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2018 Community Offerings Invitation to Various Public Events Presented by Monika Wikman and/or Guests of the Center for Alchemical Studies, a non-profit project of earthways.org |
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January 2018 Public Program for New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts
Apocalyptic Consciousness with Guil Dudley Ph.D. and Monika Wikman
Friday Lecture:
Apocalyptic Consciousness via Jung, Literary Art and Film
Saturday Seminar:
Mediating Apocalyptic Consciousness with Psyche and newly emerging Humanity: Film, Discussion, Active Imagination
For this Saturday seminar, we will review material from the lecture, and view together film clips from Melancholia, Arrival and Avatar to bring the concepts and personifications of the emerging apocalypse archetype into our field for discussion, interaction, and active imagination writing exercises. Alchemy and Jung's work will be used as a back drop for our discussion and process. Please bring pen and paper.
Apocalyptic Consciousness with Guil Dudley Ph.D. and Monika Wikman
Friday Lecture:
Apocalyptic Consciousness via Jung, Literary Art and Film
Saturday Seminar:
Mediating Apocalyptic Consciousness with Psyche and newly emerging Humanity: Film, Discussion, Active Imagination
For this Saturday seminar, we will review material from the lecture, and view together film clips from Melancholia, Arrival and Avatar to bring the concepts and personifications of the emerging apocalypse archetype into our field for discussion, interaction, and active imagination writing exercises. Alchemy and Jung's work will be used as a back drop for our discussion and process. Please bring pen and paper.
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Seminar: At the Doorway between Worlds: Jung, Yeats, and the Celtic Alchemical Imagination Welcoming Imbolc: Tending of the Flame and the Archetype of the Alchemical Bride with Monika Wikman and Special Guest, Veronica Goodchild February 9 to 11, 2018 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM Designed around the celtic calendar, this seminar will ponder and enter into the myths and symbols of ancient Celtic Spirituality to open our consciousness to the alchemical mysteries of the Unus Mundus, the one world, where eternal and temporal, visible and invisible worlds join hands in our midst. Yeats poetry that brings in this wisdom will be read and shared among us. Time for active imagination and writing exercises to help us activate our connection to the divine, to the Imagination, will have priority. In terms of content, special attention will be given to Imbolc mysteries, the goddess Brigid, the keeper of the sacred flame and the archetype of the Bride. This links us to Sophia in gnosticism and in Jung's work, and lives at the foundation of our lives. It is fostering of the inspired uniquely co-created field among us all that is our aim. Suggested Readings: The Learning of the Imagination, by Kathleen Raines. The Collected Poems of WB Yeats. Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, Chapter 4, 5, 6. Jung, C. G. (1997). Jung on active imagination, J. Chodorow (Ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. An article by Lynn de Gerenday, one of our group participants, entitled: The Problem of Self-Reflective Love in Book III of the "Fairie Queen" (to be emailed). Specifics Dates: Feb 9-11 Times: Fri. 6pm to 9pm, Sat. 9:30am to 4:30pm (lunch included; optional potluck light early dinner 5pm), Sun. 9:30am to 1pm. Fee: $450 Place: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM CEU's: 13.5 Contact Susan Steffy, 505-469-0430 or [email protected] Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has also contributed chapters, articles and poems to various books and journals. Monika enjoys guiding retreats locally and abroad and her podcast interviews can be found at shrinkrapradio.com. Veronica Goodchild, PhD, is Professor Emerita at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she taught Jungian and Imaginal psychology for over 16 years. She has been a Jungian psychotherapist for over 35 years, and is an elected member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Veronica is the author of two books, Songlines of the Soul: Pathways to a New Vision for a New Century, and Eros and Chaos: The Sacred Mysteries and Dark Shadows of Love. She has written published papers and book reviews. Her experiences with sacred pilgrimage have developed into leading them: Pilgrimage - the "Magdalene Mysteries and the Path of the Blue Rose" last fall, which is offered again in 2018. In addition, she is co-leading a Pilgrimage Journey, "In the Footsteps of the Goddess: A Journey of Initiation," in May 2018. Information about these offerings and other resources can be found on Veronica"s website: www.veronica.goodchild.com, or by writing to her at [email protected]. Veronica loves the imaginal world, that 'place' that opens up where psyche and matter 'touch and do not touch.' |
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April 9 to 15, 2018 County Limerick, Ireland
New York Center for Jungian Studies: Jung in Ireland, Glenstal Benedictine Abbey, Limerick, Ireland Conference title: The Gift of Peril and Anger Monika Wikman’s contribution entitled: St. Margaret and the Dragon: Reflections on Anger and the Religious Instinct |
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May 17-18th, 2018 Colorado Springs Jung Society:
