Sara’s talk is called “Archetypal Voices Within the Body—Pre & Post Quarantine”
As a somatic practitioner during this unprecedented time of Covid, I have witnessed how the health of even my most extroverted clients has slowly shifted archetypally. In this time of imposed quarantine, psyche has taken the collective withdrawal and inhaled it into the bone and marrow of a quarantine that is self-imposed on a much deeper level. There has been a shift in the archetypes we were living pre-quarantine and those that have risen to the surface in an effort to save us within quarantine. We have been left unprepared for the forthcoming conditions of walking side by side and inhaling the breath and touch of another. This presentation explores how the archetypal lived experience has shifted and impacted the artist’s health during quarantine. Through the guidance of these archetypes I explore how we embrace them through open dialogue and consciously wash them through the body. In order to cross the threshold into a world post-quarantine the invitation is to greet who we were in order to understand who we are now. With our new boundaries consciously recognized we are better prepared to step into this new ecology of body/mind/spirit and earth.
About Sara
A somatic oriented educator, Sara Lovett is a writer, performer, and teacher whose work sits at the interface of depth psychology, somatics, and ritual. She holds a BFA in acting from The University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Somatic Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she is pursuing her doctorate. Her research question explores the effects of embodied practices in the self-care of the actor.
Using the self-landscaping process (an art based body-mapping modality), authentic movement and embodied writing, Sara works with artists on deepening their mind/body connection towards healthier physical and mental well-being. In preparation to cross over the threshold from Covid-19 seclusion into eventual emergence, her current classes explore the body in quarantine and its impact on our well-being and shifting perspectives. Sara’s lectures and workshops focus on the connection between mind, body, psyche, the relevance of dreams, the imagination, the power of image and the archetypal. She is the author of the memoir, The Invisible Bones, and the upcoming book, The Friendship Index.
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