~ Workshops ~
Dream Poetry Workshop - online
Saturday, April 9, 2022
11am-1pm Mountain Time - on Zoom
Join us for a soul-journeying workshop in writing poetry from your dreams. This process integrates unconscious shadow parts and supports deep creative yearnings. Even if you only remember fragments of dreams, it still works! We'll also get into dream-like states through guided meditations, from which we'll then write. Bring your journal, a few dream images, and your imagination!
Poetry is a wonderful art form for expressing dreams, because it is by nature a surreal, evocative orientation to language. When our dreams call us into action, poetry can be an inspiring way to integrate them into our waking life. Poetry blends the verbal and visual worlds in a powerful process that is both therapeutic and creative. We can then weave these unique individual poems together, creating a piece that reflects the larger community voice from our collective dreams and unconscious.
In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the places between dreaming and waking, translating messages and images from our dreams into poems. We’ll tap into our whole being to express the language of our body, heart, senses, and soul, through structured play to free ourselves creatively. We will be using guided active imagination, writing sessions with focused prompts, sharing around the circle, and creating a final collaborative piece.
Bring several dreams to work with, writing and drawing materials, a few objects that connect you to your dreams, your imagination and creativity. Contact me if you have any questions, or to register. Cost: $40
Poetry is a wonderful art form for expressing dreams, because it is by nature a surreal, evocative orientation to language. When our dreams call us into action, poetry can be an inspiring way to integrate them into our waking life. Poetry blends the verbal and visual worlds in a powerful process that is both therapeutic and creative. We can then weave these unique individual poems together, creating a piece that reflects the larger community voice from our collective dreams and unconscious.
In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the places between dreaming and waking, translating messages and images from our dreams into poems. We’ll tap into our whole being to express the language of our body, heart, senses, and soul, through structured play to free ourselves creatively. We will be using guided active imagination, writing sessions with focused prompts, sharing around the circle, and creating a final collaborative piece.
Bring several dreams to work with, writing and drawing materials, a few objects that connect you to your dreams, your imagination and creativity. Contact me if you have any questions, or to register. Cost: $40
Entering Nature's Dream - in person
Outdoor Workshop with Horses, Dreams, and Plant Spirit Medicine
May 13-14, 2022
Friday 5:30-8pm & Saturday 10am-5pm MT
Come join us for an evening and a day in Nature with Dreams and Horses and Plants as our guides. Through the power of our dream journeying, the grounding and uplifted energy of horses and the healing powers of plants, we will spend time in community to receive guidance, deepen our presence and wisdom and heal from the challenges our life has offered us.
Marta, Jackie and Karla have many decades of combined experience and wisdom to share with you.
Spring is the time when energy starts to move again - water flows, seeds sprout, and flowers open to the sun. New life is born after the long gestation of winter. What is sprouting inside you, what wants to move and flow? Bring your dreams to share in the circle, on a beautiful horse ranch near the foothills of Boulder.
Cost: $225
To register contact Marta - marta.aarli@gmail.com or 303.818.1888
Location near SW Longmont, Colorado, directions given after registration
Limited to 10 participants, COVID guidelines will be followed
DREAMS with Marta Aarli:
Marta Aarli is a dream guide, psychotherapist, singer and poet. Her passion is supporting people in feeling the deep, life-affirming messages and energies in their dreams. She helps people connect with their wisdom, hidden from everyday consciousness, by entering a dreamlike state of creativity, imagination, and new possibilities.
HORSES with Jackie Ashley:
Jackie Ashley is a Somatic and Dance/Movement therapist who has been integrating horses into her practice since 2002. Jackie believes in the innate healing capacity of our bodies and the creative process to heal trauma and build resiliency. Horses naturally bring us into an embodied state to ease the access to our truer selves.
PLANTS with Karla Refoxo:
Karla Refoxo is a Dream Tender, Oracle reader and Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner. Through the deep work of dream tending and the healing powers of plants, she will connect us with our deepest longing, open us up to the gifts of our lives and inspire a deep connection with the natural world and the beings that inhabit it.
Marta, Jackie and Karla have many decades of combined experience and wisdom to share with you.
Spring is the time when energy starts to move again - water flows, seeds sprout, and flowers open to the sun. New life is born after the long gestation of winter. What is sprouting inside you, what wants to move and flow? Bring your dreams to share in the circle, on a beautiful horse ranch near the foothills of Boulder.
