MOVING PARTS: A workshop to move with lost parts of yourself

The human psyche is a curious thing—born in a state of wholeness, we are forced to fragment as we grow, for our own protection. Then, as adults, we give the appearance of being the sole operator of our unified machine (this bodymind), when in reality we are made up of disintegrated parts, each of which can grab the reins at any time while we maintain an illusion of wholeness. It is the work of a lifetime to encounter these parts, bathe them gently in the light of conscious awareness, and learn to love them into a state of true wholeness.

In this workshop, we will explore some of our fragmented parts as they move and breathe through our dancing bodies. With each part that arises, you will be given an opportunity to explore how it moves, shapeshifts, contorts, and controls you. You will greet it through its shape, its variations of breath and texture, its forms and conformities. Through embodied exploration, you will take a step or two on the endless path of the Great Work of becoming truly individuated—that is, becoming so wholly yourself as to be indivisible.

All parts are welcome; all expressions of self are holy. Whatever shows up in the room will be safe, seen, and loved.

This event is in-person only.

By trade, Mackenzie Amara is a Jungian analyst, guest lecturer, and 5Rhythms® teacher. By vocation she is a psychedelic facilitator, depth psychology scholar, and writer. By design she is a collection of fractal, holographic cells dancing around some strange attractor for the sake of who knows what—to live an insignificant, mythic life reflective of the mysterious vital spark within her. She identifies as a series of memories and unverifiable subjective experiences of selfhood to which she is rather fondly attached. She has a penchant for scholarship, the occult, pedantic erudition, morbid humor, grandiosity, nihilism, and semi-responsible hedonism. Born in the shadow of New Age culture into a fractured family system, and the subjective experiencer of (arguably) extreme early childhood trauma, her life’s work is to heal psychic wounds—hers and others’—so that she and others may become strong enough to contend with the unconscious quicksands and transpersonal abysses that lap at the periphery of developing consciousness. She is an emergent property of Being playing at becoming sovereign. She really, really loves butter.

Host or Publisher The Berkeley Alembic Foundation