An Embodied Writing & Performance Journey
Life is full of plot twists. Some are profound, some are painful, and some are downright ridiculous. And all of them give us tales worth telling!
We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
What if we took the lessons we’ve learned from life’s wild ride and turned them into something worth sharing? Not another post, podcast, or digital download, but something wonderfully old-fashioned: real people sharing real stories, LIVE, face-to-face, in real time.
Whether your story is profound, absurd, hilarious, heartbreaking, mysterious, or downright magical, there’s creative gold to be mined from the experiences that shape us. Each of us carries a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom, unexpected revelations, and unique perspectives. And that wisdom deserves to be shared! When we transform our experiences into stories and offer them to others, we create opportunities for connection, insight, laughter, and collective growth.
Storycraft: Tales of Integration is an 8-week creative writing and performance adventure that invites you to transform your lived experiences into compelling, heartfelt, and sometimes hilarious personal stories.
Through guided writing exercises, playful storytelling techniques, humor, and creative exploration, we’ll discover fresh perspectives, uncover unexpected insights, and shape our experiences into original personal monologues.
Our weekly online sessions focus on writing, experimenting, and developing your story. Two in-person gatherings bring your words off the page and into your body through movement, improvisation, vocal expression, and performance play.
And because some stories are simply too good to keep to ourselves, the journey culminates in a live community showcase, where we share our tales, our discoveries, and a little hard-earned wisdom with an audience of actual human beings!
Come find your voice, embrace your inner storyteller, and turn life’s twists and turns into art.
No previous writing or performance experience necessary. Just bring your stories, your curiosity, and a willingness to play!
📅 DATES & TIMES: All dates are in 2027.
January 6 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
January 9 • 12–3 PM • IN PERSON at RBI
January 13 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
January 20 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
January 27 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
February 3 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
February 10 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
February 17 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
February 20 • 12–3 PM • IN PERSON at RBI
February 24 • 6–8 PM • ZOOM
🎭 March 18, 2027 • STUDENT SHOWCASE • IN PERSON
Skyward Room at Root & Bloom Institute Location: 2307 Sixth Street Berkeley, CA 94710
About Root & Bloom Institute:
Root & Bloom Institute (RBI) is a center for somatic practices, psychotherapy, and expanded states of consciousness in Berkeley. Our spaces are designed to support healing, learning, and community through thoughtfully curated trainings, workshops, and gatherings. Check our Transportation Guidelines and How To Arrive here.
🎭 FACILITATED BY RAINA SATORI
Raina Satori is an expressive arts facilitator, performer, comedian, and improvisation teacher with decades of experience helping people discover the power of authentic creative expression.
Drawing from her background in expressive arts, movement, improvisation, and theater, Raina creates playful, supportive environments where personal stories can become powerful works of art.
💛 TUITION
$750 • EARLY BIRD Register before 11/5 to receive this discount
$850 • STANDARD The standard tuition for the complete Storycraft journey.
$950 • PAY IT FORWARD Have a little extra? Choosing this rate helps make a supported place available to someone else.
✨ $100 deposit reserves your place.
The remaining tuition is due when class begins. Payment plans and credit cards are available. Everyone receives the same complete Storycraft experience, regardless of tuition level.
✨ WHAT IS STORYCRAFT?
Part writing workshop, part expressive arts laboratory and part performance workshop, Storycraft approaches storytelling as an embodied practice.
We use movement, sensory exploration, improvisation, writing, voice and play to uncover the stories that still have something to say.
Then we look for the pearl inside them. 💫
The insight, discovery or hard won wisdom that allows a deeply personal experience to become a shared human story.
From there, we craft, rehearse and bring our stories to life in performance.
🌿 HOW THE HYBRID FORMAT WORKS
Our Zoom sessions give us the intimacy and focus to dive into story discovery, embodied writing and the process of shaping our personal monologues.
When we gather in person at Root & Bloom, we take those stories off the page and into the body.
Through movement, expressive arts, improvisation, voice, physical storytelling, play and performance, we explore new ways of inhabiting and expressing the stories we’ve written.
Finally, we bring it all together onstage at our Storycraft Student Showcase. 🎭
No previous writing or performance experience is necessary.
All genders are welcome.
✨ Ordinary lives contain extraordinary stories.
Discover yours. Craft it. Embody it. Share it.
Turning lived experience into shareable wisdom. 📖✨
ABOUT RAINA SATORI
Raina Satori is a performance artist, comedian, improviser, producer, director and facilitator with more than 25 years of experience creating, performing and teaching at the intersection of storytelling, comedy, movement, improvisation and expressive arts.
As a producer and performer, Raina has created and brought to the stage original productions including The Ridiculum Curriculum, Stairway to Haven, and The Improverse. Her performance work also includes the spiritual satire productions More Enlightened Than You and Love and Laughter Ever After, as well as So This Is Menopause, which she performed in and co-produced for its Nevada City production.
Raina is also the longtime captain of the Shamanic Cheerleaders, an irreverent performance troupe that was named Best of the Bay and appeared on America’s Got Talent.
Alongside her original performance work, Raina holds a degree in Expressive Arts Therapy and spent four years studying with pioneering dance artist Anna Halprin, during which time she also performed with Halprin’s Sea Ranch Collective. She went on to spend approximately 15 years teaching contact improvisation.
Her work draws from decades of experience with physical theater, improvisation, comedy, movement, storytelling and ensemble performance, with a particular love for the places where humor, vulnerability, embodiment and personal truth collide.
Storycraft Sessions grew out of this unusual combination of disciplines.
Raina created Storycraft as a place where the body can unlock memory, improvisation can reveal the unexpected, writing can give lived experience form, and performance can transform a deeply personal story into something that resonates with an audience.
She guides participants from the first spark of an experience through discovery, embodiment, writing, crafting and rehearsal, ultimately bringing their stories to life onstage.
Ordinary lives contain extraordinary stories.
Discover yours. Craft it. Embody it. Share it.
Turning lived experience into shareable wisdom.
