August
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August |
Sophia’s Subtle Body: Alchemy, Dream and Active Imagination seminar in Santa Barbara, California
Monika Wikman, Ph.D. The Center for Alchemical Studies invites you to this weekend seminar
Dates: August 21 to 23
Location: Via Maria, Santa Barbara
Hours: Friday 6 to 9pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to noon (Saturday night dinner together is optional.)
Fees: 450.00 per person
Includes lunch on Saturday and snacks throughout
Contact Person: Susan Steffy [email protected], ph. 505-469-0430
Enrollment limited to 12 participants
This seminar will bring the teachings of alchemy and dream work to life through meditations, active imagination and writing exercises through out the weekend. The mysteries of spirit and matter and the third dynamic field that unities worlds will be studied and brought to earth for each of us through work with our dreams and the activated imagination as it informs our lives and transformation processes. Bring pen and paper, and your birth data for an evening of star chart readings on Saturday night.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D. The Center for Alchemical Studies invites you to this weekend seminar
Dates: August 21 to 23
Location: Via Maria, Santa Barbara
Hours: Friday 6 to 9pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to noon (Saturday night dinner together is optional.)
Fees: 450.00 per person
Includes lunch on Saturday and snacks throughout
Contact Person: Susan Steffy [email protected], ph. 505-469-0430
Enrollment limited to 12 participants
This seminar will bring the teachings of alchemy and dream work to life through meditations, active imagination and writing exercises through out the weekend. The mysteries of spirit and matter and the third dynamic field that unities worlds will be studied and brought to earth for each of us through work with our dreams and the activated imagination as it informs our lives and transformation processes. Bring pen and paper, and your birth data for an evening of star chart readings on Saturday night.
September
Feeding the Moon: Alchemy, Creativity and The Divine Feminine
An Annual Women’s Dream, Breathwork Creativity and Healing Retreat
An Annual Women’s Dream, Breathwork Creativity and Healing Retreat
Monday, August 31 - Sunday, Sept. 6th.
The Center for Alchemical Studies invites you to this retreat -- with Diane Haug and Monika Wikman Ocamora Retreat Center, Ocate New Mexico Monday, August 31 - Sunday, Sept. 6th. Ocamora - Ocate, NM See ocamora.org for more details or see the details below: |
FEEDING THE MOON:
Creativity and the Divine Feminine With Monika Wikman, Ph.D. and Diane Haug, MA, LPCC; and Kirstin Kairos assisting in the breath work and offering sound healing and movement meditations each day. A weeklong residential healing intensive for women set in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo mountains of northeastern New Mexico. Monday, August 31st - Sunday, September 6th, 2015 6 nights / 7 days Ocamora Retreat Center Ocate, New Mexico Cost: $1475 - $1675 (based on choice of accommodations) includes tuition, lodging, meals CEU’s may be available During this residential retreat we will explore the alchemical mysteries and motifs that connect us deeply to our own creativity and the experience of the divine feminine. Defining ‘creativity’ as ‘living with creative spirit’, we celebrate all of the manifestations of spirit that define a woman’s life. Using highly experiential modalities such as Grof Holotropic Breathwork, Jung’s active imagination, dreamwork, art, journal writing, movement, bodywork, guided time in nature, and ritual, we will ‘seed’ the imagination in a sacred process of deep inner exploration and self-expression. In addition to the healing and renewal inherent in the work, this cultivation of the unique and precious ‘creative spirit’ in each of us can act as a powerful antidote to the despair and disenchantment that so easily affects our lives in these complex and challenging times. HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK HOLOTROPIC (derived from the Greek ‘holos’ and ‘trepein’) means ‘moving toward wholeness.’ Developed by Stanislav Grof, MD and Christina Grof, leading pioneers in the field of transpersonal psychology, Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful method of using non-ordinary states of consciousness for self-exploration and healing. It is based on insights from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, and various spiritual practices. A highly experiential method, Holotropic Breathwork combines enhanced breathing, evocative music, focused bodywork, art and group sharing. By activating the unconscious and mobilizing blocked energies, Holotropic Breathwork mediates access to all levels of human experience including unfinished issues from our post-natal biography, traumatic physical or emotional events, perinatal memories, death and rebirth sequences, and a variety of transpersonal experiences that can reach mythological, archetypal, and universal realms. Participants have discovered that the process can facilitate a sometimes dramatic release of blocked feelings and memories, thereby promoting new levels of mind-body integration. Holotropic Breathwork offers unusual healing potential. The work is of value to persons interested in deep inner exploration, self-knowledge, and spiritual awareness. It is an excellent experiential adjunct to psychotherapy, as well as a powerful method of self-care for helping professionals. THE SETTING Ocamora is a 265-acre retreat center nestled unobtrusively in a high valley on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo range in northern New Mexico. It occupies a mile-long valley composed of irrigated agricultural and lightly forested land, beautiful pastures, creek, year-round spring, organic apple orchard and garden, abundant wildlife, and mountain wilderness. For over 20 years Ocamora has offered its extraordinary landscape as a retreat, meditation, and educational center during the warm and stunningly green summer season. The facilities, built around a 100 year old ranch complex, offers guests an intimate and homelike experience in a setting of charm and rustic elegance. Ocamora is located two hours northeast of Santa Fe and an hour east of Taos. Accommodations at Ocamora include both single and shared rooms in the adobe ‘Cloisters’ complex, as well as new rooms and cabins in the orchard. Both a 12’ and 20’ yurt are also available for those looking for a more intimate connection with the natural surroundings. A shared bathroom is available for guests in the Cloisters, while a solar bathhouse and outhouses serve those staying in the orchard. In addition to original ranch house, Ocamora includes a dining/ art pavilion, a meditation sanctuary, and library. There is an outdoor hot tub for soaks under the magnificent night sky. REGISTRATION INFORMATION The group is limited. Early registration is highly recommended. The cost of the retreat (tuition, lodging, meals) is as follows: single rooms (as available) $1675 double occupancy $1575 yurt / cabin style tent $1475 A nonrefundable deposit of $500 made by April 30, 2015 reserves your space. Balance of payment is due by August 15th – approximately two weeks before the retreat begins. You are welcome to consider making payments anytime prior to that date. Cancellations after July 15th will be refunded (minus deposit) if your space can be filled. Detailed information will be sent approximately 60 days before the event or upon request. To register, please include your full name, mailing address, phone and email address. Please make your check payable to Diane Haug and send to 39 Camino la Cueva, Glorieta, New Mexico 87535. Phone: 505/757-2939. E-Mail: [email protected] BIOGRAPHIES Monika Wikman, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness (2005) and various articles in Jungian psychology journals. Monika obtained her BA from UC San Diego and her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, where her research took her deep into the study of dreams of people with terminal cancer. After teaching graduate students at California State University, Los Angeles, she graduated as a diplomat from the Jung-Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich. She lectures internationally on mythology and symbolism, dreams and wellness, alchemy and creativity. In private practice as a Jungian Analyst and astrologer, she lives along a creek and under starry skies in Tesuque, New Mexico with horses, dogs, and friends. Diane Haug, M.A., LPCC is a licensed therapist living in northern New Mexico and a senior member of the Grof Transpersonal Training staff. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. Having completed the Grof’s first three year training program, Diane has been involved with transpersonal psychology and the Holotropic Breathwork since 1986. Over the last years she has been deeply involved with the international breathwork community participating in Grof training events in Scandinavia, Russia, Ukraine, South America, and Europe. Diane has developed GTT training modules including Shamanism: An Exploration of Traditional Wisdom; The Language of the Soul: The Art and Practice of Integrating Deep Inner Experience; Living with Dying and The Psychedelic Experience: Promises and Perils. She is presently an adjunct faculty member at Southwestern College, a transpersonally oriented graduate school, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and serves as the Executive Director of the Ocamora Retreat Center. Kirsten Kairos Sound & Movement Guide Certified Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator Bodyworker/Birth Doula SAG-AFTRA Voice Overs (CESD NY / LA) c: 310.699.2001 w: kirstenkairos.com |
