Mythologies to Explore Rest, Sleep and Dreams
To welcome the fall season, we will explore the thresholds and mythologies surrounding rest, sleep, and dreams. Mythologist Joseph Campbell explains that a myth is the reenactment of a ritual. Throughout this exploration, we will engage our imagination to understand rest as a spectrum. Participants will take part in intuitive movement, yoga nidra, simple drawing excursions, sip on tea, and practice nighttime self-care techniques. Finally, we will approach the dream gates, where we will learn to incubate dreams and engage in creative dream journaling.
Some mythologies or mythological figures might be considered symbols of rest, sleep, and dreams, including The Forest, The Threshold, La Siesta, Hypnos, the Goddess Yoga Nidra, Briar Rose, and Baba Yaga.
I invite you to embrace the tranquility of the slower-paced season and become curious about these thresholds. By reimagining sleep as a sacred practice, we can transform our nightly rest into something profoundly meaningful. Let us remember that our dreams hold divine messages waiting for us to explore. This workshop is not about getting sleeping or dreaming “right”; rather, it's about exploring our relationship with the mystery of these thresholds.
This workshop is open to everyone, especially those who are interested in:
Exploring rest as a spectrum
Learning dream incubation and recall practices
Are curious about mythology and its symbolic wisdom
Reimagining the thresholds of sleep and dreams as sacred
Practicing yoga nidra
Discovering an embodied way of knowing
Connecting or reconnecting with your innate creativity
Dates: Sept 5 & 6
Times: 10am-5pm with 1 hour lunch break
What you will receive:
A Mini dream journal
A Creative dream journaling PDF
An optional follow-up dream check-in via Zoom
Exchange:
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$350 THE SUSTAINER (Pay-It Forward) for those with financial stability who want to support the other payment tiers.
$300 THE NURTURER the price of this course
$250 The NOURISHER for those who need a little extra financial support and students.
$198/ Set your own price: No one will be turned away if you need or want to pay a different price. Please set the price point that best works for you.
*Tiered Pricing makes this course accessible to all.
Facilitator:
Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez is a Cuban-American artist-author, ritualist, and non-clinical depth psychologist. She believes that images speak a profound language; her life’s work is a translator of the unseen and an advocate for the imaginal. She holds two master's degrees in Engaged Humanities and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In 2023 she completed her doctoral dissertation Navegando Liminal: Rituals to Translate the Image of the Wound. Her work and teaching follows and welcomes, imagination, creativity, dreaming, and deep rest.
She teaches workshops, and collaborative training focused on creativity, yantra painting, dreaming, intuitive movement, myth, restorative yoga, and yoga nidra. Her passion and aim are to inspire all to rediscover their creative self by weaving the blessings with the wounds while honoring the land and ancestors.
Dr. Chanti also works individually with clients using a transdisciplinary approach through creative therapeutics. Learn more.
Ritual-Artist | Alchemical-Writer | Image-Keeper | Dream-research | Seeker | creative therapeutics | Doctora
She has studied Restorative Yoga extensively and the practical applications of yoga therapy with Judith Lasater. I am grateful to have studied the art of yantras with Pieter Weltevrede & Mavis Gewant.
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