Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW

Integrative and Embodied Dreamwork and Healing

Recognizing the Calls from our Ancestors: Shouts and Whispers

Family legacy, like dreams themselves, can move forward and backwards in time. Welcome all dreamers and seekers to the new year! How do your ancestors get your attention – through shouts or through whispers? Over half of Americans (53%) report connection with their ancestors who have departed according to the Pew Research Center, most of […]

Honoring Our Namesakes: When Waking and Sleeping Dreams Collide

“Merrily, merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”   Welcome Dreamers, What does it mean when our waking and sleeping lives coincide?  When the inside dream and the outside dream reflect each other? The doubling of an image or theme in dreams, or when waking life and sleeping life overlap generally means, “This is […]

Resolving Nightmares, Part 2

 “I’ve had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because my dreams.” Jonas Salk Introductory post here Nightmares are frequently one of the aftershocks that follow traumatic events. They reflect the trauma in one of three ways: Either an “instant replay” of the events that occurred, a close replaying with […]

Pulling In the Net: Dream Sharing with Others to Catch Your Big Fish

Welcome dreamers,Sleeping and dreaming are generally quite solitary acts. Even though we may share a bed or a room with others, when we dip below the horizon of wakefulness into our dreams, that journey is taken alone. We then have whatever adventures our dreamtime soliloquies take us on, often with others playing their roles as […]

“Traveling Without Fear: Journey Dreaming for the New Year

“And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”  Kahlil Gibran Welcome dreamers, It has been some time since I last posted here. But last night “I had a dream” – maybe not as powerful as that of Dr. King, but […]

Dreams of Grief, Dreams of Healing

“And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”  Kahlil Gibran Welcome dreamers, So, my mom died recently. It has been a sad period of time, up and down, days of being “fine” interspersed with days with tears. The whole […]

Embodied Dream Work: Understanding Your Dreams Through Movement and Play

Art by Carla Golembe “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions” Edgar Cayce Welcome dreamers, When we dream, we are in a place, a world that is just as real to us while we dream it as the one we inhabit while we are awake. In this dreaming place we talk, walk, run, play, interact […]

What Are Dreams (Actually), and Where Do They Come From?

(travelblog.org: vulcan osorno at dawn) Hello fellow dreamers, At the end of the movie, when Dorothy returns from her sojourn in Oz, her aunt and uncle and their 3 farmhands are there to greet her at her bedside. On waking, she is told by her Auntie Em and the kindly doctor (who looks remarkably like […]