Cost: $225
To register contact Marta - marta.aarli@gmail.com or 303.818.1888
Location near SW Longmont, Colorado, directions given after registration
Limited to 10 participants, COVID guidelines will be followed
DREAMS with Marta Aarli:
Marta Aarli is a dream guide, psychotherapist, singer and poet. Her passion is supporting people in feeling the deep, life-affirming messages and energies in their dreams. She helps people connect with their wisdom, hidden from everyday consciousness, by entering a dreamlike state of creativity, imagination, and new possibilities.
HORSES with Jackie Ashley:
Jackie Ashley is a Somatic and Dance/Movement therapist who has been integrating horses into her practice since 2002. Jackie believes in the innate healing capacity of our bodies and the creative process to heal trauma and build resiliency. Horses naturally bring us into an embodied state to ease the access to our truer selves.
PLANTS with Karla Refoxo:
Karla Refoxo is a Dream Tender, Oracle reader and Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner. Through the deep work of dream tending and the healing powers of plants, she will connect us with our deepest longing, open us up to the gifts of our lives and inspire a deep connection with the natural world and the beings that inhabit it.
Past Workshops:
Online Dream Workshop
Sunday, 2-4pm, April 26, 2020
Join us for 2 hours of journeying into deep dream exploration.
You will learn how to:
~ Tune in to deeper levels of awareness.
~ Reconnect with hidden aspects of yourself.
~ Take the actions that are inspired by your dreams.
~ Integrate your sleeping and waking consciousness.
~ Receive guidance from your helpers and ancestors.
~ Ignite your creativity and move through obstacles.
~ Develop practices to deepen your dreaming.
Here’s an overview of the practices we will be sharing:
* Create a dream altar.
* Share individual dreams.
* Dialogue with dream characters.
* Journey with Shamanic drumming.
* Re-enter dreams through active imagination.
* Develop action plans for expressing our dreams.
* Create practices to enrich your life and inspire others.
Marta Aarli teaches dreamwork from an integration of 25 years of training and practice in psychodynamic, modern psychoanalytic and archetypal psychology, transpersonal and contemplative psychology, Gestalt parts dialogue, creative expression, active imagination, shamanic dream re-entry, and dream theater/constellations. She is also a poet, singer, artist, and multi-disciplinary improvisor.
inspiral-psychotherapy.com
spiralmystic.com
Karla Refoxo is co-hosting our dream group, bringing her experience as an artist, jewelry designer, Plant Spirit Medicine healer, and dreamer. She practices DreamTending and is currently enrolled in the advanced certification course with Dr Steven Aizenstat at Pacifica University. She is certified by Eliot Cowan as a Plant Spirit Medicine Healer, and is a long time pilgrim in the Huichol indigenous tradition of Mexico.
tulkujewels.com
karlarefoxo.com
For the special price of $20, please register by April 24.
To register, contact Marta: marta.aarli@gmail.com or 303.818.1888
Send payment via Paypal to my email address. If you need other options for payment, please let me know.
Zoom link will be shared after registration.
Sunday, 2-4pm, April 26, 2020
Join us for 2 hours of journeying into deep dream exploration.
You will learn how to:
~ Tune in to deeper levels of awareness.
~ Reconnect with hidden aspects of yourself.
~ Take the actions that are inspired by your dreams.
~ Integrate your sleeping and waking consciousness.
~ Receive guidance from your helpers and ancestors.
~ Ignite your creativity and move through obstacles.
~ Develop practices to deepen your dreaming.
Here’s an overview of the practices we will be sharing:
* Create a dream altar.
* Share individual dreams.
* Dialogue with dream characters.
* Journey with Shamanic drumming.
* Re-enter dreams through active imagination.
* Develop action plans for expressing our dreams.
* Create practices to enrich your life and inspire others.
