Resources
Light the imagination and let your body be your guide
Creation of the Birds by Remedios Varo
Tending Soul & Soma
The healing journey is a communal effort, meaning we find restoration when we commune with life. It may be necessary to explore and invest in various practitioners and communities for support. This includes advocacy from your primary physician, as well as, considering nutrition, fitness, restorative practices, rejuvenating and enjoyable activities.
Here are some suggestions to explore:
Restorative Centers & Organizations
Ancestral Medicine - Global Community Restoring Ancestor and Earth Reverence
Work that Reconnects - Joanna Macy’s global transformative action committee to address climate crisis
Somatic Abolitionism - Resmaa Menakem’s training to upend white-body supremacy
Santa Barbara Healing Sanctuary - Medical Healing Intensives
Esalen Institute - Workshops and Retreats
Animas Valley Institute Nature-based Soul immersions
Mosaic Voices - Multicultural Myth Healing Foundation
MAPS - Psychedelic Healing and Studies network
Collective Healing Journey - Thomas Hubl Teachings on Collective Trauma & Healing
Institute of Chicanx Psychology and Community Wellness - Liberation, Decolonizing & Re-Indigenizing Circles, Platicas, Trainings for Chicanx Comunidad
Meditation and Body/Somatic Support
InsightLA -Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program
MARC - UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
Spirit Rock - Insight Meditation Center
Kripalu - Center for Yoga & Health
Rubin Museum - Himalayan Art-centered Meditations & Talks
5 Rhythms -Movement Expressive Dance Practice
The Embody Lab - Education platform for Somatics, Meditations & Psychedelics
Feldenkrais Method - Bodywork
Rolf Institute - Bodywork
Hellerwork - Bodywork
Craniosacral
Reiki
Depth Oriented Lectures
C.G. Jung Institute -Public Programs & Lectures
University of Philosophical Research -Events & Lectures
Pacifica Graduate School -Retreats
The Jung Platform - Courses & Lectures
Beloved Community Practitioners & Services
Marga Laube - Vedic Astrologer
Chani Nicholas - Western Astrology + Chani App / Weekly Podcast
Raina Manuel Paris - Tarot Readings Myth & Archetype
Marcia Lopez - Womb Healing Massage - based in LA
Sara Mangano - Cranial Sacral - based in LA
Britta Bushnell - Transformational Birthing Class
Rethinking Reproductive Health - Doula, Midwifery & Sex Education
Whole Mother Therapy - BIPOC centered Pregnancy, Postpartum, & Conscious Parenting mental health
Latinx Parenting - Decolonial Parenting Education
“Body work is soul work. Imagination is the bridge between body and soul. To have healing power, an image needs to be taken into our body on our breath. Only then can the image connect with the life force. Only then can things change.”
Star Maker by Remedios Varo
Wisdom Library
While psychological knowledge is helpful but not necessary for treatment, here are some resources that may be of value supplementally in building understanding and furthering development.
Here are some recommendations:
Podcasts
Living Myth with Michael Meade on mythology for modern times
California Institute of Integral Studies - Public programs personal and social healing
For the Wild with Ayana Young conversations on ecology & rewilding
Under the Hood with Aleks Evanguelidi and Patti Quintero on womanhood
On Being with Krista Tippett on what it means to be human
Emergence Magazine explorations on ecology, culture and spirituality
The Emerald Animist explorations through myth and imaginations with Joshua Michael Schrei