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CALENDAR 2007 |
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Expressive Arts Groups & Workshops: Join us to Reawaken and Express your Creative Self! |
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"Goddesses in Every Woman"
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Tuition $200 |
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Dreaming the Soul –
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Tuition $200 for 4 weeks (includes art materials and CEUs) 553 Biscayne Dr. San Rafael (415) 931-9507 |
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The Body and Expressive Arts –
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Tuition $110 |
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Tuition TBA Sky Mountain Institute Escondido, California (760) 724-7692 |
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Re-awakening the Creative Self
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Tuition $110 (includes art materials and CEUs) 553 Biscayne Dr. San Rafael (415) 931-9507 |
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Yoga Workshops |
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| Jan 27, 2007 1 - 5 PM |
Yoga Asanas and the Emotions: |
Stress Management Center of Marin |
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| Mar 3 - 4, 2007 |
Yoga Asanas and the Emotions: |
The Yoga Loft San Francisco (415) 626-5638 |
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| Jul 28 - 29 , 2007 | Yoga Asanas and the Emotions: Creative Exploration of the Body Self |
John F. Kennedy University Pleasant Hill (925) 969-3150 (800) 557-1384 |
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| Sep 8 - 9 , 2007 | Yoga and Jungian Psychology: Eastern and Western Journeys of Transformation |
John F. Kennedy University Pleasant Hill (925) 969-3150 (800) 557-1384 |
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Oct 5 - 8, 2007
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Yoga Asanas and the Emotions: Freeing the Body, Healing the Mind A Three Day Retreat |
Highland Ranch Philo, California |
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| Oct 20 - 21, 2007 | Philosophy, Psychology |
The Yoga Loft San Francisco (415) 626-5638 |
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Expressive Arts Groups & Workshops:
Join us to Reawaken and Express your Creative Self!
"Goddesses in Every Woman"
A Jungian Expressive Arts Group for Women
Guided by the book by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Four Fridays 2 - 4 PM
Sep. 14, 21, 28, Oct. 12, 2007
Tuition $200 for 4 weeks (includes art materials)
8 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
553 Biscayne Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 931-9507
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 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.
To register, please send your check to:
Sophia Reinders, PhD
21 Tamal Vista Blvd. Suite 218
Corte Madera, Ca 94925
To find out about subsequent schedule, please call (415) 931-9507,
or write Sophia at onesophia@mac.com.
Dreaming the Soul – Dancing the Dream:
A Jungian Dream Catcher
Four Fridays 4 - 6 PM
Sep. 14, 21, 28, Oct. 12, 2007
Tuition $200 for 4 weeks (includes art materials)
8 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
553 Biscayne Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 931-9507
“You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
For Jung, psyche reveals itself in its creative images which beckon us to befriend the intuitive wisdom they offer, guiding and nurturing us towards greater balance and wholeness. In the images of our night world we witness the mysteries of the soul. Dreams, Jung says, are messengers of meanings that are embodied and inscribed in the images themselves. As we explore dream images creatively and attune ourselves to the imagistic qualities of their shapes and colors, their volumes, movements and rhythms, they disclose new insights and evoke rich intuitive resonance, while at the same time remaining rooted in their fertile, imaginal ground.
In this group, participants will explore their dreams as a practice of befriending the soul. You will engage the images of your night worlds with creative practices such as movement and painting, toning, enactment, story-making and active imagination through the body. You will dance your dreams to discover, befriend and harvest its messages for growth, transformation and healing.
To register, please send your check to:
Sophia Reinders, PhD
21 Tamal Vista Blvd. Suite 218
Corte Madera, Ca 94925
To find out about subsequent schedule, please call (415) 931-9507,
or write Sophia at onesophia@mac.com.
The Body and Expressive Arts –
The Creative Dance of Being
One-day Workshop
San Rafael
Sep. 30, 2007 10 - 4:30 PM
Oct. 13, 2007 10 - 4:30 PM
Nov. 18, 2007 10 - 4:30 PM
Tuition $110 (includes art materials)
6 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
553 Biscayne Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 931-9507
“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.
In this workshop you will explore the landscapes of your bodysoul through creative movement, collage, painting and drawing, enactment, poetic writing and toning. You will free your embodied imagination and establish a personal relationship with the creative spirit which dwells in the body.
