Chinese Medicine
Episode 10: How Dreams and Embodied Imagination Support us through Illness (a conversation with Katherine Lawson)
Katherine Lawson speaks from experience about how dreams can support someone in cancer treatment. She’s been a patient, and a practitioner. In this episode, she shares with you how she and dreams have journeyed together through her academic work at Pacifica Graduate Institute the study of Dream Tending and Embodied Imagination her own cancer diagnosis,…
Read MoreEpisode 7: How to Sleep Well and Remember Your Dreams
Know that feeling of a dream having just slipped away? Where you’re sure you were dreaming, but now, nothing is left except a sense that you were somewhere else a moment ago? If you’re wishing to better remember your dreams, this one’s for you. It’s not only about remember dreams, though. I’ll start with some…
Read MoreEpisode 5: When Dreams, Acupuncture and a Snake Change Lives (a conversation with Bob Quinn)
Can a dream change someone’s life? You know my answer is an enthusiastic Yes. But how about a dream combined with acupuncture, in just the right dream-inspired spot? That’s next-level. Scroll down to the bottom and hit Play now – or keep reading for some fun tidbits, and links. Bob Quinn was one of my…
Read MoreAre Your Dreams Speaking this Language?
Your dreams are rich with symbols, even symbols you might never have heard of. This video is an intro to the Five Elements (as used in Traditional Chinese Medicine) and how they show up in your dreams. You’ll learn about each element’s motion, color, season, emotion, and corresponding organ in the body. Grab the free…
Read MoreWhy Bring Dreamwork and Chinese Medicine Together?
I’ve had to admit that only certain people lean in and ask for more when I say, “I had such an interesting dream last night…” Others give a vague, “Hm,” or steer the conversation to another subject. And that’s fine. I love talking about dreams – with people who love talking about dreams. When a friend shares a…
Read More5 Ways Dreams Invite Insights About Your Physical Health
You’ve had those dreams, right, that you just know are important? But you have no idea what they mean? In my experience, every dream is significant. But at first glance, I usually have no idea what a dream means either. Stepping into dreamwork is like stepping blindfolded into a space filled with sounds, scents, and textures. Disorienting, mysterious, and endlessly interesting. We…
Read MoreMetal Element Imagery In Dreams
Yes and no. The radiance of sound and light. Poignancy. Grief. In the cosmology of Chinese medicine, these resonate with the Metal element. This means they also resonate with the Lungs – think of an inhale, discernment of what stays (oxygen) and what goes (carbon dioxide), then an exhale. The Large Intestine is our other “Metal…
Read MoreHeart Imagery in Dreams: Wildfires of Anxiety & Soothing Water
How does this wildfire come to rage out of control? One stray spark… a forest of parched trees… a wild wind? If I see this in a dream, I might wonder, how can I douse the wildfire within me, that out-of-control spreading, that flaring of panic and anxiety? Water, would be my first instinct. Then,…
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