If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

This is a year long seven weekend training, running from May of 2023 through May of 2024.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

This is a year long seven weekend training, running from May of 2023 through May of 2024.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

This is a year long seven weekend training, running from May of 2023 through May of 2024.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

This is a year long seven weekend training, running from May of 2023 through May of 2024.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

To register for this workshop including accommodations and meals click HERE

In this high adventure in Active Dreaming, Robert's original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism, you’ll be encouraged to remember and live the deeper story of your life.  You’ll find confirmation of things you may have sensed, or glimpsed in half-forgotten dreams or in the path of moonlight on water:

-          You are here in this world on a mission

-          You had a life before you were conceived, and you’ll have a life after death.

-          You belong to a spiritual, as well as a biological family. You have counterparts in other times and in alternate realities, aspects of your larger, multidimensional self

-          Dreaming is traveling.

-          The events and situations you encounter in physical reality have their genesis in a deeper order of reality that indigenous peoples call the Dreamtime, and you can learn to go there consciously.

-          You can visit the Other Side, have timely and helpful communication with the departed in their current living environments – and make Death your ally instead of your fear.

-          You are never confined to the body, or the laws of Newtonian physics, except through a failure of imagination.

-          Coincidence is when the universe gets personal, and navigating by synchronicity is the dreamer’s way of traveling the roads of everyday life.

You’ll learn practical techniques to bring energy, guidance and healing from a deeper reality into everyday life. You’ll discover how to project consciousness safely beyond the body, how to open gates between the worlds – and how to close them when necessary.  You’ll learn how to travel, wide awake and dreaming, to true cities of the imagination, and other places of instruction, adventure and healing in nonordinary reality, and how to read the signs of everyday life as a set of dream symbols. 

You’ll be invited to meet your counterparts in other realities, and rise to the knowledge of the Higher Self at the hub of the many aspects of your multidimensional self. In short, this program is an invitation to become a full citizen of the multidimensional universe.

Priority will be given to participants who have already completed depth workshops or online courses with Robert. To be prepared for these adventures, you need to be keeping a journal and you want to read at least one of Rober's books. Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates and Dreaming the Soul Back Home are especially recommended. 

Our Dream Location

You will be fed and tended better than you may have thought possible unless you have already experienced Mosswood Hollow, a magical private retreat center nestled in the greenwoods 45 minutes from Seattle. Our days will start with sharing dreams and life stories at the breakfast table. We'll grow our heart-centered family as our gathering streams into afternoon rambles and berry-picking and evening conversation and informal concerts. We'll help each other, as dream teachers, to grow our audiences and our tools for marketing and manifestation. We’ll grow visions of bright possibility for our lives, our communities and our world. 

Tuition: $995 if paid in full by June 30, 2023, $1250 thereafter

Registration, accommodations and meal package. Click on link above.

Our genial hosts will also arrange your transportation (if needed) from SEA-TAC airport. 

To register for this workshop and to sign up for accommodations and meals click HERE

Australian Aborigines say that the Big stories are hunting the right people to tell them, like predators stalking in the bush. The trick is to put ourselves in a place where the Big stories can find us. In this splendid adventure in a dream location, we’ll let the Big stories hunt us, and make them the substance of the personal mythologies that bring courage, passion and healing into our lives.

When we are seized by the Big story, we step beyond limiting definitions and beliefs. Great healing becomes available because we can now draw on the immense energy that is generated by the sense of serving a larger purpose and living a mythic life. The muse, or creative genius, and the intelligences of the world-behind-the-world come to support our life projects, because we are following a deeper call.

We’ll play wonderful games of coincidence and imagination. We’ll walk in Baudelaire’s forest of living symbols that are looking at us. We’ll develop personal dictionaries of symbols and discover the magnetic power of symbols to bring together inner and outer events.

We will draw together a marvelous family of creative dreamers who will support your deepening practice and your life odyssey. We’ll generate the kind of group energy that makes the extraordinary easy.

To create is to bring something new into the world. You don’t need to be a writer or artist or musician to join this adventure, though you may find you have unexpected gifts you can now release.

A word to writers:

In a writing life, the great moments are when you are dreaming on paper (or on a keyboard). Words stream almost effortlessly from springs that are not accessible in lesser states of consciousness. Clock time no longer rules. In an expansive now-time, more is possible in minutes than might otherwise come in days. Improbable connections are made and prove to be exactly right. 