Four lectures for Altars of the Earth
September 10 to 13, St. Louis, MO
The Jung in the Heartland Conference
September 10 to 13, St. Louis, MO
The Jung in the Heartland Conference
- To Open our Eyes and Arrive in the World
- The Lumena Natura in the life and work of Emily Carr
- Embodiment of Insight in Everyday Life
- Alchemical Meditations on the Light in Nature
October
SEMINAR: Alchemical and Clinical Reflections in Mysterium Coniunctionis, by C. G. Jung
JACQUELINE WEST, PhD and MONIKA WIKMAN, PhD
October 2015 thru April 2016
We will read and reflect upon selected segments of Mysterium Coniunctionis, by C. G. Jung, from both alchemical and clinical perspectives. Jung’s early work, as it appears in The Red Book, enabled him to become anchored in agony and embraced by love. These explorations lead him into the fruition of his later ideas, as presented in Mysterium where he delves into the tension between the opposites and the processes involved in their conjunction. Readings from this text inform us about what it takes to meet and forge a relationship between the forces that have the potential to tear us apart - individually, interpersonally, and culturally - while they also have the potential to engender wholeness. We’ll review how the unimpeded emergence of flexible and humble consciousness supports the individual’s capacity to first form, and then meet and transform, essential defensive dynamics. In these discussions, we’ll trace the alchemical operations that are at work in these processes.
Dates: Eight Thursday evenings: 2015: Oct. 8, Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 10; 2016: March 10, 24, April 14, 28.
Time: 6 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe
Contact Person: Susan Steffy: [email protected], 505-469-0430
Fee: $600.00 for series 24 CEU’s
Enrollment limited
Jacqueline West, Ph.D., co-author of The Matrix and Meaning of Character, is a Jungian Analyst in practice in Santa Fe. She also lectures and teaches on character structures at play in individual and collective dynamics as well as in the work of current artists.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D., author of Pregnant Darkness, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer.
JACQUELINE WEST, PhD and MONIKA WIKMAN, PhD
October 2015 thru April 2016
We will read and reflect upon selected segments of Mysterium Coniunctionis, by C. G. Jung, from both alchemical and clinical perspectives. Jung’s early work, as it appears in The Red Book, enabled him to become anchored in agony and embraced by love. These explorations lead him into the fruition of his later ideas, as presented in Mysterium where he delves into the tension between the opposites and the processes involved in their conjunction. Readings from this text inform us about what it takes to meet and forge a relationship between the forces that have the potential to tear us apart - individually, interpersonally, and culturally - while they also have the potential to engender wholeness. We’ll review how the unimpeded emergence of flexible and humble consciousness supports the individual’s capacity to first form, and then meet and transform, essential defensive dynamics. In these discussions, we’ll trace the alchemical operations that are at work in these processes.
Dates: Eight Thursday evenings: 2015: Oct. 8, Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 10; 2016: March 10, 24, April 14, 28.
Time: 6 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Santa Fe
Contact Person: Susan Steffy: [email protected], 505-469-0430
Fee: $600.00 for series 24 CEU’s
Enrollment limited
Jacqueline West, Ph.D., co-author of The Matrix and Meaning of Character, is a Jungian Analyst in practice in Santa Fe. She also lectures and teaches on character structures at play in individual and collective dynamics as well as in the work of current artists.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D., author of Pregnant Darkness, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer.
