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| Turtle Dreams |
March 2015 classes
Engaging
the Living Dream: an
Art Journaling workshop series
“We
do not have dreams, we are visited by them
so
they may infuse us with their intelligence.”
Robert
Bosnak,
“Embodiment:
Creative Imagination
in
Medicine, Art and Travel”
Fridays March 6th,
13th, and 20th 1:30pm-5:30
pm
We will approach dreams using Jungian
analyst’s Robert Bosnak’s embodied imagination work and will play with some
journaling techniques from Stephen Aizenstat’s (President and founder of
Pacifica Graduate Institute)Dream Tending work; inviting the dreams as if
guests to dinner, honoring them as if shy deer grazing at the forest edge.
Dream images are living energies with inherent sentience and their own
perspectives.
Bring a visual journal or sketchbook
for art journaling, and a fresh dream, if you have one remembered… if you do
not easily remember your dreams, not to worry, we will be working on methods to
increase dream recall. In addition these approaches can be used with memories.
The sessions are designed as a
series and will build one on another. It is possible to attend individual
sessions but more will be gained from coming to all three; also there will be a
discount for all three when paid in advance (see below).
Session
1, March 6th: Welcoming the Dream
“It
is crucial to sidestep the ego’s desire to understand, make meaning, and
dominate. A dream needs to be met in the way of the dream.” –Stephen Aizenstat,
“Dream Tending”
We will begin by learning to open
awareness to the body and to examine and shift our attitudes from
interpretation towards welcoming the dream as if a guest, loosening the
rational mind’s desire for meaning. We will also work on techniques for dream
recall such as writing techniques and sensory memory.
Session
Two, March 13th: Embodying Image:
“An
embodied image is the interface between self and other.”
Robert
Bosnak
We
will begin learning how to “transit” into the “alien intelligence” of the
imaginal dream beings. Rather than thinking of the dream image as part of us or
“in” us, we are pulled into the world of the dream beings. We begin to feel the
embodied effect of the dream images upon our physical and emotional selves.
Session
Three, March 20th: Dream as a Network of Perspectives
“The task of imaginal
work is to let the variety of
substantive selves be aware of one another by networking them through the craft
of imagination.” Robert Bosnak, “Embodiment”
In the third workshop we will
practice holding multiple perspectives in the dream, and feel into the importance
of the environment, the whole fabric of the dream. This work shifts us out of
habitual consciousness: this shift is part of the healing medicine.
We will also practice moving into
the perspectives of what has been considered to be inanimate, as well as landscape
and architectural spaces.
The
Visual journaling dream series workshops
are $400 pesos each or $900 pesos for the series of three if paid in
advance (at the end of the first session) and include art materials and snacks/tea/students
bring their own journals or sketchbooks.
Handouts
for reading will be sent as pdf files the week of each class.
Suggested
reading:
Robert
Bosnak. (2007). Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel
NY:
Routledge.
Stephen
Aizenstat. (2011). Dream Tending:
Awakening to the Healing Power of Dreams. New Orleans: Spring Journal.
Robert
Bosnak. (1986/1988). A Little Course in
Dreams. Boston: Shambala Publications.
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