The Dreaming Body: Shamanic Practices for a Long Life

Simona Vigo
Independent study
Online

Overview

This course is both theoretical and experiential. It introduces the bases of Dreaming Body practice by offering an opportunity to experience some of the most representative movements for each original archetype of earth, salt water, sweet water, and metal.

Why Dreaming Body?

Shamans say: “The World is what you dream: change your state of consciousness and you will change your life”. The shamanic teaching of Dreaming Body is to awaken within us the original archetypal energies by “becoming” the archetype, acquiring its posture, its gaze, recognizing its presence that faces our mind through images and dreams, moves our soul through emotions, informs our body with specific movements.

Embodying the archetype through the precise reproduction of the movements that represent it allows us to change our state of consciousness by entering a deep dialogue with the archetypal forces that inhabit our consciousness as ancient images, inner oracles that show us paths and unveil mysteries.

The integration of body movements, conscious breathing, and mind visions empower us to experience contact with fields of archetypal qualities in which we are constantly immersed and which act within us as the ordering principles of our inner experience.

>> For people of any age and knowledge who struggles with stiffness and physical pain.

>> For those who want to gain greater bodily fluidity and flexibility, which in turn mirrors greater emotional and mental awareness.

>> For people who want to participate in a dialogue with the archetypes of nature acting within us.

>> For those who want to learn how to move from fear to courage, from confusion to clarity, from rigidity to fluidity, from heaviness to lightness, from hesitation to action, from illusion to awareness.

>> For people who want to learn to bring the extraordinary into the ordinary.

The Dreaming Body practices act on the five levels of the body-mind unity:

  • – PHYSICAL: sensations, posture, muscle structure, body attitudes, physical symptoms;
  • – ENERGY: energy blocks, chakras, functionality and vitality level of organs and viscera, metabolic, biochemical, vegetative processes, energetic and functional symptoms;
  • – EMOTIONAL: feelings, emotions, moods, needs, desires, aspirations, fears, emotional symptoms;
  • – MENTAL: thoughts, images, fantasies, memories;
  • – SPIRITUAL: expansion of consciousness, visions, insights.

The intent is to achieve awareness and release of a great deal of energy often compressed and in chronic stiffness and physical pain.

Regular practice of the Dreaming Body enables us to acquire greater bodily fluidity and flexibility, which in turn mirrors greater emotional and mental awareness.

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