Dreamwork
Dust and Light (Integrating the Gift of a Dream)
This post is excerpted from my email newsletter to the Inside Transformation community. In these newsletters, my husband Sylas and I share current reflections, fun and intriguing things we’ve come across recently, announce events and courses, and talk integration, harm reduction, healing, growth, and spiritual development. I have a story to tell you today, about…
Read MoreDreamwork in the Acupuncture Clinic: Engaging with Your Dreams for Healing Insights and Guidance
Enjoy this recording of a public talk hosted by Revive Qi and Fertility Center, about why and how I engage with patients’ dreams and what it’s like to experience dreamwork in the acupuncture clinic, plus view a mini-dreamwork session with one participant’s dream. For more info on my work with dreams: https://leilaninavar.com/dreamwork/ To schedule a…
Read MoreEpisode 28: A Return to Beekeeping and Reweaving (with Ariella Daly)
Here at the new beginning marked by the Lunar New Year, come back with me to the beginning of Turning Season Podcast, for what remains one of my favorite conversations yet, with dreamworker, beekeeper, and new mother, Ariella Daly. A warm hello to all of you who’ve starting listening since this show was born. I…
Read MoreHealing Sunday / Healing Season
I had a dreamy Sunday morning a few days ago: I wrote down my dreams, practiced qigong and back rehab exercises, played guitar and sang myself some songs, breathed in gratitude with the green leaves around me – all before I emerged from my room. Then I had a yummy breakfast, followed by a little…
Read MoreMissing Cat & Faceless Dance Partner (Real Live Dreamwork with Viviana)
Lots of movement in this dreamwork session, exploring Viviana’s recurring dream themes of loss and frustration. You might recognize some motifs from your own dreams: a lost pet, a missing key. And there are unique images too, like her faceless dance partner. You’ll hear me share through the lens of Chinese Five Element energetics, on…
Read MoreDrifting Raft & Underwater Snake (Real Live Dreamwork with Gwenn)
Ooh, this was a good one! Thank you, Gwenn, for the rich dreams. Snakes, motherhood, hopeless lostness, and a returning to Earth within Water. I personally resonate with a lot of what we explored in this dreamwork session. Perhaps you’ll find that it strikes some chords in you, too. If this is the first live…
Read MoreCommunity House & a Beret Plate (Real Live Dreamwork with Luna)
This time, a Beret Plate dream with Luna. In dreamwork, you never know what you’re going to get… Luna brought a dream to this session that didn’t feel very big or very clear to her. Sometimes, those are the most fun to explore, because there’s always a surprise. You’ll hear several little insights, and then…
Read MoreWorms in Dreams: Unearthing the Gifts of Earthworms in the Dreamscape
Worms. Naturally fascinating, or immediately repulsive? What else? And … how about in a dream? (Pictured here are my little ones when they were much littler, in a “naturally fascinating” frame of mind.) Recently I got to do a few acupuncture/dreamwork sessions with someone who’d had two dreams of worms, and we walked (crawled?) down…
Read MoreBasement Light & Getting to My Dying Dog (Real Live Dreamwork with Erika)
What a gift Erika shares through this dream, taking us along with her from the depths of the basement to the love of a constant companion of such resilience. We begin at one layer, gradually travel deeper, and move into and through a doorway that opens into a vast territory. I don’t ask Erika at…
Read MoreWild Wind & Missing Daughter (Real Live Dreamwork with Haylee)
Watch this live dreamwork session with Haylee and walk with us down a path dreamwork often takes: starting with a dream that the dreamer has already found some meaning in (and even taken action on), wandering into some other possible meanings, and then arriving into a depth of emotion that opens up new understanding. You’ll…
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