Join
us for this weekend retreat at the Studio for
the Healing Arts in Norfolk, VA. Learn how every
nightly dream offers a new perspective to your
waking consciousness--an extraordinary depth of
information about your physical, emotional, and
spiritual well-being not typically available to
your waking mind.
Based on David
Gordon’s book Mindful Dreaming, he and Dani
Vedros will show you how to move beyond
intellectual insights about your dreams to
experience the deeper knowing that comes from
embodying dream wisdom.
Relying on thought-provoking exercises and abundant examples,
this workshop demonstrates how dreams provide a non-judgmental and
compassionate mirror that reflects our ongoing progress on the
Journey to mindfulness. The practice of Mindful Dreaming allows us
to overcome the emotional blocks that keep us feeling stuck and
conflicted in personal relationships, frustrated in work, or
stagnating in our creative goals.
The famed mythologist
Joseph Campbell spoke of the four stages of the
Mythic Journey present universally in our
ancient fables and fairy tales, modern
literature and film. These four stages –The
Calling-Quest-Illumination and Return–are a
fourfold cycle that guides the birth and
development of every discovery, invention, work
of art—and dream. Based on David's book this workshop emphasizes the relationship
between the stages of the Journey and our
nightly dreams, with special focus on the
manner in which our dreams prompt us to embrace
ten perennial lessons in mindfulness that
correspond to the phases of our Journey.
Mindful Dreaming teaches the simple metaphorical
language of dreams and how they prompt us to be
mindful of releasing
the five habits of thought at the core of our
suffering, and embracing the five perennial values
of our wiser Self.
Speaking in the simple
language of metaphor:
Dreams prompt us to become mindful of distraction and embrace the
value of solitude. Relaxing our grip on control, our dreams open us
to guidance from the Source. Helping us see through the illusion of
permanence, they teach us to release attachments and grieve the
limitations and losses that life imposes. Mindful of our destructive
rush to judgment, our dreams help us embrace compassion for our own
suffering—not just that of others. Most importantly, dreams teach us
mindfulness of our impatience so that we may live more consciously
and fully awake in the present moment.
Attendees discover that as we practice and embrace these lessons the content
of our dreams shifts and moves us forward through each of the four phases of our
personal Journey—lessons that lead us to experience the healing and change we
are seeking and to embrace our Calling.
You will return home with an integrated practice
grounded each night in the guiding and
profoundly healing values of your dreams.
Registration Information
Fee: $165.00
Location: Studio for the
Healing Arts
1611-D Colley Avenue_Norfolk, VA 23517
Date: To Be Announced:
Fall 2011
Times:
(Includes short film and discussion on Friday
January 28th at
7:30 PM _ No additional fee)
Saturday: 9 AM-4:30 PM
Sunday: 9 AM-12:30 PM
Facilitators: David Gordon, PhD and Dani Vedros,
LCSW
Recommended Lodging: Contact Dani at
studioforthehealingarts@cox.net
