The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival will return October 12-14, 2018 Peaceful Meadow Retreat Center 7075 Valmont Rd Boulder, CO 80301-4729 303.442.2490/800.974.7428 Waking the Dreamer Within Festival “Dreamer” Someone who envisions happiness and peace for humankind. Someone who believes that someday the world will truly be as one; visionary. The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival is a... read more
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Waking the Dreamer Within Festival “Dreamer” Someone who envisions happiness and peace for humankind. Someone who believes that someday the world will truly be as one; visionary. The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival is a celebration of creativity, imagination and the language of metaphor. The weekend nurtures authentic expression through workshops and group events featuring dreamwork,... read more
Presenters
Presenter and Festival Organizer Billie Ortiz, certified dreamworker, has two decades of experience creating and facilitating dream groups, workshops, and retreats. Her unique appreciation of metaphor and symbol expands her work to the realm of myth and fairy tale, which helps guide dreamers to a deeper understanding of the profound messages of their dreams. www.wakeuptoyourdreams.com ... read more
Registration
Peaceful Meadow Retrat 7075 Valmont Rd Boulder, CO 80301-4729 For more info, click link below: Peaceful Meadow Retreat Center The retreat center offers European style shared baths. Please make all accommodation reservations via the organizer, Billie Ortiz, 303-929-6122 billiecortiz@gmail.com Registration Options: Registration will open August 1, 2018 Single Room: Includes workshop tuition,... read more
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The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival will return October 12-14, 2018...
Schedule
Waking the Dreamer Within Festival “Dreamer” Someone who envisions happiness...
Presenters
Presenter and Festival Organizer Billie Ortiz, certified dreamworker, has...
Registration
Peaceful Meadow Retrat 7075 Valmont Rd Boulder, CO 80301-4729 For more info,...
"Blessed are the weird people - poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours - for they teach us to see the world through different eyes." Jacob Nordby
Description
The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival will return
“Dreamer” Someone who envisions happiness and peace for humankind. Someone who believes that someday the world will truly be as one; visionary.
The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival is a celebration of creativity, imagination and the language of metaphor. The weekend nurtures authentic expression through workshops and group events featuring dreamwork, storytelling, poetry, music, art and the written word.
The festival offers workshops, presentations and group activities all designed to enhance your connection with Body, Mind and Spirit.
“The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival, more than any other event I am aware of, not only opens pathways of experience and recognition of the multiple layers and meanings of our dreams, but also extends our range of exploration into areas of creative expression, shamanic wisdom and psychic awareness. All this happens in the embrace of an intimate temporary community made up of skilled and experienced dream workers, artists and healers, as well as many people new to the adventure of exploring their inner world. Participating in this vital community, will almost certainly stimulate your imagination and feed your creative ideas and impulses. ENJOY, (and find more evidence that you really are not alone – intellectually, emotionally, physically, and spiritually…!)”
-Dr. Jeremy Taylor, author of “The Wisdom of Your Dreams”
Featuring interactive workshops focusing on one or more of the following tracks:
Body: Dance, Yoga, Movement, Sound, Art
Mind: Written word & Spoken word
Spirit: Dreamwork, Fairy Tales, Meditation
Video by Christine Anderson, YourVideoPortrait@gmail.com
Billie Ortiz, certified dreamworker, has two decades of experience creating and facilitating dream groups, workshops, and retreats. Her unique appreciation of metaphor and symbol expands her work to the realm of myth and fairy tale, which helps guide dreamers to a deeper understanding of the profound messages of their dreams. www.wakeuptoyourdreams.com
Star Edwards: At age four, a near death experience set Star’s life on a course of discovery about death and its process. She has been collecting stories of this most mysterious part of human life ever since. Star is a certified dreamworker through the Marin Institute of Dreamwork and Robert Moss’ School of Active Dreaming. She has been following the guidance of her dreams for more than 25 years and sees Dreamwork as a source of creative inspiration, a path to personal development and a gateway to connecting with transcendent realms. Star is also is an accomplished artist, jewelry designer, gemologist and Celtic harpist. www.starharp.com
Suzanne Rougé, is an educator and spiritual mentor, having studied with a variety of indigenous medicine people in the U.S. and abroad. Suzanne facilitates opportunities for transpersonal growth through Moon Circle events, ceremony, presence practice, aromatherapy, reflexology, Ilahinoor energy work, medicine wheel readings, breath work and art. Visit http://www.hummingbirdhorizons.com
Karen Schultz, has been a prolific dreamer all her life. She has practiced dreamwork since 2007 with Billie Ortiz, Jeremy Taylor, Irene Clurman, Mike Tappan and many others. Her first experience with actively working a dream was quite profound and inspired her to pursue dreamwork further. As she says, “Basically, I fell in love with dreams all over again.” Karen is an artist and often paints images that arise from her dreams and guided journeys. She is also a mother, grandmother and a lover of Mother Earth.
Jessica Auman: Jessica walked into her first yoga class in 2000 and has been a student ever since. Knowing how her own daily practice has been a catalyst and support for positive growth and change in her life, she enjoys sharing her experience with others drawn to the yoga path. Her hatha yoga classes emphasize alignment and focus on uniting breath to movement in a slow, meditative dance that students are encouraged to carry with them off of the mat. She offers private sessions, weekly classes, and seasonal workshops in the Front Range area. For more info, visit http://healthfromwithin.homestead.com
“Dreamer” Someone who envisions happiness and peace for humankind. Someone who believes that someday the world will truly be as one; visionary.
The Waking the Dreamer Within Festival is a celebration of creativity, imagination and the language of metaphor. The weekend nurtures authentic expression through workshops and group events featuring dreamwork, storytelling, poetry, music, art and the written word.
