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“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

– Rumi 

Author and Yogi Instructor Sarah Ward

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”

– R. Buckminster Fuller           

Books

Sarah Ward is the Author of Aesop Lake, Stone Sisters, and more.

Yoga

Live Classes and Recordings

Blog

Short-form fiction, poetry, and journal entries. Sarah Ward writes thoughtfully about connection, lessons from her 30 years in the field of Social Work, and reflections from her writing desk.

Blog Post #21: July 2020 Writing Retreat

Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Artist Week, July 2020 May 6th, 2021 The writing retreat was meant to be an opportunity to work on my next novel: to write uninhibited and let the story flow; to get lost in words. But I arrived with

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Blog Post #20: Power of Persuasion

February 24th, 2018 2018 is barely through month two, the second month, the one with the fewest days but the shortest tempers. In Northern New England we all get a bit grumpy in February, because its still winter. The snow becomes ice, the

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Blog

Short-form fiction, poetry, and journal entries. Sarah Ward writes thoughtfully about connection, lessons from her 30 years in the field of Social Work, and reflections from her writing desk.

Blog Post #21: July 2020 Writing Retreat

Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Artist Week, July 2020 May 6th, 2021 The writing retreat was meant to be an opportunity to work on my next novel: to write uninhibited and let the story flow; to get lost in words. But I arrived with

Read More »

Blog Post #20: Power of Persuasion

February 24th, 2018 2018 is barely through month two, the second month, the one with the fewest days but the shortest tempers. In Northern New England we all get a bit grumpy in February, because its still winter. The snow becomes ice, the

Read More »

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