Review of Workshops
2004 l 2005 l 2006 l 2007 l 2008
2006
Workshops
in Jungian Psychology,
the Body and Expressive Arts
"Goddesses in Every Woman"
A Jungian Expressive Arts Group for Women
Ongoing
Four week commitment. Mondays 4-6 PM
Tuition $120 for 4 weeks.
Greek
Goddesses provide images of the feminine that have stayed alive
in human imagination for more than three millennia. Each one
mirrors rich and diverse facets of being a woman and can help
us become conscious of aspects of ourselves we were barely aware
of before. As guides in the realm of the inner feminine, these
goddesses may also show us gifts and potentials within ourselves
we wish to strengthen, clarify or transform and help us access
our own feminine wisdom more deeply.
In this group which is limited to eight women, we will creatively
explore the ways in which each of the goddesses may be a guide
or an inspiration to any of us individually or collectively.
Engaging in imaginative processes such as creative movement,
painting, sand play, enactment, poetic writing, and toning,
each participant will take her own journey through the rich
landscapes of the feminine guided by the goddesses' ways of
being and discover which facets of herself she wishes to unfold,
harmonize or bring to greater fruition in her life and her relationships.
For any questions, please call Sophia at (415) 931-9507 or email her at onesophia@mac.com.
Art-Making
as Soul-making:
A Jungian Journey of Transformation
March
19, 2006. 10 – 6 PM
Deer Run Zendo, Corte Madera
Fee $ 110
Creativity,
Jung says, lies at the heart of our being. It is the essence
of soul and the guide towards wholeness. In our creative expressions,
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual intelligence come
together to instill an experience of being fully alive.
Join us for a day of imaginative creative expression through
painting and drawing, movement, toning, poetic writing and other
symbolic practices. Nurture and harvest the images of your soul
which can impart healing and guidance. Together, we will engage
in these practices against the backdrop of a conversation about
Jung’s unique insight into the nature of the psyche as
the creative essence of being human.
For
any questions, please call Sophia at (415) 931-9507 or email
her at
onesophia@mac.com.
To register please send your check to Sophia Reinders Ph.D.,
21 Tamal Vista Blvd., Suite 218, Corte Madera, CA 94925. After
registering you will receive an information package for further
details.
Dreams and their
Messages – a Jungian Dream Catcher
July
15 ,
2006. 10 – 6 PM
Deer Run Zendo, Corte Madera
Fee $ 110
For
Jung, psyche is image. In the images of our night world we encounter
the mysteries of the soul. Dreams, Jung says, are messengers
of meanings that are embodied and inscribed in the images themselves.
As we look at them and listen to them through imagistic perception,
they release new insights and evoke resonances in our souls,
while remaining rooted in their imaginal ground.
This workshop offers a reflective and an experiential exploration
of dream work from a Jungian perspective, as a process of befriending
the soul. Engage the images of your dreams with creative processes
such as active imagination, enactment, story telling, movement
and painting, to discover, befriend and harvest their messages.
For
any questions, please call Sophia at (415) 931-9507 or email
her at
onesophia@mac.com.
To register please send your check to Sophia Reinders Ph.D.,
21 Tamal Vista Blvd., Suite 218, Corte Madera, CA 94925. After
registering you will receive an information package for further
details.
Yoga and Jungian Psychology – Eastern
and Western Journeys of Transformation
Oct.
7, 2006. 10-6 PM
Venue TBA
13
CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
This workshop will bring together the embodied wisdom of yoga and the creative vision of Jungian psychology. Together, these traditions offer an integral experiential matrix for psychological and spiritual growth, in which psyche is rooted in body, and body provides a strong and balanced container for the transformation of psyche and spirit.
Lectures, discussions and substantiating literature will explore the essence of yogic, embodied practices of transformation together with the psychological and spiritual ground in which they are embedded. They will equally explore the transformative journey of individuation at the heart of Jungian psychology, bringing to life and unfolding the natural affinity in intent, spirit and practice of the two paths.
Participants will engage in kinesthetic-meditative awareness practices, foundational yoga postures, breath work, active imagination and other symbolic processes to experience the rich dimensions of embodied transformative insights these integrated practices offer.
This workshop is designed for clinicians, students, yoga practitioners, and the interested general public. Clinicians will gain tools to facilitate in others psychological and spiritual growth grounded in embodied experience. Practitioners of yoga will gain increased awareness for working with asanas and breath to transform both the physical and the emotional body. Anyone interested in learning more about the nature and spirit of Jungian psychology or of yoga will find this workshop a valuable resource to deepen their intellectual and their embodied, intuitive understanding.
