Celtic Dreaming
A Voyager’s Guide to the Otherworld of Sleep
What if each night your bed became your boat, and you set sail with intention into the Otherworld of the dream?
What if your sleeping hours became your spiritual practice?
We live in a world that doesn’t value dreams. We’ve sacrificed the awe-filled side of life in favour of the eternal summer. Give us more sun, more waking time, more productive power so we can get more done. But our ancestors placed immense value on the dreaming soul. In ways, they were more evolved than we are in their dreaming culture, and when you start to peek beneath the rug, it’s astounding how rich a tradition Celtic Dreaming is and how little we know of it.
Drawing on the old Celtic tradition of the imram, which means ‘rowing out’ or ‘sea voyaging’ to the Celtic Otherworld, I share Imram Dreaming, a methodology I have created for working with your dreams in an elucidating and ancestral way. You’ll learn to honour and name your dreams, keep a dream journal, and — like the Salmon of Knowledge — catch the slippery fish of dream memory before it swims away, and hold on to the ‘luck’ of your dreams.
Rooted in Jungian dreamwork, anthropology and Celtic mythology, this self-guided workshop is an invitation to fall in love with your own dreaming, to voyage with your dreams the way our ancestors once sailed to the Otherworld.
YOUR VOYAGE
Celtic Dreaming: Tending Your Symbols of Creative Destiny
In these evocative explorations (the video is 1 hour 25 minutes), you’ll discover what Irish mythology and folklore has to teach us about our dreams. You can view a short clip here:
Dream Voyage eBook
You’ll also receive an eBook to download as a PDF or print. Here you’ll learn the craft of Imram Dreaming, enriching both your dream life and your waking life
‘Celtic scholars such as Alwyn and Brinley Rees, and Caitlín Matthews, have suggested that the imram tradition preserves a fragmented Celtic ‘book of the dead’. Its purpose is to teach the craft of dying as the soul sails westwards into the setting sun, where, according to lore, lies Tech Duinn, the ‘House of Donn’ – the dwelling of Donn, the lord of the dead. From there, the soul sails onward to the Elysian Fields of Tír na nÓg, the land of youth, timelessness and rebirth.
But what if one of the functions of the imram is to teach us about the craft of dreaming? What if the imrama are snippets of a Celtic ‘book of dreaming’? In Celtic tradition, the waking world, the Otherworld, and the realm of the ancestors and death are all fite fuaite, inextricably interwoven because these are all domains of the soul.
What if each night your bed became your boat and you set sail with intention into the Otherworld of the dream?
What if your sleeping hours became your spiritual practice?
In a way, sleep brings death to the ego and life to the night twin – the soul. We can be reborn each morning by following the way of our dreams, the way of the soul.’
-Quote from the eBook
Set Sail
Investment: €55
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Please be aware: The information contained in this workshop is for educational, reflective, and creative purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice.