Welcome to the 2023 Dreambody Medicine Forums

The purpose of these forums is to link the individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues. 

We hope to bring an atmosphere of exploration, curiosity and enrichment. Using Processwork to work with symptoms following an individual’s signals in a non pathologizing, non interpretative way to find meaning in body experiences. This may help relieve the symptom and help us relate to our symptoms differently. Respecting each person’s experience as their own. 

These forums are for everyone. People with all types of symptoms and care providers whether family members in home or medical professionals. Anyone with an interest in medicine and helping and others.

Dates 2023

Time: Fridays PST
December 9 from 10am – 11:30am
Jan 13 from 6pm – 7:30pm
Feb 10 from 10am – 11:30am
March 10 from 6pm – 7:30pm
April 21 from 10am – 11:30am
May 12 from 6pm – 7:30pm
June 9 from 10am – 11:30am
Sept 8 from 6pm – 7:30pm (canceled)
Oct 13 from 10am – 11:30am (canceled)
Nov 10 from 6pm – 7:30pm
Dec 8 from 10am – 11:30am

Location:
Sign up here to register for email reminders and to find the zoom link:
https://online.processwork.edu/course/dreambodymedicine

Cost: Free, All Welcome

PLEASE NOTE: The Dreambody Medicine Forums are meant to accompany, not supplant or replace, the participants medical or psychological treatment for his or her illness. These forums are an educational experience, intended to enhance personal growth. We encourage participants to attend these seminars with their physicians or therapists approval.

Welcome to the 2021 Dreambody Medicine Forums

The purpose of these forums is to link the individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues. 

We hope to bring an atmosphere of exploration, curiosity and enrichment. Using Processwork to work with symptoms following an individual’s signals in a non pathologizing, non interpretative way to find meaning in body experiences. This may help relieve the symptom and help us relate to our symptoms differently. Respecting each person’s experience as their own. 

These forums are for everyone. People with all types of symptoms and care providers whether family members in home or medical professionals. Anyone with an interest in medicine and helping and others.

Dates 2021

Time: Fridays, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
January 29
February 26
March 26
April 23
May 28
September 24
October 22
December 17

Time: Saturdays, 10am to 11:30am
Sat, Mar 27
Sat, Sep 25
Sat, Nov 20

Location:
Sign up here to register for email reminders and to find the zoom link:
https://online.processwork.edu/course/dreambodymedicine

Cost: Free, All Welcome

PLEASE NOTE: The Dreambody Medicine Forums are meant to accompany, not supplant or replace, the participants medical or psychological treatment for his or her illness. These forums are an educational experience, intended to enhance personal growth. We encourage participants to attend these seminars with their physicians or therapists approval.

Hi Friends, here is the innerwork exercise from Emetchi that she gave at the March Dreambody Medicine Forum:

I wanted to share this exercise as it has helped me and continues to. When I feel frustrated or afraid and I cannot wrestle directly with the source of the disturbance in Life my everyday primary process can be spooked and my body gets to house that unpacked energy, usually. So going to Dreamland and noticing, trusting, following and unfolding my own sensory grounded experiences of being the virus energy has soothed and removed my momentary fear and frustration. More than this, a small happiness peaks out inside me at having made something very scary not so scary and although I am a bit shy to say, doing this exercise introduced me to an inner energy now known as “gubble gubble triple trouble” who pounces on every opportunity, expands itself explosively and never quits. This is my harvest so far and for sure I need a bit more than a homeopathic dose of this energy in a few areas of my life! I hope this is useful for you…and that you enjoy doing it!
Warmly, Emetchi.

UNFOLDING COVID-19 VIRUS X ENERGY
1. Make yourself comfortable where you are and take a couple of slow deep breaths way down to your belly button.Easy, slow, in and out breaths and as you do this give your Everyday Consensus Mind permission to chill out, to relax and allow space for your Dreaming Mind to just be present. Lastly, relax your neck and shoulders by gently rolling shoulders forward and back, then up and down; slowly move your neck side to side, forward and back moving only as easily as your body allows today.
2. Bring your attention to the COVID-19, the Coronavirus this invisible, contagious, silent and powerful virus….let’s explore it’s nature as we each experience it, using our sensory grounded channels of perception, so in your relaxed dreamy state imagine:
* if this Cvirus could sit what would that be like? Sit like the virus would. * how does it move? try moving as it with your hands…enlarge to arms to upper body. Can you stand and move around as the virus?
* as you are moving try looking out through Cvirus eyes – what do you see? Just notice what you notice…what does the world around look like?
* how does it feel inside there? what is the inner feeling atmosphere like? what’s it’s flavor?
* what does this virus energy have to say? what is important for it?
* anything else you notice about it’s energy?
3. From inside your experience as the Cvirus energy, the X energy, what message or tip or advice do you have for:
* your Everyday CR self?
* the culture you are living within today?
* humanity as a whole/human species ?
4. Make notes for yourself however suits you and ask how will you do something in the next 24 hours to live this out, the message[s], even a little bit?

