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Workshops & Events
Book Release: Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, and Embodiment in Psychotherapy
by Tina Stromsted, PhD, Jungian analyst
Amid the challenges of modern life—when many feel untethered, depleted, or longing for deeper connection—Soul’s Body offers a compassionate path to the wisdom of the body. Through vivid case material, accessible teaching, trauma-informed practices, and creative somatic methods techniques, Dr. Tina Stromsted invites readers to explore movement, dreamwork, imagination, relationship, and our living bond with nature in a deeply integrative approach that supports healing and transformation.
Drawing on nearly fifty years of clinical practice—and enriched by decades of collaboration with pioneering figures Marion Woodman, Joan Chodorow, Janet Adler, Donald Kalsched, Allan Schore, and Stanley Keleman—Stromsted’s work guides readers toward greater embodiment, self-awareness, and a more grounded presence, welcoming us to listen to the body as an active partner in the healing process.
For readers of the Marion Woodman Foundation, the book holds special resonance, interweaving BodySoul work and including a chapter devoted to Marion Woodman’s life and work, based on Stromsted’s interviews with her.
Tina Stromsted, PhD, is a Jungian training analyst, dance and somatic psychotherapist, author, and international teacher. She directs the Soul’s Body® Center, co-founded the Authentic Movement Institute, and teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Jung Platform, and the Marion Woodman Foundation. She loves long walks in nature and maintains a private practice in San Francisco, as well as offering international virtual consultation.
Routledge is offering a 20% discount, with free shipping, if you use the code CISYCSB20 at checkout. Please click here to purchase the book through Routledge. The book is also available through Amazon; please click here.
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Book Release: The Art of Creating Workshops for Women
A Guide to Facilitating Soulful Spaces, Events and Retreats
by Marlene Schiwy, Ph.D
Do you dream of offering inspiring gatherings where women can sink into their own creative depths? Let this essential guide be your mentor and companion on the journey to facilitating safe and sacred spaces where hearts are nourished, imaginations stirred, and creativity flourishes in the warmth of genuine community.
Deep Dream Diving
Individual or Group Dream Sessions
with Andrea Wells
Online, via Zoom
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 at andreaw@cruzio.com to create your own Body Soul Experiential Dream Group.
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Transform Your Life Through Active
Embodied Imagination
Online Voice Dialogue Group
With Elaine Rosenson, M.A. LMFT
Alternating Mondays 10am-Noon PST
July 6th & 20th
August 3rd, 17th & 31st
September 14th
Join this online Zoom community (at any time during the series) 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. You may join this group at any point during the series.
Jungian Women and the Soul's Journey
Part 6
with Marlene Schiwy, Ph.D
Tuesdays from May 12th, 10 am – 12:30 pm
(NEW eight-week format)
“Rooted in the Heart” Embodying the Conscious Feminine
"Feminine consciousness is rooted in the heart. The feeling comes with the thought, and as the thought is spoken, the heart opens, and feeling flows to deeper, richer levels." - Marion Woodman

The sixth annual Jungian Women and the Soul’s Journey series will focus on what it means to embody the conscious feminine. Along with Marion Woodman’s profound and beautiful exploration of conscious femininity, we will read the work of Jungian writers such as Helen Luke, Ann Ulanov, Jean Shinoda Bolen, June Singer, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Patricia Reis, Sylvia Brinton Perera, and others. At a time when patriarchy’s relentless abuse of power has left the world dangerously polarized, how do we live the feminine feeling values? How do we live rooted in the heart? PDFs of all program materials will be sent to participants, and weekly emails with additional materials and writing prompts will keep the process alive between sessions.
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Study Group 1 - The Process of Transformation
Dates: July 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2026
Format: Live Online
Time: Thursdays, 7:00–9:00 PM (Brasília Time, BRT)
BodySoul Brasil presents an online study group based on Marion Woodman’s The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation.
This four-session program offers a reflective exploration of psychological transformation through reading, symbolic reflection, and dialogue. Designed to support the movement from lived experience toward greater understanding and integration, the group creates a space where body, psyche, and symbolic life can be brought into meaningful relationship.
This program is intended primarily for women engaged in a process of inner development and transformation, as well as psychologists, therapists, and health professionals seeking to cultivate symbolic awareness and a deeper understanding of the psychological passages that accompany growth, change, and individuation.
Wild Women Writing Circle
with Marlene Schiwy Ph.D
Wednesdays
September 9th - December 2nd
(no session on September 23rd)
10 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
Image: "Desert Dancers"
courtesy of Nancy Patterson​
“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.
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In preparation for this workshop, please read one of Marlene’s books: A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey, or
Gypsy Fugue: An Archetypal Memoir.
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For more information or to register,
email Marlene at mschiwy03@gmail.com or call 604.734.3554
Writing the Body, Dancing the Soul
with Marlene Schiwy Ph.D
A Fall Body Soul Writing Retreat
September 20th - 25th, 2026
Our daily lives are often so rushed and busy that we lose touch with our own depths. With the current global upheaval permeating our lives, it’s challenging to find the stillpoint within and stay connected with our own souls. Please join us for a Body Soul Writing Retreat this autumn. 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.

The retreat will provide freedom to move according to your own rhythm. In a sacred circle of women, we will write and share, meditate and move, ripen and deepen. We and dance our stories and poems onto the page as mirrors of our soul’s journey. If you are a beginning writer, this retreat will get your creative juices flowing. If you are immersed in an ongoing writing project, it will offer inspiration and the opportunity to carry it forward. It will offer inspiration and the opportunity to carry it forward.
For more information or to register,
email Marlene at mschiwy03@gmail.com or call 604.734.3554
Reclaiming the Bones:
Returning to the Wisdom of Our Nature
A Retreat for women with Sheila Langston and Keren Vishny
October 4th - 9th, 2026
Linwood House, Roberts Creek, British Columbia, Canada
Come and join us in the forest of the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver BC, for an opportunity to slow down, attune, and connect to our natural rhythms: rhythms of our instinctual, intuitive wisdom, and the wisdom of Mother Nature. Offering a respite from the challenges and distresses of our world, we invite you to gather with a small group of women for rest and replenishment. We will explore the Russian folktale, Vassalissa, feeling into the images from the story, and finding meaning in what arises in us in response to the tale. Movement, voice work, dreams and art-making will be central in our time together as we give expression to what emerges through reflection, journaling and discussion.