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Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, & Embodiment in Psychotherapy by Tina Stromsted

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In this illuminating volume, Dr. Tina Stromsted introduces her Soul’s Body® approach, inviting readers into a dynamic exploration of the body–psyche–spirit connection at the heart of depth psychotherapy. Drawing on nearly five decades of clinical practice, Stromsted blends compelling clinical vignettes with accessible teaching, trauma-informed practices, and creative somatic methods.

 

Rooted in Jung’s Active Imagination and drawing from the rich traditions of Authentic Movement and BodySoul work, Soul’s Body® brings together these foundational influences—integrating movement, embodied dreamwork, creative imagination, relationship, alchemical reflection, community, and our living connection with nature—within an approach a pathway to healing and transformation that is both vital and deeply integrative. Through these pathways, the approach The process cultivates deeper self-awareness, resilience, and healing, welcoming readers to listen to the body as an active partner in the healing process.

 

Enriched by decades of collaboration with pioneering figures—Marion Woodman, Joan Chodorow, Janet Adler, Donald Kalsched, Allan Schore, and Stanley Keleman—Stromsted threads their influence throughout the book. For readers of the Marion Woodman Foundation, the book holds special resonance. It honors BodySoul Rhythms® work, co-created by Marion Woodman together with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner—three visionaries whose collaboration shaped the field. It The volume also includes a chapter devoted to Marion’s life and work, drawn from Stromsted’s interviews with her.

 

This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing journey of conscious embodiment, inviting It invites us to come as we are and discover how body and soul collaborate in the creative process of healing and renewal.

 

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Words from Colleagues and Readers

“Soul’s Body is a vital resource, blending Active Imagination, movement, embodied practice, and Jungian thought in ways deeply relevant to modern life. Tina Stromsted is a wise and compassionate guide into embodied consciousness, connection, and healing.”

— Joan Chodorow, PhD, BC-DMT, Jungian analyst, author of Dance Therapy & Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination, and Jung on Active Imagination

 

“Trauma is often encoded in the body and remains unreachable by rational methods alone. With illuminating methods and vivid case examples, Soul’s Body offers a remarkable integrative approach to healing.”

— Donald Kalsched, PhD, Jungian analyst, author of The Inner World of Trauma, and

Trauma and the Soul

 

“This book illuminates the deep interconnections between body, psyche, spirit, community, and Earth. An empowering and transformative journey of self-discovery, healing, and alignment with life’s sacred rhythms.”

— Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor of psychiatry and director, Clinical Research Program for PTSD in Mind-Body Medicine, and Harris-Woodman

Chair at Western University of Canada. Co-author of Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma: Honoring the Brain’s Capacity for Change.

 

“Soul’s Body is a precious gift—a symphony of discoveries, inspirations, and creative practices that heal both body and soul. It also offers a living template for the embodied wisdom our world so deeply needs.”

— Anne Baring, PhD, author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul, Divine Wisdom, and The Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God

 

“This rich and creative book offers an engaging synthesis of psyche and soma that transcends usual therapeutic categories. Tina Stromsted distills a lifetime of wisdom into an enlivening and transformative read.”

— Joseph Cambray, PhD, IAAP, past-president/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute, author of

Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, and Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis (with Linda Carter)

 

“I am in awe of this book’s depth, research, and the remarkable journey it reflects. With great love, Tina Stromsted honors both soul and body, telling stories of reconciliation that stay with the reader.”

 

— Ann Skinner, Cofounder BodySoul Rhythms® with Marion Woodman and Mary Hamilton. Head of Voice Emerita at Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and former Head of Voice at the National Theatre School of Canada

 

“This essential book explores the interaction of mind, body, and spirit through Tina Stromsted’s uniquely multilayered, multidisciplinary approach. She integrates movement, neuroscience, dreams, myth, art, and voice with warmth and authority.”

— Meg Wilbur, Jungian analyst, professor emerita of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, cofounder of the C. G. Jung Study Center-Southern California, & senior faculty Marion Woodman Foundation

 

“Soul’s Body is a masterpiece – extensive in its scholarship, practical in its use!”

— Maureen Murdock, PhD, psychotherapist and author of The Heroine’s Journey; co-author Mythmaking: Self-Discovery and the Timeless Art of Memoir

 

About the Author:

Tina Stromsted, PhD, LMFT, BC-DMT, RSMT/E, SEP, is a Jungian training analyst and seminar leader at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, a dance/somatic psychotherapist, and founding director of the Soul’s Body® Center. Drawing on nearly five decades of clinical practice, she also co-founded the Authentic Movement Institute and authored Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy (Routledge).

 

Dr. Stromsted’s journey with Marion Woodman began as a student in the 1980s. At Woodman’s invitation, she later joined the core faculty during the founding of the Marion Woodman Foundation. Alongside Meg Wilbur and Dorothy Anderson, she co-trained a wave of emerging BodySoul Rhythms® leaders, helping to nurture Woodman’s living legacy through collaborative teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Today, she teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and serves on the core faculty of the Marion Woodman Foundation and the Jung Platform. She also teaches internationally and chairs the Active Imagination in Movement Pre-Congress Day workshops for the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)—an initiative originally launched by Marion Woodman, Joan Chodorow, and colleagues in 2001, with whom she was honored to collaborate. Based in San Francisco, she maintains a private practice and provides international virtual consultation.