Dreaming Our Lives Awake

An 8 Week Dream Tending Course & Circle

Online with Anahata Giri

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.

Carl Jung

There is something powerfully honest and authentic about our dreams. Stripped of the conscious ego, our dreams can bring raw, unfiltered messages, straight from the unconscious depths of our psyche, permeated with soul’s wisdom.

The challenge is to stay with the language that dreams speak. We slow down…even slower…so we can embody, inhabit and enact the experiential, felt, imaginal, intuitive, symbolic dream images and narratives.

Without taking the simplistic short cut of interpretation and analysis, that misses the rich meaning that saturates our dreams, we stay with what is unknown, mysterious and emergent. Through active imagination, dream embodiment and enactment, meaning-making that is deeply felt, arises organically, exquisitely attuned to our soul’s becoming.

We will:

practise foundational dream tending skills that are also soul tending and life tending skills
explore beautiful and anchoring principles of dream tending,
inhabit our dreaming by stepping through gateways of perception: awareness, deep feeling, sensing, active imagination and intuition
practise the 5 keys to dream tending from Toko-Pa Turner
deepen the art of embodied listening, sacred space holding, mirroring and relational care as we tend each others dreams
experiment with ways to embody the sacred medicine of dreaming in our waking lives, with art making, ceremony and enactment

Our Circle

Our circle holds with reverence the sacred sovereignty of each dreamer and each dream. We will learn and practise skills of deep embodied listening, holding sacred space, mirroring and relational care, as we attune to the dreamer’s felt experience, stay close to the dream images and trust the dreaming way.

Each participant will have the opportunity to share one or more dreams. Initially I will lead the dream tending, but over the course, as we explore the micro-skills of dream tending, the group will practise dream tending with each other, with my support. This is an intimate circle, a temporary village, where we will witness and be witnessed by each other, learn dream tending skills and practise these with each other. Dreams will be explored with a soul-centred frame (not a therapeutic model - this is not a dream therapy group).

It amazes me how images that at first are baffling, always bring such profound, attuned, even precise, wisdom for the individual dreamer.

And our dreams bring medicine not just for the individual, but for the collective. I believe that the world needs our dreaming, to bring planetary regeneration.

Maybe the world is dreaming through humanity, so that we might wake up?

I hope you can join us in the fertile underworld of dreams.

♡ Anahata

About Anahata

I am a soul tender, dream tender, circle weaver, storyteller and a dedicated apprentice to the inner life.

My dream tending is a synthesis of many influences including: my six year and ongoing apprenticeship to dream exploration through stream of consciousness writing, art-making, active imagination, movement, ceremony and nature-inspired practice; the soul-centred approach of the Animas Valley Institute; a body-centred approach drawing on my training as a somatic psychotherapist and yoga; the work of dream tender Toko-Pa Turner and Carolyn Griffeth; work with the imaginal realm inspired by many including Bill Plotkin, Clarissa Pinkola Estes and the oral story tradition.