From Chaos to the Rescue and Return of Sophia: A workshop with Judy Jackson and Monika Wikman Lecture Friday, May 17 and 18, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Workshop Saturday, May 19 9:30 am - 5:00 pm In this duo Friday night lecture, Monika and Judy will discuss the Sufi and Gnostic myths of the exiled, rescued and redeemed Sophia. These powerful archetypal myths depict the predicament of all beings in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with the lost light of the unconscious instincts. “Having called out repeatedly in a mighty magical voice to the Light, she was gifted with strength and sanctification from her bridegroom, and led by his holy hand, she resumed her seat of wisdom in the kingdom of the mighty aeons.” (Stephen Hoeller, Gnosticism) “Atrophy of instinct” is how Jung diagnosed the malaise that affects those of us living in modern civilization: “Civilized man...is in danger of losing all contact with the world of instinct....This loss of instinct is largely responsible for the pathological condition of contemporary culture.” (CW 10) The contamination of air, water, and soil on the planet is synchronistically paralleled by similar diseases of blood and tissue in people, says Jung in his interconnectedness theory. (CW10) Is one symptom of this, the phenomenal rise of auto-immune disorders in recent decades? Instincts do not fully disappear, Jung discovered. Rather, they fall into the unconscious and become dormant, but potentially can be rescued and revived. In this duo lecture, Monika and Judy will discuss the Sufi and Gnostic myths of the exiled, rescued and redeemed Sophia. These powerful archetypal myths depict the predicament of all beings in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with the lost light of the unconscious instincts. Workshop In this all day experiential workshop, we will experience using our own “mighty, magical voice” in sound work,transformative movement, imagery, journaling and drawing --- all attempts at reviving unconscious atrophied instincts. This workshop is open to both men and women. Please wear loose and comfortable clothing. Times & fees to be announced. Franciscan Retreat Center- Woodmen Room, 7740 Deer Hill Grove, Colorado Springs. Judy Jackson. After forty years of private practice and teaching Jungian Depth Psychology, Judy has moved to Manitou Springs Colorado where she is now semi-retired and is an artist. Her training includes: two years of Clinical Pastoral Eduction at Fairview Hospital, Minneapolis, two years Gestalt training, two years Psychosynthesis training, and voice work training with Cloe Goodchild. She has also studied and trained with Jungian analyst Marion Woodman for twenty- five years, completing Marion’s three year leadership training in Body Soul Rhythms. Judy has led many workshops and also lectures on her own experience of the Conscious Feminine Sophia. Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has also contributed chapters, articles and poems to various books and journals. Monika enjoys guiding retreats locally and abroad and her podcast interviews can be found at shrinkrapradio.com. |
“Having called out repeatedly in a mighty magical voice to the Light, she was gifted with strength and sanctification from her bridegroom, and led by his holy hand, she resumed her seat of wisdom in the kingdom of the mighty aeons.” (Stephen Hoeller, Gnosticism)
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July 13 and 14, 2018 NY Center for Jungian Studies: Jung on Hudson Conference
“Living the Imaginal Life” With Jeff Raff, Lara Newton, and Monika Wikman Living the imaginal life requires that we approach our life experiences, both inner and outer, not only with our rational mind but also with the imagination. In our culture imagination is usually considered to be both unreal and ego-created, but in some older cultures and in other religious traditions imagination is seen as a different way of perceiving and interacting with reality. This different way derives not from the ego but from a special psychic organ of perception and creation. In these other cultures imagination is often seen as a creative act parallel to the creation of the universe – in other words, perceiving through the imagination creates something new in the world. By consulting the view of imagination held by poets such as John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke and Dylan Thomas, by ancient alchemists, and by the Sufis, we can learn more of how imagination functions and how it can help us individuate and transform our consciousness. In these two days, we will present alchemical, poetic, mystical and mythological information, as well as our own personal experiences of the imaginal life. We will invite the group members to participate in exercises of the imagination that can open our perception to this creative and energizing dimension of our existence. Jeff Raff Title Active Imagination Lara Newton Dreams and poetic consciousness: standing at the veil between the worlds Monika Wikman Active Imagination: cleansing the lenses of perception and growing the subtle body |
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July 28 to August 3rd, 2018
Breathwork week long retreat co-led with Diane Haug, for GTT= Grof Transpersonal Training, in Taos, New Mexico JUNG, ALCHEMY & THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS Holotropic Breathwork module with MONIKA WIKMAN, DIANE HAUG, and GTT staff Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico USA Contact: GTT office – ph 415-383-8779/fax 415-382-1073 Email: [email protected] In this retreat, we will explore the world of archetypes, dreams, myths, shadow, symbols, alchemy, individuation, and astrology. It will be a rich, creative journey into the depths of the psyche and the reality of the psychoid, through the work of Carl Jung and alchemy. The retreat will be highly experientially, to intricately support and illuminate our own transformational processes. We will dive in through living mythic material and symbols that informed Jung and the ancient alchemists. We will also turn to the issues of current times that seek our attention — for transformation in this pregnant darkness — at individual and collective levels. The focus our time together will include 1) An overview of Carl Jung’s seminal contributions