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These conflicts may feel intertwined with what has been passed down to you from your motherline. You are just so ready to break this generational spell. You want to heal your motherline. You want to improve your relationship with your mother and/or daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/48882ab3-415c-482c-8237-6473386bb486/beech-g0ee81235a_1920.jpg Coaching - You are looking for a therapeutic approach that combines the psychological and spiritual. You may be interested in learning how to work with your dreams. You sense that if you could find meaning in your pain, you would be able to transmute it into a core strength that is vital and nourishing. C. G. 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The intellectual and spiritual framework for my teaching, coaching, and retreat facilitation is inspired by my training with the renowned Jungian author and analyst Marion Woodman. She taught about the paradox of the feminine principle with precision: "It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present." I completed her BodySoulRhythms teacher training (co-taught with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner) in 2008. In this program I was trained in dreamwork, archetypal psychology, and the art and science of listening to the wisdom of the body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/fcd78da5-ba59-452a-8e5a-5f28fde5c3ec/Sil_82_websize+2.jpg About - I work with women who are hungry for more depth, meaning, and joy in their lives. For two decades, I had the incredible good-fortune of learning from a master teacher and elder- the preeminent Jungian author and analyst Marion Woodman. Her wisdom changed the trajectory of my life. Her body of work deeply informs my work as a teacher and coach. She wrote of her work: “The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality. Our challenge is to embody this.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/64fb33fa-2953-4f49-8e2f-4696299660ba/Sil+Reynolds+Women%27s+Coach About - Mothering & Daughtering: From 2005-2018 my badass and brilliant daughter Eliza (now age 35) and I co-created a beautiful body of work for mothers and their adolescent daughters: Mothering & Daughtering. Eliza now runs her own business mentoring teen girls at Badass Girls. This photo is from 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/aca05330-88da-4c5b-ae26-f179f36ec15c/me%26mom.jpg About - Healing with my mother felt impossible. My experience of Marion Woodman’s lineage of unconditional feminine love- my spiritual motherline- made it possible for me to heal my historically difficult relationship with my own mother. This has felt like nothing short of a miracle, especially since the healing occurred without any need for me to personally hash anything out with my mother, or to involve her in my inner process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/83993767-ac25-4d4b-bbbb-3ac5bf9b05f4/unsplash-image-sKEXhW0tghI.jpg About - I learned to meet difficult passages as rites of passage. Marion Woodman’s unique Jungian lineage focuses on bringing the archetypal Divine Feminine into our embodied, earthly lives. Her lineage is my lineage, it is my spiritual motherline, and it has been my lifeline during difficult times. The genius of my teacher’s scholarship and her personal loving containment were crucial for my developing a capacity to meet difficulties with patience, courage, and compassion. For example, a very painful divorce became a kind of embodied scholarship for me- a lived alchemical experience- of moving through what Woodman showed me could be a rite of passage. By showing me how to honor my difficult passages as deeply meaningful and universal, Woodman helped me to find infinitely resilient places in myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/774fa4b4-6b79-4765-a3db-e8ba04b64b39/Sil_44_websize.jpg About - I bring 40 years experience to my work as a teacher: experience as a nurse practitioner, psychotherapist, workshop leader, author, and a Mothering & Daughtering coach. I graduated from Brown University where I majored in Women’s Studies. I graduated from Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms training (co-taught with Ann Skinner and Mary Hamilton) in dreamwork, archetypal psychology, and the art and science of listening to the wisdom of the body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/2f452e64-93cb-440b-9817-27cf5e6dc008/Alchemy_of_the_Heart.png About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/2c95669b-20d6-4e8f-8c32-5195276f9d13/Awakening+2013.JPG About - The Soul-Making School: A Jungian Map for Embodying the Feminine Soul An Immersive 9-Month Program in the Lineage of Marion Woodman Are you yearning for a space to more deeply study and embody the work of Marion Woodman in your life? Are you longing for safe and soulful sisterhood? Are you eager to understand and interpret your own dreams better? Are you passionate about myths, fairytales and the magical world of depth and meaning around you (seemingly unseen by some)? Are you wanting to be held and guided by a wise crone in these years of your life? Are you craving spiritual and emotional depth and grounding in community so that you can be a better resourced- and more mindful- activist in our chaotic world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/2c90fa56-ca0d-4e51-985c-d640b0f02e4a/RP2025-50.jpg About - The Exquisite Tenderness Retreats In-person Intensive Soulful Retreats on the Wild Coast of Rhode Island, USA, in the lineage of Marion Woodman Does it sound like a dream to be in-person with a magical community devoted to soul? Do you hunger to be held in-the-flesh by a team of wise Crones on Retreat? How about deep sleep in a soft luxurious bed, delicious organic meals, dreamwork in the mornings, art practices and walks on the beach in the afternoon and myth, embodied practices and rituals by the fire at night? https://www.silread.