Featured Presenters
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the Chancellor and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a professor of depth psychology with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a credentialed public schools teacher and counselor. Dr. Aizenstat has provided organizational consulting to companies and agencies and teaches extensively worldwide. He has explored the potential of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His book, Dream Tending, describes multiple new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World’s Dream, relationships, and the creative process. For more information, visit www.dreamtending.com.
Caryn Aman, M.A., is the owner of Full Circle: A Jungian Counseling Center in Portland, Oregon. Caryn is a Jungian soul therapist, teacher, workshop facilitator and Program Director for the Marion Woodman Foundation. A deep respect for the work of C. G. Jung, dreams, and the wisdom of the body, combined with roots in music and voice, led Caryn to the BodySoul Rhythms® work of Marion Woodman, Jungian Analyst. An initial meeting in January 1992 at Pacifica sparked Caryn to study with Marion as a participant in BodySoul Rhythms® Intensives. She went on to complete the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership Training Program then served as a member of the MWF governing board.
Dorothy Anderson, Ph.D., teaches from a Jungian perspective and her experience as an artist. As a UCLA professor and assistant dean, she specialized in group dynamics, interpersonal communication, and leadership development. Dr. Anderson also directed the Leadership Training Institute in Washington, D.C. For the Woodman Foundation, she co-taught the Leadership Training Program and Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal, creating art projects designed to access the wisdom of the unconscious. As adjunct faculty in Pacifica’s M.A./Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Somatic Studies Program, she co-teaches “Jung, Woodman, and the Embodied Psyche.”
Catharine Clarke is a professional writer/editor and creative mentor in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® training administered by the Marion Woodman Foundation and led by Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton, and Ann Skinner. Her essays regularly appear in Psyche’s Journey and she was recently included in the award-winning A Slant of Light: An Anthology of Women Writers. Catharine is at work on a historical novel called The Motherline. Catharine co-founded Soul Journaling with Marta Elders in 2003.
Vernessa Foelix, M.A., has 40 years of experience as an art teacher, is a student of Jungian and Integrative Body Psychotherapy, and dancing the 5 Rhythms, all of which feeds her leadership in BodySoul Rhythms© work. Her professional background, with a Master’s Degree in Education, includes weaving, ceramics, and painting. She currently teaches in Switzerland and offers workshops in North America.
Martha de la Garza received her Lic. in Education from La Universidad de Monterrey. She established and directed la Biblioteca Central del Estado in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; she also founded and directed for 14 years El Centro de Educacion Inicial, AC, an enrichment program for infants and toddlers. Martha presents and assists in Jungian-oriented workshops in Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. She completed the Marion Woodman Foundation BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program in 2003.
Gail Grynbaum RN, PhD LMFT, is a Jungian Analyst in San Francisco. The primary focus of her work is with people suffering from early relational trauma and addictions. Through careful attention to dream symbols, emotions, metaphors of symptoms, and body language, Gail helps individuals find and integrate their untold soul story. She is on the teaching faculty of the Marion Woodman Foundation and the San Francisco Jung Institute. She has been in private practice for over 30 years. “The Secrets of Harry Potter” and other commentaries on popular culture, are published in Jungian journals. In 2003, she completed the Marion Woodman Foundation BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program and later served on the Foundation’s governing Board.
Mary Hamilton, MEd, a pioneer in dance and theatre education, is a graduate of the Canadian National Ballet School. In 1973, she implemented the first secondary school dance credit course in Canada and started teaching theatre with Marion Woodman. Mary, a former professor at the University of Western Ontario where she taught modern dance, improvisation, and choreography, is also a member of the Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association. In 1980, she began co-creating and teaching the BodySoul Rhythms® Intensives internationally. She is the author of Under the Horse’s Ass: A Love Story Human and Divine; The Dragonfly Principle: An Exploration of the Body’s Function in Unfolding Spirituality; and one of the authors of Leaving My Father’s House: Journey to Conscious Femininity.
Carol Jacobs, LCSW, has a private practice as a Jungian psychotherapist. She is a faculty member of the Marion Woodman Foundation and is also a Trustee of that Foundation. Carol is a faculty member of the Chrysalis Institute in Richmond, Virginia, and is also on the faculty of the Center for Mind Body Medicine. As a faculty member of the Center, she has taught and trained both trauma survivors and professionals in Kosovo and in Macedonia; the 1st responders and their families following 9/11; as well as teaching and training in other areas. As a faculty member for the Marion Woodman Foundation, she presents a wide range of workshops based on the BodySoul Rhythms®, model. Carol is a classically trained pianist and was chosen to perform at the Van Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas.
Patricia Llosa, MFA, LP, is a Jungian analyst in private practice based in New York City. A native of Peru, she earned her undergraduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did graduate work at The School of Visual Arts and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York. She is a member of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program and serves on the Marion Woodman Foundation Board. She worked as an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the last 21 years, and is a member of NAAP’s Gradiva Awards Committee. She is presently working on a publication regarding the dream images of artist Lilli Gettinger.
