Love Stories of the Centuries: Longing and the Life of the Soul: A Walking a Sacred Path Pilgrimage in Chartres, France with Dr. Kayleen Asbo

June 3-7, 2019

Join cultural historian Kayleen Asbo for a week celebrating all the different kinds of love in art, poetry, music and myth—and its power to change the world and your own life.

Topics include:

• Ancient Greece, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Love
  The myths of Orpheus and Eurydice, Psyche and Eros


• Erotic Love and Obsession
  Paola and Francesca Rimini, Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin


• Courtly Love
  The courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Sufi Mysticism, Blanche of Castile and Thibaud the Trouvere, Troubadours


• Love Transformed
  Abelard and Heloise, St. Francis, Dante’s Divine Comedy


• Love Fulfilled
  Rainier Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas Salome; Anam Cara


• Love Poems to God, Sonnets to Orpheus

Kayleen Asbo is a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who weaves together myth, history, and the arts with experiential learning. Kayleen has been on the faculty of Sonoma State University (where she teaches Introduction to Art Therapy in the Psychology department), Dominican University (where she lectures on Cultural History for the Osher Life Long Learning Institute) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (where she has taught courses on music and developmental psychology for 13 years). Kayleen holds master's degrees in both music and psychology, and has a doctoral degree in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Kayleen has been a guest presenter and lecturer on the intersection of spirituality, psychology and the arts at the Oxford Round Table, Chartres Cathedral, Grace Cathedral, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, the Numina Center and churches and colleges throughout the Bay Area. Kayleen's classes and workshops have repeatedly been lauded by students as "life changing", "transformational", "passionate" "inspiring", "fascinating" and "the best I have ever taken"