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c1f77b24-5e7a-4f92-bfe1-d0db009f87bc/Sil_5.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1646844692075-1JHS894FM2TA1BUVM9AT/Sil_5.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/d3aa570c-c2c0-4dcc-8358-fe9d5d4bca3e/images-community.shutterfly-1.jpg Home - I am an embodied scholar of the unique Jungian tradition of my beloved teacher Marion Woodman. For two decades, I had the incredible opportunity to learn from a master teacher and crone- Jungian author and analyst Marion Woodman. I credit her for inspiring my work of guiding women through the process of awakening to their destiny, and of living at home in their feminine body on this precious Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/f73a7607-915f-4295-895f-766ad74c9e83/unsplash-image-rL6sOvctpo4.jpg Home - Working With Me I bring 45 years’ experience working with women to my coaching and teaching: experience as a women’s health nurse practitioner, psychotherapist, author, Mothering & Daughtering coach, retreat facilitator, and creator of The Soul-making School. I guide women in reclaiming rejected parts of themselves, so that they can experience wholeness and embrace their destiny: their own unique and true life. I guide women in finding meaning in their healing process so that they can come to deeply experience a soul-led life with self-love at its core. I help women to heal their motherline and to make peace with their body and food. 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Are you longing for safe and soulful sisterhood? Are you eager to understand and interpret your own dreams better? Are you passionate about myths, fairytales and the magical world of depth and meaning around you (seemingly unseen by some)? Are you wanting to be held and guided by a wise crone in these years of your life? Are you craving spiritual and emotional depth and grounding in community so that you can be a better resourced- and more mindful- activist in our chaotic world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/2c90fa56-ca0d-4e51-985c-d640b0f02e4a/RP2025-50.jpg Home - The Exquisite Tenderness Retreats In-person Intensive Soulful Retreats on the Wild Coast of Rhode Island, USA, in the lineage of Marion Woodman Does it sound like a dream to be in-person with a magical community devoted to soul? Do you hunger to be held in-the-flesh by a team of wise Crones on Retreat? 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Karen Brody interviews me about how to work with our dreams. In this Daring to Rest podcast episode, I share about the 5 stages of a dream, archetypes in dreams, why dreams are important, how to explore your dreams, and why Marion Woodman’s work is particularly accessible to women on a quest for wholeness. I also work with three women to help them explore their dreams. This interview was the beginning of the monthly dream circle which I lead inside Rested, Daring to Rest’s community which supports women to dare to rest and dream. If you are interested in learning more about this offering, go HERE. Take a listen → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1649933133719-584VQMQMZ21ZKSO79MR0/Daring+to+Dream+with+Sil+Reynolds.png Resources - Daring to Dream Learn about Jungian analyst Marion Woodman’s approach to working with dreams and experience a dream circle. Karen Brody interviews me about how to work with our dreams. In this Daring to Rest podcast episode, I share about the 5 stages of a dream, archetypes in dreams, why dreams are important, how to explore your dreams, and why Marion Woodman’s work is particularly accessible to women on a quest for wholeness. I also work with three women to help them explore their dreams. This interview was the beginning of the monthly dream circle which I lead inside Rested, Daring to Rest’s community which supports women to dare to rest and dream. If you are interested in learning more about this offering, go HERE. Take a listen → https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1649933133719-584VQMQMZ21ZKSO79MR0/Daring+to+Dream+with+Sil+Reynolds.png Resources - Make it stand out Learn about Jungian analyst Marion Woodman’s approach to working with dreams and experience a dream circle. Karen Brody interviews me about how to work with our dreams. In this Daring to Rest podcast episode, I share about the 5 stages of a dream, archetypes in dreams, why dreams are important, how to explore your dreams, and why Marion Woodman’s work is particularly accessible to women on a quest for wholeness. I also work with three women to help them explore their dreams. This interview was the beginning of the monthly dream circle which I lead inside Rested, Daring to Rest’s community which supports women to dare to rest and dream. If you are interested in learning more about this offering, go HERE. 