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 […]

Dreams of Healing: Marathon Bombing Anniversary #1

Dreaming is a healing process…a vital means by which we bind up our wounded spirits and rekindle our hopes for the future.” (Kelly Buckeley) Welcome dreamers, Last year the Boston area held the world in horrified thrall during the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.  Stories have appeared in the news media off and on […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dreaming Together to End Gun Violence

 Welcome dreamers, Our hearts go out to the victims at Newtown, and all the other victims of gun violence. In addition to signing petitions, showing up, and contributing funds, we as dreamers can contribute in a special way.  We can work to dream the world we want to see into being by actively incubating dreams. […]

The Ancient Practice of Dream Incubation

 The Temple of Asclepius “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.”  ~X-Files   The Ancient Practice of Dream Incubation: In ancient Greece, the Dream was honored as a resource and physician’s guide for healing all manner of illness, both physical and spiritual.  The Greek god of medicine and healing, […]

More Tips on Remembering Dreams

It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.” Carl Jung   Welcome back! Last time we discussed a few techniques to help you remember your dreams.  Developing a practice of dream recall is like any other practice–it gets better with practice!  So […]