Toko-pa Turner – Courting the Dream

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Courting the Dream offers some of the most advanced online teachings currently available,

Toko-pa Turner - Courting the Dream

Toko-pa Turner – Courting the Dream

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Discover dreamwork as a sacred practice to restore a deep sense of belonging to your life, and to the world.

Receive the medicine of your dreams through your body… and apply this wisdom in your everyday life.

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We all ache to belong…

Belonging — to another, our families, and a community — is a fundamental human need…

Truly fulfilling this need starts with our ability to know and “belong to” our self.

Belonging is also a seemingly forgotten skill, cultivated through the sacred practices of dreaming, storytelling, ceremony, and song, which enliven archetypal stirrings that we can feel in our bones… connecting us to our ancestors and to our own soul.

Yet, in today’s Western society, with its focus on the outer world rather than our deep and rich inner landscape, we’ve become disconnected from this mythic or symbolic life…

That’s why so many of us feel disconnected from each other, our ancestral roots, and even parts of ourselves — losses that contribute significantly to our feelings of personal and cultural isolation and loneliness.

The good news is that the skill of belonging — when practiced well –– can connect us to our authentic Self, to the others around us, and to the greater world. All we have to do is make an earnest courtship of our nighttime dreams, which offer a personal gateway into the richness of a soul-led life.

The images, symbols, and archetypes that emerge in the night can provide us with a map back to our place of belonging.

If we can decode these nighttime messages, which initially can seem quite mysterious, they can serve as clues to healing emotional and physical challenges, mending relationships, and igniting the sparks of inspiration for new possibilities for our lives.

They can also introduce us to the “dark guests” or shadow selves at play in our psyche that inhibit us from living fully… inviting us to befriend our hidden sadnesses, anger, and wounds that need our attention, compassion, and integration.

As we work to embrace the otherness we encounter in our dreams, we begin to feel the groundedness and authenticity of true belonging to ourselves, which is the foundation for cultivating belonging with others.

Only when you have committed to accepting the entirety of who you are can you completely open your arms to others and stand fully in your place in the world.

Experience the Art of Courting Your Dreams

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In this exciting new dreamwork course, author, teacher, and dreamworker Toko-pa Turner will share what she has found to be the most enduring and fulfilling path to living a symbolic life and cultivating belonging

You’ll discover and master the art of courting your dreams. This fascinating courtship involves circling in closer to the mystery, making yourself approachable so you might learn what your dream loves and longs for, and then move your life in response to that longing.

You’ll begin by discovering how to reframe your dreams as Nature, naturing through you, and inherently drawing you towards healing and belonging.

You’ll come to understand how your longing to belong comes out of your separation from the Mythic Life — and how myth, ritual, and dreams can help bridge this separation and enhance your everyday life.

And you’ll come to know your body as the first gate of dreaming — and recognize how your emotions and other somatic expressions are there to help you cultivate an embodied presence.

You’ll be invited to re-member and welcome back your more sensitive and creative aspects — often devalued, dismissed, or neglected by Western culture. Healing your split from these parts of the Self can help you heal conflict in your relationships, and even illness in your body.

Rituals & Dream Sharing to Bring Your Dreams’ Gifts Forward

Dreams don’t always tell you which way to go, but ritual can help you live with that ambiguity. Once you’ve worked with a dream to reveal its teachings, it’s important to take what you’ve learned and find a way to honor it in your waking life.

Through ritual, you can create a living bridge for the mystery and magic of the unseen world to manifest and take shape in tangible ways in your life… You’ll also discover how to create ritual as a response to your dreams, to deepen your connection and reciprocity with the holy in nature.

And you’ll also find out how to create community through a dream-sharing circle, where in the act of coming together with vulnerability and authenticity, you can deepen into your dream’s teachings… discovering not only what a dream has come to teach you, but the gifts it bears for the whole.

  • Discover how dreamwork can assuage your feelings of loneliness and disconnection
  • Engage in a courtship of your dreams as a potent practice for personal growth and connection
  • Be introduced to Toko-pa’s 5 Keys for “Courting the Dream”
  • Explore ways to ground your presence and involve your body in dreamwork
  • Participate in somatic exploration of your dreams
  • Explore how the structure and arc of a dream can put you in touch with its meaning
  • Circumnavigate the intellect to meet and tend to your animal heart
  • Learn how to reframe nightmares and the so-called “negative emotions/images” as clusters of energy, striving to belong with us
  • Discover how to approach a threatening dream to reveal its concealed medicine
  • Learn how to transform your fears and hesitations about joining groups so you can participate in community
  • Discover how sharing dreams with others takes you into the heart of intimacy and belonging
  • Find out how to start and sustain your own dream circle
  • And much more…

Toko-pa’s approach to dreamwork blends the mystical tradition of Sufism, the depth of Jungian psychology, and a feminine receptivity that cherishes dreams as sacred.

