Shamanic
Dreaming
In many indigenous languages, the word for shaman means "one who dreams,"
implying one who dreams strong, one who dreams true, one who has unusual access to healing
and energy through dreaming. In this high-energy weekend of adventure, we'll learn
the core techniques in the shaman's way of dreaming, including:
--The art of
dream travel: how to journey smoothly beyond the body into other times and other
dimensions
--Dream reentry:
using personal dream images as portals to multidimensional reality
--Tracking:
entering a partner's dreamspace (with permission!) to bring guidance and healing
--Timefolding:
scouting the possiblee future and visiting other life experiences
--Shapeshifting:
journeying with the animal powers
--Dream
enactment: developing personal rituals and spontaneous art to celebrate the powers that
speak to us in dreams
We'll share
wonderful sacred teaching stories and travelers' tales and learn how -- like authentic
shamans -- we can work with dream energy to become "poets of conscious," capable
of shapeshifting reality and living a life of natural magic.
Dreaming
a Life with Heart
The voice of the heart calls us to live from our deeper life purpose and manifest our best
and bravest dreams. The heart center is where we find courage to face life’s
challenges, move beyond self-limiting beliefs and take the creative leap that can fill our
world with magic and healing. The heart center is also where we experience joy, and pain,
most deeply.
The voice of the
heart is sometimes swamped by the noisy clutter of everyday life and the racket of other
people who are forever trying to tell us who we are and what we can and can not do. We may try to silence that voice because
we are scared of being hurt if we open to the truth of our strongest emotions. In this
exciting new workshop, we will grow a safe and healing space where we can open our hearts
and reclaim the vital energy of the selves we have lost through trauma or heartbreak or
refusing to follow our heart’s deepest desires. We will find our True North, our
life’s flawless compass, in the thinking of the heart, so much wiser than the
calculations of the head.
With the help of
the powerful techniques of Active Dreaming we will grow visions of possibility for
ourselves and for others, and gather hummingbird medicine: the ability to stay steady and
heart-centered in the midst of constant motion. We’ll improvise spontaneous ritual,
performance and expressive art to honor our visions, and will help each other to find the
energy and resources to live the path with heart – the only path worth following.
Reclaiming the Ancient Dreamways
In this powerful
workshop, we’ll learn to requicken in our lives ways of seeing and healing and living
a path with heart that were shared by the wise and ancient ones of all traditions, the
ones who knew that the dreamworld is a real
world. They knew that dreams show us what the soul wants, and open roads for the soul to
come home, on both sides of physical death.
They knew that
dreaming is fundamentally not about sleeping but about waking up to a deeper world and a deeper purpose.
When we go dreaming – in night travels and in conscious journeying – we step
through the curtain of our consensual hallucinations and encounter the powers and
inhabitants of multidimensional reality. Through the play of chance and coincidence, the
forces of the deeper world reach through the curtain to prod or tickle us awake.
We’ll learn
from the ancient ones that conscious dreaming and navigating by synchronicity are the
dreamer’s way of marrying the worlds, and that taking the right action to honor
dreams is practical magic of a high order. Real magic is the art of reaching into a deeper
reality and bringing gifts from it into the physical world. This is what we do when we
honor dreams, and the powers that speak through dreams.
Advanced Shamanic Retreats (spring and fall,
BY INVITATION)
 We’ll gather on the mountain where the Deer has
brought us deep healing and insight, and the garnet energy has helped us move into deep
communion with the Earth and the nurturing wisdom of the Great Mother. This is the time
and place where we push the envelope, develop new rituals and techniques, reopen the
bridges between the worlds, and apply our skills as shamanic trackers and dream explorers
to find ways to heal and protect our world. We renew our commitment to defend the Earth
and to serve as dream ambassadors, dream pilots and dream healers, bringing the gifts of
dreaming to those who are in need of a dream in our time, in our world. We rekindle the
deep fires of our sacred circle, and harness the Dragon power for the purposes of Love and
Light.
During a
seminal gathering in the fall of 1998, Robert wrote this invocation:
To
the Deer of the Mountain
Deepheart,
mountain guardian
Who harries the hunter
And knows what belongs to us
and what does not
Give us your speed
Your power to read the land
Your ability to see beyond the obvious,
to sense what is around and
behind us.
May we grow with the seasons
into your branching wisdom,
Putting up antlers as taproots into the sky
to draw down the power of
Heaven,
Walking as living candelabra:
Bearers of Light
Touching each other with tines of Light
Probing deep in the wounded places
To heal and make whole,
Crowned with Light
Crowning each other with Light.
--Robert
Moss, Gore Mountain, November 1998
The Return of the Seer: A Necessary Future
Dreaming is both an engine of human evolution, and a survival school.
In
the West, despite all our technology, we are constantly being blindsided by
major new events that shatter our previous view of the possible. To better
predict and prepare for the future, in our lives and in our world, we need
to revive the arts of the dream seer.
In
this powerful new training, we’ll learn both ancient and original techniques
of seership, including some that were practiced by Joan of Arc and the tree
seers of early Europe. We’ll learn how to screen and discern messages about
the possible future that come through dreams, intuitive states and the sign
language of the world. We’ll practice dream tracking, learn to travel
across time and space and dimensional boundaries and bring back reliable
information – and play fabulous games of shamanic hide-and-seek. We’ll learn
to focus and direct inner sight and practice mind expansion,
cleansing and expanding the field of inner vision until what we need to know
is brought inside it.
Please note: This program is offered both as a one-day advanced workshop and
as a five-day intensive training.
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