Dreams are mirrors
مرآة الاحلام
Dromen zijn spiegels
windows into one’s inner workings … the workings of our world. The insight they bring is infinite.
It is my intention to support you in understanding your dreams (and nightmares), be empowered by them, and creatively express them.
Dreamweaving
There are many ways to work with dreams and each dream requires its unique approach. I combine several techniques and make up my own. I offer workshops for groups, and one-on-one sessions, utilising archetypal psychology, symbolic investigation, projective dreamwork, guided visualisation, shamanistic practices, dream re-entry, embodiment, dream-theater, nature counsel, play, and dream synthesis. There is much to learn from exploring one dream in depth; and through exploring several dreams (as a series) we can identify themes that reveal our personal mythology, helping us become an active participant in both our sleeping and waking reality. It begins with re-membering your dreams and noting them down.
Testimonial
“Lana doesn’t just teach you about dreams and the dream world, she embodies that world herself. She supports you with her enormous knowledge, but also with her creative mind and listening ear, to penetrate deeper into your dreams and to talk to them. She creates a safe, warm environment in which you can be yourself. Thanks to Lana, I now see my dreams as old friends who know me better than I know myself, and who I’d like to spend more time with because they’re such good company.” (Saskia, poet)
A certified dreamworker with a masters in consciousness studies and a bachelors in Psychology and art. Lana is a psycho-spiritual guide, author, multi-disciplinary performing & voice artist and bee-person. She is a member of:
Projection * Immersion * enactment
The re-enactment and embodiment of dreams is a powerful tool, both to generate theatrical material and gain a deeper understanding of the psyche – individually and collectively. I guide groups in projective dream work and in the embodiment of dreams through dream-theater.
Dream theater is suitable for everyone. You don’t have to be a performer or artist to do it, but if you are, then you can also use it to enrich your creative work. The sessions include theory and dream-practice techniques, talk-dream-analysis, and performing arts tools. Dream embodiment can also take on the form of Ritual and ceremony. It is all in the intention.
Workshops offered upon request for pre-formed groups (working in English, Arabic or Dutch) anywhere in the world. contact me to discuss. I also offer dreamRetreats at Maskan Aat in North Limburg and teach at other venues liked Hof Van de Axen in midden-Drenthe, Ruigoord Festivals and elsewhere.
Dreams one-on-one
If you’d like me to work with me on your dream(s), it would be a privilege and honour. Let’s talk. Sliding scale, virtual or in-person.
DreamWork Retreats: Click here for more info
Testimonial:
“What the dream wekend brought me was beyond expectations. The deeper layers in my dreams became more and more visible and gave more and more insight into what my soul wants to tell me. Very special to start working with the dreams in different ways and with a lot of respect. Lana is a beautiful and expressive woman who inspires and pampers her guests. The weekend was about dreams, but it also felt like a dream. A fairytale environment, a special energy and beautiful people. I would like to come back again.” (Janneke H., Coach)
My dreaming journey
When I was a child, I used to go to sleep with one main objective: to dream. More often than not, this is still the case. My earliest recollection of a dream was one in which I held on to my pillow and flew into the sky. The second one was a nightmare – an encounter with snakes.
Flying dreams continued – with the form and ease of flying giving me clues to my waking reality. As for snake dreams, those haunted me into adulthood. While studying dreams at JFK university, I started working with the symbol of the snake as it appeared in my dreams. I learnt how dreams can open a door into the psyche with potential for growth and healing. Synchronicities started to happen (in waking) and the snake transformed from a fearsome beast to a power animal (in both dreams and waking.)
Since I started tending bees, my dreams have taken on a new depth, with dreams as realm of communication with these wise teachers whom I choose to serve.
Community of dreamers
I’ve had the privilege over the years of studying and working with leading dream researchers and dream-artists, including Fariba Bogzaran, Kelly Bulkeley, Meredith Sabini, Jeremy Taylor. I attended several conferences by the International Association for the Study of Dreams both as performer and workshop facilitator, as well as participant and volunteer… you name it. The dream ball was my favourite. Over the last few years, I’ve been involved with The dream mapping project and enjoying every creation.
Photos: Bird wings by Bhaskar Banerji. and the rest by Kristof Persyn.