This workshop will focus on dreams and healing states via work with the imagination and the somatic unconscious.

Our goals will be:

• To understand Jung’s theory of the somatic unconscious
• To learn to recognize and gather somatic information from ourselves and our patients
• To learn the basics of how to change fight-flight-freeze-collapse-paralysis responses to stress and trauma into forming new neural pathways in a co-regulated, restorative relationship with the sensing body
• To explore the concept of the subtle body in alchemy, yoga, and psychotherapeutic practices
• To utilize the Jungian practice of the “active imagination” in relationship to the body as a process of therapeutic healing
• To learn to identify the elements of “healing states of consciousness,” in which psychosomatic unity is present and can be developed.

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 numerous publications including a chapter in The Dream and Its Amplification, edited by Erel Shalit and Nancy Furlotti. 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."   She hosts a non-profit project under Earthways.com, The Center for Alchemical Studies.  Podcasts with Monika on various topics can be found at Shrinkrapradio.com and SpeakingofJung.com.