Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW

Integrative and Embodied Dreamwork and Healing

Dreams of Place: From the Landscape of the Dream to the Landscape of the Spirit

“Dreams transport us each and every night into that strange and radiant world inside ourselves wherein, for better or worse, we come face to face with powers greater than ourselves.”  (James Hagan, “Diamonds of the Night: The Search for Spirit in Your Dreams”)   Welcome dreamers, Dreamworker Robert Moss tells us “ A dream is […]

The People In Our Dreams, And What They Want to Tell Us

treehouse at moonlight by poetico (In our dreams) “We encounter a whole family of aspects of ourselves, and as we recognize them and bring them together, we become much more than we were” Robert Moss Welcome Dreamers, In the last post we talked about visits from the other side; when our loved ones cross the […]

Visits From the Other Side: When Our Beloveds Visit Us In Dreams

by: Carla Golembe  Life is a dream walking, death is a going home. (Chinese proverb) Welcome Dreamers, First, I have to tell you about the painting.  My friend Carla is an artist; when her beloved cat Zippy died, she promised him that she would paint him.  Here he is, visiting her in her dreamtime, as […]

A Minyan of Trees: Encountering the Dream in the Woods

 (trey radcliff image)  “The clearest way into a Universe is through a forest wilderness” John Muir Welcome dreamers, There are dreams, and there are dreams.  We can traverse the thresholds between worlds by paying  attention to synchronicities in our lives (see blog of 7/28/12 for more on synchronicities); or this liminal space can also show up […]

The Creative Art of Engaging With Our Dreams

“May morning be astir with the harvest of night…” (John O’Donohue) Welcome dreamers, A few weeks ago we spoke (read?) about using the resource of our dreams to enhance our creative process.  In this post, I’d like to expand on some of the ideas from last time, and provide some “how-to’s” to work with several […]

Dreams and Creativity

 “There is much to be learned at both sides of the threshold.” (Christine MeEwen)   Welcome dreamers, Creativity.  First of all, we need to have enough of our own juice in supply to be able to create something else.  If our well is dry, we can’t get water from it.  It took me several vacation […]

Creative Dreaming

“Dreams are todays’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” Edgar Cayce Welcome dreamers, Some of our most creative work comes to us in the still of the night and the depths of our dreams;  that quiet place at 3:00 a.m. when the rest of the world seems to be asleep and we can feel the quality of […]

Understanding Joseph and His Dreams: A Message for Our Times

“Dreams transport us each and every night into that strange and radiant world inside ourselves wherein… we come face to face with powers greater than ourselves.” ~ James Hagan   Welcome dreamers, We had such an interesting discussion about Joseph’s dreams in Torah study with Rabbi Allan Ulman.  I’ve been in a study class with […]

Dreaming In Color

“I dream my paintings, and then I paint my dreams.” Vincent Van Gogh Welcome dreamers, I had been thinking about the importance of color in dreams for a while.  However, when every dream that I recalled for the last two weeks had a significant spot of color, I knew that was a sign- fingers to […]

Dreaming The World Into Being

“Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.  It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”   -Vaclev Havel Welcome dreamers, We are getting close to the night we will plan to dream together to […]