Summer Seminar "Medea" from the "Shamanic Circle of Myths" series
Last night when I was sleeping,
I had a dream – a wonderful dream! –
That here, in my heart, there is a beehive.
And the golden bees make white honeycombs
And sweet honey from my old mistakes.
Antonio Machado, Times of Solitude
We will experience the space of the myth of Medea, filling it with our thoughts, feelings, associations, at one level maintaining the metaphor of Medea as the leading function of the Feeling of matriarchal consciousness.
Matriarchal or lunar consciousness is at the origin of human consciousness. In the modern world, much attention and effort is devoted to the development of patriarchal consciousness, particularly its heroic component. We invite you to the territory of matriarchal consciousness, for in the process of individuation, "...patriarchal solar consciousness reunites with what preceded it and, together with the regenerating power of the primordial waters of matriarchal consciousness—closer to the primordial matrix and its central symbol, the moon—rises from the depths to celebrate the ancient ritual of the hierogamy of the moon and the sun on a new, higher level of the human psyche" (Erich Neumann).
Mental function – Feeling
Shamanic Archetype – Healer
We will heal our wounds using four universal healing tools: storytelling, singing, dance, and silence. We will also work with healing trance postures. Shamanic communities believe that if we stop singing, dancing, are no longer engaged in stories, or feel uncomfortable in silence, we experience soul loss. A talented Healer renews the soul, restoring the capacity for wonder, hope, and awe.
To be a Healer is to journey throughout life in search of one's wholeness.
To be a Healer is to bring back to memory what has been forgotten: the connection, unity and interdependence of all things, living and non-living.
Being a Healer means accepting even the most terrible and frightening.
Being a Healer means opening up what is closed, softening what is hard and calloused – what has become an obstacle.
To be a Healer means to enter into the transcendent, into timelessness, where the Divine dwells.
Healing is creativity, passion and love.
Healing is the search for and expression of one's Self in all its fullness, with its light and shadow, masculine and feminine. To be a Healer means to rely on Life.
Zhanna Akhterberg, "Woman Healer"
Presenters
Olga Kondratova is an analytical psychologist, member of the IAAP, ROAP
Elena Ratnichkina is a psychologist, practitioner, and researcher of shamanism; director of the Felicitas Goodman Institute (Russia), which studies the practice of ritual trance postures | ecstatic-trance.ru
Information about the seminar
This is a workshop for women and men who are ready to invite their Anima with them.
We need to bring a small object that will symbolize this journey into ourselves. It could be a feather, a small stone, a crystal, or a piece of jewelry. We'll place it in the center of the circle and retrieve it at the end of the journey.