Please join us for the following IN-PERSON programs. Through a special and gracious arrangement with the First Unitarian Church of Dallas, we will meet on the Church Campus at 4015 Normandy, Dallas, Texas.
We are excited about this new and recently re-modeled venue and would like to supply some additional information to make us easy to find on this campus. First, please enter the building from Normandy. Those doors are close to the Parlor area where we will meet.
Parking is available as follows:
Head-in parking for persons with disabilities is available on Normandy. There is additional parking at the Church, including head-in off of St. Andrews on the south side of the Church campus, and, near the end of St. Andrews is a parking lot as well. If you park at those locations, you may still have to walk around to the Normandy entrance. There is a bank across St. Andrews from the Church, but parking may not be allowed there. Accross Normandy Street from the Church is complementary parking under the YMCA. This lot closes at 8 p.m.
October 13-14, 2023, Jennifer Embry, and Lauren Cook
Jennifer Jones Embry is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst, with an MA in Counseling, Pacifica Graduate Institute, MBA, Wharton, who also completed BodySoul leadership training with Marion Woodman, Ann Skinner and Mary Hamilton. She did a fellowship at the Houston-Galveston Trauma Institute. She is keenly interested in places psyche and soma connect – sound and music, dreams, film, astrology, creativity and beauty.
Lauren Cook is a musical alchemist who uses song as a vehicle to stimulate neuroplastic change to restore homeostasis within herself, those she works with and when she performs. She is passionate about studying the effects of sound, movement and feelings and using these tools to achieve balance and well- being. Her method comes from her experiences and blending her backgrounds in dance, singing and theater.
Presentation: Bringing Home the Gold of Mantra and Movement
Friday, October 13, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Friday night Jennifer will offer a slightly-expanded version of her presentation from Zurich this summer on sound. Lauren will speak about how to use breath, sound and movement to move out of a dissonate response and into your authentic voice. There will be time for questions and then Lauren will sing a lullaby in preparation for the dream state. Participants may email Jennifer a dream that seems related to this material before 8:30am Saturday.
$20 Non-member, $15 Member, $10 Student 1.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Snacks and Wine
Workshop: From Dreams to Body Alchemy
Saturday, October 14, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Saturday morning Jennifer will facilitate a dream discussion. Lauren will loosen and warm up our bodies to play with sound and enter a flow state. Jennifer will talk briefly about body alchemy. Lauren will complete our time by leading us in singing and dancing to a chant written for the words of C.G. Jung
$40 Non-member, $35 Member, $10 Student 2.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 9:00 a.m. Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Coffee
November 10-11, 2023, Jeanne M. Schul, Ph.D
Jeanne M. Schul, Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute, RSMT Eastwest Somatics Institute, MA Texas Womens University in Dance, specializes in the intersection of Somatics and Depth Psychology, leading workshops in improvisational dream dances and chakra explorations. She offers somatic body therapy group sessions, focusing on relieving lower back discomfort and fatigue, regaining and maintaining range of motion, and learning to release held tension, while gaining strength and an overall sense of well-being. Her retreat workshops also include training in dreamwork, relaxation, meditation, and spiritual practices. Individual somatic movement therapy sessions address clients' current condition, while exploring connections to their somatic unconscious.
Presentation: Accessing Our Somatic Unconscious
Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The somatic unconscious holds all our bodily interactions over a lifetime that have been repressed. It is the shadow of the body, which is alive and awaiting our invitation to be integrated into consciousness. The challenge often lies in how hidden and disassociated these memories are. Pre-verbal experiences can lodge in the somatic unconscious, as well as trauma, neglect, abandonment, and abuse that often occur when children have no agency and no means to process what is happening to them. An individual’s culture and religious orientation also plays a role in what is denied, including all the delightful sensations an individual has known but rejected due to guilt and shame. These issues become autonomous complexes that can be triggered by a touch, an insult or even a sideways glance. And yet, the ability to bring these issues into consciousness is the power and the potential of somatic awareness.
$20 Non-member, $15 Member, $10 Student 1.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Snacks and Wine
Workshop: Exploring Dreams Somatically
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
This workshop will explore techniques for checking in with our bodies as we work with dreams to gain personal insights. We will rehearse ways of telling and listening to dreams somatically. Participants are invited to bring a couple of dreams that still hold energy to experience at an embodied level.
$40 Non-member, $10 Student 2.5 Hours of Continuing Education. Registration Begins at 9:00 a.m. Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Coffee