She believes that a complex alchemy occurs in not-knowing, and that being with this mystery is the essential starting place for becoming worthy of a dream’s revelation.

When you join Toko-pa for this rich inner journey, you’ll explore the deep longings of your soul through the mysterious workings of your dreams… you’ll reconnect with the orphaned parts of yourself — the key to cultivating belonging in your life and in the world… and you’ll fall in love with a deeply experiential approach to dreamwork… and life.

You’ll also meet a dreamwork teacher new to The Shift Network who weaves together poetry and practicality, has a deeply compassionate heart, imbues her work with profound integrity… and who can open your heart to what it truly means to belong to yourself, your people, your community, and the earth.

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks

Course sessions are on Thursdays at Noon Pacific.

In this 7-week online journey, Toko-pa will guide you through the fundamental spiritual skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully discover dreamwork as an enduring and fulfilling path to living a life of meaning, with a deep sense of belonging — to yourself, others, and the world.

Each weekly LIVE contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles of “dream courtship,” with an emphasis on the body as the first gate of dreaming, and learning how a somatic exploration of dreams can help bring their wisdom into your everyday life.

Module 1: Dreaming Is Nature
How Your Dreams Are in Service to Healing & Belonging (January 3)

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Most of us have been taught that our dreams are the products of our own minds. But as anyone who has plumbed their depths can testify, there is a much greater mystery at work. We begin this course by reframing dreams as Nature, inclining us towards healing and belonging.

You’ll explore the root causes of forgetting your dreams, and learn how the psyche works to retrieve the lost, devalued, and neglected aspects of the Self. As you engage in this process of remembership, you realize you’re also restoring belonging to your life.

In this module you’ll:

  • Learn how dreaming is nature, naturing through us in service to our wellbeing
  • Reveal the underlying reasons you forget, dismiss, and even denigrate your dreams
  • Discover how dreamwork can assuage your personal and collective feelings of loneliness and disconnection
  • Engage in a courtship with your dreams as a potent practice for personal growth and connection
  • Recognize longing as the sacred calling homeward

Module 2: The Art of Courtship
Practices for Approaching the Mystery of Your Dreams (January 10)

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Unlike so many Indigenous cultures, we in the Western world have become disconnected from the Mythic Life. This loss contributes significantly to our personal and cultural loneliness. Even when we do work with our dreams, we are often taught an acquisitional approach, asking, “What does it mean for me?”

Courtship is the art of circling in closer to the mystery, making yourself approachable so you might learn what the dream loves, what it longs for, and then moving your life in response to that longing.

This week, you’ll be introduced to Toko-pa’s method for “Courting the Dream” and discover why this leads to a more enduring and fulfilling relationship with your symbolic life.

In this module, you’ll:

  • Understand how your longing to belong comes out of your separation from the Mythic Life
  • Discover how myth, symbols, and dreams can enhance your life
  • Learn a more engaging alternative to traditional dream analysis
  • Be introduced to Toko-pa’s 5 Keys for “Courting the Dream”

Module 3: Embodying the Dream
Somatic Practices for Integrating Your Dreams (January 17)

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The body is the first gate of dreaming. Dreams are a biological imperative, and the emotions they inspire are somatic expressions. This is why in courting a dream, we need to do so with embodied presence.

This week, you’ll learn to listen to the communications of your body during dreamwork and allow its agreements and disagreements to guide your process. You’ll learn techniques for giving relevance to the invisible through dream journaling, somatic exploration, and walking in nature.

In this module, you’ll:

  • Learn about the biological function and necessity of dreams
  • Explore ways to ground your presence and involve your body in dreamwork
  • Practice an embodied method for recording your dreams in greater detail
  • Participate in a somatic exploration of a dream
  • Engage with nature on integrative walks to enhance dreamwork

Module 4: The Architecture of Dreams
Discover the Universal Patterns Underpinning Every Dream (January 24)

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Dreaming is our mother tongue… but throughout the ages, we’ve forgotten how to speak this symbolic language.

Dreams are made up of metaphors, archetypes, and symbolic motifs that occur in every different culture around the world. When we learn these patterns, we can better understand our own dreams and their archetypal significance, which rescues our lives from randomness and gives us a map to follow. (Bring a journal and recent dream to work with.)

