The Vital Spark - an Embodied Book Club for Women

Somewhere under the niceness, the caretaking, and the endless competence lives the part of you that is wild, shrewd, and fully alive. Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano calls it the vital spark — and her book maps eight “outlaw energies” that women are taught to bury: shrewdness, disagreeableness, desire, trickiness, sexuality, anger, authority, and ruthlessness.

This is not a sit-and-discuss book club. Each 90-minute session starts in the body: a short meditation drawn from the chapters, 40 minutes of guided movement, quiet time to write or draw, and then open conversation about what we’re reading. Come as you are. No movement experience needed; every practice is invitational and adaptable. Haven’t finished the chapters? Come anyway — each session begins in the body, not the book, and the discussion will meet you wherever you are in the reading.

Bring your copy of the book, a journal, and comfortable clothes.

Stacy TenHouten is an embodied dreamwork facilitator and creative coach working at the intersection of somatic practice and the imaginal and creative process. She facilitates sessions for This Jungian Life’s Dream School and Lisa Marchiano’s Spinning Straw fairy tale group, and is the host of Entering the Creative Unknown: Conversations on Artistic Process.

6 Thursdays, September 17 - October 22, 6:00-7:30 PM
Early bird pricing through September 1
Limited to 12 participants