Marta Aarli teaches dreamwork from an integration of 25 years of training and practice in psychodynamic, modern psychoanalytic and archetypal psychology, transpersonal and contemplative psychology, Gestalt parts dialogue, creative expression, active imagination, shamanic dream re-entry, and dream theater/constellations. She is also a poet, singer, artist, and multi-disciplinary improvisor.
inspiral-psychotherapy.com
spiralmystic.com
Karla Refoxo is co-hosting our dream group, bringing her experience as an artist, jewelry designer, Plant Spirit Medicine healer, and dreamer. She practices DreamTending and is currently enrolled in the advanced certification course with Dr Steven Aizenstat at Pacifica University. She is certified by Eliot Cowan as a Plant Spirit Medicine Healer, and is a long time pilgrim in the Huichol indigenous tradition of Mexico.
tulkujewels.com
karlarefoxo.com
For the special price of $20, please register by April 24.
To register, contact Marta: marta.aarli@gmail.com or 303.818.1888
Send payment via Paypal to my email address. If you need other options for payment, please let me know.
Zoom link will be shared after registration.
Dream Workshops in Jamestown, Colorado
February 16 and March 15, 2020
Karla Refoxo and I will be hosting two more Workshops in Jamestown, Colorado, in a beautiful mountain location. These 3 hour workshops will include several dream journeys with the drum, group dream sharing, learning powerful ways to honor your dreams and bring them into your waking life.
Location shared after registration. Contact me with questions.
Location shared after registration. Contact me with questions.
New Dream Group in Boulder, Colorado
February-July, 2020
$180 for whole session
We will be starting a new Dream Group in Boulder, starting February 21. Registration is currently open, with a few spots left. Once registration is complete, this will be a closed group, meeting once a month for 6 months.
There will also be opportunities for seasonal journey experientials and special topics, to deeply study and engage in multi-disciplinary dreamwork.
Thanks to everyone who came to our Introductory Workshops:
January 11, 2-5pm, Jamestown
January 18, 2-5pm, Boulder
Here is what you can expect from the upcoming groups and workshops:
* Study various forms of dreamwork through reading, journaling, discussion, and experiential practices.
* Create dream altars to honor our dreams and their messages.
* Work with individual dreams in our powerful circle - one on one first, then opening to the group using “If it were my dream…” practice to give input.
* Re-enter dreams through active imagination - continuing the dream for more information or resolution.
* Dialogue with dream characters - allowing the different aspects of the dream to speak, to be heard, validated, nurtured, and integrated.
* Re-create dreams through constellations - bringing the dream parts into relationship with each other, letting them act and interact with one another.
* Journey with Shamanic drumming - opening up a visual, creative, dream-like state in which to receive messages from deeper sources of knowledge.
* Explore creative expression from our dreams - through visual arts, creative writing, and more.
You will learn how to:
~ Tune in to deeper levels of awareness.
~ Reconnect with hidden aspects of yourself.
~ Integrate your sleeping and waking consciousness.
~ Clarify the actions that are inspired by your dreams.
~ Receive the guidance that is always available to you.
~ Learn techniques for increasing your dream recall.
~ Enliven daily life by recognizing symbols and synchronicity.
~ Feel more connected to yourself and others.
~ Ignite your creativity and move through obstacles.
To RSVP and register, call Marta - 303.818.1888
or email marta.aarli@gmail.com
Send payment via Paypal to the same email address.
If you need other options for payment, please let me know.
Location will be shared after registration.
If you have any questions, please contact me!
February-July, 2020
$180 for whole session
We will be starting a new Dream Group in Boulder, starting February 21. Registration is currently open, with a few spots left. Once registration is complete, this will be a closed group, meeting once a month for 6 months.
There will also be opportunities for seasonal journey experientials and special topics, to deeply study and engage in multi-disciplinary dreamwork.
Thanks to everyone who came to our Introductory Workshops:
January 11, 2-5pm, Jamestown
January 18, 2-5pm, Boulder
Here is what you can expect from the upcoming groups and workshops:
* Study various forms of dreamwork through reading, journaling, discussion, and experiential practices.
* Create dream altars to honor our dreams and their messages.
* Work with individual dreams in our powerful circle - one on one first, then opening to the group using “If it were my dream…” practice to give input.
* Re-enter dreams through active imagination - continuing the dream for more information or resolution.
* Dialogue with dream characters - allowing the different aspects of the dream to speak, to be heard, validated, nurtured, and integrated.
* Re-create dreams through constellations - bringing the dream parts into relationship with each other, letting them act and interact with one another.
