Alchemy of the Heart
Jungian tools to create safety in your inner world
& Feel the power of your sensitive heart
A Free 90-Minute Workshop with Sil Read in the Lineage of Marion Woodman
❤️🔥 wednesday, February 25th, 2026 from 1-2:30pm est ❤️🔥
Come sit in the throne of your own heart.
“If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.”
— Marion Woodman
Is this you?
You…
often feel overwhelmed by the state of the world — and you deeply desire practical and regenerative ways in which you can be the change you want to see in the world.
are aware of unconscious behaviors and body symptoms, synchronicities in your waking life, and dreams at night that may be ways that your soul is asking you to pay closer attention to your inner life— but you’re not sure how to do that or what exactly to do. ❤️
are always the ‘sensitive’ one or the ‘intense’ one — whether it’s work, family or friends — you’re used to feeling too much, and while you get theoretically that this is a positive thing about you… you struggle to actually feel that your ‘too muchness’ is of value to the world.
may have been in therapy— and have a spiritual life— and you wish there was a path that combined the best of both the psychological and spiritual.
crave a deeper set of tools and a practical understanding of archetypal psychology in order to ground you in your inner and outer life.
Hi, I’m Sil.
I’m a mother, a grandmother, a crone, a best-selling author, a teacher, a retreat facilitator, and a coach for women.
I guide women in transforming their lives from the inside out.
Studying Jungian Psychology with Marion Woodman quite simply changed my life. Before my training with Marion, my intense and messy big-heartedness often felt like a stigma — and I had learned to shun my own heart.
Rather than make me wrong, Marion gently mirrored me and taught me that my difficulties were welcome and that I could meet them consciously as ‘initiations’. In fact, she taught me that they were essential to the process of me becoming my most authentic self — or as Jungians would call it — ‘individuating’.
My own initiations included overcoming disordered eating and body shame, the difficult birth of my daughter, the dissolution of my unhappy marriage, and the initiation of stepping up to my true calling (and career) ... they were all moments that called me into the fire. They were moments where — with the help of Marion’s teachings and tools on dreams, myths, holding the tension of the opposites, and more — I learned to no longer shun my own heart and instead embody my feminine soul and live my own life, and not the one that had been projected onto me.
I became an alchemist of the heart: one who knows that her sensitivity is her real power.
As the world burns, I hold my center. My business blooms. I play with my grand baby. I know my right actions and trust my voice as a crone in these times of change. I cherish my body more than ever. I am surrounded by a rich sisterhood of other crones (we laugh and weep together). I am rich in all the ways that matter to me and sit in the throne of my own heart. This is only possible because I know how to hold myself through times of inner growth — and I want to teach you Marion’s framework too.
Dream with me…
You want to feel:
held by elders as your learn to love your sensitive heart for real.
like you have Jungian tools that center you in your truth, and strengthen you so that you can live from that truth more of the time in more of your relationships (parenting your kids, your marriage, friendships, etc.)
safety in slowness and savoring the mystical beauty and synchronicity of this world.
more connection with sisters and peers who are soulful — they’ve done their inner work too — and they can hold the paradoxical experiences of being in a body and being hungry for spiritual depth without spiritually bypassing.
like you’re continuing to answer the call of your soul in this lifetime — and part of that is learning how to embody the feminine within Marion Woodman’s lineage.
“Sil’s presence opens the way for women to go where they wouldn’t have otherwise imagined they could go.”
— Marion Woodman
“Sil redefines the feminine archetypes of mother and crone by the way in which she wholeheartedly embodies and lives them. She is the wise elder who guides women in the essential work of restoring their motherlines- in their bodies and souls. In doing this, she shows us how to make space for all of who we are: what Sil lovingly refers to as ‘the good, the bad, and the beautiful’.”
— Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of The Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild
“Sil is one of those rare guides who has the uncanny ability to see with absolute precision- and help you to also see- the healing movement in your story and life. Her work with dreams and archetypes will not only change your soul’s life; it may also save it.”
