What if integrating body and soul plays a significant role in therapy? And in doing so, it allows life to fulfill itself through us; Marion Woodman is confident it does. I explore in this paper some of the theories Woodman brought to analytic psychology and her unique take and contribution to its practice. I will share the background of Woodman’s work, describe the main points of view of her theory, the model's central assumptions, including significant definitions of terms associated with this theory, and how I personally relate to her pioneering post-Jungian approach.
Butterflies have been on the earth for hundreds of millions of years; perhaps they have something to teach us. Upon reading Jungian analyst Marion Woodman's (1985) “Chrysalis”, I see they do. The themes in Woodman’s work that stood out involved: psychological transformation, death and rebirth, the natural spirals of growth, resistance to change, and various options to view one becoming as a process of change.
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Yoga transformed me. I was led to yoga 19 years ago. My older sister, who was happy to drive us just about anywhere, had a new drivers license and wanted to use it. The first yoga class I was drawn to, on one of our sister outings, was in a rowdy gym in Orange County CA. I became so very curious about the mental states I accessed during class, especially at the end. From the beginning, yoga changed me in all possible ways - mind, body and spirit. As an awkward teenager, I learned about my potential as a human “being”. I realized for the first time that I wasn’t just the physical body. Gym yoga turned into “real” yoga at a popular yoga studio near my home, and I realized that yoga wasn’t just movement - it was prayer, intention and consciousness too. Yoga opened me to a new knowing and my body’s ability to transform - muscles started to shift, new ways of focusing developed using breath, and maybe most importantly, I learned how to surrender. I see things differently now, and the physical, mental, and philosophical parts of yoga show up in my modern daily life. I view the world with different lenses, seeing everything as a new opportunity.
To help reintegrate your body and heart… Because postpartum is naturally a bit of a disorienting time, it is a lot to adjust to. You’ll get through it because you can do hard things. But I’d love to give you some tips on how to help you thrive.
There are so many new things to figure out and expenses to consider when having a baby. Sometimes the idea of having a doula seems like just another accessory to spend money on, another logistic to have to tackle. It’s hard to imagine what a doula might really do for you that your partner or other care providers can’t cover, particularly if you’ve never given birth before.
For the past 15 years I've been sitting and also facilitating circles with women of many different ages, in a variety of cities, countries and contexts and it’s all been life changing.
I’m headed to Central Coast Woman’s Symposium March 10 and I’d love you to join me! This day long women’s event includes amazing author, speaker and Women’s Advocate Nina Simons!! I’m a big fan of hers and will for sure be playing fan club and have her sign my book ‘Moonrise’.
A few years ago I was fortunate to attend a Womens Holistic Sexiuality Course called the Artemis School in Los Angeles lead by Lara Catone whom the previous summer I stumbled into her informative yoga class on the pelvic floor at the lovely Telluride Yoga Festival.
I was attending a client’s birth last month on a night that my doula mentor Terri Woods died. Reflecting on that evening I feel like it was the best place I could have been to honor her contributions to my path in supporting women’s health
We women are actually all mothers. We each have that loving, caring, nurturing and mothering side to us, regardless if we have taken those motherly ways to be expressed by physically birthing a live mini me child or have consciously or unconsciously decided otherwise and have no human babies to tend.
Since a small girl I have been drawn to turtles, and them to me it turns out. I remember being about 10, the current age of my daughter Athena, and being on a lovely vacation with my family on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico during a particularly strong storm.
Belonging to oneself and owning fully your life, it’s goals, it’s directions, it’s hopes, desires, longings and yes also its mournings, let downs and upsets... has been one of the best things to for my life and also the scariest.
It’s officially the coming of winter, the moving into the darkest part of our year, when the veil between our world and the world of our ancestors becomes very thin.
So great to see this content go mainstream! I just read that the article was featured in Cosmo magazine! Wonderful! Postpartum physical therapy is so very crucial to a women's health, vitality, wellbeing...
I walked away knowing more about my body, it's cycles and the nature and way of my wild feminine self. My body made greater sense, became my friend whom I adore more and see as my sacred wise teacher.
Slow-mo India! So much happens in a moments time, so I slowed it down so you and I can take it all in, every morsel. The bustle of life here in Varanasi can overwhelm anyone. Yet somehow like a river, the traffic and people flow and keeps moving, and working..... as they say “anything is possible in india”.