This is a state of conscious dreaming. You straddle the worlds. You are the shaper, not merely the amanuensis, for the images bubbling up from those fresh springs.

If you've ever been there, you long to be there again. It's what athletes call the Zone. It's that sweet place where time moves as fast or slow as you want, and creative connections are made effortlessly. It's the state of relaxed attention in which the muse or the creative daimon draws close and whispers in your ear. It's the borderland beyond the tame fields and picket fences of the mind, where it's easy for the Big story hunting you to find you.

This adventure in creative imagination will help you find fresh and delightful ways to tap into your creative source, and tell the stories that want to be told through you. We'll learn how to use powerful and original techniques of Active Dreaming to go beyond blocks and move seamlessly into creative flow. We’ll turn dreams and life memories into drawings and stories, poems and scripts and performance.

Our practice will include timed writing exercises, story-swapping, play-acting, shamanic excursions to a Secret Library and other wonderful games to release our inner writer and creator. We’ll all be nourished and nurtured as we grow a supportive circle of creative friends.

Our Dream Location

You will be fed and tended better than you may have thought possible unless you have already experienced Mosswood Hollow, a magical private retreat center nestled in the greenwoods 45 minutes from Seattle. Our days will start with sharing dreams and life stories at the breakfast table. We'll grow our heart-centered family as our gathering streams into afternoon rambles and berry-picking and evening conversation and informal concerts. We'll help each other, as dream teachers, to grow our audiences and our tools for marketing and manifestation. We’ll grow visions of bright possibility for our lives, our communities and our world.

 Tuition: $995 if paid in full by June 15, 2023, $1250 thereafter

 Registration, accommodations and meal package. Click on link above.

 Our genial hosts will also arrange your transportation (if needed) from SEA-TAC airport. 

This is a year long seven weekend training, running from May of 2023 through May of 2024.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and keals HERE

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

Please sign up even if you are not planning to stay overnight or have meals, so we know your plans.

Note, there is a $25 Day Use Fee for people who are not staying overnight.
If you stay only one night, you will pay one Day Use Fee.

If you are a member of the Lorian Board and attending this retreat, register for accommodations and meals HERE

This is a year long seven weekend training, running from June of 2023 through May of 2024.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

To register for this workshop including accommodations and meals, click HERE

Please join us for our 1st annual Mosswood Hollow gathering of mystics, voyagers and dervishes!

In celebration of Hank and Jill Wesselman, we will remember, review and refine the shamanic teachings we've been given.

As we honor and develop our own unique expression of the Mystery, our ability to embody wisdom grows.

Hank called those who embody two or more ancient wisdom paths, “Twisted Hairs,” and we spent many hours comparing and contrasting the Hawaiian cosmology gifted to us by Hale Makua, with River’s Sufic studies. Along with Hank's teachings, River will introduce elements of this universal Sufi tradition, and incorporate them into our journey practice. 

We will come together as community, at a time when we need the Medicine of community more than ever. We'll reconnect to the Land and to our Ancestors and to our own inner guidance. River will introduce a variety of practices that will encourage each participant to build a personal home practice. We will become familiar with our own personal Healing Masters and utilize the combined energies of our circle to promote individual and collective healing.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

On Thriving Embracing ALL the Gifts of the Universe A 3 Day Retreat for Men with Robert Speigel

For more details and to register go to: https://tinyurl.com/activlinkhypnosis

The Retreat Will Provide You With: A unique opportunity to be in retreat with fellow men seeking to explore a healthy path to Thriving The time and space to work with the blocks you might have to “Thriving” using proven techniques of meditation and visualization, paired Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, and active imagination Processes to help define the specific elements of Thriving and create a daily practice of those processes. A comfortable retreat center in a beautiful setting to enter into a magical and cleansing energy field for physical and soul healing - something men rarely experience.

Your Retreat Leader, Robert Speigel, has over 45 years experience as psychotherapist, clinical hypnotherapist, author, teacher, and research scientist. He is a visionary inventor, holding three United States patents for bio-behavioral medical technology, and served as a two-time Principal Investigator for the National Institutes of Health. His research proved the efficacy of his targeted medical hypnosis technology. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Experimental Psychology from Wright State University (1970) and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan (1973). He is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, a Board Certified Diplomate of the National Association of Social Workers, and a Washington State Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. He holds an Advanced Certified Hypnotherapist certification, and offers telemedicine services to his clients across the country

Attuning to our Sidhe/Human, Nature/Devic, Soul and Personal Selves

If you are registered with Lorian for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

What does it mean to be present; to our everyday selves, our surrounding environments, the subtle worlds in which we are imbedded and our own spiritual nature? This is the question we seek to answer in an experiential way in this upcoming online class and face-to-face workshop.