* Journey with Shamanic drumming - opening up a visual, creative, dream-like state in which to receive messages from deeper sources of knowledge.
* Explore creative expression from our dreams - through visual arts, creative writing, and more.
You will learn how to:
~ Tune in to deeper levels of awareness.
~ Reconnect with hidden aspects of yourself.
~ Integrate your sleeping and waking consciousness.
~ Clarify the actions that are inspired by your dreams.
~ Receive the guidance that is always available to you.
~ Learn techniques for increasing your dream recall.
~ Enliven daily life by recognizing symbols and synchronicity.
~ Feel more connected to yourself and others.
~ Ignite your creativity and move through obstacles.
To RSVP and register, call Marta - 303.818.1888
or email marta.aarli@gmail.com
Send payment via Paypal to the same email address.
If you need other options for payment, please let me know.
Location will be shared after registration.
If you have any questions, please contact me!
Past Workshops:
Shamanic Journey and Yoga Practice for Imbolc, the Turning of the Seed
Saturday, February 3, 2018, 3-7pm
Saturday, February 3, 3-7pm, $80
Studio Be Yoga, 1676 30th Street, Boulder
Join us for a journey from the depths of darkness into light.
The sun’s increasing strength marks this halfway point of the darkest time of year.
As the days grow longer, the earth prepares herself for planting, fertility, and renewal.
Inside the dark earth, the seeds are turning and preparing to send out roots and shoots.
What is stirring within you?
The portal is open to enrich our lives with seasonal ritual and community.
In this workshop, we will:
~ celebrate darkness and the seeds of potential that live within us
~ nourish our shadow, and embrace the return of the sun
~ tap into the collective sharing of deep mystery
~ clear away the old and welcome in the new
Bring a journal and something to place on the altar. Drawing supplies will be provided.
Michelle Anderson, MS, C-IAYT, RCST® is the co-owner of Studio Be Yoga in Boulder, and the creator of the Biodynamic Yoga method. She is a master teacher, skilled yoga therapist and intuitive healer. She is devoted to creating engaging mind body practices.
Marta Aarli, MA, LPC, is a psychotherapist and dream facilitator. She combines shamanic journeying, psychodynamic and archetypal frameworks, inner parts work, and Robert Moss’ Active Dreaming. She offers psychotherapy, soul journeys, dream sessions, and dream groups.
Studio Be Yoga, 1676 30th Street, Boulder
Join us for a journey from the depths of darkness into light.
The sun’s increasing strength marks this halfway point of the darkest time of year.
As the days grow longer, the earth prepares herself for planting, fertility, and renewal.
Inside the dark earth, the seeds are turning and preparing to send out roots and shoots.
What is stirring within you?
The portal is open to enrich our lives with seasonal ritual and community.
In this workshop, we will:
~ celebrate darkness and the seeds of potential that live within us
~ nourish our shadow, and embrace the return of the sun
~ tap into the collective sharing of deep mystery
~ clear away the old and welcome in the new
Bring a journal and something to place on the altar. Drawing supplies will be provided.
Michelle Anderson, MS, C-IAYT, RCST® is the co-owner of Studio Be Yoga in Boulder, and the creator of the Biodynamic Yoga method. She is a master teacher, skilled yoga therapist and intuitive healer. She is devoted to creating engaging mind body practices.
Marta Aarli, MA, LPC, is a psychotherapist and dream facilitator. She combines shamanic journeying, psychodynamic and archetypal frameworks, inner parts work, and Robert Moss’ Active Dreaming. She offers psychotherapy, soul journeys, dream sessions, and dream groups.
Shamanic Journey and Yoga Practice for Ancestral Healing
Saturday, November 11, 2017, 4-7pm
Join us during this mystical season as we explore the unknown when the veils between the worlds are the thinnest.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
We inherit the stories of our ancestors,
whether we are aware of it or not. This can cause
dis-ease and painful patterns in our lives on all levels -
physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
In this workshop, we will:
~ journey with shamanic drumming to unlock subconscious connections to
our ancestors, guides, and protectors.
~ free the unhealthy, compensatory patterns from our bodies through yoga practice.
~ release generational suffering for ourselves and our families.
~ center in our present strength and inherent health.
