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.
Yet 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.
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 mythic ancestors once sailed to the Otherworld.
YOUR VOYAGE
Video Teachings on Celtic Dreaming
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:
Themes include:
The concept of the dán, of a ‘destiny’ or soul’s ‘calling’ that we bring to life through our own unique creative spirit. How dreams can act as guides to fulfilling our dán
Why tending the symbols that capture our imaginations matters, with amplifications of Irish symbols like the brat, the magical cloak that existed a thousand years before Harry Potter’s, and the banshee’s comb (and why you should never pick up a stray one on the street)
What Irish mythology, folklore and folk tradition tell us about the potential dream practices of our ancestors like dream interpretation, dream cures, and how the soul can leave the body while dreaming
An example of my Samhain dream incubation to inspire the curation of your own dream vigil
Accompanying 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.
Themes include:
The different types of dreams we experience, from processing dreams to archetypal dreams
How to befriend our dreams and foster a kinship with our ‘night twin’
Creative techniques like dream journalling and dream art
Irish dreaming myths and voyages to the Otherworld, including the dream-vision of Óengus, god of love, which inspired W.B. Yeats’ beloved poem ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’
The Imram Dreaming method to work with your dreams powered by ancestral ways of relating to the world and the unseen realms
‘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: €50
My intention with Celtic Dreaming is to open a portal of possibility to the Otherworld of dreaming and provide practical tools to help you row out and discover new ancestral parts of yourself in this dreamy landscape.
This is a self-guided workshop hosted on Pathwright, an easeful indie platform. When you click to purchase, you’ll be guided to set up an account on Pathwright (if you don’t have one). Once logged in, you’ll have immediate access to this workshop for a year from the date of your purchase. This includes the video teachings and accompanying eBook.
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.
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