to psychology 2) the power and significance of Jung’s own “spiritual emergency” rooted in and supported by his discovery of the ancient alchemists 3) and deep personal exploration into these alchemical processes using a variety of experiential modalities including Holotropic BreathworkTM, Jung’s active imagination, writing, art, dream work, film, meditation, and movement. This retreat will be enriching for anyone wishing to explore their inner lives in a safe and nourishing setting, as well as those interested in bringing a Jungian perspective into their everyday lives. This will be a wonderful opportunity to have a personal, embodied experience of Jung’s most groundbreaking contributions. The retreat will provide the ‘alchemical vessel’ for one’s own exploration, integration, and growth. Attendees of Monika and Diane’s Red Book module will find much new, as well as some revisited and expanded, material and practices. Comments from participants: “I have seen Jung’s work coming alive through Monika. It has helped me so much in doing my inner work, it has helped me giving words to my own journey” “The lecture [by Monika] was mind blowing and incredible rich!” “Holotropic breathwork is the most powerful method I know about self-discovery, self-healing and self-improvement. GTT modules give an extra value because there is plenty of time to go inwards and safety created by the GTT team.” |
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August 2018
Oxford Psychology Guild. Oxford, England 2018 Oxford Conference: The Still Point and the Turning World Book now Date: Friday 24th August 2018 - Sunday 26th August 2018 Location: Worcester College, Oxford Start time: 4:00pm End time: 2:00pm Type: Conference Refreshments: All Meals Provided Internationally recognised Jungian analysts, JEAN SHINODA BOLEN and MONIKA WIKMAN, will each present two papers at this residential conference.The world around us seems to be spinning, sometimes uncontrollably so. How can we get to a place of healing and peace? For ourselves as individuals and collectively for humanity? Can we transform our experience and collective wisdom into new creative energies, or will we remain stuck in old destructive patterns? JEAN SHINODA BOLEN, MD, author, activist, psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and self-titled “episco-pagan,” is an internationally known author, speaker and advocate for 5WCW India 2022.Her thirteen books include the Tao of Psychology (on synchronicity), Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power (Wagner’s Ring Cycle), Crossing to Avalon (on midlife pilgrimage), Close to the Bone (on life threatening illness), and Crones Don’t Whine.The Millionth Circle brought her to the UN; Urgent Message From Mother, and Moving Toward the Millionth Circle resulted from being there. Jean will talk to the titles “Emergence of Feminine Wisdom and the End of Patriarchy” and “Moving Toward the Millionth Circle”. MONIKA WIKMAN, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and astrologer. Author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness, she has also contributed chapters, articles and poems to numerous publications. 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 on “Dreams of the Dying.” Along with her partner, Tom Elsner, she hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.org, The Center for Alchemical Studies. Podcasts with Monika on various topics can be found at Shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com Monika will present “Orienting in the Dark: Dream Wisdom addressing our Collective Times” and “Prayer for the World Soul: Experiences of Ash and Its Alchemical Mysteries”. |
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Seminar: Alchemical and Clinical Reflections Reading Seminar
September 2018 - April 2019
JACQUELINE WEST, Ph.D. and MONIKA WIKMAN, Ph.D.
In the Seminars this year, we will continue to discuss Jung’s later works in which he delves into alchemical and clinical investigations, exploring the tension between the opposites and the processes involved in their conjunction. Continued readings in Alchemical Studies, Vol. 13 of the Collected Works, along with The Red Book, will lead us into explorations 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.
Four 3-hour sessions from 6 pm to 9 pm: Thursday September 20th, Wednesday November 14th, Thursday January 24th, and Thursday April 4th.
$300.00 for series. 12 CEUs. Enrollment limited.
Contact Susan Steffy, 505-469-0430 or [email protected].
Jacqueline West, Ph.D., co-author of The Matrix and Meaning of Character, is a Jungian analyst in Santa Fe. She lectures, teaches, and writes about character structures as they are portrayed in fairytales, mythologies, and current art. Her work is currently focused on the archetypal, individual, and collective nature of narcissistic dynamics woven into the current patterns of our lives as Americans.
Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. A graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology, in Zurich, she is a member of the NM Society of Jungian Analysts. Interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com. Her work with the dying led to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil.
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12th Annual Feeding the Moon Retreat: Alchemy, Creativity and The Divine Feminine
An Annual Women’s Dream, Breathwork, Creativity and Healing Retreat September 1 - 7, 2018 (Note: Workshop is Full. No new Reservations can be accepted.) Monika Wikman, Ph.D., Diane Haug, MA, LPCC and Kirsten Kairos An auspicious Jupiter Return Year for this retreat The Center for Alchemical Studies invites you to this retreat Ocamora Retreat Center, Ocate, New Mexico See ocamora.org for more details or see the details below: |
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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.