In this module, you’ll:

  • Recognize key elements in every dream and use that knowledge to make effective associations
  • Learn how the structure and arc of a dream can put you in touch with its meaning
  • Discuss universal themes and tips for stepping out of recurring patterns
  • Learn how to engage your curiosity and follow the energy of a dream
  • Circumnavigate the intellect to meet and tend to your animal heart

Module 5: Making the Encounter
Working With the ‘Dark Guests’ in Your Dreams (January 31)

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Many of us feel disconnected from each other, our ancestral roots, and even parts of ourselves. Throughout our lives, we are shaped by our consensus culture’s celebration of certain qualities, with more sensitive and creative traits often devalued, dismissed, or neglected. As a result, we become split off from those devalued parts of the Self, which can turn into shadow dreams, conflict in our relationships, and even illness in the body.

This week, you’ll learn how dark dreams are actually a validation of something that is ready to be healed.

In this module you’ll:

  • Explore the origins of our alienation and how we became estranged from each other and ourselves
  • Learn how to reframe nightmares and the so-called “negative emotions/images” as clusters of energy, striving to belong with us
  • Discover how to approach a threatening dream to reveal its concealed medicine
  • Witness and participate in a real-time demonstration of dreamwork

Module 6: Walking the Dream
Connection With the Holy in Nature Through Ritual & Reciprocity (February 7)

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Dreams don’t always tell us which way to go, but ritual helps us live with that ambiguity. Once we have worked with a dream to reveal its teachings, it’s important that we take what we’ve learned and find a way to honor it in our waking lives.

This week, we’ll discuss ways to create ritual actions as a response to dreams to deepen our reciprocity with the holy in nature.

In this module, you’ll:

  • Weave bridges from the wisdom of your dreams back to waking life
  • Come to see dreamwork as a conversation with the holy in nature
  • Understand that when you create ritual, a greater intelligence will meet you halfway
  • Develop ritual tools and other methods for honoring your dreams

Module 7: We Are an Ecosystem
Guidance for Cultivating Dreamwork Circles & Community (February 14)

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An incredible thing happens when we come together in dream-sharing community. We quickly realize that the pieces we are working out as individuals are arising not just for our personal healing, but to serve the larger ecosystem as well.

Dreams require us to come together with vulnerability and authenticity so that we can discover what the circle can teach us as a whole. This process introduces us to a new model of leadership that is deeply needed in the world today.

In this module, you’ll:

  • Learn how to transform your fears and hesitations about joining groups so you can participate in community
  • Discover how sharing dreams with others takes you into the heart of intimacy and belonging
  • Discuss the role of dreaming and storytelling in creating a new culture
  • Learn how to start and sustain your own dream circle

The Courting the Dream Bonus Collection

In addition to Toko-pa’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful bonuses. These bonus sessions complement the course — and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.

Dreamwork & Belonging
Audio Dialogue With Toko-pa Turner Hosted by Susan Audrey

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Through our many personal, cultural, and ancestral displacements, we’ve become distant from ourselves, alienated from each other, and disconnected from the natural world. Our dreams are the first place the alienated self will appear. Join Toko-pa as she explores the origins of our estrangement, how a diminished life can lead us into “false belonging,” and how coming back into relationship with the outcast self can create true belonging in our lives and in our world.

During this heart-opening session, you’ll discover:

  • How alienation affects the choices we make as individuals and as a culture
  • Why exile is a necessary initiation into true belonging
  • That dreams bring us back into relationship with the refugee aspects of the self and the larger ecosystem in which we’re embedded

Susan Audrey holds a master’s degree in Depth Psychology. She is a dreamwork practitioner and guide whose precognitive dreams and miraculous connection with the sacred feminine archetype of the Black Madonna have made her a true believer in the power of dreaming to connect us with something greater than ourselves, deepen our trust in life, and grow our sense of belonging. Susan is also trained in therapeutic guided imagery, and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

Dream Recovery Kit: Tips for Dream Recall, Dream Incubation & Overcoming Blocks
PDF Guide From Toko-pa Turner

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Designed for the individual who has lost touch with, is feeling estranged from, or is having trouble remembering their dreams, the Dream Recovery Kit is a guide to help you recover your dream life. This kit contains helpful acknowledgments for overcoming your blocks to remembering your dreams, tips for dream recall, and exercises for deepening your practice, such as creating a dream altar, and dream incubation to petition your dreams for answers to your biggest questions.

Courting the Dream: A Guide to Understanding the Dream Structure, Key Elements & Common Themes
PDF Booklet From Toko-pa Turner

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In this rich booklet, you’ll receive an outline of Toko-pa’s 5-Key Process to Courting the Dream. In addition to this guidance for how to move through the dreamwork process (for yourself and others), you’ll receive an overview of the structure or dramatic arc of a dream, learn how to isolate its key elements, and discover the meaning behind some of our most common dream themes.

