Father’s Day
June is a month we celebrate Father’s Day…and how often we see in dreams male figures that come in many ways…fatherly, manly, frightening, challenging, dismissive and more. When we step into a dream we explore these figures to see what it is they want us to feel…feelings often hidden under the surface story of the dream.
Let Your Dreams Set The Agenda
I’ve often heard folks say that they struggle with some therapeutic processes because they feel like they always have to “start over” or go through all the childhood and family of origin stuff or that the therapy they are doing places a structure or system into the process which they find too prescriptive. When I hear this, I always think about how one of the reasons I love dreamwork so much is that the dream sets the agenda for us!
Anthem At Spring Solstice
I started writing this poem many years ago. Images were pouring through me into my journal as I struggled to name my longings. These images guided me to a clearer recognition of the difference between embodied, sensual presence and the abstract, analytical orientation of my earlier life. This was process work more than poetry, as I reflected on the origins of my own frozen places, that I could feel more clearly as I continued to thaw.
Unfreezing The Light In Our Dreams
When we say that a person in love is glowing it may be more than a metaphor: There is a physical radiance palpable in each of us at times when we are open-hearted and fully alive to our surroundings. Recently I’ve begun to notice this radiant quality in some of my dreams. The imagery of these dreams glows golden (even if the background is dark) with light emanating from the dream figures as well as from dreams’ landscape.
Your Brain On... Dreams (An Interview With Rodger Kamenetz)
Listen to a podcast interview with Natural Dreamwork Founder Rodger Kamenetz from “The Brain Docs,” Ayesha and Dean Sherzai, neuroscientists and public health advocates. In their words: “An amazing conversation. Rodger speaks of the cross-cultural significance of dreams in a way the interviewers describe as ‘profoundly beautiful.’”