
Some patterns don’t begin with you. Reactions that feel older than just you and your story. Fears arrive before a thought. Dynamics that repeat. In this session, we explore karma and reincarnation — not as rigid beliefs, but as frameworks to understand how experience imprints itself across body, psyche, and time.
We open the question that always arises:
What is karma, really? And where does it live?
Drawing from Eastern philosophy and somatic practice, we explore how these imprints can be understood as patterns held in the body — shaping perception, relationships, and behavior. We gently enter the terrain of past-life memory and its symbolic relevance today, including the collective imprint of the witch wound — the historical repression of the feminine, still felt in our bodies, voices, and choices.
Through real reflections and lived experience, we ask:
How do these patterns show up in intimacy, expression, and perhaps power?
This is not about getting lost in the past —
But about recognizing what is ready to be felt and integrated in the now.
We close not in the past, but in the body in the here and now.
With more awareness, more choice, and space to move differently.
Andrew Camargo is a spiritual teacher and researcher whose work explores the meeting point between Western alchemy, shamanic initiation, and Jungian psychology. He earned his M.A. in Jungian Psychology and Mythology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2009, and since 2006 has participated in more than 1000 Ayahuasca ceremonies within the Santo Daime tradition, which he has studied and documented extensively.
Andrew lives with his wife and daughter in the Sacred Valley of Peru, where he leads a Santo Daime community. His life's work centers on decoding the bridge between esoteric, occult, and alchemical traditions, showing how these ancient wisdoms can be integrated with modern psychology and spirituality.
Sofie de Koning is a mystic, body-based facilitator, and creative working at the intersection of embodiment, psychology, and consciousness studies. With a background in Medical Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology, her work bridges ancient wisdom traditions with contemporary inquiry, exploring how body, psyche, and spirit can return into dialogue within modern life.
Rooted in Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, breathwork, ritual, and trauma-informed bodywork, Sofie creates spaces for embodied remembrance through circles, ceremonies, and retreats across Europe. Her work is guided by an intuitive, devotional relationship with the body as an oracle and site of transformation. Through women’s circles, somatic practices, and writing, she engages the feminine as the most powerful force for healing, community-building, and transformation.
She just came back from her research for the University of Amsterdam in the mountains of Peru, where she explores embodied healing, ritual practices, and plant-medicine cosmologies as part of her ongoing academic and spiritual work.
Presentation | Somatic Practice | Q & A
Thursday October 08, 2026 from 19:30 to 21:30
19.00 - 19.30 | Arrive early and calm down with a complimentary tea in our café
19.30 - 21.30 | The Sacred Alchemy of Shadow Work- Karmic Threads & Soul Memory
The workshop will be conducted in English, with Dutch translation available on request.
€60,-
House with the Heads
Keizersgracht 123, 1015 CJ Amsterdam
A fifteen-minute walk from Amsterdam Central Station. Prefer public transport? Take trams 13 or 17, or bus 170, 172, or 174 to the Westermarkt stop. From there, walk back a short distance, turn left onto Keizersgracht, and you will find us on your right after 300 meters.
Amsterdam is best explored on two wheels, and the EFM is no exception. Ample bike parking is available along the Keizersgracht.
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