Bodydreaming: Somatic Jungian Analysis
The Bodydreaming method combines Jungian depth psychology with neuroscience-based approaches to wellness and trauma-healing.
This work can help us to heal developmental trauma or to integrate our soul’s wisdom for living in harmony with the Self and the Earth.
The nervous system is an ancient intelligence at the core of our being. In Bodydreaming, we believe that what the ancients called the soul and what neuroscience calls the nervous system can be approached as two faces of one thing.
In Jungian psychology we investigate the internal dialogue between the ego and the soul, understanding that they have different viewpoints on our lives. The ego is concerned with our survival. The soul is concerned with wisdom.
The body-soul carries us toward wholeness by showing us the wounded or as yet unconscious material that currently seeks consciousness and integration.
The emergent soul can be glimpsed only indirectly — by studying patterns in our behavior, feelings, dreams, imagination, relationships and nervous system responses.
Our soul’s impulse toward wholeness carries us ever closer to our spiritual center, which Jung, drawing on Vedic tradition, calls the Self. Through the Self we are related to the eternal ground of Being.
Jungian psychology anticipates that the ego-persona (the part of us adapted to society and survival on Earth) and the soul do not easily agree on the purpose of our life. We work to harmonize this inner relationship.
The main outcomes of soul health are a sense of attunement to life, internal coherence, grounding, self-regulation, wisdom and the capacity to care for self and other.
STRUCTURE: We begin with a 4 session intake process, meeting weekly. After this process, we decide on how to structure our work ongoing.
BODYDREAMING is available for teens, adults and couples.
“Thank you for your wise and intuitive holding during this big transition moment in my life. Our time together has been a really meaningful touchpoint where I can find my footing and push deeper into this wild unknown. Your willingness to walk with me has been such a gift.”- LN, storyteller
“I was fortunate enough to have discovered Laura during a great shift in my life. Each session I learned more and more about myself, especially the parts of my unconsciousness that were holding me back from healing on an emotional but also physical level. I can’t recBommend Laura enough to anyone looking to discover themselves on a deep level.” - Marie, Osteopathic physician
“In my work with Laura, I was gently guided inward to explore the landscape beyond the surface of my conscious mind. After each session, I felt lighter, more free, open, and centered. I noticed that thought patterns and ways of being that I felt stuck in began to dissipate.” - Ayla, wellness facilitator
A note from Laura:
I have an undergraduate degree in Cultural Psychology and a graduate degree in the Anthropology of Human Development. Additionally, I am trained in Bioenergetic psychoanalysis, BodySoul Rhythms, Somatic trauma therapy, Jungian and Archetypal psychology, Celtic and Native American shamanism and Waldorf psychology.
I recently completed a 3 year training in a cutting-edge approach called Bodydreaming. This method aligns harmoniously with my prior trainings and brings in important new discoveries from neuroscience.
I began creating innovative educational programming for holistic wellness in 2003 and made my living through this independent teaching and festival creation through 2017. I began creating innovative approaches to dream work as a process of therapeutic counseling in 2017.
I am dedicated to remedying the collective developmental traumas that disconnect modern people from ourselves and from Nature. I believe that when we listen to our own nature, we move into harmony with Nature.
I do this work to serve all of life, not just people.
I believe that the wheel of life moves through our mutual support and that my wellness depends on your wellness.
Scheduling: Email mythmovement@live.com. Sessions take place on Zoom.