November 5th 2016
The Call Home: Returning To What We Are Made Of
A Myth and Movement WorkshopNov 5, 9am – 4pm
In this one-day workshop co-facilitated with Vanya Stier Van Essen, we will be participating in embodied engagement with the myth SealSkin, Soulskin – an ancient story in which a SealWoman finds her way home. Through theft, drying out, and returning to her own skin, she finds the courage and wisdom to sink into her natural rhythms and into the natural movements of her soul. This workshop involves contemplative and movement work. However, having said that, I want to assure you that you do not have to be any kind of dancer or yoga genius! The movements are simple and are about what feels right for you. We will talk, read, meditate, do art, and write, as well as listen to and move our bodies. So often we try to engage the psyche or the soul while the body sits neglected and feared – its deep wisdom left untapped. We forget that the body tells its stories; that we tell our stories through our bodies. We forget that our bodies are not separate objects. We are whole beings made – psyche and body – our deepening requires attention to our whole selves. Through this embodied engagement with the myth, we hope this workshop will help us all connect with our stories, to find out where we are in relation to home – to the place where we are in our own skins – and to always learn to ask how the rhythms of our souls are moving us now.
Vanya Stier-Van Essen is founder of the The Imago Institute - a place devoted to soulful living, story, and imagination. Vanya is currently completing her PhD in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She engages with myths, symbols, images, and dreams as ways of cultivating deep connection with ourselves and the world and of cultivating soulfulness and fullness in our daily lives.
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