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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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 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.

Bones are the seedbed of our life’s blood. They shelter our heart and speak to our innermost depths. In our day to day living how easily we lose touch with bone as the foundation of our structure, as an aspect of what moves us and an essence that goes beyond our physicality. In an environment of great natural beauty, we will reconnect to the bones of our being and connect with other women on a similar journey. With a fairytale as container, we will explore dreams, move, express and play together. Join us as we enter slow time, and discover the song that our bodysoul bone-essence is singing.

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.

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

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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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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