For several years in the spring Jeremy Berg and David Spangler (along with many invited guest presenters) have offered an online class exploring our relationship to the Sidhe. This year we wanted to put this work into the larger context of Incarnational Spirituality.

Some time ago David Spangler introduced a “Presence Exercise” as a fundamental practice of Incarnational Spirituality. It was intended to have the practitioner experience the whole self that emerges from the weave of relationships we establish to make physical incarnation possible. Deeply attuning to our Sidhe/Human, Nature/Devic, Soul and Personal Selves enhances the blossoming of our incarnate presence as a blessing in the world.

This class will spend a week online for each of these four relationships. Embedded in this class is also a 3 day weekend face-to-face optional workshop in the Seattle, WA area. This workshop will explore this same territory and partially be recorded and posted online.

Audience: This class is intended for anyone interested in exploring and deepening their emergence presence in the context of Incarnational Spirituality. This class is both online for a month and can include a 3 day weekend March 24-26, 2023 at Mosswood Hollow near Duval, WA.

Cost: $150 Online Only – One Month

$425 3-day weekend face-to-face workshop and one month online. Includes Mosswood day fees and a gourmet lunch each day. Overnight accommodations at the retreat center, breakfasts and dinners are in addition to this cost and can be made separately through Mosswood Hollow,

Duval, WA. Phone: 425 844 9050. Email: paul@mosswoodhollow.org.

Website: http://www.mosswoodhollow.org

Faculty: Jeremy Berg, Freya Secrest, Julia and David Spangler

Dates: March 3- March 31, 2023

DESCRIPTION: 

This class is designed to more explicitly connect Lorian’s work with the Sidhe, the intelligences of nature, our soul and everyday selves to the overall work of Incarnational Spirituality. We want to expand our engagement with these realms beyond the idea of personal helpers into the unexplored territory of our shared vision for earth and humanity. In some ways Lorian is entering a new phase of articulating what is meant by a “Gaian Humanity”. This can impact us personally in our daily lives as we become more aware of the subtle life around us and also radiate out into the world for the greater good. As always this Lorian class is experimental and emergent with the help of subtle colleagues. It is a creative exploration together of deepening and discovery with each realm.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

To register for Deepening Skills, sign up HERE:

If you are already registered for Deepening Skills, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE.

Please use this form even if you are not wanting a room or meals so we will know.
(Note that there is a $25 per day fee if you are not staying overnight).If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

Deepening Skills is open to individuals who are curious about Hakomi. Seattle Hakomi welcomes participation in Hakomi sessions as a client or observer at reduced cost (check registration page). This event is designed to provide graduates of the Level II Hakomi training with the opportunity to work toward certification, and to provide certified Hakomi therapists an opportunity to further hone their skills.

Self Compassion is the theme for this event. Each day begins with a short presentation and group practice, followed by one-on-one Hakomi counseling sessions coached by Hakomi trainers. Twelve (12) CEUs.

The teaching team is Lynn Morrison, MA, CHT, certified Hakomi therapist and senior trainer; and Dennis Gaither, MD, OMC, certified Hakomi therapist and senior trainer.

Registration questions to Dave Cole at jdcole4@frontier.com.

: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/213076436357

CEU Credits: This program has been approved for 12 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists, and Certified Counselors, by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work. This program is also approved for CEUs for Licensed Massage Therapists through DiscoveryPoint School of Massage.

If you are already registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

If you are registered for the Arbor Welcome Retreat with Sarah Bicknell, you must register for accommodations and meals HERE

