Embodied Individuation

This course is a homecoming, a return to the body as a felt experience of wholeness, unfolding through heartbeat and breath, through sensation and ache. As we slow down and listen, the body begins to reveal what it has been carrying all along, the sorrow that was never named, the instinct that was silenced, the truth that was split off to keep us safe. Beneath the surface of our symptoms and patterns, something waits to be remembered. It is here we rediscover a deeper truth, that psyche and body are not separate, but two expressions of the same living wholeness, shaping one another in a spiral dance of becoming.

Rooted in Jungian depth psychology, this journey invites you into the threshold space where psyche touches soma. We follow in Jung’s footsteps, not only drawing on his psychological insights, but listening closely to the way he lived them. From his fainting spells and bodily symptoms, to his practice of painting mandalas, building stone towers, and dialoguing with inner figures through image and movement, Jung understood that the work of individuation is not abstract, it is embodied.

Guided by his words, “individuation is born out of the body,” we turn toward the body not as something to overcome, but as the very ground of transformation. It is here, in the felt, symbolic, and imaginal life of the body that the Self begins to stir.

This course is an invitation to listen, deeply, to the wisdom of your body. To the ache in your chest, the tightness in your throat, the sudden tears or the restless hunger, not as problems to be fixed, but as messages from the Self. It is an invitation to follow sensation into perception, and perception into apperception, to feel, to notice, to bring to consciousness the knowing that lives in the body, so that it might find its rightful place in guiding us toward wholeness and transformation.

This course is about reclaiming the forgotten language of the body, and learning, again, how to speak with it.

O1: THE BODY AS MYTH MAKER
Discover how the body carries story, image, and archetypal meaning.

02: EMBODIED CONSCIOUSNESS
Explore the psychoid realm where psyche and body meet.

03: EMBODIED ALCHEMY
Follow sensation as it transforms into perception and apperception, revealing image, emotion, and meaning.

04: THE SHADOWLANDS
Work with symptoms, tension, and body patterns as expressions of the shadow.

05: THE BODY ORACLE
Learn to recognize and dialogue with inner parts as they emerge through the body.

06: ENTERING THE DIALOGUE

Practice active imagination and symbolic listening with the body as guide.

07: JUNG'S MODEL OF TRANSFORMATION

Trace the fourfold path: Confession, Elucidation, Education, and Transformation.

08: LIVING THE SYMBOLIC BODY

Embodying the inner work as lived expression.

This course offers a deeper kind of learning, the kind that unfolds slowly, inwardly, and through the body itself.

• Cultivate a more intimate relationship with your body as a source of wisdom and symbolic meaning

• Recognize how symptoms, sensations, and patterns carry the voice of the unconscious

• Deepen your understanding of Jungian concepts by experiencing them directly through the body

• Practice active imagination, somatic inquiry, and archetypal reflection as pathways to wholeness

• Learn to listen to your body not with judgment, but with reverence

• Discover how image, gesture, and sensation can guide your ongoing individuation process

Over the 8 weeks you will get one module per week to read through and explore embodied practices. Course material is in transcript format with support and feedback on a private Student Forum. There will be a live zoom student seminar on the 13th of July which will be recorded for students unable to attend.

Each module weaves together written teachings, guided practices, symbolic reflections, and invitations to engage the body as a site of transformation.

You’ll explore your body and its reflection of your inner world through:

• Embodiment practices to attune to sensation, posture, and breath

• Active imagination and creative invitations (writing, movement, art)

• Reflective prompts that engage both psyche and soma

• Symbolic applications that help translate body experience into meaning

Tasha Tollman, an Applied Jungian Practitioner at The Centre of Applied Jungian Studies, encountered Jung for the first time in 2006, graduated from the Master Class and the Clinical Concepts Programme in 2014. Having directly experienced the transformative power of Jungian psychology, she enthusiastically shares her journey and knowledge guiding others along the path into the depths of the psyche. With her degrees in Adult Education, Training and Development (ETDP UJ) and NLP she continues to mine the depths of her psyche, describing the journey as exciting, enriching and meaningful.

Cass Rackley lives in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. She is a bodyworker and use Craniosacral therapy and Somatoemotional Release as ways of working with stored emotion and trauma in the body. Through Somatoemotional Release training she learned about Jung's techniques and endeavored to learn more about how to connect the mind and body. She is a graduate student at Grand Canyon University studying Mental Health Counseling. She believes strongly in healing through the mind and the body and loves to facilitate this process. Cass is currently a student in the Applied Jungian Mentor Programme.

Jane Greis holds a Master’s degree in Dance Studies and has trained in massage therapy and depth-oriented coaching. She first encountered Jungian work through the practice of Authentic Movement, which became a wellspring for her creative, psychological, and spiritual life. Her work centers on cultivating imagination, embodiment, and meaningful inner transformation. Jane has completed the Magnum Opus course and brings a background in the expressive arts, nature-based practices, and somatic inquiry. Jane is currently a student in the Applied Jungian Mentor Programme.

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EMBODIED INDIVIDUATION

Where Psyche meets Body

“Individuation is not achieved without the body,
it is born out of the body.”
— C.G. Jung, Zarathustra Seminars, p. 839/869

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Returning To The Body’s Wisdom: A Jungian Journey

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