Embracing The Shadow weekend

Embracing The Shadow weekend

Workshop
Saturday, July 1, 2017 - 10:30 to Sunday, July 2, 2017 - 17:00
Spiritual
Inspiring
Description: 

The Shadow is the part of us made up of all that we hide from others: our shame, our fears, our wounds but also our divine spirit, our blinding beauty and our hidden talents.

It is a huge source of power and creativity but until we bring it into the light this power will remain untapped and our full potential unreached.

Using practical “how to” exercises sourced from Tibetan Buddhism, western psychology, Mexican shamanism, and of course dream work and lucid dreaming, Charlie takes us on an immersive journey deep into the dazzling darkness of spiritual transformation.

Using Tibetan Buddhist meditations, dream work, mask and mirror practice, eye gazing, creative writing and lots more the workshop explores how to:

· Meet, befriend and transform the shadow
· Integrate the sexual, ancestral and golden shadows
· Use lucid dreaming to embrace the shadow
· Move from shame to authenticity
· Drop the mask and step into your gold.

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: 
10:00
Doors open
10:30
Workshop commences
17:00
Workshop ends
Venue: