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 Art of Creating Workshops for Women: A Guide to Facilitating Soulful Spaces, Events, and Retreats 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.

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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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.

This unique series explores the archetypal dynamics of the masculine and feminine through the lens of the Russian fairy tale The Maiden King and beyond gender-based understanding. The original workshop includes teachings, poetry, dialogue, and embodied exploration led by Marion Woodman and Robert Bly. Participants will engage with these materials in a live, facilitated setting, deepening their understanding of archetype, relationship, and the process of inner integration.

Early Bird: $295 USD (through April 5th, 2026)

Regular Tuition: $325 USD

(PayPal payments include a $10 processing fee; Zelle and Venmo available without additional fee)

PayPal: evarider@reclaimingsoul.com (International) 

Zelle: evakrider@gmail.com (U.S.)

For more details you can contact Eva Rider at evarider@reclaimingsoul.com

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In order to discover new lands, we must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time- Andre Gide

During difficult times, it is especially crucial to take time to listen to the deep wisdom each of us holds within. In the witnessing offered by compassionate companions, we frequently discover ‘new land’- access parts of ourselves that have been devalued or overlooked in the crush of everyday living.

 Join us for this in-person program, Moving into Wholeness, as we take a day to slow down and listen. We will explore our dreams and embodied wisdom with the support of exercises and contemplative practices drawn from Natural Dreamwork and BodySoul Rhythms traditions: guided imagination, dream embodiment, simple movement, journaling, art expression, poetry and reflective conversation.

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“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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Come and join us for a soulful and joyful weekend gathering of story, myth, movement and dreamwork; an exploration of the deep feminine. Our weave is informed by BodySoul Rhythms and the myth and story work of Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and we are held by the labyrinth and the glorious land and trees of Kent. 

Our story for 2026 is the story of Courting The Wild Twin by Dr Martin Shaw. A story of loss and absence, of something precious and wild having being lost and seeking to return.

In this module, we continue the work of uncoupling complex or early attachment patterns through attunement to ourself and our environment.

We focus on moments of activation – where we respond from an old attachment pattern that has become our default

position. These defences may have their origin in early or generational trauma; states that once mobilised to help us survive, but which may no longer be serving us.

This work is central to building new neural pathways and creating greater coherence in our systems – increasing our

capacity for presence and participation at a time when the world is in chaos.

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

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

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.