Embodied Dream Imagery
An Intensive Training Workshop

with Robert Bosnak
in Santa Barbara, California

Friday, January 28, 2005
from 9:30am–9:00pm
Saturday, January 29
from 9:30am–5:00pm
Sunday, January 30
from 9:30am–3:30pm

Embodied dream imagery—pioneered individually and in groups since the 1970's by Zürich trained Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak—is an interaction with the dreaming state involving the whole body, as well as poetic vision. While dreaming, the dreamworld presents itself as utterly real. Embodied dream imagery has developed techniques facilitating states of consciousness analog to the dreaming state, called hypnagogic states of consciousness. In this hypnagogic state it is possible to experience, body and soul, the consistency of the dreamworld—not just from the standpoint of the 'I' in the dream, but from a host of other dreaming perspectives. In this way, the body becomes the container for all—frequently conflicting—forces in the dream, leading to profound insights experienced as embodied states. The body becomes a network of simultaneously held impulses, corresponding to differing, often conflicting, states of consciousness. When this happens, strong physical and psychological effects result.

In this experiential workshop, participants will learn to use dreamwork techniques that give access to embodied states otherwise unconscious. Through incubation methods, participants will learn to seed their dream life and access material relevant to their intentions. This workshop is designed for therapists, people with physical illness wishing to approach their illness through dreams, and artists who want to deepen their involvement with their art.
Participants from previous workshops given by Robert Bosnak know that each seminar is different, since his teaching is based on material presented by participants. For those with experience in Embodied Dream Imagery, this workshop gives the opportunity to acquire advanced experience in this intricate method.

Robert Bosnak, PsyA, is a Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst and diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland. He is co-founder of www.cyberdreamwork.com, the first global interactive dreamwork site using real time voice and video, and he is past President of the Association for the Study of Dreams. Robert Bosnak is in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first book, A Little Course in Dreams, was translated into 12 languages. Since then, he has written Christopher's Dreams: Dreaming and Living with AIDS and Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming in which he describes his techniques in detail. His in-depth embodied dreamwork has been effective both individually and in group settings. His techniques are applied worldwide by therapists, artists, actors, and others interested in the creative imagination. He has done groundbreaking research in computer emotion recognition in collaboration with M.I.T. He is also involved in research of embodied dream imagery and the immune system with Harvard Medical School and works with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, to develop plays and rehearsal methods based on embodied dream imagery.