workshop Rhinebeck, NY

The Golden Shadow Method

Jungian Psychology, Buddhist Philosophy & Indigenous Wisdom

With Melanie Ryan.
Dates

Oct 12–17, 2025

Tuition

Member: $425.00

Tiered Pricing: $520.00 or less

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

 Melanie Ryan invites you to retrieve your golden shadow.

Unleash what is hidden in your golden shadow, the positive aspects of you that have been suppressed and forgotten. 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 to guide you on this 5-day retreat and dive into the storehouse of your psyche where your positive energies live. Using Jungian psychology, Buddhist philosophy, and Indigenous wisdom, you learn how to overcome the obstacles that have held you back and embrace your most creative, loving, and playful parts. Your greatest powers and what makes you uniquely you have been suppressed due to social and cultural conditioning. The Golden Shadow Method is a way of freeing yourself and awakening your authenticity and full human potential.

We awaken our ability to self-heal, and enhance our intuitive abilities through:

  • Educational lectures and discussions
  • Partner work
  • Carl Jung's techniques of active imagination, working with archetypes, myths, legends, symbols, and creative expression
  • Buddhist meditation, dharma talks, and ancient practices
  • Indigenous wisdom, shamanic journeying, working with power animals, spiritual guides, and nature

During the retreat, learn how to connect 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, for others, 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

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

SUNDAY

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


MONDAY

8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m.
Commuter check-in (if not checked-in the previous evening)

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Jung & The Shadow
Welcome, Introductions, The Golden Shadow Method – 3 Pillars
Carl Jung History & Concepts, lecture

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Jung & the Shadow
Dark and Golden Shadow Projection
Psychological Projection Exercises
Self-Awareness & Healing with Archetypes.
Partner Work


TUESDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Jung & The Shadow
Working with Myths, Symbols, Signs and Synchronicities
Creative Play and Expression

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Jung & the Shadow
Internal & External Active Imagination
Dark & Golden Shadow Triggers
Transmuting Triggers Process
How to do trigger work, transmutation, & shadow integration


WEDNESDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
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.


THURSDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Shaman & the Shadow
Shamanism, History & Carl Jung, the Soul Doctor
Working with the Soul, nature elements, energy and intuition.
Shamanic healing, journeys to power animals, & golden shadow spirit guides.
Partner Work.

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Shaman & the Shadow
Escaping the Underworld, soul possession, soul loss.
retrieving your Golden Shadow gifts and allies of strength, healing and power.
Partner work.


FRIDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Closing - Integration
Shadow Integration/Soul retrieval
Closing Ceremony

1:00 p.m.
Check Out

 

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

Continuing Education

CEs are pending for New York State Psychotherapists. If approved, Faculty will be independently offering them. Please check back for updates.

Workshop Rhinebeck, NY

Oct 12–17, 2025

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  • Melanie Ryan

    Melanie Ryan

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