Free Masterclass · 75 Minutes
The
Embodied
Writer
Storytelling Through Your Body, Informed by Your Homelands and the Mighty Dead to Liberate Your Voice and Embody Your Magic.
July 16th, 2026 at 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM EST
Free and Online - Live via Zoom
For Women & Femmes Writing Memoir or Nonfiction
SAVE YOUR SEAT. IT'S FREE!
Join us live on July 16th, 2026.
Your seat is reserved the moment you sign up.
WHERE ARE YOU IN YOUR WRITING NOW?
No cost. No catch. Just bring your journal.
WHAT YOU'LL EXPERIENCE
75 minutes that can
change how you write — forever.
01
Write from your body,
not around it
Discover what trauma responses, fawning, freezing — are actually holding in terms of your story. These aren't blocks. They're portals.
02
CALL IN THE MIGHTY DEAD
Invite the writers, artists, and wisdom-keepers who've fully embodied their gifts to guide and expand your voice.
They are available to you, right now.
03
WRITE TOWARD THE LAND
Return to a beloved landscape — ancestral homeland, grandparent's yard, a favorite shoreline — and let a Shimmering Image open the door to deep story.
04
UNLOCK YOUR LIBERATED WRITER'S VOICE
The voice that was silenced is the voice that carries your deepest power. We'll begin the work of returning it to you.
05
CLAIM YOUR WRITER'S IDENTITY
Understand the difference between a writer's identity and an author's identity — and feel which one is calling you forward right now.
06
WALK AWAY WITH A PRACTICE
The somatic portals you experience tonight become tools you can return to every time you sit down to write. This isn't a one-time event — it's a beginning.
"The places in you that go silent when you try to write the true thing -
those places are holding the story."
Tanya Taylor Rubinstein · Founder, Somatic Author
THIS CLASS IS FOR YOU IF...
- You feel the book inside you - but can't quite reach it.
- You have a memoir, nonfiction book, or personal story that wants to be written.
- You've been writing but keep bumping up against the same wall - or the same silence.
- You can write beautiful sentences - but something true and deeper is waiting to come through.
- You know there are stories in you that the world needs - and you're ready to stop waiting to tell them.
- You're drawn to embodied, ancestral, or somatic approaches to creative work.
AND NOT FOR YOU IF…
- You're looking for a standard writing workshop.
- You want craft technique, grammar, or structure feedback.
- You're not open to somatic or ancestral approaches.
- You're writing fiction or poetry (this class is focused on memoir and nonfiction).
- You need a fully passive, lecture-only experience - you will be invited to write.
YOUR GUIDE FOR THE EVENING
YOUR GUIDE FOR THE EVENING
Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
FOUNDER, SOMATIC AUTHOR · 30 YEARS MENTORING WOMEN WRITERS
Tanya Taylor Rubenstein has been a writer, story mentor, and solo performance coach for over 30 years. She began her journey as a performer, writing and starring in her first solo show, Honeymoon in India, which launched a career in monologue and storytelling rooted in personal transformation.
Trained as an actor at Carnegie Mellon University, Emerson College, and HB Studios in New York, Tanya studied with celebrated teachers such as William Hickey and Sandy Dennis. While at Emerson, she met her mentor, the late monologist Spalding Gray, who inspired her passion for solo performance. Tanya went on to create and perform three critically acclaimed solo shows, with her debut named one of Santa Fe's "Top 10 Performances" by The Santa Fe Reporter, alongside productions from Santa Fe Stages and the Santa Fe Opera.
Tanya has since devoted her life to mentoring others, particularly actors, musicians, and creatives, in writing and performing their personal narratives. Her students have performed at repertory theaters across the U.S. and at fringe festivals worldwide, including New York, Toronto, Edinburgh, and beyond.
In 2010, she co-created a yearlong memoir program with author Candace Walsh, helping hundreds begin the first draft of their books.
Earlier, in 2002, Tanya released The Cancer Monologue Project, an anthology featuring work from students living with cancer. The project garnered national attention, with features in O Magazine, Rosie, NPR, Spirituality & Health, and The Dallas Morning News, establishing her as a leader in personal narrative work.
