ABOUT

STACY TENHOUTEN is a trauma healer, artist, and writer with over 30 years of experience in the healing arts. Her work centers on embodied dream work and active imagination, integrating somatic practices with depth psychology to help individuals access healing wisdom through movement, symbol, and creative expression.

Stacy has created and facilitated trauma-informed yoga and embodied dream work programs in mental health and addiction recovery centers across Los Angeles, weaving somatic practice and depth psychology into clinically informed environments. Her long-standing commitment to underserved communities earned her the Teacher of Hope Award from the City of Los Angeles in 2012.

She currently works one-on-one with clients and facilitates embodied dream groups, workshops, and classes for an international community, and travels to offer in-person workshops.

As part of the faculty for The Dream Studio, a 10-week immersive program within This Jungian Life’s Dream School, Stacy helped hold a collective container for over 150 dreamers worldwide. Her work emphasized embodied dream work and active imagination, with particular attention to cultivating dream recall and creating a sacred, relational container in which participants could build an ongoing relationship with their dreams. Through movement, somatic inquiry, and creative expression, she invited dream images to be met as living presences rather than symbolic objects. She also leads monthly workshops for Lisa Marchiano’s Spinning Straw fairy tale group.

Her dream-based creative work has been featured in international exhibitions including The Red Book – Women’s Dreams (Los Angeles, Costa Rica, Japan) and The Lost & Found Project in Mexico City. Her animated film A Whale Called Me From My Sleep was selected for the International Animated Dream Festival in Lisbon (2025). She is the author of The House with Two Stories, a book that emerged entirely through embodied dream work.

Stacy is currently developing an animated film, Saying Goodbye to My Mother, which explores symbolic language in end-of-life experiences, and is writing a workbook devoted to cultivating an intimate relationship with symbolic language through dreams, imagination, myths, fairy tales, and the body.