Sophia Reinders

Graduate Faculty @California Institute Of Integral Studies

San Francisco, CA, US

Courses I currently teach:\"Ecopsychology and Expressive Arts – Reawakening the Wild Heart of Being\".This course offers a reflective and an experiential exploration of the growing field of ecopsychology and its urgent appeal to develop an ecological self. Students will engage in a variety of creative practices to evoke and celebrate an embodied, earth-cherishing consciousness.\"Animal Dreams – Visitations from the Wild Psyche\".This course suggests a shift from an anthropocentric to an ECO-centric sensibility towards the dreaming psyche, as a doorway towards genuine care for the earth. It offers a deepened understanding of depth psychology as a discipline that embraces the soul of the earth in its vision of psychological wholeness.\"Ecospirituality and Creative Expression –Touching the Sacred Within and Without\".How do we recognize ourselves more deeply as woven into the sacred fabric of the living earth? This course offers a reflective and an experiential dimension of the lived reciprocity between our ensouled bodies and the body of the earth in its vital immediacy.Our senses take us to the threshold of the sacred as the depth of the sentient. The creative gesture, in response, may express, renew and celebrate our embodied awareness of the sacred mystery at the heart of Being.\"Dreaming the Soul – Dancing the Dream: A Jungian Dream Catcher\".This course offers a reflective and a creative, embodied exploration of dream work from Jungian and archetypal perspectives as a process of befriending the soul. Dreams, Jung says, are messengers of meanings that are embodied in the images themselves. As we explore dream images creatively and attune ourselves to their imagistic qualities, they disclose new insights and evoke rich intuitive resonances.Students will engage the images of their night worlds with a variety of embodied creative practices. They will dance their dreams to discover and harvest the dream’s messages for growth, transformation and healing.