SOMA: Movement as Medicine

  Who holds the container...

By trade, Mackenzie Amara is a depth psychologist, guest lecturer, & 5Rhythms® teacher. By vocation, she is mama to a little wildling, a psychedelic facilitator, ritual emcee, & mythic mixmaker of alchemical sonic journeys. By design, she is a collection of fractal, holographic cells dancing around some strange attractor for the sake of who knows what to live an insignificant, mythic life reflective of the mysterious vital spark within her. She identifies as a series of memories & unverifiable subjective experiences of selfhood to which she is rather fondly attached. She has a penchant for scholarship, the occult, pedantic erudition, morbid humor, grandiosity, nihilism, & semi-responsible hedonism. Born in the shadow of New Age culture into a fractured family system & the subjective experiencer of (arguably) extreme early childhood trauma, her life’s work is to heal psychic wounds—her’s & other’s—that she & others become strong enough to contend with the unconscious quicksands & transpersonal abysses which lap at the periphery of developing consciousness. She is an emergent property of Being playing at becoming sovereign. She really, really loves butter.​ ​ Educational Background: Mackenzie is a Diploma Candidate at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, en route to a fully-fledged Jungian analyst. She is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook University in Pasadena, CA, where she studies the use of Jungian techniques for integrating psychedelic experience. She holds a Master's degree in Clinical & Counseling Psychology from Columbia University & a Bachelor's degree in Psychology & Spiritual Experience with a minor in Child & Adolescent Psychology from New York University. She is certified in Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (The New School & Center for Optimal Living), 5Rhythms® (The Moving Center), and Holistic Psychology (The Open Center).