| Dreaming
to Heal Your Life
In our dreams, we have access to a personal doctor who makes house calls, provides
an impeccable diagnosis of our physical, emotional and spiritual condition, and
doesn’t charge a cent. In this powerful weekend of dream exploration, dream travel
and dream healing, we’ll learn how to
--Recognize and work with
diagnostic dreams, in which the body shows us what it needs to stay well and previews
possible symptoms long before they manifest.
--Share and explore dreams in powerful, creative and non-intrusive ways
--Embark on conscious dream journeys and mutual dream adventures with partners.
--Work
with dreams to understand the spiritual sources of wellness and illness
--Go
back inside dreams to resolve and reshape inner dramas, bring through energy and
information, communicate with spiritual guides – and have wonderful fun
--Reclaim
vital energy lost through pain, grief or addiction
--Grow
a dream – a healing image, a life vision, even a path to the next world – for
someone in need of a dream
We’ll awaken to how dreams give us a direct line to sacred sources of guidance
and healing, and we’ll improvise fresh and exciting and ways to honor our visions
through spontaneous ritual, story and performance.
Dancing with the Bear
Recovering the Ars of Dream Healing
Don't cry little one
Don't cry little one
The Bear is coming to dance for you
The Bear is coming to dance for you
--Mohawk song to call the
Bear
 Among the Lakota, the most powerful healers are
believed to be those who have received their calling in spontaneous encounters with the
Medicine Bar in dreams and visions. Robert's life was profoundly changed when he
moved to the Northeast woodlands and started dreaming of the Bear (and the red-tailed
hawk). In this powerful workshop, we'll learn how we can derive energy, healing and
spiritual direction by developing relationships with the animal guardians and making
conscious dream journeys into their realm. We hay discover that some of these
connections are "totemic" in the sense that we may have a lifelong relationship
with a certain animal. We may also find that we are involved in a shifting web of
relationships with many other animal helpers. A Shaman may work with a dozen or more
animal guardians. We'll explore:
--How to find and work with
animal guardians
--Soul relationships with beloved pets
--Taking your power animal to the workplace, the doctor's office, the community, and your
love life
--Working with animal guardians to protect your psychic space
--Animal guardians as allies in healing and recovery
--Using the animal guardians to scout out the possible future
--Shapeshifting for astral travel and energy working
--Healing meditations with the animal guardians
--The connection between animals and god-forms
--Chakra healing with the help of the animal powers
Dream Healing through the Energy Centers
Exploring the
Chakra Centers with Conscious Dreaming
 This
is an exciting and challenging program of profound adventure in meditation and conscious
dreaming, as we learn to journey through the seven major power centers in the human energy
field and develop extraordinary tools for self-understanding and self-healing. We’ll
discover animal guardians and personal symbols associated with each of the energy centers.
As we travel through our emotional and spiritual landscapes, we’ll learn to identify
where we have given up personal power through soul loss or negative attachments.
We’ll encounter spiritual helpers and locate the places of power from which we can
operate to reclaim our vital energy and live more vibrant, creative, heart-centered lives.
We’ll awaken our inner healer and creator, and learn to move “beyond suffering
into myth”, which Joseph Campbell described as the heart of healing.
--Create
a safe and sacred space for healing yourself and others
--Work
with the dream animals and spirit helpers
--Develop
your personal energy map for spiritual and emotional healing
--Discover
your personal myth and tap into the larger story you are living
Dream
Transfer (ADVANCED)
Dreams give us fresh and powerful images for healing, and open paths to sources of
healing and guidance in a deeper reality. We can dream for others as well as ourselves and
"transplant" healing and helpful images to them. The Dream Transfer Technique is
a powerful and innovative way of bringing a dream - a life dream, a healing image, perhaps
a path to the next world - to someone in need of a dream (the depressed, the sick, the
soul-gone, the dying).
This process has emerged from Robert’s teaching
and practice over many years and is now a central element in his Active Dreaming workshops
and advanced trainings in the areas of dream healing, soul recovery and death and dying.
Once we have established sacred space and developed
deep circle energy, we learn how to bring the gifts of dreaming to others. We grow a dream
for others with the help of gentle relaxation, meditation and shamanic drumming. We allow the dream to develop into a vivid scene
and explore it with all our inner senses. Then we share the dream we have found and invite
the other person to step inside it and explore its scenery. The dream beneficiary now
tells the dream as his/her own dream, and claims its landscapes and its energy.
This process has proven to be deeply healing and
rewarding in many situations. It is easily learned and quickly brings our natural
intuitive abilities richly alive. Dream Transfer is especially powerful in helping the
dying to move beyond fear and approach the last stages of life as an opportunity for
personal growth and direct connection with sources of wisdom in a deeper reality. Dream
Transfer is a method for helping those in our world who do not have a dream – a life
dream or a dream of the night – to open their personal doorways to insight, healing
and a deeper life.
Healing through the
Imagination
We
can reach inner sources of healing and bring them to work in our bodies and
our lives through
the
practice of imagination, that great faculty of soul which (as William
Blake said) can create worlds.
The practice
of imagination involves developing personal images that help our bodies stay
well and give us juice in our life journeys.
The body believes in
imagery; it does not seem to distinguish between a physical event and a
powerful image. Where do we get the imagery that works for us? In this fun,
high-energy class, we'll learn how to harvest fresh and custom-designed
imagery for healing from dreams, meditation and creative flow.
With the aid of focused
intention and heartbeat shamanic drumming, we'll embark on a hyper-awake
dream journey to discover an inner space for self-healing to which we can
return.
We’ll remember that
healing comes through when we tap into the deeper story of our lives.
Joseph
Campbell maintained, correctly, that healing is what happens when we move
“beyond suffering into myth.”
We’ll learn
to tell better stories, drop our negative mantras and self-limiting beliefs
and claim the power of reinventing our lives and our world. Offered as
introductory evening program and depth weekend workshop.
The Imaginal Healer
Five-day
training
“The stronger the
imagination, the less imaginary the results.” - Rabindranath Tagore
The imaginal healer helps people get well and stay well,
and lead fuller and juicier lives, by focusing the creative power of images.
One
of the truths of imagination is that the body believes in images. An image
carries a physical charge: it sends electrical sparks through the body, and
it releases a stream of chemicals. We have immense power to make ourselves
strong and well, or sick and depressed, according to the thoughts and images
we choose to give our attention.
In
this powerful, high-octane course, you’ll claim your power to be the healer
of your own life and the shaman of your own soul – and to bring gifts of
healing to others. Areas of practice will include:
v
Growing
Personal Imagery for Healing
v
Journeying
to Places of Healing
v
Imaginal
Healing through the Energy Centers
v
Soul
Recovery Journeys
v
Claiming
the Healing Power of Story
v
Healing
through Creative Expression
v
Vision
Transfer – Growing a Dream for Someone in Need of a Dream
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