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Twenty years ago, when my daughter Eliza was a preteen, she started pulling away from me- pretty much ‘on schedule’- and we were really struggling to connect. The eye rolls, the frosty silence, and the frustrated ‘mommmmmm’ angst began— and I (1) panicked, and then (2) got real about it, and knew I had to do something differently. I had had a difficult relationship with my own mom when I was a teen: we stopped connecting and stopped talking. It was awful. I was determined to do it differently with my own daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/053feeb2-807d-4197-acfd-5e46208cbd86/Mothering+and+Daughtering+2.png Book - How Mothering & Daughtering was born. Attachment research shows that conflict and behavior are most effectively addressed by strengthening the mother-daughter bond. Eliza and I healed our relationship and led sold-out Mothering & Daughtering workshops- teaching this attachment approach- at the Omega, Kripalu and Esalen Institutes for over a decade. Mothering & Daughtering was born out of our need for a new approach that valued heart over discipline. We taught our radical stance from our lived experience: that it’s totally possible for mothers and daughters to be close- even, and especially, during the preteen and teen years. And our bestselling book Mothering & Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong During the Teen Years is the story of our healing shared from our different perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/6be7a6aa-ca70-4ba9-92bb-0d322650f684/Sil+and+Eliza.jpg Book - Eliza and I created The Mothering Course to give mothers their own private online workshop. We created The Mothering Course- an online video-based experience for busy moms of preteen and teen daughters. We like to refer to the course as the operating instructions that a mother needs for raising an adolescent daughter in our fast-moving, technological, and peer-oriented culture. In 40 bite-sized videos (15-20 minutes) Eliza and I teach our tried-and-true attachment approach to parenting. https://www.silread.com/online-programs daily 0.75 2023-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/37addddb-bc69-4a1f-b451-6f8e534ee3fd/unsplash-image-_8uuTuaKpF8.jpg Online Programs Marion Woodman taught that the metaphorical language of our dreams is the language of our soul. She urged her students to learn to translate this language and to attend to the guiding function of their dreams, so that they might be a conscious participant in the unfolding of their destiny. Woodman often spoke about unattended dreams being like unopened mail. Come open your dream mail in community and become fluent in the language of your soul! For the RESTED membership fee ($55 month) you can be part of Sil’s monthly women’s dream group as well as be a member of the Daring to Rest community of women who are dedicated to stopping the cycle of fatigue in their lives. Through an extensive library of rest practices and a monthly rest circle, Karen Brody will remind you that you can be rested and lead a full life, and Sil will guide you in listening to your dreams. Come live or listen to the recording later, at your convenience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/d1611bb6-9ef3-42e3-9b8f-be773cef2ce3/unsplash-image-ugm-yDj9Hi4.jpg Online Programs In this next offering, Sil will continue to teach about the power of bringing these archetypal energies to consciousness and how, by doing so, we can allow ourselves to be guided towards physical, psychological, and spiritual wholeness and release. 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Our challenge is to embody this.” — Marion Woodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c1f77b24-5e7a-4f92-bfe1-d0db009f87bc/Sil_5.jpg The Soul-making School - 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. 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Are you passionate about myths, fairytales and the magical world of depth and meaning around you (seemingly unseen by some)? Are you wanting to be held and guided by a wise crone in these years of your life? Are you craving spiritual and emotional depth and grounding in community so that you can be a better resourced- and more mindful- activist in our chaotic world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/903260bc-fc4c-4724-bf53-45ea71e23223/Marion-Woodman_Spring-Journal-photo.jpg The Soul-making School “Soul-making is allowing the eternal essence to enter and experience the outer world through all the orifices of the body … so that the soul grows during its time on Earth. It grows like an embryo in the womb. Soul-making is constantly confronting the paradox that an eternal being is dwelling in a temporal body. 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Without her, even the dynamic symbols of Virgin and Mother are distorted. The Crone in a woman is that part of her psyche that is not identified with any relationship nor confined by any bond. She infuses an intrinsic sense of self-worth, of autonomy, into the role of virgin and mother, and gives the woman strength to stand to her own creative experience.” — Marion Woodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/fec85cee-da2e-4254-8158-f29ada10d7bb/Love+Holding+Love+2018+.jpg The Soul-making School - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/49fb032b-1a48-4355-bedf-041c9594ff6f/Sil_Website_20.jpg The Soul-making School - Sil Read (she/her) Lead Teacher & Dreamwork Sil is a mother, grandmother, crone, co-author of Mothering & Daughtering, a teacher, a facilitator for retreats, and a Jungian coach for women. 