workshop Rhinebeck, NY

The Golden Shadow Method

Jungian Psychology, Buddhist Philosophy & Indigenous Wisdom

With Melanie Ryan.
Dates

Aug 21–23, 2026

Tuition

Member: $365.00

Standard: $410.00

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Awaken the positive energies hidden within using modern psychology and ancient wisdom with intuitive psychotherapist Melanie Ryan.

Melanie Ryan invites you to awaken your golden shadow, the storehouse of positive energies that has been suppressed into the unconscious.

Unleash what is hidden in the golden shadow, your positive qualities that have been suppressed due to a fear-based culture and social conditioning. The Golden Shadow Method helps you remember just how amazing you truly are, the gifts you were born with, and the light inside of you that has always been there just waiting to shine.

Join best-selling author, psychotherapist, and international teacher Melanie Ryan for a weekend retreat and dive into the positive storehouse of your psyche—your golden shadow—where the most beautiful, creative, and powerful energies reside. Using Jungian psychology, Buddhist philosophy, and Indigenous wisdom, you learn how to remove the blocks that keep you from reaching your full human potential. 

Bring your creative, loving, and playful parts out of the shadow. Unleash your intuition and psychic abilities that are your birthright. The Golden Shadow Method is a path of liberating yourself from suffering. It brings forth love, joy, and harmony, restoring you to your true nature.

We discover our hidden positive parts, creativity, intuitive abilities, and loving nature through:

  • Lectures and experiential partner work
  • Practicing Carl Jung's techniques of active imagination, understanding shadow projection, archetypes, and trigger work
  • Working with your higher self, symbols, and creative expression
  • Learning Buddhist teachings and meditation for accessing the shadow and letting go of negative habitual patterns that block you
  • Ancient Indigenous wisdom, shamanic journeying, working with power animals, spiritual guides, and nature to heal and reclaim lost power and positive qualities

Join Melanie to reconnect with your most beautiful and magical parts and help others do the same. The Golden Shadow is a sacred force within us that ignites positive change for ourselves and for the world.

This workshop is designed for all levels of experience, including those beginning their journey of self-realization, as well as seasoned therapists and healers.

More Information

Workshop begins Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Recommended Reading:

  • The Golden Shadow Method: A Path of Awakening Your Full Human Potential by Melanie Ryan
  • The Golden Shadow Meditation Journal: The Ancient Practice of Growing Mental Strength and Consciousness by Melanie Ryan
  • Transmuting Triggers: The Golden Shadow Method Workbook & Journal by Melanie Ryan

Schedule

Please note this course begins Friday at 7:00 p.m. and has a special schedule:

FRIDAY

4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Check In (Rooms available after 5:00 p.m.)

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Workshop

  • Introduction to The Golden Shadow Method
  • Jung & The Shadow
  • Awakening Love, Joy, & Harmony
  • Your Higher Self & Activate Psychic Abilities

SATURDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Workshop

  • Jung & The Shadow
  • Archetypes, Symbols, Creative Expression & Play
  • Internal & External Active Imagination
  • 4 Types of Shadow Projection
  • Dark & Golden Shadow Triggers

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Workshop

  • Jung & The Shadow
  • Transmuting Triggers
  • Shadow Integration

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Workshop

  • Buddha & The Shadow
  • Dharma Talks, sitting and walking meditations, silence, stillness and spaciousness to open the doors to our creative spirit. Stabilizing the mind. Working with negative thoughts and emotions. Learning to be with ourselves unconditionally and embrace our basic goodness, inherent wisdom, clarity, and sanity. 

SUNDDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Workshop

  • Shaman & the Shadow
  • History of Shamanism & Carl Jung the Soul Doctor
  • Working with the soul, nature elements, power animals and spiritual guides, energy and intuition. Integration and closing.

1:00 p.m.
Check Out

 

The above schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the faculty.

Workshop Rhinebeck, NY

Aug 21–23, 2026

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  • Melanie Ryan

    Melanie Ryan

    Melanie Ryan is an intuitive psychotherapist, Tibetan Buddhist teacher, and founder of The Golden...