Pilgrim SoULL - Year 1
Pilgrim Soull Is a multi-level somatically focused program about human life which helps you take your own life and work to a new level of depth and presence.
Pilgrim SoULL is a 100+ hour program that generally runs from spring to fall. A primary goal of Pilgrim SoULL is to teach students to recognize the deep, energetic patterns within the life of the human being regardless of culture or race. It teaches how life energy naturally shapes us through every stage of bodily life, including its end. I call this our common human “Life Language”. It presents radical insights, not only on individual human life, but on relationships, community, and the deep, intrinsic connection between them. In its essence, Pilgrim SoULL is an initiation which teaches about birth, death, all that is between and after, the body, energy, how we grow, change, connect, release, die and love.
Year 1 takes place over three residential weekends with distance learning and group dialogue in between. See details below for altered online class formats due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Dates and locations for Pilgrim SoULL
Unit 1 of Pilgrim SoULL
The Nature of Being Human
May 14-16 & May 29 -31 (Online)
During the two weekends, Jeanne will introduce a language of human life itself, integrating the processes of aging and dying into an overview of human development. Through direct teaching and experiences, students will learn to see spiritual, energetic and somatic experience as deeply, inevitably connected, and discover the continuity of life (or “Life Movement”) within the body and psyche. They will learn to recognize patterns within this movement, which include the Vertical Pulse, the Allometric Wave, the Circular Pulse and the Radial Pulse. Students will link these insights to existing developmental theories within somatic psychology, especially Neo-Reichian theories.
Total of 24 hours starting 9:00 AM EST. Most days are 4.5 hrs
*You may take Unit 1 without committing to the full program (as space allows)
Unit 2 of Pilgrim SoULL
The Nature of Relationship
August 6-9, 2021
Relationships are essential for human survival. But what are they? In this unit we take up this question, seeing relationships as living energetic systems that grow, breathe and change. We examine how they develop, get ill, heal, inevitably end and also live forever. The inevitable experience of grief will be explored, as well as attachment, breakups, and the components of good and bad endings. In this weekend, we study the Horizontal Pulse, the Vertical Pulse, and the Dual Pulse, patterns of natural life movement within a relationship. In sum, we will be studying the energetics of human relationship and how they effect our bodies.
This is currently planned as a residential program at The DeKoven Center in Racine, WI.
Unit 1 is a prerequisite.
Unit 3 of Pilgrim SoULL
The Nature of Community
October 15-18, 2021
In the final unit of Pilgrim SoULL, students put learning about individuals and relationships together to explore larger systems of energy: families, groups and communities. We will look at common group energy forms, the leadership of these forms, as well as group identity and conflict, individual roles within groups and ultimately the role of communities in our understanding of life purpose. Finally, students look at how communities impact both individual development and relationship processes, and elements of wise and sustainable communities.