Register for the workshop and accommodations and meals HERE

Our society is desperately in need of people who are prepared to help midwife Death: to help others approach the last stages of life, and the journey into life beyond life, with courage and grace. The role of the psychopomp is not confined to helping the living to travel the roads beyond Death. It involves helping spirits of the deceased to find their ways.
    This extraordinary training marries the powerful and original techniques of Active Dreaming to a vitally important agenda: to help souls on both sides of the swing doors of death. It will require you to brave up for a close encounter with your personal Death, and to travel the roads of the afterlife and develop a working geography of the many options available after physical death.
    What happens after death is far too important for us to rely on hand-me-down beliefs and second-hand accounts. We need first-hand knowledge. We get that by visiting places where the dead are alive, and by receiving visitations from those who have departed this world. Both ways of knowing are opened, easily and naturally, in dreams.
    The immense body of data on near-death experiences (NDEs) is scientific evidence of the survival of consciousness after the physical body has closed down. Awareness is not confined to the body and brain, and therefore is able to survive death.
    It is never too early or too late for us to brave up to death and discover what happens on the Other Side. As Montaigne said, “We do not know where death will meet us, so we must be ready to meet death everywhere.” When we are willing to meet death as an ally instead of a dread, we find we have superabundant energy for life and can approach our life choices with the courage and clarity that a close encounter with death may bring.
    In this training, you will learn how to confirm for yourself, and help others to know that:

·         Contact with the dead, especially in dreams, is entirely natural and going on all the time, because the dead are alive and are often seeking to communicate with us.

·         Healing and forgiveness are always available across the apparent barrier of death.

·         Departed loved ones and ancestors can become family guides and counselors.

·         We can help the deceased  when they are stuck or confused. As Yeats said, with poetic clarity, “the living have the ability to assist the imaginations of the dead.”

·         Consciousness operates on many levels, and in several energy vehicles, during life and after death.

·         We can assist the dying to prepare for death by opening to their dreams, and when they do not have a dream, we can bring them one through our Dream Transfer technique.

·         We can call  in spiritual guidance and protection and embark on a journey to the Other Side for helpful and timely communication with someone who resides there.

·         Desire and imagination are the building contractors in the afterlife.

·         Through a close-up encounter with our personal Death, we can learn to live and die without regrets, and bring clarity, courage and superabundant energy to life on both sides.

Prerequisites: Our space is limited, and we will give preference for this training to those who have already completed depth workshops with Robert, and/or his online courses for The Shift Network.

Recommended reading: Robert’s books Dreamgates (especially Part 3) and The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead.

Tuition: $995 (if paid in full before June 30); $1150 after.

Registration, accommodations and meal package. Click button at top of page.
Mosswood Hollow. Email: mosswood@mosswoodhollow.org  Tel:  425-844-9050

Our genial hosts will also arrange your transportation (if needed) from SEA-TAC airport. 

All participants must be fully vaccinated against Covid. All Mosswood staff will be fully vaccinated too.

Reserved for dream ambassadors who have completed level 3 of Robert’s Dream Teacher Training

Register for the workshop and accommodations and meals HERE

We gather again for the first time since 2019 at magical Mosswood Hollow, where our dreams are so beautifully nurtured and fed. We will journey beyond our previous maps in our second five-day Masterclass in the company of dream teachers from all over the world. This retreat is reserved for graduates of the Level 3 Dream Teacher Trai8ning

We will test-fly new techniques, and embark on group journeys to explore the Many Worlds. We'll deepen our practice of imaginal healing, vision transfer and soul recovery. We'll delight in creative expression in many forms - through performance and theater, through drawing and writing, storytelling and spontaneous ritual. We'll play fabulous synchronicity games. We'll deepen our knowledge of the role of dreaming in the history, past and future, of all things human. We'll stage group experiments to confirm and apply our "supernormal" abilities - precognition, telepathy and clairsentience.

We'll practice the arts and skills of quantum dreaming, and learn how to bring them to others. As quantum dreamers, we can step in and out of time and bring gifts and lessons from other times - including our parallel lives - into this one. We'll operate in the knowledge that we live in a conscious universe where everything is alive and connected, where mind and matter interweave. We'll hatch new experiments in time travel and reality creation, and we'll play games to entertain our creative genius and bring its energy into fullness in our bodies and our lives.. 

We'll be fed and tended better than most of us thought possible before we found Mosswood Hollow, nestled in the greenwoods 45 minutes from Seattle. Our days will start with sharing dreams and life stories at the breakfast table. We'll grow our heart-centered family as our gathering streams into afternoon rambles and berry-picking and evening conversation and informal concerts. We'll help each other, as dream teachers, to grow our audiences and our tools for marketing and manifestation. We’ll grow visions of bright possibility for our lives, our communities and our world.

Tuition: $995 if paid in full by June 15, 2022, $1150 thereafter

Registration, accommodations and meal package. Click link at top page.
Mosswood Hollow. Email: mosswood@mosswoodhollow.org  Tel:  425-844-9050

Our genial hosts will also arrange your transportation (if needed) from SEA-TAC airport. 

