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Every October we put on masks and walk around pretending to be witches, demons, and the dead. We think we invented this for the candy. We didn't. More than two thousand years ago, on Samhain, people disguised themselves as the very things they feared, hoping to pass among them unnoticed. The original Halloween costume was a survival strategy: become the thing that frightens you so it can't find you.We've been doing it ever since. Not one night a year. Every day, with our own darkness.
The work
Carl Jung called it the shadow: everything in us that didn't fit the person we needed to be. The anger you weren't allowed to have. The grief nobody had room for. The wildness, the hunger, sometimes even the brilliance, because we exile our gold as reliably as our garbage. The shadow isn't what's wrong with you. It's what's missing from you.
And it lives in the body. A feeling that once cost you connection gets tagged as a threat, and when it rises, the jaw tightens, the breath goes shallow, or everything goes foggy. This is why you can't think your way into your shadow. After thirty years of working with bodies, I can tell you the shadow has an address, and it's not in your head.
On the one day of the year the whole culture wears its shadow on the outside, we'll go toward the dark together, at the pace your nervous system can actually digest.
What to expect
Five hours of teaching, dyad and group work, reflection, and psychodrama. You'll learn what the shadow is and how it forms, how to recognize it when it shows up as judgment and projection, and how to meet the parts of yourself that were sent underground with curiosity instead of a verdict. You'll leave with practices you can keep using long after the day is over.
Who this is for
Anyone ready to get acquainted with what they've pushed down. No experience with shadow work or parts work is needed. Come as you are, and bring a journal.
The details
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2026
Time: 11 am to 4:30 pm
Location: The Ohm Zome
Investment: $188
Space is limited. Reserve your spot below.
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The monsters under the bed have been waiting for you to show up with a flashlight and a little gentleness.
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