— Karen Brody, Author of Daring To Rest
Where We’ll Go Together:
Alchemists take in the “hazardous waste” of human experience and return it to the world as nourishment, refreshment, and beauty. Catherine MacCoun, On Becoming An Alchemist
In this free 90-minute workshop, we’ll be gathering together to learn Jungian tools to create more safety in your inner world & Feel the Power oF your sensitive heart.
Topics will include: individuation, soul-making, holding the tension of the opposites, tools for building psychological safety and containment within yourself, falling back in love with the magic and mystery of the waking and dreaming world, and the importance of collective stories, dreams and myths.
This workshop is an experience in Feminine weaving and teaching style.
Sil is the lead facilitator with Sandra as her assistant. Their style of teaching together is lively, interactive, and intuitive — with time for contemplation, embodiment and integration.
You’ll also have an opportunity at the end of the workshop to learn more about Sil’s online home & program — The Soul-making School — if you’d like to journey deeper with embodying the Feminine in Marion Woodman’s lineage.
Words from Sil’s Students:
💌 “My whole life I have been searching for the level of holding, mirroring and containment present in Sil’s teaching team.” — Shela, student
💌 “I’ve stepped into my parenting with greater consciousness and awareness, and reclaimed threads of my creativity I’ve been longing for without knowing how to reach. Sil’s teachings are a vital anchor in my personal journey. I learned things I had never known before — insights that helped make sense of feelings and intuitions I’ve carried for a long time but didn’t yet have language for. I’ve always felt closely connected to my dreams, but before this program I tended to see them as interesting, strange, or occasionally predictive. Through Sil’s work, I learned to relate to them differently — as expressions of my psyche and as something I can actively work with.” — Shawna, student
💌 “Through Sil, my relationship with Marion’s work has become more embodied and integrated — it now feels like a living framework that accompanies me in my life.” – Emer, student
💌 “I’ve gained self-acceptance, and a growing inner confidence of who I am becoming. Sil’s teachings are above and beyond any expectations I had.” — Natalie, student
💌 “The School was my first container that was participatory and led by many women; the structure itself considered principles that are not at all common in our one-guru-one-truth society. It brought me so much inspiration for myself to work and create together with other women and I felt the pressure of individualism and overdrive melt, mainly in my own practice.” — Maria, student
💌 “The work gave me a key—especially through DreamWork—which has become a living, breathing dimension of my inner life. Dreams are no longer separate from waking reality; they are just as real, just as instructive, and now deeply integrated into how I move through the world. This weaving of inner and outer life, psyche and body, symbol and lived experience, has created the most beautiful and meaningful landscape I have ever inhabited.” — Fernanda, student
💌 “Sil’s groups have been an incredible grounding in community of like- minded women - led with so much skill and love, with a good dose of magic woven in beyond what any of us could have imagined. It feels like it has given my own porous spiritual life a structure and landing place to feel so much less alone.” — Jess W
💌 “I loved being in a group of women who feel deeply as I am and think about life deeply. I felt included and validated, I stopped viewing my way of being in the world as something wrong and flawed, because I just see and feel so much stuff others around me don't even consider.” — Maria, student
💌 “Being held in a community of loving women, led by a wise Crone, and exploring Marion's teachings has resonated deeply in my soul. It has been a homecoming, and the missing piece for my rediscovery of my spiritual core. Relational healing has happened as I have allowed myself to lean into this beautiful community, take risks, and share myself. In my outer life, I have felt empowered to listen to my intuition and make some significant life changes that have been needed for several years now.” — Jennifer, student
💌 “The impact of Sil and Marian’s work in my present life is that it has added a new layer of meaning to, literally, everything. Learning how to be in my body, how to read my experiences through a symbolic lens and not take things so personally, plus learning for the first time ever, that my sleeping hours are communion time with the Goddess, who is in constant communication with me from a loving standpoint.” — Tere, student
💌 “My experience was a subconscious sanctuary made perfectly relevant to my lived experience as a mature and dreaming woman seeking my wholeness. I am not sure I have known safe sisterhood and a mother’s consistent loving tone the way I could hear among all of us holding the tension and making the unseen, seen. I'm in love. Literally!” — Bianca, student
Meet Our Workshop Team:
Sil Read
(she/her)
Lead Teacher
Sil is a mother, grandmother, crone, co-author of Mothering & Daughtering, a coach for women, and the creator and lead teacher of The Soul-making School. She has been a women’s health nurse practitioner and psychotherapist. Sil had the incredible good-fortune of learning from the master teacher, and elder, Jungian author and analyst Marion Woodman for 20 years. She completed Woodman’s BodySoulRhythms certification program (co-taught with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner) in 2008. In this program she was trained in dreamwork, archetypal psychology, and the art and science of listening to the wisdom of the body.
