Welcome
At the Dreaming & Healing Conference you will discover the many pathways through which healing is facilitated throughout the human lifespan, both individually and collectively. Our international experts team will cover the dimensions of human experience to address participants' concerns and inquiries. Audience engagement is encouraged. Our experts include holistic, alternative, Chinese medicine and geriatric doctors, midwives, death doulas, shamans, astrologers, philosophers, psychologists, herbalists, and somatic therapists.
Pre-Conference:
The Grace in Aging
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Geared toward anyone who is interested in a new approach to aging, illness, and end-of-life, including adults in the third age, those caring for aging adults, nurses, home care aides, and more.
Topics covered include:
Panel Discussion Wisdom from the Bedside: Inspiring End-of-Life Stories with Ken Ross, Dr. Pepe Valencia, Dr. Jeanne Denney, Hospice nurse Ian McCartor, thanatologist Sylvia Marroquí, transpersonal psychologist and death doula Wilka Roig |
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INSPIRING workshops, discussions, experiential activities, & small group work with:
Dayana Paz
Dayana 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.
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April 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.
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Tariq Nasraldeen
Tariq began his aviator journey as a commercial pilot. Later he guided airlines and airports toward enhancing the passenger travel experience. Furthermore, he expanded his awareness in the psychological aspects of the modern day traveler. Tariq holds an MBA and an MA in Transpersonal Psychology.
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Carlos is an archetypal-jungian psychotherapist, body-mind-movement somatic therapist, dream worker, mythologist, storyteller, Aikido sensei and educator who works with individuals' stories and their relationships to these stories in order to bring change and healing on an emotional, physical and spiritual level.
Montserrat 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 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.
Michelle is a lover, an empath, who creates sacred space to wade into
the stories of others and offers a listening and open heart. She has been exploring dreams for 23 years, her own and others. She is an artist healer, community builder, architect, entrepreneur, visionary, and filmmaker. 
Jeanne is a therapist, healer, teacher and death (and life) educator who maintains a private practice in Core Energetic Therapy, Somatic Psychology and Energetic Bodywork.
Her deepest commitment in life is teaching about patterns within health, transformation and human development derived from a wide lens and deep understanding of the human journey. |
An 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, 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.
Mayan philosopher, counter and interpreter of Mayan sacred time. As Aj`quij, Laura guides the Being through symbols and numbers of life and practice of sacred Mayan ceremony. A theta healing therapist and cultural scientist, she maintains the study and practice of philosophy, hermeneutics, epistemology and the humanities as tools to bring consciousness the unconscious of the soul of the world.
Wilka is a transpersonal psychologist, ordained minister, death doula, grief counselor, dream worker, educator, facilitator, writer, Tai Chi, Qigong & Taoist Inner Arts instructor, musician, photographer, performance artist, silversmith, baker, and mythmaker. Her interests include neurobiology of trauma, loss, grief, and relationships, conscious living & dying, confectionery arts, and wine culture.
Juanita holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Library & Information Science. She is a teacher and facilitator in the empowerment of women and girls, and in the service of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Retreats. Having studied the tarot and astrology since 2004, she offers heart filled readings and is constantly inspired by the perfect nature of the present moment.
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Sakura 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.
Director 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.
An 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. 
Ian is from the High Desert of Southern California, where he periodically works in hospice care as a Registered Nurse, helping patients express their final reflections through death poetry and songs. Ian also works as a professional songwriter, performing artist, and exhibits his visual artwork worldwide in galleries and private collections.
Thanatologist, companion of spiritual psycho-affective processes and therapist, co-founder of Recursos Propios, consulting company that connects people with their internal resources from consciousness. Sylvia believes in processes that awaken awareness in each person, to be responsible for their own life as free, complete and connected beings, and from there choose their unique path of transcendce.
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Keynote: the
Legacy of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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Ken Ross, photographer and founder of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, will speak about his mother’s legacy, her intentions with her work, and lesser-known facts about her life and contributions.
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) pioneered hospice and bereavement education in the U.S. Her most famous book, On Death and Dying, is widely accepted as a groundbreaking examination of death and mortality. |
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Documentary Film screening & Special Concert
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The documentary, Telling Dreams of the Departed, explores the loss, longing and connection through dreams of those whose loved ones returned to them after death and proposes that the interconnection between worlds is fluid and alive. Creator of the documentary, Michelle MacNeil, will present the documentary and will guide a question and answer session. Hospice nurse and talented musician Ian McCartor will delight us with a special concert in which he will perform his songs and share stories of adventures around the world and with his patients. Ian takes the life stories and messages of wisdom that his patients share with him before they die, and weaves them into music that he performs and records. |
Your Hosts
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Sakura Nimura
6 Impossible Things |
Karen Herold
Wise Transition |
Tariq Nasraldeen
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Pepe Valencia
Sin Miedo a la Vida |
Care for our Earth
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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!
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OUR SPONSORS
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