To register, please send your check to:
Sophia Reinders, PhD
21 Tamal Vista Blvd. Suite 218
Corte Madera, Ca 94925
Re-awakening the Creative Self
One-day Workshop
San Rafael
Sep. 29, 2007 10 - 4:30 PM
Oct. 14, 2007 10 - 4:30 PM
Nov. 11, 2007 10 - 4:30 PM
Tuition $110 (includes art materials)
6 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
553 Biscayne Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 931-9507
“We create as we are created in a matrix of interconnectedness with all of life. We are participatory in a creative universe.”
Sally Akins
When we cherish, celebrate and delight in our own creative expression, alone and as a group, we enter the mystery of being. We enter at once the heart of transformation and healing. Drawing on the palette of multimodal expressive arts, the “prima materia” for this workshop will be our creative spirit, images, art, authentic movement, poetry, active imagination, toning, and creative writing, as well as the natural environment with its bounty of shapes and textures, colors, fragrances and sounds as part of the fabric and the setting for our workshop.
Whether you wish to free your own creativity or gain additional tools for guiding your clients in their journey of transformation, join us in this celebration of the embodied creative spirit at the core of our being.
Art materials are provided. Bring your own favorite journal.
To register, please send your check to:
Sophia Reinders, PhD
21 Tamal Vista Blvd. Suite 218
Corte Madera, Ca 94925
Yoga Workshops
Yoga Asanas and the Emotions:
Freeing the Body, Healing the Mind
January 27, 2007
1 - 5 PM
4 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
Stress Management Center of Marin
1165 Magnolia Avenue
Larkspur
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 conscious awareness. Performing yoga asanas and breathwork as a practice of embodied awareness enables us to align our physical body with our emotional body and our spiritual body, stretching 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. You will practice asanas and breathing practices and engage in visual creativity and guided imagery to further experience and express the physical and the emotional energy of the body. You will have a visual "log" of your yogic experience to continue your work and be reminded of the potentials of your being.
For fee and to register, please call the Stress Management Center of Marin, (415) 461-2288. http://www.smcmarin.com
Yoga Asanas and the Emotions:
Creative Exploration of the Body Self
March 3 - 4, 2007
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 the guardian of our insights and intuitions, our longing-to-become and our celebration of life on earth.
Yoga asanas and breath practices allow restricting kinesthetic-emotional-imaginal experiences, that have taken a silent shape in our muscles, in our posture and movements, to come to awareness and be experienced consciously. This freeing of the body through awareness in turn fosters the ability to better sense embodied intuitions of constructive postural and mental-emotional changes, which may find expression in a greater range of motion and creative emotions. Gaining greater freedom from restricting physical and mental-emotional holding patterns allows our physical body, our emotional body and our spiritual body to find a more harmonious alignment. We may then stretch both physically and psychologically into new postures and new attitudes of openness, well-being and joyful relatedness, unfolding more freely towards the three harmonies of Ahimsa, harmony with others, with the environment and with oneself.
In this workshop you practice yoga asanas, kinesthetic awareness meditation and breathing. To integrate the kinesthetic-emotional-imaginal experiences encountered in the body, you give them symbolic expression through guided imagery, active imagination, painting, toning and creative writing. You will have a visual "log" of your yogic experience to continue your work and be reminded of your embodied intuitions of harmonious and joyful transformation.
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
July 28 - 29, 2007
John F. Kennedy University
100 Ellinwood Way
Pleasant Hill. CA 94523
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 John F. Kennedy University at (925) 969-3150 or 1-800-557-1384. www.jfku.edu/ce
Yoga and Jungian Psychology:
Eastern and Western
Journeys of Transformation
September 8 - 9 , 2007
John F. Kennedy University
100 Ellinwood Way
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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 Ashtanga yoga will find this workshop a valuable resource to deepen their intellectual and their embodied, intuitive understanding.