Dreaming Together: How to Start & Sustain a Dream Group
PDF Guide From Toko-pa Turner

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It can be bittersweet to participate in a temporary dream community, only to find yourself returned to daily life without anyone to share at that level of soulful intimacy. In this guide, Toko-pa offers her favorite tips for creating and sustaining a dream circle. You’ll learn how to facilitate a dream circle, including how to structure your time, how to give ethical feedback on a dream, and how to encourage participation and circular leadership.

What People Are Saying About Toko-pa…

“My life has become my work of art…”

I used to believe I was damaged beyond repair. Now, the bumps and bruises are my gifts. My life has become my work of art and Toko-pa creates a safe place to feel emotions, to feel into my shadow, to ride grief into the sunset. I take grief out to dinner now. We have a fine relationship and love for each other. Life is better with Toko-pa, her words, her medicine, her midwifery of hidden mysteries. I am forever grateful.
— Jessica Beck

“I have been able to be more vulnerable…”

Thank you for guiding me in my artistic (and life) process as a mentor and friend. I always felt that dreams were special but you validated this for me, showing me that dreams can serve as a barometer to our life and guide us. I was astounded at how closely my dreams reflected real issues going on in my life and brought up some feelings long buried inside of me. I have been able to be more vulnerable in my personal and artistic life because of the work we have done together.
— Danielle Greene

“I have been reconnecting with an old language I’d forgotten.”

I’ve been telling friends and colleagues about what I am studying and it has been incredible to see how people open up. They are curious and interested. [Toko-pa] offers powerful soul medicine that we can access by tending to our dreams. I have been reconnecting with an old language I’d forgotten. The dream sharing and witnessing dreamwork taking place gives a wonderful sense of tribal medicine.
— Aurea Hora

“Now, my waking and dreaming are becoming one seamless flow.”

Toko-pa is an amazing and gifted dream teacher. She has made the process of befriending our dreams so simple… With Toko-pa, I was able to reclaim my power of dreaming back… Now, my waking and dreaming are becoming one seamless flow. I’m deeply grateful for the work Toko-pa is doing.
— Sukhvinder Sircar

“I feel my internal and external vision has been honed…”

I love how this course inspires everybody to show up at their own pace and allows for both deep diving into ourselves or staying more on the periphery. I feel my internal and external vision has been honed — for my own psyche but also for its reflection around me and how it connects into a tapestry of multidimensional experience.
— Christina

“… a new set of tools to unlock the meaning behind the riddles of our dreams…”

Within a safe, supportive community of fellow dreamers, she guides us through the dark corridors and unknown doorways of our dreams, bringing us face to face with the ancient language and wisdom of the soul. Sharing generations of knowledge across disciplines, Toko-pa provides each dreamer with a new set of tools to unlock the meaning behind the riddles of our dreams, and uncover the mysterious messages that they hold. Her intuitive, heart-centered approach is both welcoming and inspiring, allowing each dreamer to feel deeply connected to their greatest purpose, and helping us to see the pathway to get there, as laid out each night in our dreams. She is a true wise woman, teacher, friend.
— Kristen

“… truly opens and deepens intimacy and confidence in self.”

A gentle, scholarly, and intuitive guide, Toko-pa accompanies us into the depths of our psyche to discover that we can navigate unknown dimensions, trust strange characters, and feel safe amidst the unfamiliar and often bizarre worlds of our own personal dreamtime. With her attentive instruction we discover that the language of metaphor, poetry, and myth is part of our dream and waking states. This enriching experience truly opens and deepens intimacy and confidence in self. I look forward to the next course.
— Suzanne Luedkens

“… I’m inspired to go out and create a future that I will love.”

Thank you so much, Toko-pa. My dreams are getting richer and I’m inspired to go out and create a future that I will love. Most of all, I’m starting to trust that this is possible.
— Nathiya

“A vast and powerful resource to… move through life with more depth and authenticity.”

One of the main gifts from this course for me has been in the finding of a deep respect for the stories that have been coursing through my psyche all along — deep, authentic, the old and the hatching. A vast and powerful resource to help us move through life with more depth and authenticity.
— Elaine

“I don’t think I would have survived if not for this course.”

— L. R.

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Courting the Dream offers some of the most advanced online teachings currently available, in a thriving global community of learning and practice.

Join your fellow students and practitioners from around the world in the live interactive conference calls or our online community to support and learn from each other while you discover how to open your mind and expand your paradigm of reality.

This international community is at the leading edge of a global movement of people who are committed to manifesting a better world for all beings. This emerging planetary movement is rooted in an open heart and stands for the principles of mutual support, cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.

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