Welcome
At the Dreaming & Healing Conference you will discover the many pathways through which healing is facilitated. Learn how to work with your unconscious and your imagination so your dreams respond with valuable information regarding your physical, mental and emotional health. Gain insight into the language of symbols, myths, metaphor, archetypes, the elements, and nature to help you live a healthier life. Practice hands-on dreamwork exercises, circle work, and creative activities to gain greater insight into your dreams, your waking life, and your health.
Our international panel will cover all health dimensions to address participants' concerns and inquiries. Audience engagement is encouraged. Our Dreams and Health Experts panel includes holistic, alternative, Chinese medicine and geriatric doctors, midwives, death doulas, shamans, astrologers, philosophers, psychologists, herbalists, and somatic therapists.
Our international panel will cover all health dimensions to address participants' concerns and inquiries. Audience engagement is encouraged. Our Dreams and Health Experts panel includes holistic, alternative, Chinese medicine and geriatric doctors, midwives, death doulas, shamans, astrologers, philosophers, psychologists, herbalists, and somatic therapists.
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INSPIRING workshops, discussions, experiential activities, & small group work with:
Dayana PazDayana focuses on whole-person enrichment and strengthening personal and corporate relationships through her work as a Ritualist woman, moon dancer, temazcal facilitator, mother, tarot reader, workshop facilitator and ritual organizer.
Siobhan AsgharzadehSiobhan serves as a ceremonialist, passage guide, and storyteller. She facilitates dream lodges though story, ritual, dance, dreams, and wilderness walk-abouts. Siobhan also supports people through their final passage as a Death Doula and has discovered dream work to be a key in supporting people in navigating the unfamiliar territory of death.
Montserrat BritoMontserrat specializes in dance movement therapy and body movement. She is a certified sound-wave massage therapist as well as deep tissue and skeletal maneuvering. Montserrat teaches the Frida Kaplan method of eutonic pregnancy and birth, and the Feldenkrais method of self-awareness through movement and functional integration.
Pepe ValenciaPepe is a medical gerontologist, thanatologist, hospice doctor, medical surgeon, midwife, lecturer and writer. He currently practices as a holistic and integrative geronto-geriatric practitioner in San Miguel de Allende and attends visits throughout the region. He is founder of Grandparents, Plenitude, One Gray Hair to the Wind, and Happy Wrinkles.
Norman BrownNorman is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. His research and publications have focused on love relationships. He has taught at the university and community college level over the course of his career. In addition to working with adults and couples, he facilitates men’s growth groups.
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April McMurtryApril founded The Moon is My Calendar and created the New Moon Calendar Journal & Moon Mandala Circle. She is a visual artist, teacher, and creative lunar guide whose work reflects her passion for nature based cycles, personal mythologies, and symbolism.
Uchechi KaluAn award nominated poet, entrepreneur, web designer and CEO with geographic connections from Nigeria to Mexico, Uchechi has become a strong voice in the community of global African writers and entrepreneurs. In 2017, she gave her first TEDx talk on the power of nuance, and continues to speak at conferences and literary events.
Ken RossKen, son of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, is the founder and president of the EKR Foundation. He also served on the board of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center. Ken was the principal care provider for his mother in the last 9 years of her life until her passing in 2004. A professional photographer by trade, he has photographed 95 countries towards his goal of 101.
Lyn PrashantLyn Prashant, PhD, F.T., is a certified grief counselor and ADEC Fellow in Thanatology with over 25 years experience. A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher and Sivananda Yoga teacher, she developed the unique approach to grief counseling called Degriefing/Integrative Grief Therapy and has been featured on ABC radio, CBS TV, and magazines.
Marsha HudsonMarsha has a lifelong interest in dreams and began recording her dreams as a teen. Since 2002, she has facilitated dream work with individuals, groups, and workshops. She has studied archetypal projective dreamwork with Jeremy Taylor and is certified by the Marin Institute of Projective Dream Work.
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Tariq NasraldeenTariq holds a wide range of roles including transpersonal psychologist, airplane pilot, and aero-entrepreneur. He is the creator of the traveling approach of Transpersonal Travel.
Sakura NimuraSakura is a transpersonal psychology practitioner working in the field of multicultural business and psychology for the past decade. Originally from Japan, she is a certified life coach, hypnotherapist, past life regressionist, Life between Lives® therapist, psychosynthesis coach, mindfulness coach, projective dream work practitioner, and yoga instructor.
Tzivia GoverDirector of the Institute for Dream Studies, Tzivia's passion and profession are to connect people with healing, meaning, and joy through dreams and mindfulness. Author of The Mindful Way to a Good Night Sleep and Joy in Every Moment, she offers workshops and presentations at yoga retreat centers, conferences and more, domestically and abroad.
Alison BastienAn anthropologist, perinatal educator, and professional midwife, Alison works in the field of women’s medicine, plant medicine, and holistic medicine. She is co-creator of La Victoriana store in San Miguel de Allende, offering hand made
health products and gifts for the last 45 years. Alison’s work is published in health and midwifery anthologies and magazines. 
Daniel StoneAs a child, Daniel lived a double life between what happened at night and what happened in the day. Through decades of travel and study he found a language that brings night and day together. He teaches worldwide and has a retreat centre in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In addition to leading retreats, he is an author, musician, and international artist.
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...and more coming soon!
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Photography © 2018 Juanita Benedicto
Care for our Earth
Dear Dreamers, we welcome you to San Miguel de Allende and invite you to help us care for this beautiful place on Earth with environmental awareness practices. One of these is reducing “SUP” or Single Use Plastic. Please bring a reusable water bottle to the sessions to combat plastic pollution. Big jugs of purified water will be available to refill individual bottles. La Casona has graciously helped us in this by also providing coffee service that does not use disposable cups. You are also welcome to bring a travel coffee cup on your trip and to the conference. Every little bit helps. Below is a link with more info which you can also use at home in your own communities. Excited to see you all here in gorgeous sunny Mexico!