11/24/2025
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl G Jung
In the world of Jungian Psychology and yoga ta**ra, the shadow is not something to fix, overcome, or slay.
Rather it is an unintegrated part of your inner landscape - a place where energy, emotion, wisdom, and gifts lie waiting to rise to conscious awareness.
Many people believe the shadow is just our repressed trauma, fear, anger, shame, and other dark stuff that no one would want to see much less love and accept.
But the shadow also holds our unlived potential and untapped gifts. And as Jung taught, our shadow is directing our life whether we consciously work with it our not.
Our shadow reveals itself in subtle ways: Emotional overreactions to small triggers, self-sabotage when things go well, perfectionism that paralyzes, chronic guilt and shame, that inner voice that warns to “not be too much or shine too bright”.
Yoga psychology allows us to integrate and hold our shadow with space, steadfastness, and tenderness. This is when transformation and enhanced aliveness start to become possible.
In Reclaim, we blend Jungian archetypal work with yoga philosophy to help you integrate your shadow so instead of being ruled by unconscious patterns, you become the conscious creator of your life.
During the next 13 weeks we are capitalizing on the dark to go inward and down. I know this work is deep and powerful, and will bring transformation. Are you ready? If you feel slightly scared and resistant you are not alone!
All the most frequently asked questions are below.
Would be honored to journey with you,
Betsy
