6-week series: February 15-March 21 Online Synchronous via Zoom
Thursdays, 10am-12pm Pacific; 11am-1pm, Mountain; 12-2pm Central; 1-3pm Eastern
Description: Myths are timeless and so is our soul. This six-week journey will provide an opportunity to explore, express and reflect on life cycles and transitions of the sacred feminine by re-imagining the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. As the season changes from winter into spring in the Northern Hemisphere, this ancient story mirrors and helps us reconnect with the cyclic beauty of our lives as women. By re-imagining these ancient goddesses, we mobilize internal energies that have become stagnant, and allow them to inform ways in which we can restore, assert, and transform our life’s narrative: past, current, and future. As a result, we reclaim that which is precious and meaningful in us and embody the courage to offer it to others. We will engage in creative inquiry, endocrine/imaginal contemplations, somatic movement, storytelling, embodied archetypes, guided imagery, and art-making utilizing the methodology of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process and The School of BodyMindMovement. The series will culminate in a circle of harvesting our collective wisdom and compassionate witnessing. All levels of experience with the arts welcome.
Presenter: Marialuisa Diaz de Leon Zuloaga MA, REAT, MSMT, MSME is a somatic movement specialist, mythologist, educator, researcher, international presenter, and performer born in Guadalajara, Mexico where she obtained her B.A. in Psychology and discovered her love of dance. Marialuisa’s professional experience in psychology, somatics, and the arts, spanning over twenty years, includes work in education, private practice, and community. She is the creator of Mythic Life: Embodying Wisdom, Beauty and Courage, where she brings her expertise and passion to the work women’s empowerment through the integration of myth, arts, somatic movement and archetypal psychology. Through Mythic Life (www.mythiclife.net) she focuses on working with women who are undergoing developmental transitions and/or life crisis such as: divorce, miscarriage, perimenopause/menopause, cross-cultural integration experiences, and challenges developing self-confidence and leadership in the workplace.