Wake up to Sleep: Book Launch, Talk and Q&A with Charlie Morley (IRL!)

Wake up to Sleep: Book Launch, Talk and Q&A with Charlie Morley (IRL!)

Talk
Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 19:00 to 21:30
Life
Spiritual
Wellbeing
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Description: 

Charlie Morley invites you to a talk and book signing in celebration of his new book Wake up to Sleep which is all about how to combat the harmful effects of stress & trauma to achieve restful sleep and healing dreams.

We’ll explore what to do when sleep hygiene hacks don’t work and insufficient sleep starts affecting our mental and physical well-being. As well as how to work with our anxiety dreams and integrate our nightmares.

This will be Charlie's first "in real life" event for over a year so expect a high energy talk, guided breathwork practices, a book signing and an optional dance party afterwards!

Charlie has spent the past 5 years developing a mindfulness-based approach to stress or trauma-affected sleep (originally developed for military veterans) that combines breathwork, lucid dreaming and Yoga Nidra to help regulate the nervous system, relax deeply and achieve the best possible sleep.

The techniques and practices explored in this talk and in the book will help you optimize the time you spend dreaming and show you how to sleep better and wake up healthier.

 

COVID POLICY:

To attend this event you must be fully vaccinated or take a COVID test within 48 hours of your visit. If you are using a Domestic COVID-PASS, we will need to see double vaccination plus 14 days, or a negative test taken within 48 hours, or natural immunity via the pass.  If you are not using a Domestic COVID-PASS, please show a vaccination card in your name with evidence of 2 vaccinations. Applies to over 18's only. Masks are now a personal choice.

About the speaker, Charlie Morley.

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

He’s been lucid dreaming for over 20 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 which have been translated into 15 languages and has run workshops & retreats in more than 30 countries.

He’s spoken at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, run courses and given talks for the Metropolitan Police, Reuters News Agency and the Army Air Corps as well as presenting 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 2019, in a world first, he trained a group of therapists to use lucid dreaming with their clients. An expanded and updated 100 hour version of this course ran again in 2023 under the title Lucid Dream Facilitator Training.

The first scientific study into Charlie’s methods (conducted by the Institute of Noetic Science in 2022) concluded that “a remarkable decrease in PTSD Symptoms” was experienced in almost half of the participants.

Charlie formally became a Buddhist at the age of 19, lived at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist Centre for 7 years and completed a 3 month meditation retreat at Tara Rokpa Centre in 2016.

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

He now lives in London, next door to the Buddhist centre with his mini-dachshund called Waffles.

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 / dance party with DJ Herse
21:30
End
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