Three Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, September 20th, 27th & October 4, 2026
2:00pm - 4:30pm Eastern (NYC Time)
$145 Paid Patreon Members / $165 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Our Shadow (both Dark and Bright) reveals itself in our waking lives through projections, triggers, obsessions, crushes, and the many complicated experiences of being human. But the Shadow also speaks to us at night, appearing in our dreams and nightmares as villains, monsters, tricksters, ex-lovers, pursuers, and other terrifying figures.
But these frightening dream figures are not actually our enemies. They in fact have gifts to give us, including important messages about our lives and where we are headed.
ALL dreams come in the service of healing and integration, even the darkest ones. Nightmares are never “punishments” or “signs” that something is wrong with us. They are actually invitations to turn back toward what has been hidden, exiled, or feared, so that we can reclaim the many gifts that lie buried within our Shadow realms.
The reason these characters show up in frightening ways is to get our attention. When we have a sweet, fun, easy dream, we often wake up with a smile and think “That was nice” and then move on with our day, never giving the dream another thought. So our subconscious creates “nightmares” instead, so we can “wake up” and really notice what is actually happening in our lives, in order to restore us to wholeness.
In this 3-week class, we will explore the parts that have been forgotten, rejected, hidden, or pushed into the shadows. Rather than seeing these parts as problems to fix, we approach them with curiosity and compassion, recognizing that they often carry untapped gifts, wisdom, creativity, and your actual life force. As you welcome these aspects of yourself back into conscious relationship, you become less driven by fear stories and reactivity and become more capable of making choices from a place of presence, authenticity, and inner alignment.
Through lecture, discussion, creative exercises, and guided imaginal practices, we will discover that even the most frightening dream characters have golden gifts to share with us, if we are courageous enough to face them.
Class sessions are:
🌒 Week One: The Dream Underworld & Meeting the Shadow
🌗 Week Two: The Monster is Carrying Medicine
🌕 Week Three: Retrieving the Gold
Because every dark figure has a gift to give. And sometimes, the treasure we seek is hidden in the very place we least want to look.
Images: Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, ca. 1565. Woodcut. Public Domain.
Tristy Taylor is a Portland, Oregon-based transformation teacher, dream worker, shadow worker, ordained interfaith minister and dream artist. Raised by world-renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor and dream artist Kathryn Taylor, she has had a lifelong apprenticeship in the language of the unconscious. She has been leading dream groups since she was 15-years old, and over the last three decades, she has grown her own dream work offerings to include art making and ritual as guided by the dream world, as well as opening the rich secrets of Shadow work and nightmare imagery. She has a Master of Arts in Transformative Arts with a Dream Studies certificate from the Graduate School for Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University, and along with teaching a variety of classes on dreamwork, shadow work, and transformational open heart work, she also sees clients one-on-one and facilitates in-depth online workshops every season.
Three Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, September 20th, 27th & October 4, 2026
2:00pm - 4:30pm Eastern (NYC Time)
$145 Paid Patreon Members / $165 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Our Shadow (both Dark and Bright) reveals itself in our waking lives through projections, triggers, obsessions, crushes, and the many complicated experiences of being human. But the Shadow also speaks to us at night, appearing in our dreams and nightmares as villains, monsters, tricksters, ex-lovers, pursuers, and other terrifying figures.
But these frightening dream figures are not actually our enemies. They in fact have gifts to give us, including important messages about our lives and where we are headed.
ALL dreams come in the service of healing and integration, even the darkest ones. Nightmares are never “punishments” or “signs” that something is wrong with us. They are actually invitations to turn back toward what has been hidden, exiled, or feared, so that we can reclaim the many gifts that lie buried within our Shadow realms.
The reason these characters show up in frightening ways is to get our attention. When we have a sweet, fun, easy dream, we often wake up with a smile and think “That was nice” and then move on with our day, never giving the dream another thought. So our subconscious creates “nightmares” instead, so we can “wake up” and really notice what is actually happening in our lives, in order to restore us to wholeness.
In this 3-week class, we will explore the parts that have been forgotten, rejected, hidden, or pushed into the shadows. Rather than seeing these parts as problems to fix, we approach them with curiosity and compassion, recognizing that they often carry untapped gifts, wisdom, creativity, and your actual life force. As you welcome these aspects of yourself back into conscious relationship, you become less driven by fear stories and reactivity and become more capable of making choices from a place of presence, authenticity, and inner alignment.
Through lecture, discussion, creative exercises, and guided imaginal practices, we will discover that even the most frightening dream characters have golden gifts to share with us, if we are courageous enough to face them.
Class sessions are:
🌒 Week One: The Dream Underworld & Meeting the Shadow
🌗 Week Two: The Monster is Carrying Medicine
🌕 Week Three: Retrieving the Gold
Because every dark figure has a gift to give. And sometimes, the treasure we seek is hidden in the very place we least want to look.
Images: Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, ca. 1565. Woodcut. Public Domain.
Tristy Taylor is a Portland, Oregon-based transformation teacher, dream worker, shadow worker, ordained interfaith minister and dream artist. Raised by world-renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor and dream artist Kathryn Taylor, she has had a lifelong apprenticeship in the language of the unconscious. She has been leading dream groups since she was 15-years old, and over the last three decades, she has grown her own dream work offerings to include art making and ritual as guided by the dream world, as well as opening the rich secrets of Shadow work and nightmare imagery. She has a Master of Arts in Transformative Arts with a Dream Studies certificate from the Graduate School for Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University, and along with teaching a variety of classes on dreamwork, shadow work, and transformational open heart work, she also sees clients one-on-one and facilitates in-depth online workshops every season.
