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Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
(Online)

Eco-Somatic Imagination and the Soul of the World

Friday Lecture, November 14th, 2025

7:00 – 9:00 pm

This lecture explores eco-somatic imagination as a doorway into the Anima Mundi—the Soul of the World. Drawing on Jung’s view of the psyche as alive, we’ll reimagine the body as part of the Earth: an organ of perception and participation that both listens and expresses. What if the Earth is a living, dreaming being, inviting us into relationship? We’ll consider dreams, images, and sensations as portals into the Earth’s psyche, revealing the natural world not as metaphor but as an animate participant in the unfolding of soul. Grounded in the Wild Yoga™ Way, this talk proposes that embodied imagination can restore our capacity for reverence and reciprocity. Eco-somatic imagination invites us to listen, respond, and participate with the Soul of the World in ways that rekindle intimacy with the more-than-human realm and catalyze personal and planetary transformation.

Rebecca Wildbear, M.S., is a soul guide, psychotherapist, wilderness guide, and author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration, and Advocacy for the Earth. She helps people listen deeply to the mysteries that live within and around them—through dreams, the body, and the living world. With a background in Depth Psychology, Hakomi, and nature-based soul work, Rebecca developed the Wild Yoga™ Way, an eco-somatic approach to remembering one’s purpose and participating in the dreaming of the Earth. She guides individuals and groups through initiatory journeys that blend somatic practice, deep imagination, and intimate conversation with the Anima Mundi. Her work weaves the mythopoetic, the ecological, and the embodied, inviting a descent into the soul that entwines inner longing with the Earth’s unfolding story. Based in Colorado, she teaches internationally and is a longtime guide with the Animas Valley Institute.