Wise Woman Dream Exploration
As many of you have probably already discovered, perimenopause
can be a time of intense dreaming. On the nights that you are able to fall sleep, you're likely to find yourself quite busy making your way through the many different types of dreams so common during perimenopause. While many health experts will insist that the odd and vivid dreams of the feminine midlife transition are nothing more than the product of wacky hormones, others will argue that these dreams come with a very definite purpose--to help us heal and transform our lives.
This was definitely my experience.
While all of the mind/body practices I discovered during my midlife meltdown were vital to my healing,
working with my dreams was especially powerful.
It was through my dreams that I was able to remember certain traumatic events from my past,
to release the related emotions and energies, and come to a new level of understanding and wholeness.
In addition to helping me resolve some of the issues from my past,
my dreams also helped me chart a new course for my future by showing me that I would soon be going back to school and that I would write a memoir about my midlife healing.
I found my experience with dream-healing to be so profound that I decided to make dream exploration part of my studies for my MA degree.
If you've been having some perimenopausal dreams that you'd like to explore more deeply,
feel free to send me an email with the details of your dream and I'd be happy to offer you my insights
as well as some tools for your own dream explorations.
You can reach me at [email protected] or through my Contact Page.
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I also offer a workshop on women's dreams that I hope to revive once the COVID chaos has settled down.
Rediscovering Ourselves Through Our Dreams Workshop
Each night, while we sleep, we go on an adventure. Time and space mean nothing in this realm as, within it, we’re able to connect with people, places, and events from all around the world and from any era—past, present, or future. Reunions with former lovers, long-forgotten events from childhood, glimpses into the details of other people’s lives…these are just a few of the experiences that can arise in our dreams.
In addition to serving as a source of late night entertainment and time travel, unbeknownst to many, our dreams also have the potential of connecting us to a well-spring of inner wisdom that is both ancient and immediate, a wisdom and that comes to offer each one of us access to our innate capacities for self- understanding,
healing, and guidance.
In this 90 minute workshop, we'll explore some of the ways we can access our inner dream-wisdom through a sampling of the many fascinating aspects of dreams such as--
*Where dreams come from.
*How dreams have impacted the lives of some important figures in history and HERstory.
*The mechanism behind the psychic and telepathic aspect of dreams.
*Some of the ways women’s dreams differ from men’s.
*How women’s dreams tend to evolve and change with our monthly cycles and the three
feminine thresholds: menarche, motherhood, and menopause.
*The ways in which dreams can serve as a powerful source of inner healing and guidance.
This workshop will also include information about enhancing dream recall and methods for dream interpretation such as dream journaling, dream sharing, role-playing, dream themes, and creative dream exploration. For those willing to share some of their nighttime adventures, we will also explore some of our own dreams
together as a group.