Classes I offer
Creativity and connection for writers and artists.
For a detailed description of current classes click on a class title in the sidebar.
• Deep PLay: Awareness-based, relational dance for all bodies. Based in Contact Improvisation with Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering and more. Move in the world with grace, confidence and joy. Discover freedom and ease of expression. Transform body, mind and relationship. Open to the sensuous wonder of being alive. Thursday evenings and occasional workshops.
• The Artist's Way: My popular, life-changing class on uncovering, discovering and developing your creativity in whatever form of expression it appears. Full of amazing surprises!
• The Freedom to Write: A weekly class where we write together and share our writing in an open, supportive and highly stimulating environment, using the Amherst Writers and Artists Method. A great class for generating a lot of powerful writing in a short time. Discover your true voice, hone your strengths as a writer, create the stories, poems, plays, books you've always wanted to!
• Keeping a Journal: Starting a journal, continuing to write regularly, learning to use your journal in all kinds of wonderful, new ways for self-discovery and expression. A powerful tool for life!
• Freeing the Muse: A one-day workshop to get the pen moving and the creative juices flowing. Pure play.
• More classes: I offer a variety of one-day workshops and longer classes for writers, dancers and artists. I am willing to travel, if you are interested in hosting me to teach.
Private Coaching: I am available for one-on-one coaching and editing to help you take your writing to the next level. We can do this by email and phone or in person. I have worked with numerous authors, helping them to hone their fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screen plays. My positive, encouraging and specific critiques identify the strengths and weaknesses and ask clarifying questions to draw forth your innate gifts and help you to effectively say what you want to say.
Healing through movement: I offer one-on-one sessions using dance/movement and talking as a healing modality for a wide range of physical and emotional issues. This powerful work can reveal and transform deep patterns in a short time.
About Me
Maxima Kahn: I live in Grass Valley, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. I write poetry, fiction and essays, and have finished my first novel. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Westview, Eclipse, Borderlands, The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Poem, Rattlesnake Review, Hardpan, Leftview, Spillway, the Nevada County Poetry Series Anthology, and elsewhere. I have been a featured reader in numerous venues and have taught creative writing at the University of California, Davis Extension and in private classes and workshops.
Trained as a musician, I am an award-winning composer and an avant-garde violinist, having performed with such groups as the Relentless Compassion Orchestra, the Tiny Monsters, and Sawbones. As a dancer, my primary love is Contact Improvisation. I teach a weekly dance class in Grass Valley, and have performed as a dancer in Vermont, Texas, Colorado and California
Contact me! max[at]maximakahn[dot]com
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