Join this online Zoom community where your voices can be understood and heard. These groups are designed to assist each member to explore the unconscious and the shadow in the tradition of Carl Jung using a method of active imagination called Voice Dialogue.

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Image: "Desert Dancers"

courtesy of Nancy Patterson

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“I am ready to write another life: out here, on the edge, in the wild.” Nancy Mairs

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“Where does Wild Woman live? She lives in the place where language is made. She lives on poetry and percussion and singing. Wild Woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry." Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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If you would like to develop a regular writing practice and explore the stories at the heart of your life, please join us for this twelve week writing program. In a circle of creative and openhearted women we will consider a wide variety of writing styles and genres: memoir and poetry, dreams and writing from the body, music and active imagination, fairy tale and proprioceptive writing. Weekly sessions will include teaching and discussion of the writing process, writing together, and breakout groups for sharing your writing. Writers at all levels are warmly welcome. In the second half of this series, anyone who wishes can receive written comments and feedback on a piece of writing. 

Image: "She Who Gives the Dream"

by Meinrad Craighead

Permission by artist’s estate

 

The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you

understand it, and it understands you. Marion Woodman

 

Dream images carry wisdom and guidance on the soul’s journey. Diving into dreams through the
portal of Marion’s BodySoul Rhythms embodiment practices including movement, art, voice
and writing, allows the energy of the Images to be revealed and expressed. Archetypal aspects of
images will be discussed and incorporated to amplify personal images at the intersection of Body

and Soul.

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Wild Soul Salon will provide a foundation of working with dream images in professional practices or in starting one’s own dream group with peers or friends.

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Individual Dream Sessions:

 

Dream sessions incorporate movement, art, Active Imagination, and writing practices to dive into dream images. Marion Woodman’s teaching in Body Soul Leadership training is the embodied foundation of dreamwork.

 

Create a custom Wild Soul Dream Diving Group Session:

 

Would you like to experience dream work in a small group format with friends or colleagues? Exploring dreams in a small group is very potent. Each participant will have one-to-one opportunity to work with a dream. As a group, participants will experience Marion’s Body Soul Practices for embodied dreamwork.  These practices include, Art, Movement, Writing Prompts, and Active Imagination / Dialogue.

 

Please contact Andrea to create your own Body Soul Experiential Dream Group.

Image: La Primavera,  Sandro Botticelli  

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These challenging, polarizing times call us to draw from creative, healing energies from deeper parts of the Self. Dreams, imagination, and embodied knowing offer profound sources of renewal and resources that connect us to ourselves, one another, and the creative intelligence that informs all of Nature.

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Through Authentic Movement, a subtle yet powerful meditative and therapeutic practice rooted in C.G. Jung’s Active Imagination approach, invites a descent into the body and psyche – bridging body, psyche, and spirit through expressive movement and creative arts within a safe environment.

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Jungian analyst Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton, and Ann Skinner furthered this practice through the “Dance of Three,” which combines inner listening with outer attunement, deepening perception, and evoking respect and empathy.

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Through presentation, natural movement, drawing, writing, and reflection, we will nourish the eternal soul spark  – within ourselves, as healing practitioners, and as agents of change in an evolving global landscape. 

In winter much of the natural world goes quiet, foliage is gone from trees, and with it comes cold that penetrates the bones. Psyche also has its seasons with its inner movements and, despite outer stillness, life endures below the surface. 

We can be sure that spring will come. Between seasons, we may find ourselves holding the tension of these opposites, both within and without. Then, from a still point in the depths of our being, there is a budding as deep as bone.

 

As winter begins to recede we notice new energy, new interests, and new connections that lead us into deeper engagement with ourselves and the world around us. 

Join us as we explore this budding at the bone through poetry, story, dreams and expressive art forms. Together we will move, voice and find image for what is yearning 

to come into form.

Painting by Peter Malone 

 

This event contains two components, a lecture on April 4th and a workshop on April 5th. As spring blooms, and new life begins to dawn from the darkness, we engage light in the body through working with a dream image as healing medicine. Together we will explore our dreams to connect with a deeper sense of knowing, creativity, and wholeness — in ourselves, as healing practitioners, and as world citizens attuning to an evolving planetary call. 

 

Our bodies and dreams provide a direct avenue to the unconscious, expressing the soul’s longing through image, breath, gesture, the rhythm of our step, and the music of our speech. Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of our life’s journey. Illuminating our inner landscape, they help us come to know disowned parts of ourselves, point to what we value, and provide guidance on our life path. 

 

During the lecture, Tina will introduce DreamDancing®, an embodied approach that integrates C. G. Jung’s active imagination approach with creative, embodied methods, including a brief experience. 

