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.

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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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.​​​​

This online somatic wellness series will give you the opportunity to listen to your body, your creative spirit, and your inner truths at this time. Adriana will guide you in group process, offer experiential exercises in somatic work as well as exclusive interviews with wellness experts. Through nourishing movement and expressive arts, this series will connect you with other creatives and share a wealth of resources to fuel your well-being.

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.

Join a respectful, nonjudgmental community of individuals as we take time out from the fast pace of daily living to reconnect with ourselves and each other. Attuning to the rhythms of late spring, we’ll drop into slow-time. We’ll draw on exercises and contemplative practices from Natural Dreamwork, NARM and BodySoul Rhythms to align with the rhythms of body and dream.

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To register, email Keren, kvishny@gmail.com

full payment with registration required, Venmo and Zelle preferred. $100 refunded for cancellations before May 15, 2025

Fairy tales, rich in symbolism and metaphor, offer profound insights into the challenges we face and the solutions we create. They explore universal human

struggles—beginning a journey, losing our way, grappling with adversity, abandonment or betrayal, and ultimately returning home transformed by the experience. 

The heroine of The Handless Maiden embodies this transformational arc. Her path leads from oppression to liberation, from cultural repression to resilience, from wounded child to healed, whole woman, and from poverty to empowered creator of her destiny. 

In this webinar, we will delve into the journey of the disempowered feminine. Together, we’ll bring the tale to life, explore its central themes, engage in embodied creative practices, and reflect on the profound lessons it offers for our times.

This live, day-long workshop offers a unique opportunity for growth, insight, and

embodied learning. We warmly invite you to join us on this rich and transformative

adventure!

How does the Kabbalah offer guidance to how consciousness is expressed through the interflow of Cosmos, Psyche and Matter?

Cosmos, Psyche & Matter & Hermetic Kabbalah: A Map for Our Time ​

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This presentation and discussion will explore the three triangles in Hermetic Kabbalah linking Cosmos, Psyche/Soul and Matter/Body/Earth as a map to meaning in the epoch–changing times we are navigating. 

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.

Renowned Jungian analyst Marion Woodman expressed this sentiment so beautifully:

"To love the juicy side of life [is] being a human being who loves being in the body, who loves to see the glory of spring, to hear the glory of the birds, to taste the glory of good food, to live the sexuality, to know what it is to be human and love it... instead of trying to be a spirit…with the body as an empty shell."

During this illuminating seminar, Dr. Stromsted will guide participants on a journey back to their essential humanity—tapping into the wisdom of the body as a source of insight and renewal. Through embodied Active Imagination, participants will delve beyond dry, barren spaces shaped by the perfectionistic voice of the inner critic and discover the rich, untapped potential waiting to be reclaimed.

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!

Join us for a creative and nurturing weekend retreat.

Together we will have time making and creating, in movement and reflection, time on an outdoor labyrinth and time exploring SoulCollage®, a creative and simple way of connecting with your deep wisdom voices. 

We will be weaving BodySoul Rhythms®, time in nature out in the woods, storytelling around the fire and time together in the circle. We will have a rich and 

creative time together, held by the labyrinth and the gorgeous Somerset landscape.

Our gathering will be at The Ammerdown Retreat Centre in Radstock. Lovely food and ensuite single rooms, all set within glorious grounds.

The weekend cost of £545 includes full board, beginning with a delicious afternoon tea on arrival, accommodation in a single ensuite room, all art materials and tuition. This is a Veriditas Qualifying Labyrinth Workshop.

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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We invite you to an experience of soul time, where we can attend to the whispers of the depths. With the ancient myth of Demeter and Persephone as a guide, we will explore the cycles of abduction, transformation and return that each of us is called to endure. How do we meet and make meaning of these descents and returns in our own lives? As we connect to bone strength, we expand our capacity to live in our wholeness and to value these cycles. Dreams, art and voice will support our embodied explorations as we move, express and play together in an environment of great natural beauty. 

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.