Natural Dreamwork with Mary Jo
Morning and how we step into it can paint the rest of our day. Some of us jump out of bed and hit the ground running, others get up and do yoga or meditate. We may not feel we have much of a choice as the outer world comes pouring in…that even 10-15 minutes for …
Cairn Hill, which we see from our windows honors those who have died. It has prayer sticks, mementos honoring loved ones, a seashell for Joe’s brother who loved the ocean, for dogs we have loved and lost, birthstones and bones. It is a very special place when a coyote comes by to eat gluten free …
Dream – I am standing on a hillside near our house. A yearling mountain lion, still with his black markings, approaches me slowly. I am afraid, my heart is pounding. When he gets within about 8-10 feet of me, he stretches and then sits down. We stay there, looking at each other. Among the many …
Dream – Dusk, I see Jim on a playground climbing around on the jungle gym. This was a dream I had in 1978 shortly after the death of my brother-in-law. Dreams were an ongoing part of my life, faithfully recording them yet still having difficulty understanding them. I was looking for dream symbols and what they …
As a practitioner of Natural Dreamwork, offering presentations, workshops and dream circles are great joys for me. I have this incredible privilege to share with groups of people what I love…what I hope some of them may come to love…the beautiful invitations and healing found in our dreams. I have fun planning group activities and …
So many times we wake up believing we have a good understanding of what our dreams are saying to us, who the characters in our dreams are and why they are acting the way they are. And that may be true. Often times, however, as we open up even a seemingly simple dream we see …
There is a spiritual advice that encourages us to “Love God through other people.” My inner sense wants to feel this differently, perhaps to “Love other people through God” to approach ourselves and others…to be with ourselves and others…in relationship…as God would be with us. During an interview on the Inner Life of a Mystic …
There is a howling going on around the world…this wordless expression of something deep inside that pours from our very depths. This inspires to me share here today (with permission) about a poet and a dreamer…. Some here in Estes Park had the privilege of knowing Margaret Guthrie, poet, activist who died last year at …
In the three decades I taught middle school and high school I too often found myself sitting on the steps in a stairwell with a teen who was struggling with something. It could be the angst that takes up residence in us during our teens. It could be a difficult and challenging friendships, an at …
(Following is a journal entry from 2008 about conditional love from before I began working with dreams as I do now. Today I would bring in some of the tender and healing language of the dream though I know fellow dreamers will recognize here in Knut’s story where our own misunderstandings, woundings and grief lie…and where lies …