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. 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. As the lead teacher in the School, Sil leads almost every call and guides the teaching team and community throughout the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c21a295e-fd95-4b61-bba6-b271a60214e7/IMG_5419.jpg The Soul-making School - Sandra Hilton (she/her) Assistant Teacher & Story Teller Sandra is a mother, integrative therapist, Jungian coach, 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. Sandra will be weaving the fairytale The Handless Maiden into our journey of individuation in The Soul-making School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/86419096-59c1-4f45-831d-539bac6a3cb3/unnamed-1.jpg The Soul-making School - Rochelle Schieck (she/her) Embodiment Teacher Rochelle Schieck is a mother, artist, embodiment guide, and author devoted to offering invitations to cultivate embodied presence, nourish our nervous systems, deepen our personal relationship with nature, and practice relational skill-building. Founder of Qoya Inspired Movement and author of Qoya: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that is Wise, Wild and Free, she has guided over 6,000 movement classes, trained hundreds of teachers and led 120+ retreats over the last 17 years. Inspired by Marion Woodman's teachings through Sil, and her time as a student in Soul-making School, Rochelle is honored to be part of this offering. She will be guiding movement sessions and inviting us to engage with our own body as the portal through which the soul speaks and transformation unfolds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/00cdd809-06aa-4712-8da7-a7c4ac2b43d2/Hojin+2017+portrait.jpg The Soul-making School - Hojin Kimmel (she/her) Assistant Teacher & Semester Three Guest Teacher on Compassion Jody Hojin Kimmel is a Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher in the Mountains and Rivers Order, and the Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. She is devoted to the path of easing stress and suffering, freeing the body-heart-mind, and rediscovering our natural state through the practices of meditation, compassionate inquiry, and creative processes. Hojin is a rare example of a contemporary Zen teacher who uses artistic practices as her primary means of teaching. And through years of study and collaborative teaching with her co-crone Sil, Hojin feels a deep affinity with the work of Marion Woodman in her use of intimate language — metaphor, arts, myth, humor, and dreamwork (to name a few) to explore our being human. Throughout 2026, Hojin will be teaching an online Ango Art Practice which is a wonderful complement to our work with dreams and archetypal imagery, on some Fridays from 10:30-12:00 EST. We will share the dates and details of her offerings in our community Circle. Hojin will be a guest speaker for the Conscious Crone semester. During her presentation, she will take us into a contemplative embodied experience of the Royal Ease pose- a pose in which Guanyin, the goddess of mercy and compassion, is often depicted. We will explore an embodied experience of sovereignty and consider a post-colonial exploration of one’s inner royal nature and how, from that position, we are better able to “hear the cries of the world” and respond with compassion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/95313762-7124-442c-af3a-0ae285a1239d/IMG_3228+2.jpeg The Soul-making School - 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. Jessi lovingly designed and oversees an exquisitely beautiful and organized hub on the Circle platform, where students can access all school materials, and connect with each other from across the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/bad7b21e-f82b-44f2-92eb-eb435e155cb3/unnamed.jpg The Soul-making School - Bethany Saltman (she/her) First Semester Guest Teacher on Mutual Delight & Secure Attachment Bethany Saltman can’t believe she gets to work with people on their books every day. Her critically acclaimed first book, Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey Into the Science of Attachment (2020, Random House) was named one of the Top Science Books of 2020 by New Scientist, has been published in six countries, and is included in psychology syllabi around the world. As a literary agent and co-host of the BOOKBOUND podcast, Bethany is obsessed with the art of the nonfiction book proposal and with helping women claim their author-ity. She is also a Brown-University certified leadership coach, and lives in the Catskills of New York and in Manhattan with her husband, college-aged daughter (when she visits), and their two standard poodles. In her presentation Mutual Delight & Secure Attachment she will expertly weave attachment science with cultivating an inner experience of delight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/ec371178-88be-43ae-a390-3d21b914b853/110520_KimberlyJohnson_263+1.jpg The Soul-making School - Kimberly