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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Tree Dreams, Liberation, (and Mary Oliver)

Welcome dreamers, At this time of year, we celebrate Easter, Passover, the equinox, and the coming of spring. Themes of renewal, resurrection, and freedom abound as we mark this season, and remember that the healing potential lays under the darkest of places.  Although here in New England we are still dealing with a layer of […]

Dreams and Imagery: Finding the Living Core of the Dream

“Myths are public dreams, and dreams are private myths” Mythologist Joseph Campbell Welcome Dreamers, At the core of our dreams are The Images. Beautiful, frightening, sensual, intriguing, they usually represent the heart of our dreaming landscapes. Lately I’ve been learning to pay more attention to the living nature of these images. Last summer at the […]

Priming the Intuitive Pump: Preparing the Way for Dream Wisdom: Part 2

(photo credit to   http://lakesidepottery.com/Pages/kintsugi-repairing-ceramic-with-gold-and-lacquer-better-than-new.htm) “…and we are strong at the broken places”, Ernest Hemingway Welcome dreamers, The previous post looked at synchronicities and opening channels to receive knowledge in uncanny, intuitive or non-linear ways.   We continue here with a history of dream incubation and how to use this method now to ask for and […]

Dreaming: A Spiritual Experience

“I do not generally associate technology and magic, but I see that spirits use any means necessary to communicate with us in ways we can accept.  They use dreams and they use Google.  The combination is breathtaking.  And a little humorous”. Deena Metzger   Welcome dreamers, In tending to our dreams we tap into a timeless […]