 

The workshop will support you in nurturing body and soul through presentation, natural movement, drawing, and writing.

The feminine finds its own voice in the virgin:
the initiated feminine
who is who she is because her values and emotions are grounded in her musculature.

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Marion Woodman’s beautiful exploration of the Virgin archetype, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation, is a book to reread over a lifetime. This year marks the 40th anniversary of its publication. This weekend we will explore the archetype of the Virgin who is “one-in-herself,” forever open to new life and new possibilities, and stands in the truth of her own authentic being and becoming.​​

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The Pregnant Virgin, Forty Years Later

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Marion Woodman’s beautiful exploration of the Virgin archetype, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation, is a book to reread over a lifetime. This year marks the 40th anniversary of its publication. In this six-week series we will explore the archetype of the Virgin, she who is “one-in-herself,” forever open to new life and new possibilities, and stands in the truth of her own authentic being and becoming. Come and join us as we gather in a circle of soulful women and ask ourselves: How do we embody our Virgin essence at age thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, and beyond? Writing and discussion, music and movement, poetry and active imagination will ground Marion’s wisdom in our personal experience.

During polarized times the body/psyche/spirit connection can serve as a vital compass to help navigate difficult passages, painful turmoil, and unexpected opportunities as Eros and Logos find a new balance.

 

Through Authentic Movement, inner-directed movement bridges the realms of conscious and unconscious, body and psyche, instinct and spirit, affect and image, memory, and emergence. What was experienced as non-understandable moves toward form and consciousness. In the process, we may learn to discern and reclaim our unconscious “shadow” projections, which we otherwise tend to attribute to others. 

 

This day-long pre-conference workshop will continue to explore and develop dance/movement as a form of active imagination – interweaving theoretical, experiential, cultural, ecological and clinical material – with special attention to the living body in analytic practice.

 

We will link Jung’s early contributions involving multi-sensory images and emotions to recent neurobiological research. Morning and afternoon sessions include presentations, breathwork, movement, art, writing and discussion.

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This presentation is part of a tradition, now in its 22nd year, held by leading voices in the field of Active Imagination in Movement & embodiment in analysis, including Dr. Joan Chodorow, Marion Woodman, Carolyn Grant Fay, and others.

 

Members of the MWF are warmly welcome! Please join us in Zurich this summer for all of the rich offerings at the IAAP Congress!

The painted caves of southwestern France are the perfect metaphor for the internal journey to the unconscious that we experience each night in dreams.  Art is a visual language of symbol and metaphor which has been the language of humankind since the first dawning of human consciousness. 

 

Nowhere is that more evident than in these beautifully painted caves which likely functioned as sacred spaces for early humans. C. G. Jung and Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman believe that by learning to remember and attend to our dreams, we can discover more about ourselves and our relationships to others.  Utilizing active imagination and recording our own dream images with various art mediums, will enhance our experience and aid in our inner journey.

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On a typical day we will have a dream workshop/art session after breakfast to connect to/elucidate our own images. We will then visit one of the painted caves in the area. Lunch together provides time for discussion with some afternoons free to hike, kayak, bike, rest, or visit some of the other wonderful sights in this area including castles of all sorts, and wineries. We will reconvene in the evening to experience ways to further amplify dreams with art-making, mixed-media techniques, music, movement, and guided imagery.

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The Second Body Soul Writing Teacher Training Program will begin in September 2025 and continue through May 2026. Designed for women who want
to develop their own workshops, this unique training program combines expressive writing and Jungian themes with music and movement explorations, voice,
dreamwork, collage, and other modes of creative expression. We will cover every aspect of facilitating soulful workshops that nurture women’s creativity. Topics will include creating content, deciding on form and structure, determining registration fees, ensuring trust and safety in the group, teaching in person and
online, and much more.

If you would like to offer workshops for women that include a substantial writing component, expand your current work with clients to include more expressive
writing, or step into your role as a teacher in a more grounded and confident way, please contact me to discuss whether this program might be a good fit.

We will begin with a weeklong in-person retreat on Bowen Island, a short ferry trip from Vancouver, British Columbia. Subsequent sessions will be conducted via
Zoom on Sunday and some Wednesday mornings. This includes regular email contact between sessions along with one-to-one consultations.

 

The Hand-Crafted Workshop: A Guide and Companion to Creating Soulful Spaces for Women, my recently completed book manuscript, will be our “textbook.” At this time the manuscript is available only to registered program participants.

At the end of the program participants will be ready to offer their own workshops for women. A Certificate of Completion will be issued.