Healing States of Consciousness: Growing the Subtle Body with Monika Wikman

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025, from 1:30 to 4:30 PM via Zoom

In this workshop, drawing on lessons learned in the accompanying lecture, we will explore the somatic unconscious and the “subtle body” in theory and practice, examining their value for discovering healing states where spirit and body unite in a psycho-physical reality. Dreams that guide us through illness to wholeness will also be honored.

We’ll investigate trauma responses in the nervous system—fight, flight, freeze, collapse—and how co-regulated, restorative relationships with the sensing body can create new neural pathways. Using polyvagal theory, we’ll explore self-regulation through the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems to foster inner harmony and peace.

Taking somatic and dream work into relationship with the imagination, we’ll amplify healing states of consciousness that relativize the ego. Jung and Von Franz described this process as “growing the subtle body before we die.” Through active imagination, we’ll create a personal “alchemical laboratory,”…