Kristena West M.A.
my father was an esotericist & studied the Western Mystery Traditions...he was a master dreamer and taught me from an early age...
I have been working and teaching dreamwork all my life. Big dreams called me to study many of the worlds sacred traditions and train with shamans since the early 90's.
As a community & social artist, my question has always been "What Makes Art Sacred?" Answering this question, a Big Dream lead me to move to Berkeley in 2000 and I received my Masters in cross-cultural sacred iconography with a graduate exhibition, Deities Dialogues & Dreams: Extraordinary conversations with Ordinary People. The exhibition showcased artist's friends of mine who had a Spiritual Experience, I asked them to write about the Spiritual Meeting and create a piece of artwork in conjuction with the Deity.
I was honored to complete the Two year Dream Studies program with noted artist, scientist and dreamer, Fariba Bogzarin. Fariba co-founded the Lucid Art Foundation and studied with Stephen Laberge (Lucid Dreaming author) in the sleep labs at Stanford University. We also worked with noted author and meditator Alan Wallace (Dali Lama's interpreter for many years) On moving back home to Santa Barbara- Alan used to do once a month workshops at the S.B. Consciousness institute. Alan's Shamatha Project spearheaded Meditation as a technique for resiliency, health and well-being...which I believe inspired the Calm app!
Bringing these psychological, scientific, shamanic, mystery traditions and archetypal dreamwork techniques together is a brand new approach to the ancient art of dreamwork. This foundational course will get you started on a great adventure- you can become the heroine or hero of your journey-to be able to cross the threshold of consciously is an inherent gift of being human- you don't have to be a shaman to dream awake! Take this class and start your adventure!
p.s. If enough friends are interested in continuing and deepening their dream skills we can create a monthly zoom global dream group! All participants will have to take this course as a basic foundational training.
