an overview of our five week dream theatre,

our curriculum…

Week 1: SHIPWRECKED: Orienting to New Surroundings

The dream state: It’s that subtle ache that you’re not where you’re “supposed to be”. Somewhere along the way, by drifting or by sudden impact, you got lost and washed onto a foreign shore. At a surface level, you adapted, but deep down you never dropped a new anchor and you don’t feel fully here. You seek a fragment memory of a dream you still feel rooted in distantly, somewhere far-gone. Does it even exist anymore? You’re wandering, trying to find the scent of an old dream that no longer can be found.

The practice: We will learn about awakening the body to the present moment and different specific layers of sensory awareness through a contemplative somatic practice that works to simultaneously stimulate higher structures in the brain (kindness, compassion, creativity, connection) and soothe the parts of the brain responsible for fear and survival responses. You’ll be invited to do this short practice (~5 minutes) every day.

Week 2: The Sirens - to be Pulled Under

The dream state: What are the haunting songs that pull you under? A sailor has seen in his dreams that it is the Sea who will one day end him, but he doesn’t know when. There’s a feeling that the deep wants something from you. You resist her call because you don’t want to ‘die’. You think you’re answering her call when you fall into semi-hypnotic loops of wallowing, despair, regret or remorse cycles. These things merely make you drunk. What if there’s a deeper spot whispering for your attention?

The practice: A live (and recorded) EFT tapping & vision journey exploring the material around descent and our resistance to descent. Somatic support creating space and freedom around habitual wallowing patterns and creating breakthrough in its place. Somatic support in feeling safer emotionally and psychologically to touch the deeper thing underneath - combined with the mythic ceremony of waking dream imagery.

Week 3: The Sun — Sending Light to the Deep, Untouched, Dungeon

The dream state: Despair has threatened your innocence, and loss has created unbearable contrast. Disorienting or crushing experiences have struck a deeper nerve than what even meets the eye. Your upset runs deeper than the situation appears to “rationally” call for. You want to open back up to life. You want to feel better. But my friend, you cannot leave parts of yourself in a dark, windowless basement when you finally meet the Sun again. This contrast will continue to make you vulnerable to that which you never learned to embrace. When you integrate the Sun with the places the Sun doesn’t shine, your joy magnifies and intensifies. This is your moment for much deeper repair, for the golden honey light that fills in cracks and ruptures.

The practice: A live (and recorded) teaching and Sun practice (embodiment practice with sunlight). Sun journeys for you to practice on your own. The physical Sun is a massive resource & we can learn how to include it in sensual embodiment practices or shadow-work practices.

Week 4: The Marble and the Rose

The dream state: The rocks in this new land are full of crystals and gems and they glint in the sunlight. The rocks are a sun bed, a place of rest and vitality. You recently fell heartsick over the changing of forms, but the ground and the rocks embody steadiness. You have made the space to set new anchors and land deeper. Instead of return, you plant updated roots. Peace does not only return because you claim the victory of life returning to you all which was lost. You make friends with a fertile emptiness that begins to thrum with life.

The practice: Working with rose (details/directions to be disclosed) to bring beauty back down into the body. Somatic practice for the active creation of rootedness. We just made so much space & now we can add something beautiful and restorative, and not only alone but with the plant ally of the rose.

Week 5: Celestial Compass - Messages in the Wind

The dream state: Navigation systems operate with subtle energy and may be calibrated to ever finer and more granular details. Moths travel by starlight and are confused by artificial lights. Sometimes our history, or that which we leave behind, burned so brightly we get blinded by its light. We lose touch with other signals, like a moth orbiting the rim of the lamp frantically through the night. What if the lights went down so the sky could open back up? If the texture of this present moment is full of new detail that your senses can be newly invited to notice? Your life changed and now your perception gets to become more sophisticated, and alive in new and current ways.

The practice: Guided journeys with the stars (connect with the night sky outside) and moon, to connect to the spirit of wishing or looking forward and feeling the sensational vastness that goes with opening to desire. Some practices to do on your own and one live/recorded group call.

These massive, transpersonal feeling states can open and bloom into something restorative, given proper attention and container.

This is what our ceremonial theatre is for.