THE MOTHER TONGUE IMMERSION: A Long-Form, Life-Supporting Gestation in the Archetypal Wisdom of Story, Movement and Dreams

April 29 2025- January 29, 2026

ON ZOOM

39 sessions + ample of time for integration

$1980/9 payments of $220

Group Size = 10

Includes all 3 MOTHER TONGUE STORY SERIES (24 sessions) + 15 additional small-group sessions designed to support you over time and root you deeply in this task of securing our footing in the territory of bone-knowing and listening. 

6 spots available at full price. 2 spots left at a 10% discount. 1 spot @ 15% discount. 1 spot @ 25% discount. Please read my SLIDING EQUITY SCALE page for details and discount codes.   9 month payment plan available. Email Sarah for this option.

 The Mother Tongue 9-month Immersion is the deepest container of continuous support and exploration that I am offering in 2025. To spend an entire human gestation cycle in the underground forest of STORY, brought alive through archetypal movement and your personal dreams, will yield insight, reservoirs of power, strength and healing that will shift your life and perception in profound ways. I invite you into the essential work and skill of getting lost, allowing edges to dissolve, learning to see in the dark, dissolving so that we can rise back up in forms of greater coherence and integrity.  We exist in an ecology of living intelligence, the presence of the unseen world, an eros and interconnection of the personal and communal/global. We will traverse the wisdom and gestures of archetype (story and dreams also as gestures) not just for our individual selves, but enter the emergent field of becoming that is our evolutionary task. 

With a small group of fellow travellers (max 10), we will weave a sturdy foundation and personalized map of the soul territory through which we will traverse. With 15 special and additional Immersion sessions scattered throughout the year, framing 3 intensive 8-session series into specific stories (joined by a larger group), We will dive into 3 specific stories from the book Women Who Run with The Wolves. We will gather the bones of ourselves that are scattered across the desert of our lives and dynamic landscapes, and make ourselves whole once again. There is plenty of time for diving into the depths with support, and plenty of time for rest and integration (schedule below).

This year’s Mother Tongue will include the essential beginning initiation story of Bluebeard and the haunting tale of La Llorona that will wake us into the necessity of tending our creative ecology. Both stories hold profound meaning and import on a present-day collective/global level, as well as the personal. The final story for the December series is TBD. She has not made herself known yet but surely will as we traverse the year. 

** In order to create a cohesive and powerful container for this vulnerable and brave work, your commitment and dedication is required.  If you anticipate scheduling issues getting in the way, reach out to Sarah. It’s ok, and expected,  to miss some sessions. I just ask that you stay “with” us, even from afar. 

“Mother Tongue” is a place for remembering our deep song, for embodying our sacred conversation with Life itself, the wisdom of the unseen world and the bone-deep, original language with which they speak both to and through us.

Every individual series (May, August and December)– each with its own specific theme and story frame-is a weave through these profound portals of archetype and symbol- A Story or grouping of stories (among other places, from the oracular book Women Who Run with the Wolves), the unique ritual of physical movement and gesture through archetypal qigong, and the symbolic world of personal dream images – for the purpose of recovering embodiment, lost energy, right- sight, direction, meaning, and spark to create and live with the sustenance of “the river beneath the river” while we create life in the topside world.

We come together to create just right light, to sharpen and soften our vision accordingly, so that we can peer into places that are just beyond the sight of our daily lives, to douse our way to cool, clear lagoons of renewal, insight, wise instruction and the true norths that can restore balance, harmony and right-action in our lives and therefore in the Great Wheel of our world.

Story, movement and dreams are of our most indigenous human expressions and capacities. The timeless and universal mother tongue of archetype and symbol is a language that cuts through and speaks to us at the deepest level- in flashes of insight and bone-knowing, these symbols and imprints point us toward true north, wisdom and next steps.. They are maps, mirrors and medicine that we need for our birthright of thriving, evolving and creating.

There is a topside world of our daily living. And there is an underside world of our deep song… A world behind the world, a *river beneath the river. An unseen numen and powerful glow that stands just behind, and at the center of all that we can see…that is, if we can see.

It is this heartbeat, this ineffable soul-force that gives our lives sustenance, guidance, meaning and energy….or, as it were, it is our distance from this vital pulse and taproot that can steal these very same treasures from our days, leaving us running on fumes, wandering in a kind of aimless bardo, longing but never leaping, estranged from ourselves and our lives. We lose the shine in our eyes, the glow in our hearts and our sense of enduring meaning, direction, connection, hope and purpose.

One of our most meaningful tasks as human beings is to become adept in in learning to hear and recognize the deeply personal and specific language in which Life uses to speak to us… and then to come to understand, abide by and heartfully take up this conversation with the whispers and symbols of seen and unseen realms, thereby acknowledging that we are, quite literally, how Life itself emerges, transforms, creates and evolves. We learn to hear how Life is speaking to us, so that Life can speak more clearly through us, in our unique signature.

All classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays (+ 2 Mondays in December), 11am-1pm Mountain Time

39 sessions spread over 9 months with plenty of time for integration 

Opening Sessions (Immersion Cohort Only) April 29 and May 1

Series #1 Bluebeard: Stalking the Intruder

May 6th-May 29th (Tues/ Thurs @11:00am -1:00 pm MT)

4 Week Integration Break

Immersion sessions July 1, 3, 8

Series #2 La LLorona: Nourishing the Creative Life

August 12-September 4 (Tues/Thurs@11:00am -1:00 pm MT)

3 Week Integration Break

Immersion Sessions – September 30, October 2, 7, 9

3 Week Integration Break

November 4 and 6

Series #3 Story TBD

December 2- December 29th- Tues/Thurs and 2x Monday @ 11:00am -1:00 pm MT

*Note that we meet on 2 MONDAYS in December. The dates of this series are December 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, *22, *29

2 Week Integration

Closing Immersion Sessions: January 20, 22, 27, 29th 2026

Please note : Sarah Byrden no longer endorses the MogaDao Institute or study with Zhenevere Sophia in any capacity, no longer teaches or studies in association with the MogaDao Institute, operates under the designation of “MogaDao Teacher”, nor represents or endorses MogaDao as a tradition or entity in any way.