Live, interactive, online workshops with
Linda Mastrangelo, Justina Lasley & Guest Speakers
and the Institute for Dream Studies
Enjoy the creativity and wisdom of your dreaming mind, and give yourself the gift of meaning.
Explore your dreams with a community of dreamers from around the world.
Upcoming Events:
CEUs available
CE Provider: Institute for Dream Studies
IDS is recognized by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (SCLLR) to offer continuing education credits to counselors, marriage and family therapists and psycho-educational specialists. Students throughout the US have been successful in using our credits, but we would encourage each participant to check with one’s regional or professional organization, as regulations vary.
CEUs available
CE Provider: Institute for Dream Studies
IDS is recognized by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (SCLLR) to offer continuing education credits to counselors, marriage and family therapists and psycho-educational specialists. Students throughout the US have been successful in using our credits, but we would encourage each participant to check with one’s regional or professional organization, as regulations vary.
“Only what comes freshly in your body interprets your dream.”
— From Eugene Gendlin’s Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Integrate somatic dreamwork into clinical practice, using body-based awareness to support clients in exploring dream material safely and effectively.
- Assess and track clients’ embodied responses to dreams, including sensations of expansion, constriction, and shifts in nervous system activation.
- Facilitate interpretation of dream imagery through a somatic lens, helping clients connect symbolic content with lived bodily experience and emotional meaning.
- Apply principles of the subtle body (e.g., chakra system) in a clinically appropriate way, adapting language and interventions to align with clients’ beliefs and cultural contexts.
- Articulate the role of the body as a source of knowledge, particularly in relation to dreams and embodied awareness.
- Reflect on personal experiences of dreams and the body to deepen understanding of psychological and experiential wholeness.
Dreams are an ancient practice going back to our indigenous ancestors thousands of years ago. These dreams or ‘night visions’ were not a separate state of consciousness as we perceive them today but rather an infusion of Mind, Body and Spirit. In the modern and post modern era we are more conscious of the “waking” state as the true and only ‘reality’ but with that comes a disconnection to our indigenous ways of knowing.
The good news is this wisdom is not lost, only forgotten. So how do we re-member who we are and activate this primordial wisdom? The body is the vessel in which we keep this sacred knowledge. To know who we are we only need to ask our bodies.
This course introduces an embodied approach to working with dreams in therapeutic settings. Rather than focusing solely on symbolic interpretation, participants will explore how dreams can be accessed through sensation, movement, and felt experience.
Drawing from somatic perspectives, the session offers practical ways to help clients engage dreams as lived experiences in the body. Participants will learn how to shift from analyzing dreams to facilitating deeper experiential contact, while maintaining safety, pacing, and client-centered awareness. Topics include bodily-based dream practices, the subtle body and chakra system, interpretation of body-based imagery, awareness of bodily openings and constrictions, and engagement of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and proprioceptive channels.
No experience needed, just an open mind and heart.
Justin and Linda will be presenting at the Annual IASD Conference!
Ashland, Oregon
June 14 – 18, 2026
Please join us in the magical dream-town of Ashland in 2026 for the 43rd annual conference of the IASD. In addition to our traditional conference programming, our Ashland hosts, Angel Morgan and Kelly Bulkeley, have arranged a variety of special events and featured tracks to embrace a conference theme of Dreaming, Health, and Wellness in the vibrant atmosphere of Ashland.
ANCESTRAL DREAMING:
Three Perspectives
April 17, 2026 • Online Course
2.5 CEU’s Available!
Dreams have long been a doorway between worlds—a place where memory, spirit, and lineage meet. In this experiential workshop, we explore dreaming as a living relationship with our ancestors, both known and unknown.
Together, we’ll learn how ancestral presence can emerge through dreams, symbols, and night visions, offering guidance, healing, and connection across time. Through gentle ritual, guided reflection, and dream-sharing practices, participants will be invited to deepen their relationship with their own ancestral line while honoring cultural diversity and personal boundaries.
This workshop welcomes all backgrounds and belief systems. You do not need to know your ancestry or have vivid dreams to participate—only curiosity and respect for the wisdom that moves through us.
Participants will leave with practical tools for ancestral dreamwork, including dream incubation practices, journaling prompts, and ways to listen more closely to the messages that arrive while we sleep.
IDS Certification Course
Great News!
New IDS Certification Course Begins September 2026
Now Open for Applications
Follow your dreams with us into your future!