Dear Friends,

We would like to add some additional Dreambody Medicine Forums focused on the Coronavirus. Join us next Friday, March 27, 2020 from 7pm-8:30pm, on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/398926784

Due to physical distancing all forums will be online until further notice.

We would like to work with someone on any issues related to the virus. If you would like to work with one of us online at the forum please let us know by sending me an email. 

In these forums we explore the link between individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues.

We hope to bring an atmosphere of exploration, curiosity and enrichment. Using Processwork we work with symptoms following an individual’s signals in a non pathologizing, non interpretative way to find meaning in our experiences. This may help relieve the symptom and help us relate to our symptoms differently. Respecting each person’s experience as their own. 

All welcome. Free of charge.

These forums are for everyone. People with all types of symptoms and care providers whether family members in home or medical professionals. Anyone with an interest in health and medicine and helping themselves and others.

Here are the additional dates which will also have a focus on the virus.  (Fridays from 7-8:30pm)

March 27

April 10

April 24

May 8

Add them to your calendar and we hope to see you there. 

Dates are subject to change.

To get notifications sign up to the pw-bulletin board string for reminders or like us on Facebook.

If you know someone who may be interested in the forums please forward this email or connect them to our blog or facebook page. Thanks so much for your support!

PLEASE NOTE: The Dreambody Medicine Forums are meant to accompany, not supplant or replace, the participant’s medical or psychological treatment for his or her illness. These forums are an educational experience, intended to enhance personal growth. We encourage participants to attend these forums with their physician’s or therapist’s approval.
Stay safe and take care.

Love,

Kara, Pierre, Jai and Emetchi 

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The purpose of these forums is to link the individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues. 

We hope to bring an atmosphere of exploration, curiosity and enrichment. Using Processwork to work with symptoms following an individual’s signals in a non pathologizing, non interpretative way to find meaning in body experiences. This may help relieve the symptom and help us relate to our symptoms differently. Respecting each person’s experience as their own. 

These forums are for everyone. People with all types of symptoms and care providers whether family members in home or medical professionals. Anyone with an interest in medicine and helping and others.

2020 Proposed Dates

March 6th

April 24th

June 26th

July 24th

Sept 25th

Oct 23rd

Dec 11th

Time: Fridays, 7.00pm to 9.00pm

Location:
The Process Work Institute of Portland
2049 NW Hoyt St,
Portland, OR 97209

Cost: Free, All Welcome

PLEASE NOTE: The Dreambody Medicine Forums are meant to accompany, not supplant or replace, the participants medical or psychological treatment for his or her illness. These forums are an educational experience, intended to enhance personal growth. We encourage participants to attend these seminars with their physicians or therapists approval.

In the October Dreambody forum a person worked on their fear of developing a detached retina. In unfolding their process, they accessed a state with their eyes closed. It was a deep experience of being in the dark with stars like the universe and there was nothing to do. They shared how this is so not how they identify on a daily basis. They are always doing and looking and curious and wanting to learn more.

It helped us all appreciate those aspects in ourselves. The one part that is always doing and the other detached part that is about being.

It makes me think of all the symptoms out there. And how they are helping us connect with marginalized parts of our human experience.

Take care, Kara

Next forum is December 6th, 2019 from 7-9pm at PWI or join us online.

Please join us as Pierre will share some ideas from his new book Big Medicine: Transforming Your Relationship With Your Body, Health and Community at our next Dreambody Medicine Forum this Friday July 19, 2019 from 7pm-9pm at PWI. We will have some refreshments at the end.

If you have a symptom you would like to work on in the middle of the group, please let us know.

In these forums we explore the link between individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues.

All welcome. Free of charge. These forums are for everyone. People with all types of symptoms and care providers whether family members in home or medical professionals. Anyone with an interest in health and medicine and helping themselves and others.

If you would like to join us online please let me know and we will set up the zoom link. Here is the Zoomlink: https://zoom.us/j/ 5032238188  

Sign up to the pw-local board string for reminders or like us on Facebook. If you know someone who may be interested in the forums please forward this email or connect them to our blog or Facebook page. Thanks so much for your support!

Love,
Pierre, Jai, Emetchi and Kara

To get notifications sign up to the pw-bulletin board string for reminders or like us on Facebook.

These forums are for everyone. People with all types of symptoms and care providers whether family members in home or medical professionals. Anyone with an interest in medicine and helping others.

In these forums we will link the individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues.
You will have the opportunity to explore your own experience and learn the social aspects of illness through sharing your experience in a group format.

2019 Proposed Dates

March 8
April 26
June 21
July 19 + book launch ‘Big Medicine’ by Pierre Morin
Sept 27
Oct 25
December 6

Time: Fridays, 7.00pm to 9.00pm

Location:
The Process Work Institute of Portland
2049 NW Hoyt St,
Portland, OR 97209

Cost: Free, All Welcome

PLEASE NOTE: The Dreambody Medicine Forums are meant to accompany, not supplant or replace, the participants medical or psychological treatment for his or her illness. These forums are an educational experience, intended to enhance personal growth. We encourage participants to attend these seminars with their physicians or therapists approval.