Dream Tending

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."

— Harriet Tubman

To dream is to be human. To be human is to dream. All of life but first is a dream, and the dream continues to come to life. Let us turn to our Dreams and invite relationship here. Let us remember to share our Dreams with each other. Through the tending of our Dreams, let us awaken our Sight, our oracular consciousness, the intelligence of the Web of Life, and the Web of our Relations. Let us remember our awesome Creative Power as Living Dreaming Beings. Let us turn to our Dreams and cultivate our sight that we may walk in Reverence and Respect and discover from our Dreams how to live in balance within ourselves and within the world.

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Dream Tending

In the cultivation of our Oracular Consciousness, or Embodied Spiritual Intuition, we encounter a Spirit-led, non-intellectual awareness that allows us to perceive divine truths, discern spiritual realities, and receive promptings beyond natural reasoning.

What are Dreams?

In the Temple, Dreams are the Medicine of Oracular Sight. Images are the language of the psyche. The deep subconscious, the imagination, the imaginal realm. Dreams are individual and they are universal. They are influenced by our own internal workings, as well as all of the other energies and energetic life forms that we are in relationship with. Weather, the earth and sea, the sun, the moon, temperature, plants, animals, ecosystems, culture, society, families, friends, etc. We dream in the collective conscious’ dream, and the dream of the earth. Dreams, like breath, are a universal human experience. In dreams we can see into the future, the past, and parallel realities. We can make contact with our ancestors and spirit guides, sometimes appearing like villains and monsters, and receive guidance that supports our souls' unfoldment. When we lean into our dreams, our dreams lean into us. When we pay attention to our dreams, and the visions that come to us, when we start to create an intentional and curious relationship, we begin to cultivate our oracular consciousness. Dreams and dream images are where the invisible is made visible. At Gaiamara Temple, we approach Dreaming as a sacred, intentional practice of receiving guidance and insight from the deeper self and divine sources.

  • Spiritual Communication & Travel: Dreams are avenues for traveling through different realms and receiving messages from the soul and higher self.

  • Spiritual Connection: Through dreams we can receive insight, healing, and guidance from the Goddess.

  • Symbolism & Codes: Dreams hold messages, codes, and ancestral whispers that can be interpreted to reveal inner truths.

  • The Need for Discernment: We can develop wisdom to distinguish between true spiritual messages and the "internal echo chamber" of our own psychology.

  • Integration and Action: We can use the dream state to set in motion one's life work. We can integrate these insights to live more intentionally.

What is Dreamwork?

Dreamwork is a term to describe a broad array of modalities and practices that all aim to cultivate an intentional and healing relationship with dreams. Dreamwork can be done individually, 1:1, in groups, casually, or ritualistically.

  • Experiential Dreamwork: Involves exploring, finding insights, and taking action based on dream imagery, emotions, and symbols.

  • Psychodrama Techniques: Involves acting out parts of the dream to bring the dream to life and shift perspectives.

  • Active Imagination: Dialoguing with dream figures or "dreaming the dream onwards" to uncover deeper unconscious meanings.

  • Ritual Trance & Daydreaming: Creating space to invite the imagination to come alive. Creating space to engage “between worlds”, to invite the mystery into a collaborative dance.

  • Symbolic & Metaphorical Interpretation: Exploring the personal, symbolic meaning of dream elements rather than taking them literally.

  • Artistic Expression: Painting, sculpting, or journaling the dream to create a deeper emotional connection to its themes.

  • Embodiment: Tuning into the physical "felt-sense" of the dream to understand its emotional impact. Inviting the body to participate in the experience through movement, sound, touch, and expression.

Benefits of Dreamwork

Dreamwork, the therapeutic process of exploring dreams, offers significant mental health benefits, including enhanced self-awareness, emotional regulation, and deeper psychological insight. It helps process emotions, reduce nightmare intensity, and foster personal growth by connecting the subconscious with conscious life.

  • Improved Mental Health: It helps regulate emotions, provides a safe pathway for trauma processing, and aids in treating anxiety and PTSD.

  • Fosters Sense of Connection & Belonging: Dream work can show us our interdependent and interwoven nature as human beings. By sharing and exploring our Dreams, life somehow becomes more mystical.

  • Increased Self-Knowledge: Dream work helps reveal unconscious patterns, emotions, and personal, symbolic meanings to the dreamer.

  • Problem Solving & Creativity: It can unlock mental blocks, provide new perspectives on stuck situations, and boost creative thinking.

  • Psychic Balance: It fosters a stronger connection between the conscious and subconscious mind, promoting mental harmony.

  • Personal Growth: It supports finding deeper meaning, purpose, and spiritual connection.

  • Cultivate Oracular Sight: Practice sensing and seeing with intuition to follow the threads of life.

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Dream Tending Offerings

  • Cultivate Oracular Consciousness

  • Receive Medicine and Insight

  • Awaken awe in the Mystery

  • Learn to see the Web

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  • Let’s work together to craft a Rite of Honor for you. How can we create the space to include all the parts and pieces that deserve tending? The naming, acknowledging, claiming, and honoring. Space for the death and the grief, the loss and the letting go, the surrender. The birthing of new possibilities and new directions. Let’s be with what is and move forward with grounded sensitivity and belonging.

  • In these sessions we cultivate a curious, reverent, and empowered relationship with our dreaming consciousness; waking imagination and different dream states. We draw from somatic practices and expressive arts to bring the dreams and imagination into the physical body through movement and creating space for the creative energy to express through a myriad of art-making modalities. In this way the dreams can be witnessed, actively explored, embodied, and honored. We craft an empowered, intentional, and sovereign relationship with our dreaming consciousness. We learn to ask questions and be in conversation with our dreams to receive the medicine they carry. In my practice we cultivate reverence and honor for the wisdom of the dream and the innate intelligence of our bodies. We explore Active Dreaming and Active Imagination, trance states, poetry and freewriting, movement, mark-making, and ritual to create embodied relationships with our dreaming imagination.

    Gaiamara Offerings generally include a fundamental ritualistic approach. My Ceremonial Offerings have tended a range of Grief, Death, Birth, Boundary Violation, Rupture, Healing Eros, Collective Dream Tending, Group Breast Massage, Rituals of Grooming, Food Blessings, Water Blessings, Break-ups, Spiritual Crisis, Illness, Ritual Theatre and Myth Tending. How can we nurture a culture of honoring?

  • Group Dream Tending is something I love to offer in my Circles. Dreams truly come alive, and we get to engage with and receive from them in a powerful way when they are shared. Dreams begin to blossom and breathe and offer beauty as they are shared and tended to in the group, even in the most terrible of reckonings. As far as I can tell, sharing our dreams is likened to sharing our gifts. When we share our dreams, and the vulnerabilities therein, we offer ourselves to each other, and the dreams become medicine for the whole. We can collectively tend dreams in a myriad of ways including Projective Dreamwork, Movement, Active Dreaming and Dream Journeying. Creativity is the limit. The invitation is to embody imagination.

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“Mouse is an amazing artist and healer! She has an incredible ability to take deep & complex facets of the human experience and make them accessible in fun and lively ways. She holds space beautifully and equally for pain and joy and encourages those she works with to engage in play, deep reflection and unrestrained self-expression.”

— Shira Danielle Smasun-Marcus