6 spots available at full price. 2 spots at a 10% discount. 2 spots available at 20% off The 40% discount slot has been filled. Please read my SLIDING EQUITY SCALE page for details and discount codes.

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 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. This work creates real change, action, agency and forward motion in the right direction.

We offer 3 stand-alone series each year, as well as an IMMERSIVE 9 month MOTHER TONGUE program (enrollment closed for 2024) that includes all 3 of these series, plus additional small-group guidance and exploration into the themes and threads at hand.

Every series – each with its own specific theme and story frame-is a weave through the 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.

AUGUST series: BEING DANCED INTO MADNESS AND RECLAIMING THE HANDMADE LIFE” through the story of the Red Shoes. We will bravely look and admit where in our lives we are being literally danced into madness for the appetites of ego, outdated dreams, social convention and other hungry ghosts. We see where we have fallen for bait that has us trapped,  where our instincts have become injured, where we live in a way that leaves us feeling split in two, faking it. The good news is that we will do the work of bringing ourselves and our lives into more coherence, allowing us to reclaim the handmade life that satisfies the longing of our deep soul.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER series:  “THE ECOLOGY OF SOUL: GOING HOME AND HEEDING THE CALL”, through the haunting and nourishing story of SealSkin Soulskin, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ telling of the classic Celtic tale of the Selkies. Here, we bravely peer into where we have become withered and dried out, where we have lost our truest skins, the medial nature (our ability to thrive in the topside world of mundane life, as well as douse into the deep waters of soul sustenance) that we have created in our dark nights and initiations, staying too long in outdated commitments, hearing an ancient call that we must respond to, the necessity of intentional solitude as a regular practice, understanding how to live in both the topside world and the underwater places of soul-home.

“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.

Please note : Sarah Byrden no longer endorses the MogaDao Institute or study with Zhenzan/Zhenevere Dao 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.