Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep

Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep

Talk
Monday, March 9, 2020 - 19:00 to 20:30
Life
Spiritual
Wellbeing
Inspiring
Alternatives says: 
Charlie Morley has over 10 years’ experience in the field of sleep, dreams & mindfulness and has authored three bestselling books on the subject.
Description: 
Originally developed for British military veterans, Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep is a holistic approach for people with stress or trauma affected sleep patterns. In this talk we will  learn how to transform the harmful effects that stress and trauma can have on the third of our life that we spend asleep.
 
Using scientifically verified mindfulness-based techniques alongside breath and body-work practices the MODS Method helps to reduce stress before bed and optimise sleep quality.
 
Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep is based on an unconditionally compassionate approach to sleep and dreams and is made up of five core practices which the talk will explore in detail.
 
  1. Normalisation of Trauma Affected Sleep
  2. Hypnogogic Mindfulness (Yoga Nidra)
  3. De-stigmatising Nightmares
  4. Coherent Breathing (the Breath-Body-Mind approach)
  5. Lucid Dreaming

 

This talk will lay out the foundations for the 1 day practical workshop on the subject that Charlie will be offering on April 5th.
 
About the speaker, Charlie Morley.

Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep.

Charlie formally became a Buddhist at the age of 19 and lived at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist Centre for 7 years. He’s been lucid dreaming for over 25 years and was “authorised to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008. Since then, he has written four books that have been translated into over 15 languages and has run workshops and retreats in more than 20 countries.

He’s spoken at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, taught workshops for the NHS, Reuters News Agency, and the Army Air Corps, and presented his work with military veterans on Sky News and at the Ministry of Defence Mindfulness Symposium.

In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. These teachings form the core of his latest book Wake Up to Sleep.

In a world first, he trained a group of therapists to use lucid dreaming with their clients, a training that formed the basis of his 100-hour Lucid Dream Facilitator Training, which is now offered every two years.

In 2023, the first scientific study into Charlie’s methods was published in the peer-reviewed journal Traumatology in which 85% of participants experienced “a remarkable decrease in Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms” within 1 week by using lucid dreaming alone.

In 2026 Charlie will offer the first Post Graduate Diploma in Lucid Dreaming at Karuna Dartmoor.

In his past life, he trained and worked as an actor and scriptwriter before running a hip-hop collective called THROWDOWN throughout his 20s.

He now lives in London with his partner, Chloe, a mini-dachshund named Waffles, and a huge chow-chow named Bao.

When he’s not teaching, he enjoys kickboxing, surfing, and pretending to meditate.

Timetable: 
18:30
Doors open
19:00
Talk commences
20:30
Book signing
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