Marion Woodman (1928 – 2010) was a mythopoetic author, an international teacher, workshop leader and Jungian analyst. Marion studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland.  With over half a million books in print, she was one of the most widely read authors on analytical and feminine psychology focusing on psyche and soma of our time. Marion was a force in the women’s movement.

Born in London, Ontario, the Canadian, analyst and teacher was the co-founder of the Marion Woodman Foundation and BodySoul Rhythms – a program based on Jungian psychology. The Foundation actively conducts workshops throughout the US and in Australia, Mexico and Brazil.

Ms. Woodman was the author of “Addiction to Perfection,” “The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter,” “The Pregnant Virgin,” “The Ravaged Bridegroom,” and is co-author of “Coming Home to Myself” (with Jill Mellick), “The Maiden King” (with Robert Bly) and “Dancing in the Flames” (with Elinor Dickson).

Woodman released a CD entitled “Crown of Age” in 2002.  This “crown”, Woodman said, symbolizes the culmination of one’s internal and external development as human beings.  And only a lifetime of experience confers the crown.

So why this “sudden” interest in aging? “I feel my bones starting to rattle a bit,” Woodman said. She said that our culture only sees the elderly in terms of their infirmities and frailties.  “We do not see or value the aged in their own right,”