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 […]

More Ancestor Dreaming: From Whence They Come?

“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping…” Paul Simon Hello dreamers, Recently there has been a lot of ancestor activity filling my in-box. In any given week, I get two or three or more emails about a new […]

When Our Shadow Meets World Shadow: Healing Opportunities Across Time and Space

  “People will do anything…to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” C. Jung Welcome to spring, dreamers, Healing opportunities might not be the first thing we think of when we consider our pain, our wounds, or the darkness and pain of […]

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 […]

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 of Honey: A Treat for the New Year

“sweet dreams are made of these…” Welcome dreamers, Did you ever have a dream that was so vivid, so sensual that you could practically taste it? That’s what Laurie’s dream of honey was like – filled with drippy sweetness, full of the senses, like in the e.e. cummings poem “…tasting, touching, smelling, hearing, seeing, breathing…” […]

Unpacking a Dream: From Toilets to Mindfulness

“I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions.  He said don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world”  Jay London  Welcome dreamers, Understanding the meaning of our dreams can move us in surprising directions. The art of interpreting or understanding a dream has been referred to in several ways: working on […]

Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! The Animals in our Dreams

“The animals which are our totems are mirrors to us.  They reflect lessons we need to learn and abilities we can most easily develop…(they are) a medicine for healing your self and your life, and  a power that can be accessed to help manifest your dreams”. Ted Andrews Welcome dreamers, Animals are one of the […]