The festival offers workshops, presentations and group activities all designed to enhance your connection with Body, Mind and Spirit.
Opening Ceremony Together we will build a despatcho mandala that will serve as an altar throughout the weekend. Bring something from nature to contribute;i.e. a feather, leaf, stone, etc.
6:30pm – 7:30pm – Dinner
7:30pm – 9:00pm – Fire Pit Poetry! Bring your favorite poem or story to share around the fire pit
Saturday, October 7th
8:00am – 8:45am – Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am –
–Exploring the Metaphors of Your Favorite Movies as Waking Dreams – Star Edwards (Orchard Room)Have you ever seen the same movie more than three times? More than six times? More than 10 times? In this workshop we will examine how movies can be explored as though they are repetitive waking dreams. We will discuss viewing movies that we’ve watched many times as symbols of our personal “Hero’s Journey.” The images and symbolism in our favorite movies can guide us to a deeper understanding of our archetypal dramas and help us to discover our Authentic Self. We will view scenes from “Wizard of Oz” as an example and work with the themes symbolically as though they were a dream. If you’re someone who doesn’t remember your nightly dreams, this is the perfect workshop for you!
11:00am – 12:30pm –
–Navajo Featherway and Intuitive Healing Playshop – Cynthia Rose (Ochard Room) Cynthia Rose offers playful, dynamic, powerful, and interactive instruction, on how to use feathers to facilitate energetic clearing and healing. During this Playshop, participants will learn how to use feathers as an extension of their own bodies’ energetic field. Instruction will include: noticing our innate intuition, clearing energetic blocks, cutting energetic cords, as well as detection and transformation of trauma/dis-ease in the body mind and spirit. Participants will be selected to volunteer for interactive demonstration of how the process unfolds. The majority of the workshop is ‘hands-on’ interactive play, in the field of infinite potential. The Navajo Featherway Technique, used in intuitive flow, is a powerful transformational healing modality, which is extremely useful when integrated into healing practice, and can be used as a helpful tool, by anyone, in daily life.
12:30pm – 2:00 pm – Lunch & Free time
2:00pm – 3:30pm – –Incubating Picture Images as Waking Dreams – Jo LaRocque (Orchard Room) In this interactive workshop, you will first be asked to explore the retreat grounds and photograph (using your smart phone camera) an image that attracts your attention, anything that stirs your emotions, letting your intuition be your guide. Then we will gather back together as a group to review the images and, with the help of the group’s projections and suggestions, you will discover how these vivid “waking dream” images can be viewed just as symbolically as your nighttime dreams. Through this process of opening to a deeper understanding of the archetypal meanings of the symbols and metaphor of everyday images and waking life events, you will begin to realize the infinite transformational possibilities of viewing life as a “waking dream!”
4:00pm – 5:30pm –Movie “Appointment with the Wise Old Dog – Dream Images in a Time of Crisis” followed by Group Discussion, with Star Edwards and Johanne LaRocque
5:30pm – 6:30pm – Dinner
6:30pm – 8:00pm – Optional Healing Sessions (Healing Hut)* *please make appts for individual sessions directly with healer
“Dancing with the Dream Body:” Dream Incubation Healing Session with Andrew LipmanEnvelop in 30 minutes of sacred space and healing to incubate a dream state in real time for the purpose of your health and wholeness. Through active imagination, playful movement and sound, you will discover the unique personal symbols of healing most alive to you right now. Next, deepen in a restorative table session in which Shiatsu, Sacred Sound and energy medicine liberate the vitality of your unique personal metaphors to dance with your dream body–and recreate health and wholeness. $25 for 30-minute session
Restorative Reflexology with Suzanne Rougé
A reflexology session provides deep relaxation, circulation, rejuvenates, restores and balances the mind, body, spirit connection. $20 for 20-minute session
8:00pm – 11:00pm– Let loose and PARTY!
Costume Party (optional): Dress up as your favorite character from your dreams or your favorite story! Snacks & Cash bar (wine/beer)
Live Music with Star Edwards and Kingbeat:
Sunday October 8th:
8:30am – 9:15am – Breakfast On Sunday, we all come together in a large dream circle. We close each dream with gentle movement/yoga stretches led by Jessica Auman. We follow the guidelines of “in my imagined version of this dream,” and, with this practice, “everybody’s dream becomes everybody’s dream.” It’s a truly empowering and compassionate process of opening ourselves to the synchronicity of the collective unconscious! 9:30am -12:30pm – Morning Dreamwork Session
Star Edwards: At age four, a near death experience set Star’s life on a course of discovery about death and its process. She has been collecting stories of this most mysterious part of human life ever since. Star is a certified dreamworker through the Marin Institute of Dreamwork and Robert Moss’ School of Active Dreaming. She has been following the guidance of her dreams for more than 25 years and sees Dreamwork as a source of creative inspiration, a path to personal development and a gateway to connecting with transcendent realms. Star is also is an accomplished artist, jewelry designer, gemologist and Celtic harpist. 
Suzanne Rougé, is an educator and spiritual mentor, having studied with a variety of indigenous medicine people in the U.S. and abroad. Suzanne facilitates opportunities for transpersonal growth through Moon Circle events, ceremony, presence practice, aromatherapy, reflexology, Ilahinoor energy work, medicine wheel readings, breath work and art. Visit 
Jessica Auman: Jessica walked into her first yoga class in 2000 and has been a student ever since. Knowing how her own daily practice has been a catalyst and support for positive growth and change in her life, she enjoys sharing her experience with others drawn to the yoga path. Her hatha yoga classes emphasize alignment and focus on uniting breath to movement in a slow, meditative dance that students are encouraged to carry with them off of the mat. She offers private sessions, weekly classes, and seasonal workshops in the Front Range area. For more info, visit 
