All of the workshops offered by Theater of the Soul are based on the recipe for the BodySoul Rhythms intensives created by the Jungian analyst Marion Woodman, body movement specialist Mary Hamilton and voice specialist Ann Skinner. As with any recipe, each batch of the offerings that are prepared will vary with the techniques of those who are doing the cooking, and the tastes of those for whom the recipe is intended. We invite you to sample the offerings on our Theater of the Soul menu, and to find the one that best fits your tastes and needs.
We offer workshops in the following formats:
Contact
Barbara Hort for information about future offerings, or to arrange
a workshop in your area.
| Our evening-and-a-day workshop is a program of a consecutive evening and a day, such as Friday evening from 7 to 10 PM and Saturday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. On Friday evening, we will offer a blend of storytelling, gentle movement, and guided meditation, all of which are designed to introduce you to the dialogue that is possible between body and spirit when we employ the soul-languages of imagery and sensation. On Saturday morning, we will facilitate a session of dreamwork, in which we will address body symptoms as well as nighttime dreams, enabling you to further explore the relationship between your body and your spirit on the soul¹s creative stage. On Saturday afternoon, we will lead you through some exercises in voice-play, gentle movement, and embodied meditation, whose synthesis you will manifest in artwork at the end of the day. You will leave this workshop with a deeper awareness of the wealth of meaning that is available in your dreams and body symptoms, and a felt sense of the comfort and creativity that awaits you in the theater of your soul. |
| This weeklong intensive follows most closely the program developed by Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner in their BodySoul Rhythms intensives. Each morning, we will use dreamwork, storytelling, and some lecture material to explore with you the creative relationship that is possible between body and spirit when we improvise on the soul's alchemical stage. Every afternoon, you will be guided through a series of gentle experiences in movement, voice and expressive art-play, with the goal of continuing the morning's soul-dialogue between your spirit and your body. Throughout the week, the evenings will be devoted to your creation of a mask that will serve as a synthesizing symbol of your growing ability to integrate body and spirit into soul. The mask you create will be yours to keep and work with, to integrate into your life as a living symbol of your creative soul-work at this intensive. |
| We are happy to work with organizers who would like to offer our work in a format that is not specified above. If you know a group of women who would like to experience a Theater of the Soul workshop, and whose needs do not fit into the models we have described, please feel free to contact us and we would be delighted to custom-design an intensive or a workshop to meet your needs! |