Dreaming into Darkness and Light Somatic Dream Workshop

Sliding Scale Price: $30-50
Contact Lena Nuñez: [email protected]
415.424.2069
Preregistration is recommended and you will pay when you come for the class.
As nights get longer and sunlight hours lessen, you’re invited into the restful underworld of dreams. Late Fall opens more portals into liminal spaces where dreams can meet the deep rest and nourishment of Winter Solstice. It’s a powerful time to listen to the wisdom of the dreaming body.
In this immersion, we’ll weave gentle somatic movement, drawing from methods such as Feldenkrais and Body-Mind Centering, with imagery, and dream exploration to honor our process of letting go to make room for what we want to call to us for the new year.
We use somatic methods to help us release habitual patterns of tension so that we can relax into a parasympathetic state of deep rest and we can then enter the dreamwork in a full and relaxed way, rather than making dreamwork an analytical exercise.
Workshop Journey:
• Somatic Release
• We unlock patterns in our body, while deepening relaxation, ease and freedom of breath.
• We shed habitual tension and regulate our nervous systems.
• Entering into the Imaginal Realm
• Dream Recall: We integrate the body and the fall and solstice dream landscape.
• We enter into the dream image to allow what's present in the dream to emerge more fully (rather than seeking interpretations which replicate our habitual ways of thinking).
INVITATION: BRING AN OFFERING FOR THE SOLSTICE DREAM ALTAR
You are invited to bring an offering to contribute to our solstice altar. Bring a dried leaf or flower, a pomegranate, etc. or personal items that represent your dreams, what you’re releasing or what you want to nourish.
Bring a journal or notebook. Please also bring a dream you wish to work with, if you have one.
(For anyone who doesn’t remember your dreams: no worries, we’ll work with solstice imagery).