All participants must be fully vaccinated against Covid. All Mosswood staff will be fully vaccinated too.

Improv Weekend with Gary Schwartz   

To enroll in this workshop go HERE

If you are already enrolled in the workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

Total Cost:$625 (includes all meals)

Improvisation is not an exchange of information between players;

it is communion. – Viola Spolin

People say Improv is terrifying. No, it’s not!  It’s fun!
If you can play a game you can improvise. 

Viola Spolin once said “Acting requires presence. Playing produces this state.”

What can I expect from this workshop?

1. Reach into the unknown through play.

2. Experience creative transformation through Spolin Games.

3. Transformation of the individual, the group and the culture through true play! Pure play!

4. Amplify your intuitive power to reach new levels of creativity, artistry, collaboration,

5. Go forth into the unknown and transform your life.

– This workshop is open to all levels – 

“Gary Schwartz is a gifted player and coach. He has a thorough understanding of my work.”- Viola Spolin

“Gary Schwartz was very close to Viola for years, and one of her best students. I’ve had him in several workshops now and find he’s the best side coach around, including me.” – Paul Sills

. You can arrive at the Hollow and check in anytime after 4 pm.

We will meet & greet on Friday, have dinner at 6 pm and play from 7:30 pm – 10 pm in their 30 foot yurt, where the workshop will take place.

• Saturday we will start at 9am – 12 noon. Break for lunch and resume from 2pm – 5pm. In the evening another session. 8pm – 9:30pm

• Sunday we will gather at 10am in the yurt and play until 2pm. In all 12 hours of instruction.

About the accommodations: Accommodations are not included. They have several bedrooms sleeping up to twenty-two people. All the rooms are beautifully furnished, many with antiques, in a bed and breakfast style. The beds and bedding were chosen to provide the utmost comfort. Bathrooms are shared, one for every two bedrooms.
Some people prefer to pitch a tent or sleep on a pad on the floor in the living room, on covered porch, or in the yurt.
Rooms and sleeping arrangements are to be paid by attendees. Rooms range from $40 – $160 per night depending on your choice of private, shared rooms or camp out.

To register for Deepening Skills, sign up HERE:

If you are already registered for Deepening Skills, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE.

Please use this form even if you are not wanting a room or meals so we will know.
(Note that there is a $25 per day fee if you are not staying overnight).If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

Deepening Skills is open to individuals who are curious about Hakomi. Seattle Hakomi welcomes participation in Hakomi sessions as a client or observer at reduced cost (check registration page). This event is designed to provide graduates of the Level II Hakomi training with the opportunity to work toward certification, and to provide certified Hakomi therapists an opportunity to further hone their skills.

Self Compassion is the theme for this event. Each day begins with a short presentation and group practice, followed by one-on-one Hakomi counseling sessions coached by Hakomi trainers. Twelve (12) CEUs.

The teaching team is Lynn Morrison, MA, CHT, certified Hakomi therapist and senior trainer; and Dennis Gaither, MD, OMC, certified Hakomi therapist and senior trainer.

Registration questions to Dave Cole at jdcole4@frontier.com.

: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/213076436357

CEU Credits: This program has been approved for 12 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists, and Certified Counselors, by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work. This program is also approved for CEUs for Licensed Massage Therapists through DiscoveryPoint School of Massage.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

A weekend of Connection, Reflection, Silence and Community in beautiful Duvall, WA. In this three day, two night retreat, we will gather to cultivate Connection- connection to self, community, and the world. Using the tools of meditation, yoga, and Noble Silence, we will practice letting go of the distractions of daily life and guide our focus on truly engaging in the present moment. Come connect. Come recharge. Come be.

This retreat is hosted by Be Meditation. At Be Meditation, they have designed a virtual studio for individuals and teams that brings world-class teachers directly to you, providing a soothing force to calm and balance the mind and body. While it’s chaotic outside—be calm inside. For more information visit bemeditation.com

If you are a Lorian Board member attending this retreat, please sign up for accommodations and meals HERE

Arbor Program - All cohort retreat. Welcome to the first Arbor Program retreat! We are excited to drop in deep together and set the rest of the year. More details about the retreat and what to bring will be in the October phone call and in the Arbor Program Circle. We will all gather on the evening of Wednesday Nov 3rd and finish Tuesday Nov 9th around noon.

If you are registered for this workshop, sign up for accommodations and meals HERE