AnnouncementsSeptember Meeting: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 at 2PM
"An Afternoon of Explorations of Body, Earth and Self Accessed Feminine through
the Practice of Authentic Movement"
presentation and workshop by Barbara Holifield, Analyst C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
At the home of Kristina Holland, 1407 Cypress Street, Berkeley, CA
In his writings Jung articulates the significance of the
body, linking psyche and life in the body,
in health and symptom. Although he
acknowledged the body and movement as a medium for Active Imagination, he did
not pursue this avenue in his work.
Contemporary Jungian psychotherapists have, discovering movement and bodily-based
experience to be a powerful means of psychotherapeutic exploration as well as a
profound path for contemplative practice.
In
our short time together we will be explore one of these practices which is
known by various names: “Movement in Depth”, “Contemplative Dance” as well as
“Authentic Movement."
Through this process each participant
will be more attuned to body based experience as it is expressed through the
embodied psyche at times as ego, at times the unconscious and at times the
bridge between the two thus serving as a direct experience of the transcendent
function. In addition participants
will get a sense of the unconscious accessed through the body as a creative
source offering a kind of healing that may not be accessible through more
verbal or imagistic means.
Throughout
his writings Jung spoke of the enormous importance of our relationship to
nature and the psychological significance of the individual and the collective
being disconnected from the natural world. The relevance of the psychological community taking up this
concern could not be more imperative than it is today both for the sake of our
own health and the environment.
We
will use this practice and casual dialogue as inquiry into how embodiment of self
affects our sense of being related to the earth. What does it mean to be consciously related to the earth? In
what way does this emerge from or interweave with conscious relation to our
bodily felt experience. We will
explore such questions as how being related to the earth or not effects one
psychophysical experience in health as well as distress. ~Barbara Holifield, Analyst C.G. Jung Instiute
Directions to the home of Kristina Holland (from San Francisco): After crossing Bay Bridge, take I-80 East (which is actually heading North, toward Sacramento) to University Ave. turn-off. Go East (toward Berkeley hills and campus) on University Ave. to Sacramento St. Turn Left (North) on Sacramento St. to Rose St. Turn Right (East) on Rose St. to Cypress St. Turn Right onto Cypress to first house on left (little brown shingle 2-story). Park anywhere you can on Cypressor Rose. Note: Cypress St. is only a half-block long and hits Rose only from the South. | 