![]() Discovering Alchemical Gold in Life with Animals:
Chiron and the horse-human connection October 16 and 17 Monika Wikman, Ph.D. and Leslie Hammel Turk This two day seminar will open the door to learning the language of horses as a means of also learning more the subtle body field and our conjoint awakening on the web of creation, into the world view "metakweasin", All our Relations. Combining Leslie Hammel-Turk’s wisdom from a life and career devoted to the way of the Horse, and Monika’s work with the Chiron alchemical mysteries of the wounded Healer, Leslie and Monika are offering an unusual collaborative seminar to drop us into the awakening of subtle body that occurs between us and animals when we learn to fine tune our senses in relations with them. Focusing on Horses (and some on dogs) we will provide a back drop from alchemy and depth psychology on the symbolism of horses and dogs, and then do hands on demonstrations with horses and dogs to illustrate the refinement of the relational field. The work illuminates parallel psychological adaptations in humans and animals and the work with Presence to generate healing of trauma, interspecies communion and the felt reality of the subtle body. Time: Friday 6:00 to 9:00pm and Saturday 9:30am to 4:30pm (Saturday lunch included) Place: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque Fee: 375.00 CEUs 14 Contact Person: Susan Steffy [email protected], or [email protected] Monika Wikman Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst, astrologer and horse woman in Tesuque, NM and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness Leslie Hammel Turk is a horse master, teacher/trainer/breeder, author of many articles for Arabian Horse and has an Arabian Horse ranch north of Las Vegas,NM at the base of Hermit Peak. She hosted her mentor and good friend, Ray Hunt at her ranch for many clinics and her non-profit International Center for the Natural Horse can be found online at: icnh.com; while her own professional website is at turkarabians.com . Read more about Leslie here. |
November
Two alchemical weekend workshops
Monika Wikman, Ph.D. and Thomas Elsner, J.D., M.A. Nov. 6-8, 2015: Part 1 Inspired by the work of Jung, Yeats, and Coleridge, courting the subtle body through contemplation of Celtic myths, fairy tales, active imagination, dream work, and writing. April 29 to May 1st, 2016: part 2 Develops themes and deepens experiences of part 1 * The workshops are designed so you may attend both, or either of the two as a stand alone weekend Time: Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday 9:30am-4:30pm (lunch included; optional potluck dinner 6:30 to 8:30pm), Sunday 9:30am-1pm. Location: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM Fee: 450.00 CEUs: 13.5 |

Refining the Inner Bullshit Detector: Humor, Hermes and the Human Shadow
November 13 and 14, Victoria, Canada
The C.G. Jung Society of Victoria Canada
Alchemical work starts with the prima materia, the shit we find ourselves in. We need to grow an inner compass (a bulllshit detector, if you will) to guide us when we step into the unconscious, or when we are somehow “full of it”. This sobering work can be so heavy, the other side appears through humor. The god of alchemical work is Hermes, the god of humor and insight who helps us to consciousness through laughter at our foibles, changing how we think and live in relation to others and the greater psyche. We will look at the mythic patterns of Hermes, hubris and humor that reveal various ways we humans can get along with the god of insight, whose light shines along our paths of individuation. Mythic material revealing Hermes will be resourced from various traditions including Coyote stories from the Southwest Native tribes.
http://www.jungsocietyvictoria.com
November 13 and 14, Victoria, Canada
The C.G. Jung Society of Victoria Canada
Alchemical work starts with the prima materia, the shit we find ourselves in. We need to grow an inner compass (a bulllshit detector, if you will) to guide us when we step into the unconscious, or when we are somehow “full of it”. This sobering work can be so heavy, the other side appears through humor. The god of alchemical work is Hermes, the god of humor and insight who helps us to consciousness through laughter at our foibles, changing how we think and live in relation to others and the greater psyche. We will look at the mythic patterns of Hermes, hubris and humor that reveal various ways we humans can get along with the god of insight, whose light shines along our paths of individuation. Mythic material revealing Hermes will be resourced from various traditions including Coyote stories from the Southwest Native tribes.
http://www.jungsocietyvictoria.com