HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW YOUR
DREAMS
RELATE TO YOUR WAKING LIFE?
Can you feel a soft, still voice within you that you feel drawn to?
Have you always been curious about your dreams and what they mean?
Are your favorite things experiences that feel impossible to put into words?
Do you long for an inner reunion?
Have you always felt that there was something more, something more inside of you that wants to be expressed?
Welcome to the world of Archetypal Dreamwork, your gateway into the mysteries of the realm of dreams. My name is Amy Trafford and my devotion and study is dedicated to unraveling the unique world of your dreams, each specifically formed for you and you alone, offering insight, guidance, and understanding for the countless stories that unfold in the theater of your mind, crafted by the wisdom of your heart, while you sleep.
I believe that dreams are a powerful source of self-discovery, inspiration, and personal growth. Archetypal Dreamwork helps you understand the intimate opportunity each dream brings for you as a path to healing, helping you connect the dots between the subconscious and conscious mind. It can be a spiritual path and awakening, and can also offer insights that help uncover blocks and negative patterns that are points of struggle or suffering, presenting the tools for changing those patterns.
Every dream takes us, step-by-step, deeper into ourselves and helps us return to our soul selves.
As many of us desire to remember our dreams, our dreams desire us. Each dream comes with an invitation for us, to awaken and bring something into our conscious awareness. Each dream holds within it a gift that is intimate and very specific to each of us individually. The dream message nourishes us with exactly what we need, and the message is delivered with beautiful intimacy that resonates for each dreamer very personally.
If we listen, accept the shining jewel that each dream holds, and follow the wisdom of each dream, one by one, we can experience powerful awakening and healing. Dream medicine works from the inside, out, offering change on both the inner and outer level.
Archetypal Dreamwork is experiential, and simultaneously practical. A deep practice that can be brought into your life, your relationships, meditation practice, yoga practice, grocery store outings.
Within the dream exploration itself, I offer support, led by the guidance of your dreams, to integrate the knowledge given by your dreams and encourage the transformation the dreams offer and manifestation on inner and outer levels.
My dreams have always been a significant part of my life. Always curious about them and the world they opened inside me.
My intentional relationship with dreams began at the age of 13 while entering into a time of separation from my childhood and true self, which created a waking life wash of desperation, terror, and isolation. During this time, I was mostly unable to feel support as I moved through life, though my dream world remained a solid port in the storm that buoyed me through adolescence and beyond.
Starting at this time and for many years following, I tried several forms of therapy. Those attempts were mildly helpful, but I mostly felt I was learning to cope, not actually healing or changing. Something was missing. My dream life continued. I couldn't feel it consciously, but it was calling me.
At the age of twenty I was disconnected and “drifting” through life. I realized this path was neither healthy nor sustainable. I knew there was more inside of me and I wanted to find the connection.
A good friend was learning and benefitting from Archetypal Dreamwork. They shared a recommendation and a scrap of paper with a phone number. I called.
I don't remember many details of my first session, but I do remember the particular feeling of the air in the room and the feeling of my dreams underneath every behavior and coping mechanism I had honed throughout my life. I was both terrified and relieved that I could no longer ignore my calling.
I trained at the Center for Archetypal Dreamwork in Vermont from 2004-2014.
I would be honored to guide you through your dream world, uncovering the messages and meanings they are so eager to share.
Archetypal Dreamwork Sessions 60 mins $175 /4 session bundle $600
Using your dreams as the healing modality, a path to deep understanding. This is a process of returning to self, and understanding and feeling more about the moments when you get lost from that deepest, essential self.
The dreams are at the center and the material arises from and is guided by, the dreams.
These sessions are experiential and I will ground you in the practical, bridging a deeply personal internal place (from your own dreams) and a reference in your waking life.
This practice will grow as you grow, with each session, each dream.
Practice of Presence Sessions 45 mins $130 /4 session bundle $440
If you are feeling distracted, ungrounded, scattered in your daily life and are longing to grow your capacity for simply being present as you go about living, interacting- at work, with friends, with co-workers, in difficult situations, or when you are alone, these sessions will really shift things and offer a feeling understanding of what is happening and what will be a support to bring you into yourself, for yourself, and, in turn, for others.
6-week Personalized Workshop Intensive $1600
Is there something you have been really feeling a desire to work on? A niggley whisper or a crescendo pound on the door of your heart?
Is there a pattern you're noticing and would like to be illuminated so you can find out what life is like without that?
Do you feel a block in your creative practice?
Do you long for a spiritual practice and ritual?
Are you interested in spiritual sexuality and healing?
We can design a workshop that uses your dreams and specific creative and somatic practices to facilitate insight into the place you would like help with.
This combines Archetypal Dreamwork, The Practice of Presence, art (writing, drawing, painting, sometimes music and sound). With weekly sessions and process work.
Writing To Deepen Your Dream Process (co-led with Ben Newman) 90 minutes each $150/4 class cycle
This is a great way to deepen your dream practice and feeling understanding of your dreams, whether you are a regular client or are just really interested and curious about your own dreams.
A confidential small group gathers and shares their dream or dream place. There is space to write and then space for those who feel moved to share their writing.
It is a unique support to have community around your dream process, held with respect and sensitivity.
