Jeanne M Schul

Jeanne is a Dance Specialist at Berry College, as well as a choreographer for and Artistic Director of the Berry College Dance Troupe. She is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA and a trainer for Eastwest Somatics Institute, where she became certified. She received her doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and earned a master’s degree in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Jeanne has more than 30 years of experience making connections between soma, soul, and psyche in her teaching, choreography, and therapeutic work with dreams, dance, and yoga. In her private practice, she leads dream groups, Reiki and somatic movement therapy sessions, along with therapeutic yoga classes. Jeanne has numerous articles and national presentations that focus on the intersection of dance and dreams, as well as the yogic chakra system and dance improvisation. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Eastwest Somatics Network and held the position of the association’s first president from 2005-2010. Dr. Schul received the 2010 New Mythos Award from the OPUS Archives and Research Center to conduct dream-inspired scholarly research in a project focusing on the divine feminine. She received an International Immersion Grant to study Latin dance and culture in Costa Rica in 2012. Courses taught in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies Specialization: Somatic Studies: The Psyche-Soma Connection; Dreamwork: Tending the Living Image