Ann Johnson (she/her) First Semester Guest Teacher on Security & Soma and Second Semester Guest Teacher on Sovereignty & Soma KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON is a sexological bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, postpartum advocate and culture worker. She works at the intersection of birth, sex and trauma helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. She is the author of Call of the Wild, the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester, Reckoning co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson, and the upcoming Erotic Seasons: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women's Spirituality and Sexuality (St. Martin's, 2026). She is the creator of MotherCircle, the steward of Mothering the Bones, and leader of Activate Your Inner Jaguar. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with over 1.7 million unique downloads over the past 9 years. Inspired by Marion Woodman's teachings through Sil, Kimberly is delighted to be bringing embodiment practices into the Soul-making School curriculum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/2be11df4-8dff-4ecc-b2c5-6211f203e384/Marion+and+Adam.jpg The Soul-making School - Adam Reid (he/him) Second Semester Guest Teacher: Dancing in the Flames & The Creative Process with Marion & Ross Woodman & Andrew Harvey Adam Greydon Reid is an actor, director and filmmaker. He made the documentary film Dancing in the Flames about Marion Woodman: "a film about the greatest mystery of life and the woman who understands it like no other". It was hailed by Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler as a “wise and uplifting work of art.” Adam is a comedic storyteller at heart, who, no matter what the genre, crafts stories with truth and authenticity. He was recently certified as a narrative therapist by the London School of Narrative Therapy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/dd5920f8-9f2d-4043-a471-c75ca794e7ea/Headshot+yellow+blouse+2.jpg The Soul-making School - Fanny Brewster she/her Second Semester Guest Teacher on Crone Insights and Inspiration on Experiencing Sovereignty & Third Semester Guest Teacher on Love Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and a Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her many groundbreaking books, including Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Race and Culture, African Americans and Jungian Psychology and, Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss, have helped readers to come to terms with Jung’s ongoing struggle to explain the cultural complex hobbled by his own biases. Dr. Brewster has undertaken the work of renewing and widening Jungian thought to include Africanist perspectives. She addresses the importance of elders as we go about the necessary work of evolving consciousness. Dr. Brewster will bring her wise crone perspective to bear in her two presentations: In Conscious Virgin semester she will present On Sovereignty and in Conscious Crone semester she will present On Love. Dr. Brewster speaks about how women are often said to be the wise keepers of the Circle. If so, what might this look like as we age? What myths of the Feminine, can guide us today as we witness the oftentimes battering of the Feminine through societal laws and centuries-long oppression of one kind or another? We will gather and talk not only of a Battered Feminine, but also the wisdom of becoming and being an Elder who is grounded in sovereignty and love, and how conscious eldership may be the medicine for our times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/94290b20-7624-49cc-b062-109808bbeddb/Screenshot+2026-01-29+at+11.57.19%E2%80%AFAM.png The Soul-making School “There is no sense talking about ‘being true to yourself’ until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.” — Marion Woodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/29340952-cc27-44ea-b5fd-6aa467417599/Keeper+Of+Innocense.JPG The Soul-making School - Ready to join us? https://www.silread.com/retreat-october daily 0.75 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/b953905c-3172-4589-88ae-b2c3be3aa814/Song+To+The+World2021.jpeg October Retreat 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c1f77b24-5e7a-4f92-bfe1-d0db009f87bc/Sil_5.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Hi, I’m Sil. I’m a mother, a grandmother, a crone, a best-selling author, a teacher, and a coach for women. I guide women in transforming their lives from the inside out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/774fa4b4-6b79-4765-a3db-e8ba04b64b39/Sil_44_websize.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Love, Sil ❤️ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/56cff037-3ea9-4454-8580-d96210b912c5/IMG_5996.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Does it sound like a dream to be in-person with a magical community devoted to soul? Do you hunger to be held in-the-flesh by a team of wise Crones on Retreat? How about deep sleep in a soft luxurious bed, delicious organic meals, dreamwork in the mornings, art practices and walks on the beach in the afternoon and myth, embodied practices and rituals by the fire at night? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1715293619097-62OFBT4X5BCNDTTA9UNL/ExquisitelyTender-358.