In the Margaret Aylward Community Centre, Glasnevin, D11 TC21, this BodySoul Community Group follows Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Method. The sessions include deep relaxation, working with dream images in the body, movement, and bringing movement to image/art .

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6 Fridays:

2024- 27th September, 8th November, 6th December
2025- 17th January, 28th February, 4th April

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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https://www.mwfbodysoulrhythms.org/transform-your-life-through-embodied-act

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Experience the BodySoul Rhythms methodology developed by Canadian Jungian analyst Marion Woodman and her collaborators Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner. This is a path to self-knowledge through dreams, body awareness, voice work, and the arts, in an engaging sequence of expressive dynamics that lead to a conscious perception of the harmony in living the rhythm of body, soul, and spirit.

 

The workshop will be held in person and in Portuguese language at Instituto Sedes Sapientiae on October 19, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with free admission. Participants are kindly asked to bring their own snacks. Registration is limited to 25 people and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

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.

The busyness of life, even when that life is freely chosen and richly rewarding, can mean we lose connection with some deep, wild, soulful aspect of ourselves. Myths and stories offer us a
map to wholeness, to living a full and rich deep inner life, as well as one lived well in the outer
world. Stories show us how to walk in both worlds.

Come and join us for a soulful weekend gathering of story, myth, simple ceremony, movement and dreamwork. Together we will explore the story of “Sealskin, Soulskin.” a tale of returning home to oneself, of nourishing the inner life, in Dr Estes’ words, “renewal into the wild.”

There will be preparation invitations and suggestions, some journal and writing prompts to nurture the process before we meet and resources from our time together after we gather.

Image: "Twelve Women with Birds"

courtesy of Emily Balivet

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Our daily lives are often so rushed and busy that we lose touch with our own depths. Please join us for a Body Soul Writing Retreat this November. Rivendell Retreat Centre is an oasis of peace and tranquility on beautiful Bowen Island, a twenty-minute ferry trip from Vancouver. Come and sink into your own creative process. A variety of writing prompts and exercises, the gentle support and inspiration of the group, the quiet beauty of the setting, delicious food, and abundant spaciousness for reverie and reflection will nourish your body and soul.

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“They fed it not with corn, but with the possibility of being.” 

Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus 

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We will gather at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 40 miles from Zurich, where we will be surrounded by mountains and Lake Sihl. Here, in the Benedictine Abbey there is a shrine to the Black Madonna, more than a thousand years old. In this ancient place of pilgrimage we will open to the impulses and stirrings of our soul's calling - in our body and dreams, receiving the support from one another and the beauty of the natural surroundings.

From the deep exploration of body and psyche we will create a mask, an act of embodied imagination. We will bring our attention to what is wanting to emerge through image, gesture, movement, voice and play.

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We will use the mask making process, inspired by Marion Woodman's BodySoul Rhythms®'s

mask work, and incorporate it within a BodyDreaming® framework : through attunement – inner and outer attunement, and the practice of mirroring and
titration - the energy of the mask begins to take shape, find its voice and express itself.

Image: "Desert Dancers"

courtesy of Nancy Patterson

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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.

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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.