The
Art of Dream Work awakens the Soul to greater consciousness, imagination,
and creative inspiration. In developing our dream practice we open to
possibilities, new information, and unexpected guidance. By listening
and implementing our dream guidance we can bring balance to our body-mind-spirit
connection, which leads to good health, connected relationships, right-livelihood
directions, and a reorientation to spiritual practice -
however we define that.
For those interested in spiritual practice, applied dream techniques along with inner soul work, can build a cohesive dream body for awareness over the threshold in Continuity of Consciousness. This kind of advanced dream work is found within Tibetan dream practices to Western Mystery traditions.
Everyone
dreams, but not everyone knows the simple methods used by professional
dream workers to gain regular successful results. You will learn...
Introduction to Dream Work
• Principles of dream work: language, symbols, reversals, metaphor and puns
• Types of dreams: body or organ dreams, reflection, precognitive, true, lucid, shamanic & spiritual
• Tools for remembering, journaling, crafting and incubating
• Identifying common dream themes and categories
• Universal Symbols within the Dream Picture
• How dreams build & resolve: story, tension and resolution
• The art and craft of making: creative arts as integral tools for processing dreams as an unfolding story
How Dreams Speak to Us
• Attach a dream to current issue in your life
• Unraveling the Picture or Dream Movie into Understanding which transforms into practical guidance for life issues
• Understanding your deep story, soul and shadow aspects
• Categories of dreams: health guidance, warnings, food, relationships, addictions, sexual, career, love and death, pregnancy, etc.
• How our dreams reflect our bodies functions; organ dreams and what they signify
• Tools for working with nightmares, repeating dreams, and shadow aspects: application of the creative arts to represent and enact in theater, mask making, drawing and painting dialogues
• How inner work and arts supports and strengthens our dream cohesiveness
Understanding and Applying Dream Work to our Lives
• Identify the problem, knot, or question held within dream and comprehend the creative solutions and attach to current life issues
• Relate our inner work to our outer life stories, relationships or spiritual tensions
• Creative options/actions/art-making for dissolving, shifting, breakthrough or resolution into a transformed life story.
• How do we unravel the dream-story-feeling into creative ideas for generative actions that will strengthen our souls direction
• Taking our dreams/actions/intent and art-making into our soul as a spiritual practice
Working with the Dream Messengers• Befriending the beings who walk, fly, slither into our dreams; drawing them as beholding aspects of self or other
• Dreams of our loved ones who have crossed the threshold we call "death", and how to work with our ancestors; shamanic and western traditions. Listening to their story, request, blessings.
• Connection with Earth Spirit; learning how to listen to water, air, earth and fire in the realms of plants, minerals, bodies of water and nature. Shamanic and Western mystery streams.
• Recognizing our higher self, spiritual messengers, and allies within the dream story, and connecting at a higher level with our purpose and creativity.
Move Dreams into Creativity and Generative Action
• Play with art work, paints, sculpture, and collage as a pathway into processing dream information
• Dream Theater: enact a dream character in group work
• Re-enter the dream with creative imaging, journeying, or meditation
• Collaborative community dream sharing and art-making possibilities
Kristena West M.A. in Transformative Arts & Consciousness, a BA in Communications/Psychology and an AS in Fine Arts/Graphics.
Kristena was trained from early childhood in the basics of Conscious Dream Practices by her father, an Esotericist This lead to training with academic dream researchers such as; Fariba Bogzaran, Stephen La Berge, Robert Bosnak, Stanley Krippner, Kelly Bulkley, Alan Wallace and many more. The last ten years Kristena studied with indigenous shamans, to learn dream, healing and sacred art techniques. Her MA in Transformative Arts at JFK University included the Dream Studies program. She also studies the work of Carl Jung, James Hillman, Robert Johnson and Marie Louise Von Franz.
Incorporating basic dream work will revolutionize your life. But Dreaming is also the beginning of a highly disciplined spiritual practice known as "Continuity of Consciousness. " These techniques are outlined in many religious and shamanic methodologies, building bridges from ancient Tibet to Western Mystery traditions.
To see how dreams of spiritual experiences can be translated into vibrant art please see the virtual exhibition of Deities, Dialogues & Dreams: Extraordinary Conversations with Ordinary People in the Gallery section.
See also Pre-Cognitive Dreamwork and current Dream Groups.Contact Kristena for Dream Consultation or to inquire about on-going dream groups.
PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS: Private consultations are available locally or by telephone or email; per hour is ($70.00) or half hour ($35.00) Half hour rates apply to telephone/email sessions only.
Please email for appointment. Telephone consultations are available from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST. Email in advance to book a convenient appointment time.
email: dreams@kristenawest.com
Telephone consultation fee is $35.00 for up to 30 minutes.
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