Dreaming Circles Workshop

Explore inner realms and celebrate transformation using Baguazhang palm changing, poetry, and dream cycling. This Baguazhang Dreaming Circles Workshop coincides closely with several holidays worldwide—Imbloc, Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, American Ground-Hog Day, Setsubun, and Lichun—suggesting that this poetic time of year means

• returning of warmth and wisdom
• increasing light
• inner growth
• new beginnings

Using a fusion of Baguazhang circle walking, Baguazhang partner-training drills, circular-free writing, and brief wake-sleep periods, participants explore inner realms and personal development, while enhancing dream visions and dream states.

Participants are welcome to spend a longer time at the camp. The intensive Baguazhang Dreaming Circles Workshop encompasses one entire evening. By switching, in 45 minute intervals, between artistic activities and sleep-dreaming, we provoke profound states that deepen our consciousness of being-awake and dreaming-awake. Situated in Goblin Valley Area, magestic mountains, chilly nighttime temperatures, and dreamy starry skies accompany practitioners on their inward journey. Please bring these things…

• a sleeping bag rated for at least -20° Fahrenheit
• an 8×10 tarpaulin
• writing tools and an artist’s sketch-pad or notepad
• some healthy snacks
• one gallon of water
• one open mind

In Baguazhang Dreaming-Circles Workshops, participants envision and embrace deeper dreams, learn, connect, and create in an atmosphere of concentration, participation, creative expression, and community. Dreaming-Circles Workshops embrace physical and emotional safety in a profound atmosphere while actively encouraging palm changes, positive growth, and personal transformations.