Sophia Reinders, Ph.D., MFT, is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin, a certified Iyengar yoga teacher, and faculty at CIIS. In her body-mind-spirit approaches to transformation and healing Sophia interweaves embodied awareness, movement, symbolic practices and creative expression. To learn more about her work, visit www.wisdombody.com
For fee, exact times and to register, please call John F. Kennedy University at (925) 969-3150 or 1-800-557-1384. www.jfku.edu/ce
Yoga Asanas and the Emotions:
Freeing the Body, Healing the Mind
A Three Day Retreat
Sophia Reinders PhD, MFT, REAT
October 5 - 8, 2007
Highland Ranch
P.O. Box 150
Philo, CA 95466
Phone: (707) 895-3600
14 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
Come join us for three days of yoga and joyful renewal at Highland Ranch in Mendocino. What awaits you is an exquisite mix of yoga practice,creative expression, and the serene natural beauty of a centuries old forest, of streams, meadows and lakes. You may even choose to participate in trail rides, which Highland Ranch offers for all levels of riding, through giant old-growth redwoods, along the Navarro River, and back up to ridge tops overlooking the beautiful Anderson Valley. Or you may choose to stretch out in the shaded quiet of a hammock and let your soul hum.
Engage in yoga asanas, breathwork and chanting as creative practices of embodied transformation. Unfold your awareness of the physical and mental-emotional experiences as they are constellated in the body during the practice of asanas. Explore the chakras and their psycho-physical energy from the perspective of Jungian psychology, and harmonize their energy as you engage in asana practice. Engage in visual creative processes to further experience and express the physical and the emotional energy of the body. Deepen your personal and professional skills for kinesthetic attunement to self and others.
Retreat Schedule and Details
Arrival is on Friday, October 5 from 12 noon to 3 PM. The retreat begins with lunch on Friday at 1 PM and an afternoon asana session from 3 PM to 5 PM, followed by 6:30 PM dinner followed at 8 PM by a chance to get to know each other by the fire on the deck under the stars. Two 2-hour classes of asanas, breath awareness and kinesthetic awareness practices will be offered on Saturday and Sunday, as well as one hour evening sessions of embodied creative practices and chanting each night. There will be one asana class on Monday morning followed by a closing circle and a 12:30 PM lunch.
Price and Accommodation
Room assignment will be based on availability. The entire payment is due at time of booking.
Triple Occupancy (3 per room, shared bath) $565 total
Double Occupancy (2 per room/shared bath) $715 total
Single Occupancy (per person/private bath) $925 total
Retreat fees includes yoga, three nights accommodation, all meals, beverages, taxes and charges. Longer stays at Highland Ranch may be arranged. A la carte extras which can be added during your stay are horseback riding ($75.00/ride), massage ($95.00/hour). Call in advance to book a ride and/or massage. |
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Cancellation and Refunds
Cancellations occurring before 8/10/07 will be refunded less a $50.00 processing fee. For cancellations from 8/10/07 to 9/28/07 THERE IS NO REFUND, however we will credit any payments over the deposit to another ranch stay or workshop in 2007 or 2008. For cancellations after 9/28/07 there is no refund and no credit. Workshop may be transferred to another person.
For more information and to register, please contact Susie Cohen, the Highland Ranch Wellness Program Director and resident yoga instructor at (707) 895-3600 or by email at sbcohen@sonic.net.
Philosophy, Psychology
and Practice of Yoga:
Journey Towards Harmony with the Spirit
October 20 - 21 , 2007
The Yoga Loft
321 Divisadero St.
San Francisco
10 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
This course will experientially unfold and describe the psycho-spiritual ground of yoga philosophy and psychology, in which the practice of yoga is embedded. This philosophical - psychological understanding, developed through practice over millennia, reflects the insights of the ancient yogis and the awareness to which their practices led them.
Exploring the eight limbs, or living principles of yoga and the yogic path, we will clarify the spirit and the intent of these practices. Through asanas, breathing practices and kinesthetic awareness practices, we will explore the five koshas, or sheeths of the physical and the subtle body. We will engage in the art of yoga which consists in refining, transforming, aligning and integrating the qualities of energy and consciousness within each dimension of our physical-mental-emotional being through sustained practice and growing awareness.
Sustained practice over time creates, in the view of the ancient yogis, a physical and mental-emotional vessel capable of sustaining empathic action and of giving rise to the intuitive realization of Spirit at the core of our being.
In this process of sustained practice, then, we may become more and more fluid in our bodymind. We may also become more and more constructive, creative and aware in our ways of being in the world: In the quality of our actions, thoughts and emotions, and in relating to others, to self, and to life all around.
For fee, exact times and to register, please call the Yoga Loft at (415) 626-5638. http://www.theloftsf.com/
Sophia Reinders, PhD, MFT, REAT
(415) 931-9507
Contact: sophia@wisdombody.com