Introducing Waverly Fitzgerald’s new book
Slow Time: Recovering the Natural Rhythm of Life
Slow Time is The Artist's Way for time: a workbook offering twelve weeks of reflections, stories and playful exercises to help readers transforms their relationship with time. The book shows readers how to jump off the hamster wheel of artificial time and experience the flow and the rhythm of natural time.
“...an exciting book, inviting readers to a richly transformed relationship to time. A must-read for anyone wanting to recover the sacred in everyday life.”
— Melissa Gayle West, Exploring the Labyrinth“This beautiful book leads the reader through the seasonal dance so that the ancient exchanges between creature and creation, nurture and nature can be gifted again.”
— Caitlin Matthews, The Celtic Book of Days
Slow Time Book News:
David Miller of the San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Waverly about Slow Time at the end of January. You can read the interview here.
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Waverly Fitzgerald is an expert on seasonal time. She has researching and writing about this topic for over fifteen years, developing a solid platform through her website, School of the Seasons, which gets 10,000 unique visitors a month, and through writing articles for national magazines, including a column on seasonal holidays, “Time to Celebrate” for SageWoman magazine (30,000 subscribers) and feature articles for one of the top religious web sites, Beliefnet. She launched a free email newsletter, Living in Season, in 2003 and subscriptions have grown from 1,000 to 5,000 in just two years.
After presenting a successful workshop on Natural Time at the first Take Back Your Time Day conference in Chicago in July 2004, Waverly began teaching an online class called Slow Time. She has also presented workshops on natural time at Women of Wisdom conference in Seattle in February 2005 and was invited to do a similar workshop in Boulder, Colorado in 2005.
After attending her presentation in Chicago, one participant wrote Waverly to say: "Your workshop was life-altering for me. Literally—no hyperbole." She made dramatic changes in the choices she made for her family within the next few days. A student who took one of Waverly's recent online Slow Time classes had this to say about her experience:
“My perception of time changed from taking this course. Time before was my enemy -- I fought it and it usually won. I complained that I never had enough of it and like an elusive trophy, I hunted time. Now I can honestly say that time is a friend, a cherished friend, because I know that I will always have enough of it.”
An empowering book for anyone feeling starved for a meaningful relationship with time. Waverly Fitzgerald leads you through twelve weeks of exercises, exploring different dimensions of time, from the moment to the lifetime and back again.
“What I like best about this book is that it allows me to choose the changes in rhythm that I can manage and to work from there.”
— Christina Baldwin, Storycatcher