Dream Groups
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Welcome to Dream Groups!
In dreams we can be anyone we want, we can fly, we can heal our beloved inner child.
“Ixkik slept deeply that night. In a dream she saw the inside of her womb.”
― Popol VuhAs the unconscious is the realm of our intuition it makes sense that becoming a lucid dreamer is a powerful way to hone your intuitive skills.
Messages and our Unconscious
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Internal statements to our unconscious like:
- I’m safe here
- I’m lovable as I am
- I’m good enough
- I’m whole
- I deserve to be healed
Dream messages from our unconscious like:
- I feel anxiety about this transition
- I want to please the people I love
- I need to change and leave the past
- My psyche needs repair
- I give my power away to others
- I am healing
This is Coyolxauqui the dismembered goddess of the moon. She was torn into parts by her brothers when she tried to save her mother from Huitzilopotchli the god of war.
Coyolxauqui can easily represent a symbol of our trying to pull the different parts of ourself together.
Our delightful inner child, once hurt, can get hurt the most because they are the most vulnerable. Our unhealed trauma can overwhelm us.
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Besides being the four directions and the four forces we deal with most, fire, water, air and earth, the elements inside of us are also the same elements within the universe. Once we recognize the elements inside of us, we can also recognize the elements outside of ourselves. We are universes inside universes. When we recognize we are a universe inside another universe, then we can create and manifest in the outer universe. We can connect our hearts to the outer universe with our love frequency, to attain balance, manifestation and intuitive abilities.
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This is Chicomecoatl the young goddess of the corn. She works with Chalchitlique the goddess of the water to offer life-giving corn to people. She is the woman of the seven serpent skirt. Seven is the number of our Tonalcayos or chakras. She is close to us, as she embodies what our body needs from the earth.
Chicomecoatl, like our inner child, is young and fresh. She can help us tap into that beloved, sweet part of ourselves who wants us to play, love and laugh more. She can help us remember not to worry, as we are connected to life and sustenance just as she is. Chicomecoatl can help us nurture the healing power of play and not be afraid of our uncomfortable emotions. We are as resilient as children.
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How you feel is okay.
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Dream Therapy Groups
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The Art of Dreaming and Inner Change
Interestingly, love is the major super power in the world of dreaming.
Have you wanted to change repetitive patterns or habits? To be lucid in a dream means we engage our will in our subconscious life.
As the subconscious is the realm of our intuition it makes sense that becoming a lucid dreamer is a powerful way to honing your intuition skills. Lucid dreaming in the Toltec lineage is a practical set of breathing and mirror exercises to be done regularly.
Have you ever had the feeling of being awake in your dreams?
We are in a watershed moment for lucid dreaming. Flying, right?
We have a lot of information, memories and desires running around in our minds. We can even get important knowledge from our dream life. The subconscious is a big place.
The Art of Dreaming
Working with our subconscious gives us validation to our particular experience.
The therapeutic aspect of this practice is recognizing our destructive patterns, our inner petty tyrants and our guides. Part of the path of dreaming is releasing our addiction to suffering and embracing the beauty of our essential self.
Meditation calms the mind, see energy bodies and to heighten our sensory perception.
In our shadow work we heal ancestral patterns, plant dreams for our future and willfully bring balance back to our lives.
Being Able to See Yourself
Going inward and facilitating change takes subconscious intention. The art of dreaming helps restructure our habits and beliefs from the inside out. The exercises are just like physical exercise, they are repetitive and practical.
The mirror work you will begin to develop a different type of perception, and eventually with the special eye exercises your image will disappear or will turn into that of an animal or spirit nahual (dream energetic body)
The simplicity of chakras
The chakra exercises are a direct way for bolstering the energy body.
Our posture often reflects where we are leaking energy when it comes to other people.
Becoming masters of our own energy, we recognize our intuition. A pulse inside of us of honesty, self-love, divinity and inspiration.
In Nahuatl, our energetic body is called the Nahual. Nehua means I and nahualli meaning what extends. Combined they mean ‘who I am beyond the tonal and material reality. The nahual is governed by the moon. (This is from my teachers, Sergio Magana and Xolotl Chavez in Mexico City.) The tonal represents the sun, our mind and personality.
Focusing on the chakras can help us move stuck emotional energy in the body. Chakra work is also wonderful for recognizing posture patterns and energetic boundaries. Toltec lucid dreaming offers a meditative energetic breathwork practice called “Xayaxolohtli” or Xolotl’s Mask, Quetzalcoatl’s Nahual.
This is Chalchitlique the goddess of rivers, lakes, oceans and importantly, the goddess of fresh water or agua dulce. She is also known as she of the jade skirt. Working with her to help recover and heal memories of the inner child can be very sweet, like agua dulce or sweet water.
Chalchitlique can nurture our inner child whose whimsical and fresh attitudes may have been suppressed in the past. She can wash away our tears and remind us there’s a safe emotional space, which she rules, where our inner child can cry, play, laugh and dance.
Fear, guilt, shame, overwhelm and despair are original wounds needing to come up to be held, seen, healed and welcomed home.
*One in five Latinx report having a mental illness.
*About half of Latinx young adults experience anxiety and depression.
*Despite these high rates, less then 40% receives mental health treatment
*Latina women are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, with rates sometimes twice as high as Latino men.
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