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Eugenio Ordóñez, Ph.D.
(Online)

Body As Ancestral Community

Friday Lecture, October 17th, 2025

7:00 – 9:00 pm

The body is a strange experience. We all live it, but for the most part we live it as an individual reality, as something that is personal and only affected by personal experiences. However, when explored with epistemologies that allow what Jung called the Objective Psyche to manifest and express itself, the body can clearly be experienced as a reality that is beyond the personal and affected by events that reach deep into the past — experiences that the ancestors and the community of destiny had to endure and go through in order to continue living and pass life onwards. The experience of the body can be profoundly transformed if, first and foremost, we transform the ways in which we conceive it and attend it, going from the personal into the important and immediate ancestral events that hold the individual body within a community of souls.

Eugenio Ordóñez, Ph.D., is a therapist, teacher, lecturer, and ritual specialist. As a therapist he has facilitated Family Constellations workshops for the past 15 years, integrating the trauma-informed practice of Somatic Experiencing and the Jungian view of the soul together with Hellinger’s phenomenological practices for attending to the present, the body, and all relations. For the past 14 years he has also been involved with the spiritual wisdom of Kabbalah, and teaches an ongoing course on Wellness for the Body and Soul. He also guides retreats immersed in nature following Malidoma Some’s teachings on ancestry and indigenous African spiritual technologies from which he and his working partner developed Medicine-Community©, a methodology for attending to the body, family systems and soul’s purpose. He holds a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has a published book called Ancestry: The Deep Field of Reality.