Tanya also developed The Life Monologue Project, supporting individuals facing trauma and serious illness in writing and performing their stories on stage. She has collaborated with organizations such as Gilda’s Club, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cabrini-Green, Ambercare Hospice, San Diego Repertory Theatre, and the New Mexico Cancer Center to create safe, transformative spaces for storytelling.
In 2020, while living at the foot of Black Mesa outside Santa Fe, Tanya formally codified somatic writing as a process, a unique methodology integrating writing, embodiment, land-based wisdom, and ancestral healing. She continues to guide writers into deeper layers of truth by helping them access stories held in the body, land, and lineage.
In 2024, Tanya deepened this work by training in Hellinger Family Constellations, adding ancestral constellation work to her storytelling and memoir process. Today, she supports clients at the intersection of writing and deep healing, believing that when we tell our stories while healing at the root level, we unlock profound personal and collective transformation.
INSIDE THE MASTERCLASS
75 minutes, from opening circle to closing ritual.
Opening & Arrival
Settle into the space, connect with the collective energy, and prepare your body for the work ahead.
The Liberated Writer's Voice
Discover how your silenced places hold your deepest stories, and begin the work of reclaiming them.
Somatic Writing Portals
Learn how trauma responses can be transformed into creative portals for your writing practice.
Calling In the Mighty Dead
Invite the wisdom of ancestors and fully embodied literary guides to support your unique voice.
The Shimmering Image
Return to a beloved landscape to unlock deep narrative memory and rich sensory detail.
Identity & Closing Ritual
Differentiate between writer and author identities, followed by a grounding somatic closing practice.
Kind Words from
Students & Clients (Memoir)
“The Story Shaman...”
"Tanya Taylor Rubinstein is the Story Shaman. Let us not use this word lightly. What she does, better than anyone I’ve met,
is weave your calling, God’s purpose, and the mundane trivialities of life into a vibrant tapestry, called Story.
These stories heal, inspire and ignite in ways you never imagined. When you receive the call to be with her, listen."
— Susan C. (multi-award winning author, energy healer)
“A true gift.”
I first worked with Tanya in 2020 when she coached me to develop and write the script for my one-woman stage show. I discovered then that one of her superpowers is to gently, yet dynamically coax deep, transformative stories out of my memory and onto the page. Five years later, when I learned that Tanya offers an ancestral memoir program, my heart and soul leapt toward the opportunity.
The structure and process that she and her team have created allowed me to write my book in a space where my creativity blossomed exponentially. I also learned to better express my story, not only from a place of emotions and memory, but from how my body reacted to life experiences, which has made my writing more impactful.
During this memoir mentorship, I have written stories that I’ve not shared before with the world, which has helped me understand myself, my mother and life events in a clearer and more profound way. Writing my book within Tanya’s program has been a true gift.
— Vicki Todd, Ed. D (Memoir Artist and Storyteller )
“A quantum transformation...”
Tanya is a teacher and coach who has unlocked the code for creating a perfect environment to cultivate radical growth. I am a busy entrepreneur who came to Tanya with a story to share.
Tanya was able to cultivate my skills in a way that gave a framework and a timeframe to see this my book through from birth to creation.
As a professional coach myself, I know good coaching works, but Tanya's approach that is equal parts pragmatic and creative, supported my effort in a way that would be unmatched by someone else.
My time with Tanya has provided my work and my life a quantum transformation. If you're looking to level up in life and in your creative work, look no further.
— Hailee Bland Walsh (Writer, CEO-City Gym)
“The best investment I’ve made.”
The Somatic Writing program is one of the best investments I’ve made in my life.
Somatic Writing is masterful at creating a nourishing structure that invites me to write from the deep places I’ve longed to connect with but couldn’t access on my own. The experience has far exceeded my expectations and is pure nectar for my soul.
— Mary Suzanne Garvey (Painter & Author)
“The ancient midwife of my story...”
Tanya has been the ancient midwife of my story. She cradled me, wept with me, sang me through my grief, coaxed my words, and gently guided me to the courage to birth my voice.
She once said to me, ‘I can’t promise you safety here.’ In its place, she supported me in the ultimate radical soul liberation – the telling of my story.
— Melissa K. (Somatic practitioner, visionary, author)
Your story has been waiting long enough.
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