Marion Woodman’s unique Jungian lineage focuses on bringing the archetypal Divine Feminine into our embodied, earthly lives. Sil considers Marion’s lineage her lineage - her spiritual motherline - and it has been her lifeline and alchemical container during difficult times. Woodman helped her to find infinitely resilient places in herself and to cultivate inner capacity for patience, courage and compassion.
Sandra Hilton (she/her)
Assistant Teacher
Sandra is a mother, integrative therapist, Jungian coach, assistant teacher in The Soul-making School, and witness to those on the inner journey. She has studied with Sil for several years in the lineage of Marion Woodman.
In midlife, Sandra answered the call to become a therapist and left her work as a lawyer. She also trained as a modern Medicine Woman with shaman Christa MacKinnon.
Discovering Marion's work has helped Sandra to deepen her practice of embodying the conscious feminine through dreams, archetypes, and the symbolic world- particularly in the realm of fairytales and myths. She is passionate about helping women discover and decipher these archetypal stories in order to uncover- and more consciously live- their own personal myth.
Jessi Larssen (she/her)
Community Support
Jessi is an entrepreneur and creative spirit who loves bringing ideas to life. A lover of all animals—especially dogs—she has been guided to a deep desire to work with our natural instincts and energy bodies. Owning her own business for the past 14 years has been an education in learning to wear many hats.
While holding big questions and facing a crossroads, Jessi discovered Sil’s work and the lineage of Marion Woodman. Her desire to bring her creativity and skills to this work led to her role in community support and retreat events production. You’ll find her in the Sil Read Team inbox and the workshop chat — holding it down logistically and soulfully with love. She also weaves the online community in The Soul-making School.
Frequently Asked Program Questions:
When is the workshop?
February 25th from 1-2:30pm EST (on Zoom).
is there a recording if i can’t join live?
Yes! But come live if you can — it’s magic to be together in real time.
WHEN IS THE NEXT FREE WORKSHOP?
Sil teaches one free workshop a year (right now), this is it.
WILL I BE ABLE TO ASK SIL A QUESTION? CAN I BE PRIVATE AND HAVE MY VIDEO OFF?
Sil teaches in a lively, interactive and weaving style and often works 1:1 with a handful of people during a group workshop. You can choose to be as private, quiet, interactive, or vocal as you wish throughout the communal parameters of the call — you exactly how you are is welcome.
Do i need to know about jungian psychology or marion woodman to join this call?
It’s strongly encouraged that you be passionate about the symbolic work of Jungian Psychology and know something about it — and perhaps be curious about Marion before the call. There are no specific pre-reqs, just an invitation to be passionate!
is this for psychologists or professionals?
This is for all people passionate about Jungian psychology and Marion Woodman! You may also be a professional who feels inspired by what you have learned here and takes it deeper into your work life.
Artist Credit: Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss is a painter and certified expressive art facilitator whose work has evolved over four decades as a practice of making the sacred visible. Working primarily with water-based paint and collage, her paintings emerge through deep listening and intuitive dialogue with the unseen. Each canvas becomes an altar where color, archetypal imagery, and layered marks unfold as a visual prayer.
Her paintings are offered in a spirit of reverence, celebrating the Holy. It is her heartfelt wish that they offer a sense of healing and beauty, supporting the co-creation of community in relationship with one another and the natural world. https://www.instagram.com/elisabethmossart/