Rea Nolan, M.A., BFA, and B.Sc., is a voice teacher. She has worked as a freelance voice and dialect coach and taught in the Theatre Department at John Abbott College in Montreal, Canada for the past 12 years. She has worked with various professional dance and theatre companies. She previously taught voice at Concordia University, the National Theatre School of Canada, at ALRA at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in the UK and at Smashing Times Theatre Company in Ireland. Rea has completed the Marion Woodman Foundation’s North American Leadership Training Program.
Patricia Patrick, M.D., M.A., studied under Master Yu and has practiced and taught Liangong since 2000. Dr. Patrick is a practicing psychiatrist and a Ph.D. Candidate In Pacifica’s M.A./Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with specialization in Somatic Studies. She is a member of the Marion Woodman Foundation Board and completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program.
Daniela F. Sieff, D.Phil, is an independent writer and scholar with a doctorate in biological anthropology and an active interest in the dynamics of the human psyche. The question that engages her is: ‘What makes us who we are?’ She has been drawn to thinking about this question in interdisciplinary ways. Her doctoral research explored how evolutionary processes contribute to shaping human behavior. Her research took her to a wilderness region of Tanzania to live with a traditional cattle-herding people. In recent years Daniela has explored emotional trauma and healing through bringing together her own personal experience (including experience gained during the leadership training with the Marion Woodman Foundation) with knowledge that comes from depth psychology, neurobiology, anthropology, and evolution.Out of this work emerged her recently published book, Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma: Conversations with Pioneering Clinicians and Researchers. For more information, visit www.danielasieff.com.
Ann Skinner is a presently Head of Voice Emerita at Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival and former Head of Voice at the National Theatre School of Canada. From her clown and theatre training with Richard Pochinko in the 1970s, she adapted the process of working with masks to her exploration of the origins of the letters of the alphabet, and to the psychological process in the creation of BodySoul Rhythms®. Her work has taken her across Canada, the UK, Europe, and the US.
Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., LMFT, BC-DMT, Jungian Analyst and Board Certified Dance Therapist, is past co-founder of the Authentic Movement Institute, and an international teacher of Authentic Movement, DreamdancingÒ, and Somatic psychology. Dr. Stromsted was core faculty for the Marion Woodman Foundation’s Leadership Training and Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal programs, and is an adjunct faculty member of the M.A./Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Somatic Studies Program at Pacifica where she teaches “Embodied Alchemy” and co-teaches “Jung, Woodman and the Embodied Psyche.” A widely published author with roots in theater and dance and forty years of clinical experience, she has a private practice in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com.
Meg Wilbur, MA, MFA, MFT, Jungian analyst, is a founding member and senior faculty of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. Professor emerita in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, she writes and directs her own plays, featuring fairy tales and poetry. As a core faculty member of the Marion Woodman Foundation, she co-taught the Leadership Training Program and Wellsprings of Feminine Renewal intensives for twelve years. At Pacifica, she is an adjunct faculty member the M.A./Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with Specialization in Somatic Studies Program, where she co-teaches “Jung, Woodman, and the Embodied Psyche.”
Willow Young, M.A., L.M.F.T., Jungian Analyst,is a member of the Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute and serves as Chair of the Counseling Psychology Program. She teaches Depth Psychology Theory and Practice: Analytical Psychology, Clinical Practice I, II, III, Mores and Values in Cross Cultural Counseling, and received the Pacifica Distinguished Service Award in 2008. She is a Jungian analyst whose research is focused on the study of C.G. Jung’s psychology and the reality of the psyche and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an IAAP certified Jungian Analyst with the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California in private practice in Santa Barbara and Ventura. Willow presented the following seminars as part of Pacifica’s Legacy Tour at Eranos in Ascona, Switzerland—Jung and Nature: The Nourishing Life of the Soul and Psyche Soma Dynamism in the Asklepion Healing Tradition.
Judy Zappacosta, MFT, is a Certified Sandplay Therapy Teacher (CST-T) in Sandplay Therapists of America and the International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She serves as Assistant Editor of the Journal of Sandplay Therapy and co-founder of Caring for the Soul. She has a private practice in Santa Cruz, California, with a focus on Jungian psychotherapy, sandplay, dreams, and the integration of psyche and soma. She consults and supervises therapists using sandplay, and has published and taught both nationally and internationally. Her publications include “Developing Therapeutic Language” in Supervision of Sandplay Therapy; “Sandplay Therapy: A Way of Rediscovering Inner Wisdom in Body & Psyche” in Expressive Therapies for Sexual Issues; and Pearls: Defining Moments in Our Lives, J. Zappacosta, editor. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program with the Marion Woodman Foundation.
C.G. Jung believed that psyche and body are one. Marion Woodman, with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner, developed BodySoul Rhythms® from their common belief in our body’s wisdom and their many years exploring the relationship between psyche and soma. Based on the conviction that psyche and soma are inseparable, they believed they must be worked with simultaneously in order for us to become more conscious, more whole as a human being.