of mind and body that do not serve you
- You will get the pleasure of being heard, appreciated, and cared for. You will not have to lift a finger to cook, clean, or take care of anyone else. This sacred time-out will be just for you
- You will get your book writing project moved forward to the next level and fully planned in all its steps from the magical to the mundane
Registration requirements
This book writing retreat is open to writers of all levels, from beginner to professional. It is perfect for nonfiction writers; however, a few fiction writers have come and progressed. How do you know if you are a writer? Because you write and can tell stories. However, Dorothy only wants you to come if you yearn to make a loving, creative commitment to yourself.
In their experience, most people underestimate their writing skills. You are likely a fantastic writer! Good writing is usually a byproduct of setting clear objectives and goals and that is what they are expert at helping people achieve at their retreat. On top of goal setting, you will also have an opportunity to have your writing critiqued and edited.
This is their seventh year running these retreats and the magic of how lovely people get along is inspiring. They are a welcoming group and odds are you will leave with life-long friends. They are committed to building a community. If you are kind and want to be of service to the world, you will fit in!
No one writes a book in 4 days. Their objective is to have you map out your book and teach you a system to optimize publishing success.
What you'll do
Topic 1: Clarify your book idea
Your intensive adventure begins by helping you choose the book concept most likely to succeed from your pool of ideas. They will teach you to use the power of Ikigai to pinpoint the idea that aligns with your goals and positions you to get the results you want as a sought-after expert in your field.
Topic 2: Connect with your audience
Next, they will help you decide who your book is for and write to them as if you are reading their minds. Only then, can you create content that caters to their needs, making your book a must-read.
Topic 3: Structure your book
Then they will simplify the art of book structure for you, unveiling the simplest frameworks so you can keep readers captivated from start to finish. Structure creates freedom for you as a writer and creates clarity for your readers.
Topic 4: Create a mind map
Harness the power of mind mapping to ignite your creativity and delve into profound insights. Uncover a treasure trove of ideas and perspectives, empowering you to create content that resonates deeply with your readers. Elevate your content's impact by tapping into your inner thoughts through strategic mind mapping.
Topic 5: Create a living outline - Forge a roadmap for effortless writing
Craft a simple outline that serves as your book's backbone and your roadmap to more effective writing. With a strategic blueprint in hand, watch your book come to life, streamlining your authorial process.
Topic 6: Share your message and gain instant insight
Experience the power of sharing your ideas and insights with their experts and your peers. Receive immediate feedback that refines your impact and strengthens your voice. This dynamic exchange fuels growth, ensuring your message resonates deeply and connects authentically.
Topic 7: Workshop Bonus: Edit your work - One-on-one personal editing session
Watch your words transform and your message deepen during your writing assessment by a professional editor. Clementina will teach you how to get to the heart of the matter and say it in your voice with unwavering clarity and impact.
Topic 8: Bonus: Take your book (or career!) to the next level
Elevate your post-workshop strategy. After the workshop component, your experience continues with a transformative one-on-one session with the founder of Birth a Book. Dorothy will help you tailor your next steps to align seamlessly with your goals and aspirations. Receive personalized guidance that propels your authorial path forward, ensuring your book's publishing success is on the horizon.
Topic 9: Plenty of time to write
It's really hard to find the time to write at home. The Birth a Book retreat offers you ample daily writing time to make rapid progress writing your book. Writing becomes 100 times easier and faster when you understand what you are writing about and to whom.
Yoga
Their yoga teachers are highly skilled. They manage the class so that people of all skill levels are satisfied and embraced. The goal of adding yoga is to help you relax, open up your creative spirit so you confidently move your book project forward.
Schedule
Day 1
- 12:00 Check in at the Horse and Hound
- 12:30 - 13:45 Meet and greet lunch
- 14:00 Class with Dorothy, miraculous and mundane method to write and self publish a book, morning pages and brilliant idea book / workshop
- 15:30 Welcome yoga class with their in-house yoga teacher
- 17:30 - 18:30 Class with Clementina and workshop
- 22:00 Dinner in your dining room
- 20:30 - 21:30 Evening library tea with Jessy, introduce your book and Q and A rest of the evening to write
Day 2
- 07:30 - 09:30 Breakfast at the inn (grab your plant-based breakfast from the buffet - and don’t forget your daily green drink). Individual writing time. Free time to enjoy the great outdoors. Options to hike, walk to town, or relax on the outdoor porch
- 09:30 - 10:45 Class with Dorothy, Birth a Book blueprint / workshop
- 11:00 - 12:00 Iyengar yoga outdoor (weather permitting)
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch in the indoor dining room or outdoor terrace
- 13:30 - 14:30 Library tea time with Jessy, practicing the beats
- 15:30 - 17:30 Open time for writing
- 17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
- 20:00 - 21:00 Class with Clementina in the library and workshop
You can sign-up for a private editing / coaching session with Clementina and Dorothy.