To register please send your check to Sophia Reinders Ph.D., 21 Tamal Vista Blvd., Suite 218, Corte Madera, CA 94925. After registering you will receive an information package for further details.
2006 Yoga Workshops
Asanas
and Chakras: Harmonizing Body and Soul
Feb. 24, March 3 & March 5,
2006
The Yoga Loft
321 Divisadero St.
San Francisco
12 CEUs for MFTs & LCSWs
The Tantric wisdom tradition speaks of chakras, energetic centers
of actualized and potential consciousness, aligned along the central
axis of the subtle body. Yogic awareness encourages the psycho-physical-spiritual
energy of these centers to come into greater balance, creating
a more vibrant bodymind.
Through reading, lectures, asanas, breathwork and kinesthetic
awareness practices, participants in this course will explore
the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energies of each
chakra as subjectively experienced in the body. These yogic practices
will awaken and strengthen the kinesthetic wisdom at every level
of embodied experience and guide participants towards greater
balance and harmony in body, mind and soul.
Participants will also engage in symbolic practices, such as active
imagination, painting and writing to further deepen and give creative
expression to their experience.
For fee, exact times and to register, please call the Yoga Loft
at (415) 626-5638. http://www.theloftsf.com/
Yoga
Asanas and the Emotions:
Creative Exploration of the Body Self
April 1, 2006
Deer
Run Zendo, Corte Madera
Fee $ 110
13 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
Our body is our most immediate home on earth. It is the receptacle of our stories, our experiences, our fears and our hopes, sculpted in the flesh of our being. It is also the guardian of our insights and intuitions, our longing-to-become and our celebration of life on earth.
By bringing attention to the kinesthetic experience, yoga allows the emotions and feelings that have taken a silent shape in our muscles, in our posture and movements, to come to awareness and be experienced and expressed consciously. When we perform Yoga asanas and breathwork as a practice of embodied awareness, we align our physical body with our emotional body and our spiritual body. Then our bodies stretch, both physically and psychologically, into new postures and new attitudes of openness, well-being and joyful relatedness.
This workshop develops personal and professional skills through the increased ability for kinesthetic attunement to self and others. In addition to asanas and breathing practices, participants in this workshop will use guided imagery and visual creativity to further experience and express the physical and the emotional energy of the body. In this way, they will have a visual "log" of their yogic experience to continue their work and to remind them of the potentials of their being
Suggested reading:
Cope, Stephen (2001) Standing Psychotherapy on its Head. Yoga Journal May/June 2001.
Kast, Verena. (1993). Imagining as Dialogue with the Body. In Imgination as Space of Freedom. New York: Fromm International
Whitehouse, Mary. The Tao of the body. In Pallaro, Patricia (ed.) (1999) Authentic Movement. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. (pp. 41-50)
The
Creative Dance of Being
—
The Body and Expressive Arts in
the Transformation of Consciousness
April
21-23, 2006
Friday
6-9 PM at
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street, San Francisco
(415) 575-6175
www.ciis.edu/publicprograms
Saturday 1-7 PM
and Sunday 11-5 PM
at Yoga Center of Marin
Corte Madera (Marin County)
142 Redwood Avenue, Corte Madera
15 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
You
must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The images of our psyche dwell deeply in our body. They are the seedpods
of the creative imagination, waiting to burst open into awareness. When
we embrace an attitude of letting all our senses listen inwardly, the
inner world of bodily felt sensations and images opens up to our kinesthetic,
intuitive, imagistic witnessing. In this openness, we touch the fertile
ground of the psyche as the inward dimension of the body.
Through dance/movement, enactment as well as other imaginative modalities,
the images of the soul may then be born into creative expression. When
we weave together the living fabric of embodied experience with creative
expression, both body and soul can come into deeper, more fluid conscious
belonging and enrich our celebratory awareness of being and becoming.
Participants in this course will explore the landscapes of their bodysoul
through creative movement, color, sandplay, enactment, poetic writing,
toning, etc. They will free their embodied imagination and establish
a personal relationship with the creative spirit which dwells in the
body. They will deepen their personal and professional skills for kinesthetic
attunement to self and others.
