Body as Shadow – Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing

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Date: Saturday 20th June 2026 Location: Online
Start time: 4:00pm End time: 6:00pm Type: Webinar

In 1913, Jung followed his Soul into the unconscious. This journey was the Rosetta Stone for the rest of his research and work. His destiny was to redeem the embodied soul from vilification and exile for modern psychology. The body has been relegated to the shadow. We will show through neuroscience of Ian McGilchrist why our healthy instinct, emotion, intuition, energy, imagination, somatic unconscious, and the feminine was pushed into the cultural unconscious. Our embodied soul was forced into the shadow. Jung states that we cannot have a soulful life or transform without connection to our body – they are inextricably linked. We will demonstrate how his favorite method of working, embodied active imagination, offers us the ability to engage with our embodied soul and the inter-active field thus retrieving it from the shadow personally and professionally. This is his legacy to us. Participants will learn why the embodied soul was banished to the cultural shadow. Understanding Jung’s favourite method of working, embodied active imagination, will demonstrate a way to work with the body through the imaginal realm and the subtle body.

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Speaker: Erica Lorentz

Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Diplomate Jungian Analyst (IAAP) is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New England where she has served on the Training Board. Her book Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process is published by Karnac London. She has been an adjunct faculty at Antioch New England Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a training analyst with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Pacifica Radio and the Jung Platform have featured her work, and her lectures can be found on YouTube. Since 1986 she has given lectures and workshops in the US, Canada, and the UK, and had the honor of teaching in India. Her area of expertise is working with the embodied mythopoetic process in analysis and the inter-active field. Her initiation into Jung’s embodied active imagination started in 1975 when she began studying Authentic Movement (the Jungian form of movement work) with her mentor Janet Adler.