Michelle and Marta offer this opportunity for generational healing through intention-setting, guided imagery and journeying, yoga asana and pranayama, and sharing in a supportive circle. Bring a journal and favorite writing instruments. Drawing supplies will be provided.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
We inherit the stories of our ancestors,
whether we are aware of it or not. This can cause
dis-ease and painful patterns in our lives on all levels -
physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
In this workshop, we will:
~ journey with shamanic drumming to unlock subconscious connections to
our ancestors, guides, and protectors.
~ free the unhealthy, compensatory patterns from our bodies through yoga practice.
~ release generational suffering for ourselves and our families.
~ center in our present strength and inherent health.
Michelle and Marta offer this opportunity for generational healing through intention-setting, guided imagery and journeying, yoga asana and pranayama, and sharing in a supportive circle. Bring a journal and favorite writing instruments. Drawing supplies will be provided.
I offer a variety of Creative Therapeutic Workshops.
Please contact me if you're interested in hosting one of these, or one customized to your request.
I facilitate workshops for private groups, schools and organizations, and women's groups.
Available workshops include:
Please contact me if you're interested in hosting one of these, or one customized to your request.
I facilitate workshops for private groups, schools and organizations, and women's groups.
Available workshops include:
Freedom of Expression~
Activate creative voices and emotions, break through blocks, and enjoy deeper expression in your life. |
Writing Workshop~
Explore through journaling, creative visualization, dreams, and group sharing. Write to clarify feelings and move energy. |
Collage Workshop~
Free your imagination with visual journeying and dream images, then create a collage to bring inspiration to life. |
Moving Dreams Workshop~
Share a dream, create movement that expresses the images, feelings, and messages. |
Practice, Process, and Support Group for Care-Giving Professionals~
with facilitators Marta Aarli & Katharine Kaufman
For Therapists, Body-workers, Nurses, Child and Elder-Care Givers, Healing Arts Practitioners, Teachers, Hospital Staff, Day Care Providers, First Responders...
Do you take care of others in your profession?
Do you feel drained or impacted by the feelings of others?
Would you like clarity about unspoken dynamics with your clients or co-workers?
Do you need a place to be heard, nurtured, and supported in your work and life?
Replenish your deep inner resources.
Make your work and life more sustainable, balanced, and enjoyable!
Each session begins with gentle yoga practice and sitting meditation, followed by group process.
Facilitators~
Katharine Kaufman is priest ordained in the Soto Zen Lineage and teaches meditation and Yoga in Boulder County and the Shambhala Centers. She is an adjunct professor at Naropa where she teaches Movement Arts. She holds MFAs in Dance and Writing/Poetics.
Marta Aarli, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist who has been practicing and leading groups in Boulder for 20 years. She holds an MA in Transpersonal Psychology, and is also trained in Contemplative, Modern Analytic, Gestalt, and Dream Work modalities.
with facilitators Marta Aarli & Katharine Kaufman
For Therapists, Body-workers, Nurses, Child and Elder-Care Givers, Healing Arts Practitioners, Teachers, Hospital Staff, Day Care Providers, First Responders...
Do you take care of others in your profession?
Do you feel drained or impacted by the feelings of others?
Would you like clarity about unspoken dynamics with your clients or co-workers?
Do you need a place to be heard, nurtured, and supported in your work and life?
Replenish your deep inner resources.
Make your work and life more sustainable, balanced, and enjoyable!
Each session begins with gentle yoga practice and sitting meditation, followed by group process.
Facilitators~
Katharine Kaufman is priest ordained in the Soto Zen Lineage and teaches meditation and Yoga in Boulder County and the Shambhala Centers. She is an adjunct professor at Naropa where she teaches Movement Arts. She holds MFAs in Dance and Writing/Poetics.
Marta Aarli, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist who has been practicing and leading groups in Boulder for 20 years. She holds an MA in Transpersonal Psychology, and is also trained in Contemplative, Modern Analytic, Gestalt, and Dream Work modalities.
Serpent Wisdom Workshop~
Explore the primordial serpentine energy, within yourself and through the stories and myths from all over the world. Experience the energy of snakes directly, through contact with my assistant ~ Zohar, a royal python. This ambassador from the serpent world has a very special presence, and has delighted and surprised many people that have met him over the years. Due to the strong reactions people sometimes have to snakes, please contact me to discuss your feelings and interests in attending one of these workshops. |