To
register, please call CIIS at (415) 575-6175
or go to www.ciis.edu/publicprograms
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Asana, Breath and Voice: Awakening the WisdomBody
A Day of Yoga and Chanting with Sophia Reinders,
Chloe Goodchild, and the Naked Voice.
July
1, 2006
10 – 5:30 PM
Corte
Madera
6 CEUs for MFTs & LCSWs
Fee $ 90
Ancient
Eastern wisdom traditions see the body as a sacred instrument of the
spirit and a vessel of transformation. Through the mindful practice
of asanas and breath awareness, we bring greater presence and fluidity
to all facets of our being - body, breath, mind and soul, enlivening
our potential for transformation and fullness of being.
Our voice is an integral, creative dimension of the dance of energy
and consciousness that we are. Its sound reverberates in every cell
of the body. Its subtle music carries our feelings and insights. Belonging
to body and spirit, our voice paints the soul’s images in sound,
and brings the intuition of the spirit home into the body.
Join us in this day-long celebration of body-soul and spirit! Sophia
will lead us in asana and breath awareness practice, emphasizing fluid,
embodied presence. Chloe will lead us in the Naked Voice. Chloe says:
“The Naked Voice is a simple method, introducing you to the Four
Wisdoms inside you: Your instinctual wisdom sounding from the belly,
your intuitive wisdom sounding from the heart, your insightful wisdom
sounding from the third eye, and your wisdom of love sounding from the
root to the crown.”
For Chloe’s work, please visit http://www.thenakedvoice.com.
For any questions, please call Sophia at (415) 931-9507 or email her
at onesophia@mac.com
To register please send your check to Sophia Reinders Ph. D., 21 Tamal
Vista Blvd., Suite 218, Corte Madera, CA 94925.
After registering you will receive an information package with further
details.
Creative Exploration of the Body Self
Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2006
The Yoga Loft
321 Divisadero St.
San Francisco
10 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
Our body is our most immediate home on earth. It is the receptacle of our stories, our experiences, our fears and our hopes, sculpted in the flesh of our being. It is also the guardian of our insights and intuitions, our longing-to-become and our celebration of life on earth.
By bringing attention to the kinesthetic experience, yoga allows the emotions and feelings that have taken a silent shape in our muscles, in our posture and movements, to come to awareness and be experienced and expressed consciously. When we perform Yoga asanas and breathwork as a practice of embodied awareness, we align our physical body with our emotional body and our spiritual body. Then our bodies stretch, both physically and psychologically, into new postures and new attitudes of openness, well-being and joyful relatedness.
This workshop develops personal and professional skills through the increased ability for kinesthetic attunement to self and others. In addition to asanas and breathing practices, participants in this workshop will use guided imagery and visual creativity to further experience and express the physical and the emotional energy of the body. In this way, they will have a visual "log" of their yogic experience to continue their work and to remind them of the potentials of their being
For
fee, exact times and to register, please call the Yoga Loft
at (415) 626-5638. http://www.theloftsf.com/
Asana, Breath and Voice: Awakening the WisdomBody
Oct. 27-29, 2006
California
Institute of Integral Studies
Friday 6-9 PM at
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street, San Francisco
(415) 575-6175
www.ciis.edu/publicprograms
Saturday 1-7 PM
and Sunday 11-5 PM
at Yoga Center of Marin
Corte Madera (Marin County)
142 Redwood Avenue, Corte Madera
15 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
Ancient
Eastern wisdom traditions see the body as a sacred instrument of the
spirit and a vessel of transformation. Through the mindful practice
of asanas and breath awareness, we bring greater presence and fluidity
to all facets of our being - body, breath, mind and soul, enlivening
our potential for transformation and fullness of being.
Our voice is an integral, creative dimension of the dance of energy
and consciousness that we are. Its sounds reverberate in every cell
of the body. Its subtle music carries our feelings and insights. Belonging
to body and spirit, our voice paints the soul's images in sound, and
brings the intuition of the spirit home into the body.
When creative spirit is joyously embodied, our body becomes creative
and spirited.
Students in this course will engage in asanas, breath awareness practices,
toning and chanting, allowing their voice to become an integral part
of their growing range of fluid motion and emotion, expressed creatively.
Sophia's open, accepting and playful presence, her experience and
insightful teaching style allow students to engage in meaningful and
transformative practice while feeling safe, nurtured and inspired.
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Sophia Reinders, Ph.D., MFT
(415) 931-9507
Contact: sophia@wisdombody.com
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