You have probably heard the phrase, “the body doesn't lie” – in other words, “The body knows the truth and the body remembers”. I would like to show you how your body intelligence can help you solve the mystery of dream states.

Dreams are messages that most often get processed on the level below everyday consciousness and therefore don't surface in our present day awareness. This is for good reasons: you may not be able to handle certain information on a conscious level, or your psyche may not be quite ready to deal with painful occurrences or memories . Very wisely, your mind stores this information below it's conscious awareness and works with it in the dream world. As we become stronger and therefore more willing and able to process this material, we subtly give the message to the subconscious mind that we are “ready for more”, and we start to remember our dreams.

Since our dreams, or the memory of them, often occur in fragments or nonsensical images, we then set out to interpret these and give them some kind of meaning. We see the messages in terms of metaphors, and as we know, there have been many studies of the symbolism of dream characters. My interest is to interpret the dream by returning to the body, the root source of the dream.

Our conscious brain is under -functioning. Scientists tell us we only use 10% of its capacity. But why limit ourselves to the area of our body that stores the organ we call the brain, when the whole rest of the body stores extraordinary intelligence in its cells, nervous system, organs, and energy systems (like the chakras), etc.

What if we could ask the body directly what our dreams mean, what messages they have for us, and if and how their messages could assist us in our everyday life? We can go even further and ask the body to help us remember our dreams?

Here is a description of how this very delicate work might unfold. First I create a safe environment for the dreamer, so that the person can trust me with their body and their mind. Imagine lying on a bodywork table, fully dressed, and probably on your back, and I touch you with my state of awareness centered in my own body, through hands that speak a skilled somatic language of gentleness, respect, acceptance, widening, lengthening, and deepening . My hands speak directly into your bones, muscles, cells and nervous system and they invite you to do the same.

Your body remembers this natural and expansive state of awareness , and this process safely restores your receptive field. Now it is time to dialogue with one of your dream characters as if it is a close partner or friend who is present to answer your questions and reveal valuable and important information to you.

Through these conversations, which simultaneously happen on verbal and psychological levels because of the quality of my touch, more and more memories are stimulated. Information that has been hidden in the subconscious becomes available for healing. With my client safely embraced in a gentle and natural trance, it now becomes possible for us to understand the information the body has released from a new and expanded perspective. Because you are supported by your body / brain new options are recorded and integrated on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. You return to present day consciousness with lightness and ease, and a new and enlarged point of view with which to embrace your life.

Over a period of time you may start to experience lucid dreams in which you are shown a problem or challenge, and while you are dreaming your whole body intelligence creates a healing solution right then and there, within your dream. Now you can look forward to sleep in which you might find an exciting and rich world waiting for you: a world that in turn can inform and influence you profoundly, inviting you to live a strong life.