Sacred Dream Group

Sacred Dream Group

With Rose Taylor Goldfield

Our first session of this 14-week training will be Saturday, September 20th at 9.00am, Pacific. And, in January, we will continue with a second 14-week training.

Night is a fertile field,

From its ground of deep love,

It blossoms with healing, guidance, and transformation.

Its fruit offers such benefit to our life.

All we need to do is be curious, step in, and taste it.

These truths have been understood by the ancient meditation traditions for centuries, and I have realized them personally in my own meditation practice. I’m delighted to explore them with you in our new Sacred Dream Group.

Our new Sacred Dream Group will focus on:

  • Freeing ourselves from anxiety about nighttime and sleep

  • Developing a loving relationship with our deep unconscious mind

  • Getting more sleep and rest than ever

  • Connecting with wisdom guides and guidance from the dream space

  • Exploring dream and night practices from Ancient Greece to Tibet and the Amazon

  • Learning how to honor the sacred space of night (including creating a dream altar and night ritual)

  • Learning to understand our dreams and how our dream awareness communicates to us

  • Exploring the world of lucid dreaming (including methods for becoming lucid and what to do once you are)

  • Meditating to explore liminal consciousness and our dream bodies

  • Tibetan Yoga and subtle body practices for night rest and lucidity

  • Napping as spiritual practice

The group is offered on a sliding scale of $350 to $400 for the initial 14-week training. 

Our Sacred Dream Group will include:

  • Live monthly online gatherings, on Saturdays, starting September 20th running through December 13th (then a second series: January to May)

  • Weekly material emails that you can access at a time, including material such as: dream notes; guided meditations; storytelling; mini-teaching sessions; ideas to explore; and encouragement on your nighttime path.

  • Optional Whatsapp Group to connect with your fellow sacred dreamers.

A Note From Rose: I always had seeds of interest in the mysterious night practices since my childhood (I recall my mother telling me about what to do when I was dreaming and knew I was dreaming), but it is only in recent years that this has grown and blossomed into a vivid and captivating realm. The night garden is now my main place of spiritual growth and, although at times frustrating and confounding, I also find it full of wonder, healing, meaning, guidance, humor, and joy. 

I used to have a certain resistance to night practices as I have had insomnia since childhood. All I wanted at night was to check out and I was just thankful to get whatever sleep I could. And, I had not found the methods from Tibetan Dream Yoga to be that efficacious. 

However, over the past several years through work with plant medicines, dark retreat and meditations, and daily practices from a variety of night traditions, my connection with the night has transformed into a deep, mutual, and sacred relationship: it is where I feel the most movement in the integration of my spiritual practice and daily life. And, I’m getting more sleep and rest than ever!

Part of this shift is that I have moved from having a transactional relationship with night and sleep—"give me enough rest so I can get through tomorrow”—to a deeply respectful relationship. The night is a mysterious realm of dark and light; liminal consciousness; movement through cycles of consciousness from dreaming to non-dreaming, deep to light sleep; and revelations and communications from our unconscious mind, as well as beyond our individual mind. 

Our modern world has a major bias to left brain activities over right brain activities; visible, outer achievements, rather than inner, soul growth; light and blazing electricity over darkness, the masculine sun over the feminine moon. So, too, we bias day and daytime activities over the night and the mysterious realms of consciousness that open up to us under the moon. 

For me, the first shift I made was to begin to respect and honor dark night for what she is and to begin to be curious and to explore—and much of this exploration and practice takes place in the day, examining what has happened in previous nights, doing dream re-entry, journaling, and preparing for the coming night.

 This exploration has been profoundly aided by spending time with others who are also exploring this space. Our Sacred Dream Group will build support for all of us who wish to explore the wonders of night; the full potential of this extraordinary consciousness that we have all been gifted; and the world beyond our individual consciousness that we are each woven into and inseparable from.

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