Imagery and dreaming are both means of looking inside. By looking inside we find the source of our blocks and the tools to transform them.
Imagery classes work with a technique for dreaming while awake, accessing the spontaneous imagination through a series of short prompts around the exploration of a topic.
Topics vary by semester. At check-out please specify the class you are choosing in the instructions to seller.
Available Classes:
The Tarot
Dreaming is composed of images. Learning how to read and speak in the language of images is integral to understanding and dialoguing with your dreams, and for using dreams as a tool for transformation.
The Tarot is an ancient set of images that speak to the human journey. We can understand them as a dream, and learn to read them as such. The varied images of the deck allows us to explore numerous principles of dreaming such as noticing, describing, patterns, directions, numbers, colors, duality, being incarnate in form, the dynamic tension between linear and vertical, and more.
We do not work with divination in this class; rather, we use the imaginative and instructive images of the Tarot as a teaching tool for deepening a dreaming practice.
This class is structured in a series of 10 classes per semester. Each semester one or more cards will be looked at as a dream, and worked with as such, including through sets of imagery exercises. It is not necessary to have your own Tarot deck, though it is recommended for better viewing, and for working with in between classes. The deck used in class will be the Rider-Waite, and it is recommended that if you get your own deck that you get this one.
Faculty: Anna Nowicka
Winter 2022 | January 23 – April 1 | Sundays | 1pm Eastern US – 19h Central Europe
Spring 2022 | April 24 – June 26 | Sundays | 1pm Eastern US – 19h Central Europe
Fall 2022 | September 11 – November 13 | Sundays | 1pm Eastern US – 19h Central Europe
Family History
Our families are the crux of many tensions: between belonging and self-expression, security and change, stability and venturing forth. From our families we gain the first foundation of our world view and belief systems. As children, we assume these perspectives, carrying them into adulthood where they may or may not continue to serve us. Such beliefs, however, are difficult to discern – like the ground on which we walk, they form the basis of our interactions, with paths are so familiar we forget to look at what is under our feet. This class explores family history using imagery exercises to look within. Doing so, we will bring into view the belief systems shaping our actions, and shift or discard those that curtail our present, free expression.
Faculty: James Hallett
Winter 2022 | January 25 – March 29 | Tuesdays | 1pm – 230pm Eastern US (19h – 20h30 CET)
Source
This class explores a return to our deep, eternally creative well-spring.
Faculty: James Hallett
Spring 2022 | April 26 – June 28 | Tuesdays 1pm – 230pm Eastern US (19h – 20h30 CET)
Fall 2022 Imagery Class Topic TBA
Faculty: James Hallett
Fall 2022 | September 6 – November 22 | Tuesdays 1pm – 230pm Eastern US (19h – 20h30 CET)
* no class Oct 5
All imagery classes are based on the exploration of a topic via short, imagery exercises to look within. Doing so accesses the spontaneous imagination, and is a means of dreaming while awake. Classes are experiential.
