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JSSS Online with Heather Taylor-Zimmerman on Creatrix Womb Healing: An Artful Ritual for Personal and Planetary Rebirth

Does your creative nature feel wounded or blocked? Would you like to reconnect to the Earth and Her generative, life-giving creativity within you? More than that, are you called to co-create and heal in right relationship with the Earth? If so, come gather in a circle to honor the transformative alchemy of birth, death, and rebirth that exists within Mother Earth as the Creatrix within all of us. C. G. Jung spoke of the “maternally creative,” entering the Realm of the Mothers and the belly of the earth in his creative opus The Black and Red Books. So, we will follow into the cave of Mother Earth’s womb to heal and create in embodied ritual art.

On this imaginal journey, Dr. Heather Taylor-Zimmerman will guide us, as she has been guided, through emergent imagery embodied in our body, the Earth, and a body of art. As we descend inward, our guiding mantra for this gathering will be Robert Romanyshyn's saying: "The wound is the womb." Like the metamorphosis of moths, we'll embark on a nocturnal pilgrimage from death to rebirth, darkness to light, recognizing that to give birth is an alchemical process in which death creates life.

In the spirit of serving the dead—those aspects of ourselves, our ancestors, and the land that need reviving—let's also pay homage to the First Peoples, the original stewards of this land as a living legacy of wisdom. For, this offering stems from personal dreams of indigenous suffering as well as a larger calling of our time to remember the feminine Creatrix in womb healing, drawing upon shamanic practices like that of Marcela Lobos, a medicine woman trained in the Amazon and Andes.

Structure and Supplies:
For this ritual, you'll need dry art supplies such as paper, colored pencils or pastels, a journal, and a comfortable place to sit or lie down.

Our voyage will weave together guided visualization, active imagination, and art as methods for individual and collective healing. We'll begin by connecting to our 'creative wombs,' embodying the feminine creatrix or the innate creative energies of the Earth. Through guided visualization, we will sink deep into the recesses of our imagination to encounter the aspects that need healing and transformation. Harvesting these insights, we'll then transition into an art activity where the art becomes a womb—a sacred space where your internal alchemy can manifest outwardly. The video will direct you to pause to spend time to work on your artistic creation.The final part of our gathering will be a sharing (of art or insight) to express how this ritual has initiated a life-giving practice of reciprocal healing with ourselves and Mother Earth. 🌿🌕🎨

Bio: Heather Taylor-Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Heather Taylor-Zimmerman, Ph.D., is a multifaceted artist, art historian, and depth psychologist known for her innovative work at the intersection of ecopsychology, art therapy, imaginal arts-based research, and individuation. She holds a doctoral degree in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she illuminated C.G. Jung’s art-based methodology as presented in his magnum opus, The Red Book, through her dissertation. Post-graduation, Heather has facilitated workshops and courses at colleges, universities, and institutions, as well as in Jungian circles. She's also the founder of a pioneering nature and creativity center and has most recently developed an online curriculum aimed at promoting healing through Jung’s method of creative, active imagination.

Heather serves on the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies board, additionally acting as their journal's art editor. Her visionary and ecological art specializes in the transformative healing power of symbols. Heather's contributions to the realm of healing art are featured in hospitals, clinics, schools, and museums, in both public and private collections. She is also published in books, calendars, journals, and cards, with an upcoming dream card deck with Dr. Gregory Mahr. After a cancer diagnosis three years ago, she expanded her therapeutic approach to include her own healing journey, exploring the psychosomatic benefits of art, which she views as both a "healing" and "teaching" medium. Merging contemporary science with ancient wisdom, Heather is enthusiastic about sharing creativity's deeply transformative and archetypal power.