Email us for private room (waitlist only)
TOTAL FEE
The Bishop's Ranch | Healdsburg, CA
WHERE
October 13 – 17, 2025
MONDAY – FRIDAY
WHEN
🌟 Qualifies as a prerequisite for the Moving with Life Yearlong Program
A SOUL ADVENTURE RESIDENTIAL WITH ZUZA
Moving into Dreamtime
🌟 22 CE Hours for Therapists
and Social Workers
🌟 Open to 12 participants
shared (double room)
🌟 $2,200 after September 15
$1,950 by September 15
Are You a Dreamer?
Of course you are...
(Although, on some days, it's hard to tell the difference anyway.)
Humans have been dreaming since ancient times—since the caves of Olduvai, thousands of years ago. We dream to make sense of this complicated, beautiful, magnificent, confusing, impossible human life.
How else would we:
- Process everything we're asked to deal with these days?
- Know what the soul wants?
- Be in touch with something deeper than the daily grind?
Why do we wake up grasping for images that slip away like water?
Why do the symbols feel confusing, the meanings elusive?
Maybe you've tried to work with your dreams before. Maybe you've kept a dream journal that eventually gathered dust. Or maybe you're one of those people who says "I never remember my dreams"—and you wonder what wisdom you're missing.
Here's what I've discovered after decades of working with dreams:
Dream work is an invitation into the life of the soul.
Dreams Want to Be Lived, Not Analyzed.
The magic isn't in figuring out what your dreams "mean." The magic is in embodying them.
The magic isn't in figuring out what your dreams "mean."
The magic is in embodying them.
Dreams Want to Be Lived, Not Analyzed
Are You a Dreamer?
Of course you are...
(Although, on some days, it's hard to tell the difference anyway.)
Humans have been dreaming since ancient times—since the caves of Olduvai, thousands of years ago. We dream to make sense of this complicated, beautiful, magnificent, confusing, impossible human life.
How else would we:
- Process everything we're asked to deal with these days?
- Know what the soul wants?
- Be in touch with something deeper than the daily grind?
Why do we wake up grasping for images that slip away like water?
Why do the symbols feel confusing, the meanings elusive?
Maybe you've tried to work with your dreams before. Maybe you've kept a dream journal that eventually gathered dust. Or maybe you're one of those people who says "I don't dream" or "I never remember my dreams"—and you wonder what wisdom you're missing.
Here's what I've discovered after decades of working with dreams:
Dream work is an invitation into the life of the soul.
"I had a dream about a tiger in a hospital hallway. When I embodied her, I discovered she'd been there all along, even in those unbearable early hospital experiences, offering the protection and dignity my young self needed. It was retroactive healing, fifty years after the fact. Something in me was able to finally relax." —Zuza
Inspired by Gestalt and embodied imagination, we don't look for what dream symbols "mean." We look for the lived experience of the dream.
Instead, imagine becoming the tiger in your dream—feeling her power and dignity flow through your body.
Move and breathe as the wind: "I shape what I blow over and what I blow through. I can be subtle, and I can be very powerful."
Or embody the ocean, experiencing yourself as vast, fluid, holding ancient wisdom.
When I tell people I do dream work, they often think I'm going to help them interpret their dream symbols—you know, like what does it mean when you dream about losing your teeth or being chased by a monster?
But that's not what we do here.
So how does this actually work?
Allows energy flow, aliveness, access to feeling, and emotional release
Includes big expressive movement and contemplative inner listening.
ALL THREE Activate the field of imagination and experimentation
the
Moving with Life
the secret ingredient: community
Unwinds defenses with compassion.
Opens new possibilities for living.
Always grounded in the body and resourced in Source.
spiritual practice
Connects us to something reliable and always present
Grounds spiritual realization in the body.
Makes the divine human and the human divine
We're talking about a circle where everybody is held and seen, where we can witness each other in our vulnerability, our emotional imperfection, our relational cluelessness—and love each other anyway.
Over the last three decades, I've woven together three essential practices that create profound transformation when they work synergistically together.
inner work
framework
conscious movement
I can't tell you how many people worry about this!
Any snippet works—a feeling from years ago, a landscape that resonates, an animal presence, even something from a movie.
Because it's you bringing it into the field, it will give you exactly the gift and guidance you need right now. The medicine is customized to your situation.
Our dreams start to interweave, and we become a dream village where the medicine is potentiated for everyone.
You don't need to remember your dreams.
Through movement, sensing, breathing, feeling, you drop directly beneath the narrative of your mind into energetic, creative, unknown aspects of yourself. When you move, those places you've kept closed begin to open.
No dance experience needed—just willingness to explore.
Your body becomes the portal.
I've worked with hundreds of people and done hundreds of sessions, but the dream sessions are the ones I remember. They're like milestones where something shifts at a deep level in the psyche. Then you can make different choices, show up differently in relationships, move differently in the world.
Integration changes everything.
– Maggie Kaplan
What a magical journey into our inner dreamscapes – subtle & intimate, bold & fiery, tender & teary... not so easily accessed in our “normal” lives, but awakened in this liminal movement space. Fluidly weaving our stories into a tapestry of a communal dream village: past, present, future melding and merging... stepping out of chronos time into timelessness and back again. Embodying my animal body I find again my playfulness, gentleness, strength. I am nourished, enveloped, open.
How is 'Moving into Dreamtime' retreat different?
- Partner & triad dream explorations
- Movement as elemental force
- Embodied imagination practices
- Creative expression through art
Experiential Practices:
- Live dream work demonstrations
- Various session lengths
- See the process in action
- Learn by witnessing
Demo Sessions:
- Elemental practices
- Tracking sensations & shifts
- Dialogue techniques
- Take-home practices
Integration Tools:
- Beautiful Sonoma County location
- Outdoor spaces for practice
- Connection with the elements
- Quiet spaces for reflection
- + the food made for you, with love
Natural Setting:
Logistics
October 13-17, 2025
MONDAY 2PM – FRIDAY 11AM
When
The Bishop's Ranch | Healdsburg, CA
WHere
Not just a dance class, this program takes us on a path to self-discovery, embodied presence, and awakening to a bigger life.
Prior experience with conscious movement and inner work may be useful. If unsure, please inquire.
Open to 12 dreamers. Preregistration is required.
Details
$1,950 (shared double room)
🌟 $2,200 after September 15 🌟
$250 non-refundable registration fee now to hold your spot
with balances due September 15, 2025
(the registration fee is part of your total payment)
If you'd like a private room in a shared cottage, please email us.
Fee :: BY SEPTEMBER 15 ::
Not just a dance class, this program takes us on a path to self-discovery, embodied presence, and awakening to a bigger life.
If you are requesting CE credit, please attend all sessions. We cannot offer partial credits. $25 fee for certificate.
Keep reading for detailed cancellation and refund policy.
The Fine Print
The early bird discount expires on September 15, 2025. Prices go up by $250 after that date.
$250 fee for cancellations received by September 15, 2025. After that date, no refunds and your monies go to the scholarship fund.
It's OK if you need to miss part of the workshop, but we offer no discounts or refunds or CE credits for partial attendance.
Thank you for understanding.
CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS
I love the sacred invitation to move freely with a group of soulful humans - in silence and sound, solo and together, small and big ways and waves. Again and again, I am brought to my edges with safety, compassion and joy.
- JULIANA BALISTRIERI - death doula