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Imagine with me… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/96b8bec2-079a-48e8-97e2-b860e3e81549/ExquisitelyTender-34+%281%29.jpg October Retreat 2026 - This retreat is an invitation to be in nature and in sweet sisterhood; to gently slow down to the pace of your heart and deeply listen to the voice of your feminine soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1701826941963-RCS2X94EAGQ9F820QS9J/Screenshot+2023-12-05+at+8.39.41%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg October Retreat 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1715293683590-5H54B3U9D4Q693W2TP3Q/ExquisitelyTender-2+%281%29.jpg October Retreat 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1701899051429-FC90L62ZMV3PGQB57VKB/Io6VfGyb.jpg October Retreat 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1701899035288-7B602F4AV8FN1Q3OCIWL/pm1xxBDA.jpg October Retreat 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/1715463530337-HNTGAMI0HQ887UMSHNV9/IMG_8513.jpg October Retreat 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/75ac711c-2d24-4fe4-80c6-44eb46dbc9bc/RP2025-35.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Dinner time at the Inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/9539da3f-b087-4999-bc0a-3898ef9adca2/ExquisitelyTender-401.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out The Spring 2025 teaching team meets in between sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/00721f70-cf8a-4353-8cab-840e94208f93/Sil_Website_20.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Sil Read (she/her) Lead Facilitator: Dreamwork, Myth & Jungian Process Sil is a mother, a grandmother, crone, and co-author (with her daughter Eliza) of Mothering & Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years. She has worked as a women’s health nurse practitioner, a psychotherapist specializing in emotional eating and body image issues, and a Mothering & Daughtering coach. Her concentration at Brown University was in Women’s Studies. For two decades, Sil was a senior student of the renowned Jungian author and analyst Marion Woodman and she learned from her mostly in retreat settings. Now Sil devotes her time to leading retreats, teaching for her online Soul-making School, and 1:1 coaching — helping women to use their dreams, intuition, and body wisdom to guide them into living more at home in themselves while on this precious Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c21a295e-fd95-4b61-bba6-b271a60214e7/IMG_5419.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Sandra Hilton (she/her) Community & Ceremony Support Sandra is a mother, integrative therapist, coach, and witness to those on the inner journey. Sandra has studied with Sil for several years in the lineage of Marion Woodman and brings her Jungian approach more and more to her own clinical practice. Sandra’s professional journey began in the corporate world with almost 25 years of experience as a lawyer and business leader — and coaching leaders within that field. She answered the inner call to become retrained as a therapist a decade ago now — realizing through the process that her energy to “prove herself’ and “get somewhere” had dominated so intensely that she often missed the full experience of the present moment and truly knowing herself. She is devoted to learning to trust and honor the Feminine within her wise body, heart, and soul. Sandra is trained as a modern Medicine Woman by shaman Christa Mackinnon, and integrates the Medicine Woman skills into her practice, honoring the feminine through ceremony, storytelling, and journeying. Sandra lives in the UK and is crossing “The Pond” to be with us in New England! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/00cdd809-06aa-4712-8da7-a7c4ac2b43d2/Hojin+2017+portrait.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Hojin Kimmel (she/her) Co-Facilitator: Buddhist Teachings, Art + Creative Expression Jody Hojin Kimmel is a Zen Buddhist monastic and teacher in the Mountains and Rivers Order, and the Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. She is devoted to the path of easing stress and suffering, freeing the body-heart-mind, and rediscovering our natural state through the practices of meditation, compassionate inquiry, and creative processes. Hojin is a rare example of a contemporary Zen teacher who uses artistic practices as her primary means of teaching. And through years of study and collaborative teaching with her co-crone Sil, Hojin feels a deep affinity with the work of Marion Woodman in her use of intimate language — metaphor, arts, myth, humor, and dreamwork (to name a few) to explore our being human. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c49698d9-18e9-4c68-a51d-e106527d49cd/Image+12-5-25+at+1.11%E2%80%AFPM.