VIDEO SEMINAR
Baba Yaga:
ONCE THERE WERE OLD WOMEN
with Jungian Analyst Muriel McMahon
“Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half-remembered, Wild Woman comes back. She comes back through story.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés
We herald the return of the feminine as the antidote to balance what has been damaged in the West by too much masculine. In modern men and women, the hero’s quest has dominated our consciousness and the maiden’s quest has been largely ignored. That being said, anything that has been denied, repressed, or disavowed, rarely returns intact. A feral animal is infinitely more dangerous than a wild or tame beast. Let us not be naïve. When She returns, her rage and her wrath must be calibrated with consciousness.
Join Jungian analyst and Keeper of the Stories, Muriel McMahon as we explore the archetype of the Crone. Figured as ‘Baba Yaga’ in Slavic tales, and deformed into a ‘Witch’ in more Eurocentric tales, this ambiguous figure of the feminine at the crossroads must be understood or else we be devoured by her. We must learn how to look her in the face, tend to her wounds, and remind her and us that the feminine in women and in men is a fierce energy that is rightly both feared and revered.
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Through a Jungian archetypal lens, we will address the following:
Acquaint ourselves with Jung’s essays: The Dissociability of the Psyche (CW8~365) and The Psychological Foundation for a Belief in Spirits (CW8~570).
Learn and practice a formula for Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis
Discover an orientation to the archetypal figure of Baba Yaga
Recognize the distortion of the wise woman in our western culture
Prepare consciously for the re-emergence of the feminine in both men and women
Session One
‘Kissing the Witch’ and ‘Mother Holle’
Session Two
‘The Witches’ Excursion’ and ‘La Loba’
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VIDEO SEMINAR
2 Sessions / 4 Hours
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In this TwO Seminar series we will
collect the bones of the old woman,
and sing them back to life
with Jungian Analyst
Muriel McMahon
Muriel McMahon, M. Ed., is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst who leads an international weekly fairy tale seminar. Trained extensively in indigenous wisdom traditions, Muriel is a Keeper of Stories. She formerly served as chair of the Fairy Tale Certification program with The Assisi Institute, a training analyst and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, the managing editor of the Assisi Journal, and the director of studies for The Assisi Institute’s Archetypal Pattern Analyst program. Based in Canada, she has a busy online international praxis and has offered workshops and teachings in Russia, Zurich, Colombia, France, United States, and Canada. Muriel has a passion for story and the ways in which our wounds and our wonders are expressed in the enduring narrative of our lives.