BodyDreaming: An Approach for our Times 1

Abstract In an era marked by global unrest, displacement, and ecological crisis, BodyDreaming offers an embodied Jungian approach for our times. Integrating Jungian analysis with neuroscience, trauma theory, and early developmental research, BodyDreaming brings regulation and embodiment to the centre of the analytic container—within both individual and group process. By focusing on the nervous system’s innate capacity for self‐regulation, we cultivate a felt sense of safety and stability that counters the trauma responses of fight, flight, or freeze. This embodied regulation opens pathways to a learned secure attachment through the body and enhances our capacity to experience life as it presents itself—especially vital in the current climate of threat and instability. As regulation deepens, consciousness expands: body, psyche, and soul begin to align with the Self‐regulating principle that Jung recognised as the ordering force of the universe. Through theoretical framing and clinical examples—including work with analysts and candidates living in areas of conflict—this paper illustrates how BodyDreaming restores regulation, enlarges compassion, and reconnects us to the living field of the Unus Mundus . In doing so, it invites a renewal of our capacity to be present, to heal, and to nourish soul in a time of collective trauma.