Embodiment
Movement is medicine. It's born in the belly and unfurls outward in widening circles — because the body is where insight finally becomes change.
The School of Psyche Soma
Part mystery school, part PhD
For the alchemical toil of moving from insight into authentic embodiment. Lectures, dance journeys, cosmic jokes & self-inquiry — founded by a Jungian analyst & dance devotee.
The three pillars
Watch this first. It's the ethos behind the school — and how embodiment, depth psychology & spiritual sovereignty get cultivated through the work.
Depth psychology
Alchemy, individuation, integration. The raw, the ugly, the unformed — revealed as pure, innocent & exquisite. The gold is in how we relate to the pain.
Spiritual sovereignty
No gurus, no victims, no perpetrators. Truth as the barometer. Stepping beyond cultural programming to find what you're truly called to serve.
An hour a week was never going to change a whole life.
Insight-based work can give the illusion of progress without the architecture for change. So instead of another appointment, SPS gathers people on similar paths into the same room — a standing monthly rhythm of ideas, movement & practice — and lets community do what it has always done.
- Community as witness
- Some things we can't quite believe about our own lives until someone else has seen them.
- Community as mirror
- Let the others reflect back parts of yourself you cherish & parts of yourself you don't. See your oneness in the all.
- Community as inspiration
- A larger container into which you can fall apart & come alive — alongside others doing the same.
From didactic lectures to deep dance journeys, from cosmic jokes to self-inquiry.
PSYCHE Lectures
A monthly lecture in depth psychology. Sit down, listen, take what's useful. The ideas-first door.
SOMATIKA™ Movement
A monthly alchemical dance journey to transform your suffering into art & explore what's happening in your humanity.
Body Tales
Embodied fairy tale analysis, so the interpretation lands somewhere you can truly inhabit.
Lightning Love
A lightning-quick, asynchronous coaching circle. Bring what's alive; receive a flash of something useful.
The Alchemical Library
Recordings of past SOMA sessions, PSYCHE lectures & more, with prompts to help you digest them.
Revelations
Where you reveal your truth, great or small, & witness others'.
Three stages of the work
Each tier an expansion of the last.
First tier
Prima Materia
$11 a month
Your foundation. Community, recordings & some tasty food for thought, with prompts to help you digest it.
- Monthly PSYCHE Lectures
- The Alchemical Library
- Revelations community
- Start Here orientation
Second tier
Alembic
$33 a month
Where the body joins the process. Everything in Prima Materia, plus the monthly SOMATIKA™ journey.
- Everything in Prima Materia
- SOMATIKA™ Movement, live monthly
- Every past journey, recorded
Third tier
Lapis Lazuli
$47 a month
The full journey. Everything in Alembic, plus our deepest, most intimate spaces.
- Everything in Alembic
- BODY TALES, live monthly
- LIGHTNING LOVE, weekly
We also host Deep Dives — live sessions you can join individually as they're offered.
Mackenzie AmaraPHD(C)
Depth psychologist, guest lecturer & 5Rhythms® teacher. Psychedelic facilitator, ritual emcee, creator of alchemical sound journeys—and mama. Mackenzie's work is the transformation of psychic wounds, her own & others', for the liberation of all beings. She knows the body to be the home to our greatest belonging, our deepest healing, & our highest divinity.
She will graduate from the International School of Analytical Psychology in December 2026 & become a certified Jungian analyst. She is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook University, where she researches Jungian techniques for integrating psychedelic experience. With Si Thacker, she developed SOMATIKA™.
- MA, Clinical & Counseling Psychology — Columbia University
- BA, Psychology & Spiritual Experience — New York University
- Certified in Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, 5Rhythms® & Holistic Psychology