Day 3
- 07:30 - 09:30 Breakfast at the inn and individual writing time. Free time to enjoy the great outdoors. Options to hike, walk to town, or relax on the outdoor porch
- 09:30 - 10:45 Class with Dorothy and workshop
- 11:00 - 12:00 Iyengar yoga outdoor (weather permitting)
- 12:30 Lunch on the terrace
- 13:30 - 14:30 Class with Clementina, workshop: story arc to outline
- 14:30 - 15:30 Team workshop: get messy with mind mapping
- 15:30 - 17:30 Open time for writing
- 18:00 - 19:30 Dinner in the dining room
- 19:30 - 20:30 Library tea time with Jessy, group book reading rest of the evening to write
Day 4
- 07:30 - 09:30 Breakfast at the inn. Individual writing time. Free time to enjoy the great outdoors. Options to hike, walk to town, or relax on the outdoor porch
- 09:30 - 10:00 Class with Dorothy, workshop: retreat closing, sacred circle, and reintegrating
- 10:00 - 10:45 Gentle Iyengar
- 11:00 - 11:30 Check out
- 13:30 - 12:30 Lunch
Instructors
Dorothy Holtermann
Dorothy Holtermann is a best-selling author, public speaker, Birth a Book founder, and retreat book writing and publishing teacher. After her career in law, she became a dedicated yogi and a whole food advocate, and the founder of Nurture Nature Nutrition. Her best-selling book, "Love Food that Loves You Back" propelled her career to new success. She coaches her clients to live life fully nourished and fully expressed. She specializes in working with yoga teachers and wellness coaches to expand their impact and income by writing career-enhancing books.
Jessy Holtermann
Jessy Holtermann is an actress, acting teacher, and film producer from Los Angeles. She will teach you how to introduce yourself and your book, answer questions during interviews, as well as prepare you to perform unforgettable book readings. She has been performing and teaching acting in New York City and Los Angeles for over a decade.
Clementina Esposito
Meet Clementina Esposito, Birth a Book's in-house writing professor. Her holistic editing skills have made her a sought-after content collaborator on best-selling books. She is a marvel at helping everyday writers like you create extraordinary words that change the minds and touch the hearts of readers. She is also The Clementina Collective founder, where no one writes alone and everyone values the power of a well-told story.
Location
The retreat will take place in New Hampshire, United States. Horse and Hound is located in Franconia, New Hampshire, tucked under the Peaks of the Franconia Mountain Range. The White Mountains of New Hampshire are blessed with tiny New England towns that are a perfect place to be in the summer or fall. And they are surrounded by mural-like White Mountain vistas, gorgeous rivers, and notably crisp fresh air.
Food
You will be served three breakfasts, two lunches, and three delicious plant-based dinners. You will eat mainly plant-based organic meals, prepared by the private chef, Jamie, who will be providing farm-to-table fare, including snacks and daily green juices.
Catering by Autumn Nomad, North New Hampshire's premiere farm-to-table caterer, she is dedicated to cooking beautiful, delicious, and healthy food. Perfect to enhance your creativity and enhance the retreat experience.
They can accommodate vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and dairy-free diets. They will also accommodate your food allergies and intolerances.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
You can enjoy the serene setting in the picturesque White Mountains and breathe deeply in the lovely crisp fresh air. Let the visual beauty of the region inspire you and connect with nature on scenic hikes (or walks).
What's included
- 6 book writing workshops designed to get your book focused and written faster
- 3 yoga classes
- 1 one-on-one coaching session with Dorothy
- 2 performance coaching classes with Jessy
- Daily writing classes with Clementina. You'll also get an opportunity to have her edit your writing!
- Plenty of time to write and explore nature
- Opportunity to be in a community of like-minded people who are writing a book
- Discover how to professionally publish your book strategies
- Understand how AI can be a powerful assistant and how to avoid an AI disaster!
- Know how to map out your must-read book and get you past the point of no return to become a published author in 2025!
- 3 nights accommodation
- 3 nourishing banquet breakfasts
- 2 farm-to-table plant-based lunches
- 3 farm-to-table plant-based dinners
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
How to get there
Recommended Airports
PWM
Portland International Jetport
129 km
Transfer not provided
MHT
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport
142 km
Transfer not provided
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 60 days before arrival.
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