BodySoul Brasil warmly invites women to join Body and Consciousness, a four-day experiential workshop inspired by the pioneering work of Marion Woodman and the BodySoul Rhythms® approach.

Through movement, dreams, symbolic exploration, creative expression, and shared reflection, participants will be invited to deepen their connection with the body, explore the relationship between psyche and soma, and cultivate greater self-awareness.

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Led by Marcia T. Bittencourt, the workshop offers a supportive environment for personal exploration, meaningful connection, and transformation.

The retreat will take place at Mosteiro de Itaici, a peaceful setting surrounded by nature near São Paulo, Brazil.

International participants are warmly welcome. While the workshop will be conducted primarily in Portuguese, English-speaking members of our team will be available to provide guidance and support, allowing international participants to engage meaningfully in the experience.

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Event Details

• Dates: October 30 – November 2, 2026

• Location: Mosteiro de Itaici, Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

• Duration: Four days | 36 hours

• Languages: Portuguese and English (English-language support available)

• Organizer: BodySoul Brasil

• Workshop Leader: Marcia T. Bittencourt

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.

“And the day came when the risk 
To remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” 
Anais Nin 
The workshop will offer elements of ritual, movement and creative expression.The aim is to provide 
a safe space, which supports the nervous system and creates the conditions to explore creatively 
what may be wanting to come to birth in your body soul. 
You’re invited to create a quiet, sacred space and bring a candle, art materials and journals.
This workshop will be deeply held and informed by my training as a Jungian analyst, BodySoul 
Rhythms Leadership Training and Somatic Experience.
“You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear
not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.”
Rainer Maria Rilke 
 

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. 

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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In these polarized, fast-paced times, many of us feel the strain in our bodies, emotions, and relationships. "The Handless Maiden" is a story of the wounded feeling function and the journey toward empowerment and wholeness. Drawing on Jung’s depth psychology and the Soul’s Body® approach, we will engage the tale as a symbolic map of crisis and renewal. This fairy tale speaks not only to women, but to all who seek to reclaim their feelings, intuition, and agency in destabilizing times.

This workshop integrates presentation with embodied, creative exploration. Together, we will reflect on how collective upheaval affects our somatic and emotional lives—and how, by recognizing these impacts, we can cultivate resilience, deepen presence, and take more conscious, informed action.

Through Jung’s Active Imagination approach—engaging inner images through embodied attending, movement, and the creative arts—we will listen for ways to access deeper inner resources. Attuning to embodied wisdom nourishes compassion, courage, and care within our daily lives and the larger world.

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

www.marleneschiwy.com

Join us for a journey into pioneering neuroscience and embodied wisdom, exploring the intricate connections among mind, brain, body, soul, community, and nature.



In this five-day immersive retreat, Dr. Ruth Lanius, a pioneering researcher and clinician known for her work on the neurobiology of trauma and the restorative power of the mind-body connection, joins Dr. Tina Stromsted to weave together neuroscience and trauma-informed somatic approaches with Active Imagination in movement, art, and writing. Our time together will include dreamwork, poetry, and elements of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul® approach.

Together, we will bridge scientific insights with experiential depth work to nourish our capacity for inner stillness, vitality, and connection. We will listen for the wisdom of the body and explore what emerges when we create space for the fullness of our being within a supportive community and the beauty of the natural world.

The third Body Soul WritingÒ Teacher Training Program will run from September 2027 to April 2028. Designed for women who want to create and offer workshops of their own, 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 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 be placed on the early notice list and to discuss whether this program might be a good fit. Please note that participants will have completed at least one previous workshop series with me.

My new book, The Art of Creating Workshops for Women: A Guide and Companion to Creating Soulful Spaces for Women, will be the program guide. At the end of the program participants will be ready to offer their own workshops for women. A Certificate of Completion will be issued.

The webpage is currently being updated so please check back soon if you are interested in more detailed information concerning program content, prerequisites and requirements, dates and fees, and the application form.