FOUR GATEWAYS TO
LIVING YOUR DREAMS
You can live your dreams.
Beyond the inner dialogue of "I'm not (tall, short, old, young, good-looking, smart, talented, educated, ready or good) enough" or "I don't have the space, resources, approval of these or those people" etc. there are your dreams, calling to you.
The school you want to build - there it is.
The relationship that you long for - it's right there, longing for you.
The abundance you want to create and share - there it is, whispering your name, all this time.
Your Can Move Forward!
To help you do that, we will engage dreaming practices discovered and developed over thousands of years by a lineage of shaman-seers of ancient Mexico and California. Our effort will be guided by what my teachers, heirs to that lineage, advised - to make "tiny screwdriver adjustments, consistently over time." If you can do that, then you can live your dreams.
Answer the Call of your Dreaming Body
In the wisdom lineage of my teachers, cultural heirs to the Toltec seers of ancient times, our heart’s desires are calls from our dreaming body—our soul, our twin made completely of energy.
This is the part of us that dreams when we are asleep, daydreaming or meditating. Not limited by time, space, or preconceptions, it helps bring innovation, wisdom, and new realities to our world.
And Put Your Dream into Action!
With one-on-one guidance and group support, you've found a place to dig deep and nurture your dreams - and your whole being.
LET THE WISDOM OF YOUR DREAMS INFORM - AND TRANSFORM - YOUR LIFE
- Follow guided exercises to awaken in dreams, and reach and cross thresholds known as the gates of dreaming.
- Practice Magical Passes - movements that come from dreaming states, which we inhabit with the breath, to help us enter those states ourselves.
- Practice Dream Theater to help you release any old patterns and fears, and identify gifts found in dreams.
- Create your own "dreamscapes" - engaging sound, image, scent, touch, taste, motion, space, stories, writing - whatever you wish, to help you enter new dreams!
- And more!
We will engage with the Gates of Dreaming in both your sleeping and waking awareness, each according to their experience and ability. As we go, we will notice messages and challenges that arise, and how they might relate to our waking life - and make adjustments accordingly.
INTRODUCTION
Learning about key practices of The Art of Dreaming, and the dreaming gates, and the state of Being-in-Dreaming as described and taught by my teachers, Carlos Castaneda and Florinda Donner-Grau - students of Yaqui seer don Juan Matus. Choosing which dream or project you want to focus on in your daily life.
GATE 1 - WAKING IN THE DREAM
Setting intention and finding your hands, or a chosen object, in dreaming. Recognizing you are in a dream, and can choose your actions and responses. Gazing from object to object, and upholding the view and experience of the dream.
GATE 2 - RECOGNIZING NEW OPENINGS
Letting one dream open into the next with order and precision. Learning discernment of when to share about your dream project and with whom. Recognizing "scouts" in your dreams, and your day - beings, objects, or openings that stand out - invitations to new dreams, new opportunities. Dreaming and collaborating with others.
GATE 3 - THE VIEW OF THE DREAMING BODY
Witnessing the self from the perspective of the dreaming body. Learning to navigate fluidly in the dream, avoiding rabbitholes & distractions, staying in the big picture, & focusing on the details that matter.
GATE 4 - ENTERING THE DREAM OF ANOTHER
The power of listening and entering the perspective of another. Inviting and allowing others into your dream.
MOVING FORWARD
Leave with a specific practice plan and strategy of how to refine, launch, & take care of your dreaming practice, and your dream as it grows and moves out into the world.
8 Meetings OCTOBER 24 - DECEMBER 12
You will receive:
- Weekly online meetings
- Recordings within 24 hours of the live session
- Accountability partners & optional group Co-working sessions to help you stay on track
- Weekly handouts to help you navigate your practice
- Recorded and live Soundscapes to help you enter and navigate dreaming states
- Access to an online portal of Helpful Resources.
- 1:1 Coaching option.
Your dream-mates, and your dreams, are waiting for you!
NYEI MUREZ, MA
Your Facilitator. Nyei brings over 30 years' experience as a student of Carlos Castaneda and his colleagues, and a facilitator of their teachings in workshops and teacher trainings around the world. Nyei engages this background, and her experience as a story editor and ISTA Certified Therapeutic Sound Practitioner to help others bridge self and soul. Her album, Elemental Dreamscapes, is due for release this month.
Join her and Special Guest Leaders on a journey of stepping into the dreams that await you.
Right under my watchful eyes, the entire structure of my paper emerged, superimposing itself on my original draft like a double exposure on a frame of film.
... As if they were being maneuvered by some invisible hand that thought and wrote, the paragraphs rearranged themselves, imposing a new order. It was all so gorgeously clear and simple that I laughed out of joy.
"Write it down."
The words echoed softly in the room. Curious, I glanced all around me, but I saw no one.
Knowing that whatever I was experiencing was definitely more than a dream, I reached for my notepad and a pencil, and began to write with a furious speed.
Ideas came to me with an incredible clarity and ease. They pulsated in my head and in my body like sound waves. I simultaneously heard and saw the words.
Florinda Donner-Grau, Being in Dreaming
Dreaming is real for a warrior because in it he can act deliberately, he can choose and reject, he can select from a variety of items those which lead to power...while in an ordinary dream he cannot act deliberately.
Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
Nyei: A spider was chasing me in my dreams for several nights. We always ended up in the same corner of the second floor of the house until I woke from the dream in fright. Then one night, I had the same dream, only this time, as we got up to the same corner, I realized I was dreaming. I turned to face the spider, and told it to back off, to stop! And it did! Now I feel don't feel so afraid of spiders.
Florinda: That's it! That's the whole point: recognizing that you are in a dream, and that you can act.
From my first meeting with Florinda Donner-Grau
