"There is no consciousness without discrimination of opposites.
Only what is really oneself has the power to heal."

"What is stirred in us is that faraway background,
those immemorial patterns of the human mind,
 which we have not acquired but have inherited from the dim ages of the past."

Ecstasy: Nature's Way of Healing

A talk by Sarah Halford

Monday October 8th at 7.30 pm
The Studio
Byron Bay Community Centre
69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay

Cost: $10 (at the door)

Ecstasy is a universal experience documented cross-culturally from earliest cave paintings to contemporary surveys. In traditional cultures ecstatic states are a vehicle for the expression of full humanity in relationship to the environment. Trauma, whether personal, cultural or environmental, steals the birthright to live ecstatically. This talk will explore how psyche's natural healing process facilitated by analysis can restore connection to ecstatic states and open the way into new relationship with body, nature and community.

Sarah Halford is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Brunswick, Maine, USA. She is president of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts and is on the teaching faculty of the Boston Jung Institute. She frequently lectures for the Brunswick Jung Center and other Jungian groups. Originally from Oxfordshire, England, she has lived in the US for 30 years. Her background is in teaching religion and mythology. She is also a storyteller of traditional and original stories and gives workshops on the healing power of story.

Her work grows from her love of the land and mythology. The power of place and the experience of the land that underlie myth and ritual are an important part of her presentations. She is delighted to be back in the beautiful land of Australia and to be sharing her passion for myth, ritual and the natural world.

All Welcome