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.

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.

Deepen your understanding of what makes a dream group "Jungian," and how a shared language can build community.

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Are you a therapist, have at least 20 hours of Jungian analysis, or are a professional that consciously engages with archetypal ideas in your work? Are you also interested in building community through the Jungian-based exploration of dreams?

Whether we are professionally engaged with the unconscious, or have spent a considerable amount of time working with our inner lives under the supervision of a depth psychological professional, the time spent in the depths changes how we see the world, and how others see and relate to us. When we convene and facilitate a group that intends to share dreams with each other, our familiarity with the depths invites an authenticity from the participants that can become difficult to manage without specialized training in becoming a gentle, but radical, container for the unexpected and sometimes fantastic elements that can arise. This seven-week interactive class (the first of two parts) will deepen your understanding of what makes a dream group “Jungian”, and demonstrate how a shared language enhances cohesion, community, and our abilities both to allow and to contain what can emerge when dreams are shared. 

"The path to wholeness requires that a woman make a journey to find her roots in the personal, cultural, and archetypal Motherline. The Motherline is the embodied experience of the female mysteries. "  Naomi Ruth Lowinsky

“Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother, and every woman extends backwards into her mother and forward into her daughter,” C. G. Jung wrote. Whether or not we had a mother who could support and cherish us in our essence, our maternal lineage is alive in our bodies and souls. Our motherlines include our birth and adoptive mothers and grandmothers, and their stories and legacies, gifts and wounds. They may also encompass all the women who have cherished, nurtured, and loved us into being: the soul mothers who have mirrored our essence back to us with love, and the intellectual or spiritual mothers, whose work has inspired and called forth our own best efforts.

This two-day workshop will offer a safe and nurturing space to explore your motherline stories. Most often these stories hold both joy and sorrow, celebration and anguish, creative fulfilment and thwarted desire. If your maternal legacy is unsettling or shrouded in secrecy, giving voice to your motherline can invite gentleness, peace, and healing. Come and explore your own personal, cultural, and archetypal motherline in a circle of kindred spirits.

This is the second introductory gathering leading up to the BodySoul Rhythms® Professional Training Program – Brazil (2026).

Inspired by the teachings of C. G. Jung and developed by Marion Woodman, this methodology integrates body, soul, and spirit in a transformative journey of reconnection with the essential feminine.

Through dreams, creative movement, and shared experience, participants will explore healing energies that foster renewal, embodiment, and the deep listening of the soul in times of uncertainty.

Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that blends somatic practices, creative expression, mythology, symbols, and dreams, this workshop invites women who feel called to explore, integrate, and honor the sacred feminine.

Light refreshments will be served, and participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing.

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Rua Simpatia, 257 – Jardim das Bandeiras, São Paulo – SP 05436-020, Brazil

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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Fairy tales, rich in symbolism and metaphor, offer profound insights into the challenges we face and the solutions we create. They explore universal human

struggles—beginning a journey, losing our way, grappling with adversity, abandonment or betrayal, and ultimately returning home transformed by the experience. 

The heroine of The Handless Maiden embodies this transformational arc. Her path leads from oppression to liberation, from cultural repression to resilience, from wounded child to healed, whole woman, and from poverty to empowered creator of her destiny. 

In this webinar, we will delve into the journey of the disempowered feminine. Together, we’ll bring the tale to life, explore its central themes, engage in embodied creative practices, and reflect on the profound lessons it offers for our times.

This live, day-long workshop offers a unique opportunity for growth, insight, and

embodied learning. We warmly invite you to join us on this rich and transformative

adventure!

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. There are many routes to Soul- and each of us has unique needs and inclinations as to how to make this journey. Sometimes we need to do our work alone. At other times, we benefit from the support and shelter of respectful community. 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.

Enrollment limited to 12

To register, email Keren, kvishny@gmail.com

Please join the Jung Platform in celebrating Dr. Tina Stromsted’s forthcoming book Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, & Embodiment in Psychotherapy!

At this gathering, several of Tina’s colleagues will reflect on her work and writing, before she shares excerpts from the book and answers attendees’ questions.  

In her new book, Tina introduces her Soul’s Body® approach which engages the body-psyche-spirit connection in psychotherapeutic work. Rooted in Jung’s depth psychology, she integrates embodied experience with “talk therapy,” artistic practice, and attunement with the Earth’s body.  Soul’s Body includes an interview with Marion Woodman and elements of Joan Chodorow’s work with Active Imagination in Movement (Authentic Movement). Tina’s book engages perspectives from wise predecessors in the fields of analytical psychology, embodied psychotherapy, and trauma-informed approaches. She shares her further development of these fields through her Soul’s Body® approach including DreamDancing®, Embodied Alchemy®, and nature-based movement explorations. 

Please click here for more information on Soul’s Body: Active Imagination, Authentic Movement, & Embodiment in Psychotherapy, available for pre-order on July 15, 2025 and for sale on August 5, 2025.

Please check here to register for the celebratory event, coming soon!

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

Despite its outer frozen appearance, Winter is a season of quiet preparation, magic brewing deep down in the dark, its unseen work of profound growth preparing for a new cycle and yielding to Spring's Rebirth.

Come join us on this sacred journey for what is wanting to Emerge on the other side of the Deep Winter's Brew.

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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.

Join us for a creative and nurturing weekend retreat.

Together we will have time making and creating, in movement and reflection, time on an outdoor labyrinth and time exploring SoulCollage®, a creative and simple way of connecting with your deep wisdom voices. 

We will be weaving BodySoul Rhythms®, time in nature out in the woods, storytelling around the fire and time together in the circle. We will have a rich and 

creative time together, held by the labyrinth and the gorgeous Somerset landscape.

Our gathering will be at The Ammerdown Retreat Centre in Radstock. Lovely food and ensuite single rooms, all set within glorious grounds.

The weekend cost of £545 includes full board, beginning with a delicious afternoon tea on arrival, accommodation in a single ensuite room, all art materials and tuition. This is a Veriditas Qualifying Labyrinth Workshop.