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Bonnie Gintis (she/her) Co-Facilitator: Continuum: Movement, Breath, & Body Awareness Bonnie Gintis is a Doctor of Osteopathy with 23 years of experience in private practice before she retired in 2009 when she was diagnosed with widespread metastatic breast cancer. Marion Woodman’s book Bone was a profound inspiration in navigating this initiation. Bonnie studied Continuum extensively and was mentored by Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum, and taught in collaboration with her from 1997 until the time of Emilie’s death in 2014. She first heard Marion Woodman present in 1987 in New York; when Marion kicked off her shoes as she stepped up to the lecture, Bonnie fell in love, and began her lifelong unfolding curiosity with the Jungian approach. She is the author of Engaging The Movement Of Life: Exploring Health And Embodiment Through Osteopathy And Continuum. Bonnie’s innovative movement approach combines Osteopathy, Continuum’s fluid movement exploration, and mindfulness, expanding the possibilities for experiencing our bodies and more deeply care for ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/fae36ebb-5201-49ed-8b3a-5030b60c2096/IMG_3742.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Meredith Johnson (she/her) Continuum, Movement & Body Awareness Co-Facilitator Meredith is a mother, mover, somatic psychotherapist, and creative who has been a devoted student and teacher of transformational embodiment practices for over 25 years. Her foundational trainings in Zen Buddhism and Somatic Experiencing shaped her path as a body-centered therapist and mindfulness teacher. Studying in the Marion Woodman lineage with Sil has deepened and refined her devotion to knowing, loving, and trusting the body’s wisdom as a path of liberation from suffering and into wholeness and Love. Over the past decade, movement has become central to her work. She is a Continuum Teacher and an apprentice instructor of the Fajardo Method of Holistic Biomechanics, integrating conscious movement into therapeutic and spiritual contexts. Meredith offers invitations to listen and learn more deeply from the body with heart-centered curiosity, presence, and compassionate witnessing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/95313762-7124-442c-af3a-0ae285a1239d/IMG_3228+2.jpeg October Retreat 2026 - Jessi Larssen (she/her) Retreat Producer & 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. It was everything she had been searching for after exploring various modalities and healing systems. Viewing both our inner and outer lives through the lens of Marion’s work—using a Jungian approach, dreams, metaphors, and myths—felt like a homecoming and a profound remembering for her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/906be435-f49b-44d1-882f-ff403cf73e7c/artur-luczka-lgbbUZ7VHJI-unsplash.jpg October Retreat 2026 "Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice." — Marion Woodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/2c90fa56-ca0d-4e51-985c-d640b0f02e4a/RP2025-50.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/097d23bb-b825-4127-8a77-f1a641d5a5d8/ExquisitelyTender-36.jpg October Retreat 2026 - Make it stand out Hojin, art instructor and Zen monastic and teacher, gives retreat participants a watercolor demonstration with a paint box that everyone is given for the week and to take home with them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/e3917c9d-d688-4088-b90f-f7e2ee9da4c8/503255889_1294908599309379_3712713155379066930_n.jpg October Retreat 2026 - PRIVATE RETREAT ROOM $5,000 – $5,500 Your own King, Queen, or Double bed with private ensuite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/648b8de9-bdec-4ac8-a18f-f9f8ddcd18c2/David-Room-II-scaled.jpg October Retreat 2026 - SHARED ROOM WITH YOUR OWN BED $3,750 Your own King or Queen bed in a room shared with another woman on a foldout sofa or large couch bed, and a shared bathroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/f02b5e01-e0f1-4eff-a1b6-c0550daeca24/Osprey-4-scaled.jpg October Retreat 2026 - SHARED ROOM WITH SOFA OR COUCH BED $3,000 – $3,250 Your own foldout sofa bed or large couch bed in a shared room with another woman in a full bed, and a shared bathroom https://www.silread.com/alchemy daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/aef65a3c-4db9-476c-86d8-19119da50d21/Om+Mani+Padme+Hum+2013+.JPG free class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/903260bc-fc4c-4724-bf53-45ea71e23223/Marion-Woodman_Spring-Journal-photo.jpg free class - “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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c1f77b24-5e7a-4f92-bfe1-d0db009f87bc/Sil_5.jpg free class - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/d3aa570c-c2c0-4dcc-8358-fe9d5d4bca3e/images-community.shutterfly-1.jpg free class - “Sil’s presence opens the way for women to go where they wouldn’t have otherwise imagined they could go.” — Marion Woodman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/fb7aea99-93eb-45be-a488-cac3baff1fd4/110520_KimberlyJohnson_263+1.jpg free class - “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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/99699aa3-4614-427d-8957-19de538db345/Karen+Daring+to+Rest.jpg free class - “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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/fec85cee-da2e-4254-8158-f29ada10d7bb/Love+Holding+Love+2018+.jpg free class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/49fb032b-1a48-4355-bedf-041c9594ff6f/Sil_Website_20.jpg free class - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/c21a295e-fd95-4b61-bba6-b271a60214e7/IMG_5419.jpg free class - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f68bde521608977e93cc107/95313762-7124-442c-af3a-0ae285a1239d/IMG_3228+2.jpeg free class - 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.