September 1 - 7, 2018
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
****NO MORE REGISTRATIONS CAN BE ACCEPTED FOR THIS YEAR****
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
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.
September 1 - 7, 2018
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
****NO MORE REGISTRATIONS CAN BE ACCEPTED FOR THIS YEAR****
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
October 26 to 28 Sonoma State Graduate Psychology Program
Weekend Lecture and Seminar: Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness
Theoretical and Clinical Applications of Alchemy in Depth Psychotherapy
Weekend Lecture and Seminar: Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness
Theoretical and Clinical Applications of Alchemy in Depth Psychotherapy
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Hunting the Green Lion: Subtle Body Heart Mysteries via Alchemy, Myth and Dream C.G. Jung Club of Orange County, CA November 11, 2018 Monika Wikman Tracking the alchemical mystery of the Green Lion through myths, ancient texts, poetry, and dreams, we seek that Presence in the psyche which also seeks to awaken within us, leading to the growth of the subtle body heart, potentially bringing fresh vitality for life and individuation. Full of paradox and humor, from the sulphuric to the sublime, including shadow elements beyond sentimentality and ego ideals, the mysteries of the alchemical Green Lion start in the "rag and bone shop of the heart," where our awareness grows of the subtle ways we learn to guard the heart. In this state, we unknowingly may have lost courage for life, or lead our lives from what Marie Louise von Franz calls the "substitute gods," namely those unconscious values and archaic defenses against psyche and life which create heart loss for life. The alchemical mystery depicted in the hunt for the Green Lion brings us into contact with this vitalizing force where we may also discover the grace of an ongoing capacity to see these shadow attitudes and simultaneously open the heart. Discovered here in the subtle hermetic light between the opposites is a potential growing center between the conscious and the unconscious that helps light and guide our way in life. Course objectives: Describe the alchemical energy known as the Green Lion. Use myths, ancient texts, poetry and dreams to understand the role of the Green Lion in the psyche's individuation journey. Discuss how contact with the Green Lion can lead us away from unconscious defenses and towards the opening of our hearts. Monika Wikman, PhD, is a Jungian analyst, astrologer, and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. She is a graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich and a member of the Northern New Mexico Society of Jungian Analysts and the Inter-Regional Society Jungian Analysts. Seven depth psychology podcast interviews with her can be found at ShrinkRapRadio.com and SpeakingOfJung.com. |
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Seminar: Living with Dying: The Death / Rebirth Experience as a Metaphor for Change
November 15-18, 2018 MONIKA WIKMAN, Ph.D. and DIANE HAUG, M.A. LPCC The metaphor of death is always at the heart of any authentic and lasting transformational experience. Both Diane and Monika have worked with the dying and the psychology and spirituality around death and the doorway of death. We will consider dreams surrounding death and supportive practices for conscious dying. Using active imagination and Grof ’s Holotropic Breathwork, we will explore profound ways in which death/rebirth realities in the psyche can inform our lives today. Times: Thursday 6-9 pm, Friday & Saturday 9:30am-5pm, Sunday 9:30am-noon Place: 1536 Bishops Lodge Road, Tesuque, NM Fee: $550.00, 20 CEUs, limited to 20 participants . Contact Monika Wikman: [email protected]. Monika Wikman, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, astrologer and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness. A graduate of the Jung-von Franz Center for Depth Psychology, in Zurich, she is a member of the NM Society of Jungian Analysts. Interviews with Monika on topics such as the anima mundi and environmental issues of our time, archetypal phenomenon surrounding death, dreams, active imagination, and alchemy can be found at shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com. Her work with the dying led to a research project on Dreams of the Dying at UCSD Medical Center leading to a current manuscript on the Alchemy of Life, Death and the Wedding Veil. Diane Haug, M.A., LPCC, is a licensed therapist and senior member of the Grof Transpersonal Training staff, and has developed GTT training modules including Living with Dying and The World Within: Jung’s Red Book. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. She has been involved with the Holotropic Breathwork community offering training events internationally. Diane is an adjunct faculty member of the CIIS Center, Southwestern College, and the Academy for the Love of Learning. |
Varuna, is Hindu god of the Celestial ocean, as well as a god of law of the underwater world, the night sky and vast
oceans and rivers. Varuna is also a god of the dead, and can grant immortality. He is attended by the nagas. And He is also one of the Guardians of the directions, representing the west. Later art depicts Varuna as a lunar deity, as a yellow man wearing golden armor and holding a noose or lasso made from a snake. He rides the sea creature Makara. The God Varuna on his mount makara, 1675-1700 Painted in: India, Rajasthan, Bundi placed in LACMA museum 
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