Lição 1
The Many Magical Doorways Opened By A Poem
In this opening lesson, you’ll be welcomed into our poetry corner and discover how poetry can serve as medicine for the soul. I’ll share the inspiration behind this course, introduce the poets whose words we’ll journey with, and reflect on how listening to poetry can feel like meditation—awakening memory, imagination, and a deeper sense of aliveness. You’ll be invited to listen with the ears of your heart and to reflect upon, and begin perhaps to reconnect to, your own relationship with poetry.
Lição 2
Begin Again By Jeanette Encitas
In this session, we listen to Jeanette Encinias’ poem Begin Again, a reminder that life continually offers fresh starts, even in the midst of loss, failure, or change. Through simple daily rituals and “lovely little blessings,” we are invited to recognize beginnings everywhere and to create space for renewal. The reflection encourages you to notice how new life can emerge from endings and how ordinary moments can become gateways to healing and possibility.
Lição 3
Joy Chose You By Donna Ashworth
In this session, we meet Donna Ashworth’s poem Joy Chose You, which reminds us that joy is not something we need to earn or chase—it arrives quietly in ordinary moments. The lesson explores the art of receptivity, softening the walls we build against joy, and allowing ourselves to be present to life’s small delights. Joy is medicine, always knocking at the door of our hearts, waiting to be received.
Lição 4
Words (I Owe Myself An Apology) By Tahlia Hunter
This lesson reflects on Tahlia Hunter’s poem I Owe Myself an Apology, a heartfelt invitation to forgive ourselves for self-neglect, harshness, or self-sabotage. It guides us toward reclaiming worthiness, extending compassion inward, and recommitting to treat ourselves with the love and respect we deserve. The focus is on beginning anew through kindness, forgiveness, and self-acceptance.
Lição 5
Your Power Is In Your Loving by Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster’s poem Your Power Is in Your Loving reminds us that our deepest strength lies not in achievement, reputation, or intellect, but in our willingness to feel, to care, and to embrace life with an open heart. This lesson offers practices of softening into love, embodying compassion, and reconnecting with the part of us that knows we are lovable as we are.
Lição 6
This Is No Race by Donna Ashworth
Donna Ashworth’s This Is No Race reminds us that life is not a competition or a timeline to be matched against others. This lesson explores how the pressure to hurry, perform, or “catch up” can keep us trapped in urgency, and how slowing down allows us to reconnect with safety, presence, and trust in our own path.
Lição 7
She Sat At The Back By Becky Helmsley
This lesson reflects on She Sat at the Back, a powerful and moving poem that evokes the longing to feel seen and valued for who we truly are. It speaks to the ways our natural energy and liveliness can be shut down, and the importance of reclaiming our right to belong, to express ourselves fully, and to know we are not alone in our humanness.
Lição 8
I Meant To Tell You About Strawberries
Victoria Erikson’s poem I Meant to Tell You About Strawberries brings us into the sensory richness of life. This lesson explores how savoring taste, memory, and sensation can awaken delight, deepen presence, and reawaken forgotten loves. It invites us to let our senses be pathways into meditation, joy, and aliveness.
Lição 9
Breaking Surface By Mark Nepo
Mark Nepo’s Breaking Surface is a call to honor our own path and listen to the compass of the heart. This lesson reminds us not to be dissuaded by outside voices or pressures, but to trust our soul’s guidance. It is an invitation to claim what is true for us, to release what is not, and to live authentically.
Lição 10
Letter To The Parts Of Me That I Tried To Exhale
In this lesson, we reflect on Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s Letter to the Parts of Me I Tried to Exile, which speaks to the longing for acceptance of all parts of ourselves. The poem invites us to welcome back the aspects we’ve pushed away or felt ashamed of, and to recognize that wholeness comes through embracing every part of our being.
Lição 11
The Most Important Thing By Julia Ferenbacher
The Most Important Thing is a celebration of creating a home within ourselves — a sanctuary of kindness where every part is welcomed. This lesson encourages us to meet ourselves with tenderness, to light our own inner fire, and to discover that grace and abundance bloom when we treat our own being as sacred ground.
Lição 12
How To Heal By Jeff Foster
This lesson reflects on Jeff Foster’s How to Heal, a gentle reminder that true healing cannot be forced. Instead, it arises naturally when we allow space, presence, and love to meet our pain. Through slowing down, softening agendas, and welcoming even difficult emotions, we create the conditions for healing to unfold in its own mysterious way.
Lição 13
I Counted My Years By Mario Andrade
Mario de Andrade’s poem I Counted My Years invites us to reflect on the preciousness of time and the urgency of living fully. With maturity comes the recognition that life is finite, and so the invitation is to savor the “desserts,” to cherish relationships, laughter, and authenticity, and to live in ways that align with our deepest values.
Lição 14
Joy Comes Back By Donna Ashworth
In Joy Comes Back, Donna Ashworth reminds us that joy is not found in fireworks or grand events but in fireflies, birdsong, and daily simplicity. This lesson encourages us to stop rushing past life’s small wonders, to be a gracious host when joy arrives, and to cultivate practices that make space for joy to return again and again.
Lição 15
Before You Sleep By Chelan Hawkin
Chelan Harkin’s Before You Sleep is a lullaby of reverence, inviting us to rest into the mystery of existence. The poem evokes stars, forests, and the intelligence of life tending to us through the night. This lesson offers an experience of awe, reminding us that sleep itself is a sacred act of surrender and trust in the living universe.
Lição 16
All The Poems In One Place
This final audio gathers together all the poems from the course into one seamless playlist, allowing you to rest in their music without interruption. Here you can simply receive—let the words wash over you, carry you, and weave their way into your heart. Returning to the poems in this way is both a recap and a deepening, a chance to notice what resonates now that you’ve journeyed through the reflections and practices. It is also a gentle closing, reminding you that poetry is always here as medicine, meditation, and companion. May these poems continue to whisper to you long after the course has ended, inviting you to begin again, to soften into love, and to keep discovering joy in the everyday.
