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Psyche, Soma, and the Living Imagination: Working with the Somatic Unconscious and Healing States
May 4 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
We explore the somatic unconscious, the “subtle body” in theory and practice, and examine the value of this work for discovering healing states of consciousness where spirit and body are united in a psycho-physical unitary reality. Dreams that point the way through illness to new emergent states of wholeness and healing will be honored. We also investigate responses to trauma in the nervous system that activate fight, flight, freeze, collapse, and paralysis. We then venture into how we can form neural pathways from co-regulated restorative relationship with the sensing body to create well-being and harmony.
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Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist and astrologer. She is the author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, and various book chapters, articles and poems. A graduate of the Jung–Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zürich, she taught for many years in the graduate department at California State University, Los Angeles, and was a dream researcher at UCSD Medical Center with cancer patients, investigating dreams of the dying. She hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.org, The Center for Alchemical Studies. Monica lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico.