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Events and Dream Circles

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The breadth of Meredith’s training and experience makes her uniquely qualified to facilitate meaningful dream groups, workshops, and other events. Years spent as a teacher and educational counselor allowed her to develop her gifts as a group leader. Additionally her ancillary training as a Reiki master allows her to be present in the group in a way that activates an environment of peace, love, and well being.

Navigating Your Dreams

“A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a region within my soul” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Meredith is available to present classes, workshops, sessions, presentations, and retreats on the following topics:

  • The Gifts of Dreaming
  • Remembering and Recording Dreams
  • Dealing with Nightmares and Recurring Dreams
  • Dreaming Your House of Gifts: A Journey for Life Purpose
  • Dreaming a Creative Life through Recovering the Playful Child
  • The Tree of Life: The Shaman’s Dream Journey into Sacred Worlds
  • Dreaming with the Mother Goddess: Visions of Nature for Ourselves and the Planet
  • Goddess Archetypes in Myth, Nature and Dreaming
  • Dreaming with the Goddesses of Ancient Greece
  • Dreaming a Wonder-filled Life
  • Befriending Death: Dreaming through Life Transitions

Featured Events

Activate Your Re-Set Button: Dreaming into a life of Personal Balance and Self Care

What: A retreat in which participants will craft a personal well-being plan that will serve as a template for one’s re-set button.
When: Sunday, September 12, 2021, 12 – 5 p.m.
Venue: Katz Korin Cunningham Legal
334 N Senate Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46204
Facilitators: Meredith Eastwood, MS, MA, and Jennifer Foley, MS, HHP, CWCP 
Tuition: $75.00

Description: 

Journey into a deeper understanding of the Chakras and craft a personal well-being plan that will serve as your template for your re-set button. Facilitated by Jennifer Foley, MS, HHP TTS, and Meredith Eastwood, MA, MS. Activities include Yoga Nidra, a form of deep meditation, Vedic Astrology, and health, Essential Oils, and gemstones that support and enhance healing.

An Active Dreaming tool called the Synchronicity card game will be played to enhance intentions set for personal wellness. A ceremony for releasing the old and a welcoming of the new will be experienced at the opening and close of the retreat.

Balanced Soul retreats collaborate with amazing people from our community who are manifesting the theme of our retreats out in the world. For this retreat we will be joined by entrepreneurs:

  • Sheila Dimof, an Ayurveda Coach and Vedic Astrologer, owner of The Healing Sanctuary
  • Diana Ensign, a local author. Her new book is A Moment of Calm: Meditative and Reflective Readings for Inner Peace 
  • Alix Litwack, owner of CBD Jubilee and an expert in the benefits of CBD/CBG for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and insomnia.
  • Our friends from Rangeline Chiropractic will be there too!
  • Award-winning live music will be provided by Michelle Qureshi.

Lots of refreshments will be provided – food plus coffee, tea, wine, and water will be served.

Retreat Participants need to bring:

  • Journal
  • Eye Pillow
  • Yoga Mat
  • Blanket
Please note, for the safety and comfort of all, retreat participants need to be vaccinated for this event.

Cancelation Policy: Full refund available up to September 4, 2021. Partial refund available September 5 – 10, 2021. No refunds are available after September 10, 2021.

Dreaming into Autumn Walk:  The Nature of Thresholds

What: Enjoy a leisurely hike and explore the enchanted thresholds that open to the colorful season of change.
When: Sunday, October 16, 2021, 9:00 – 11:30 a.m
Venue: Carmel Central Park (meet at Westermeier Commons)
Facilitator: Meredith Eastwood, MS, MA. 
Tuition: Free for past retreat participants

Description: 

Meredith Eastwood, MA, MS, will facilitate a fall retreat open to past retreat participants to deepen the connection in our Balanced Soul community.

 Enjoy a leisurely hike and explore the enchanted thresholds that open to the colorful season of change. Whether it be on forest-bathed paths, in a reflective fertile pond, or hidden among a meadow of native wildflowers and marsh grasses, step into the magic of Nature’s everyday dreams. We might even encounter a shy deer, a screech owl, a Cooper’s hawk, a white egret or a blue heron while we engage the spirits of earth, water, wind, and sun. 

Spots are limited, so sign-up early.

Monthly Dream Circle: Dreaming With the Ancient Greek Goddesses

On hold due to COVID-19

What: A monthly circle of 8-9 participants who are committed to 10 intimate gatherings. Sips and nibbles, goddess medicine bag, artistic materials are available.
When: 10 Sessions, March through December, 2020, 2nd Tuesday of Each Month, 6:45-9:15 pm
Venue: A Private Residence
Facilitators: Meredith Eastwood, Carol Paddock
Tuition: Love Offering, suggested 10.00 per session

Participants will:
• Explore Ancient Greek Mythology
• Highlight Archetypal Images and Personal symbols
• Illuminate the Power and Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine,
• Experience Shamanic Journeys and Rituals
• Journal, Share Dreams and Synchronicities
• Enjoy Artistic Expressions and Dream Theater
• Create Intentions for Activating the Inner Goddess in Everyday Life

Individual Consultations

Introduction to Dream Work

These one-on-one individual dream work sessions are designed to help you find out more about your dreams and learn how they offer opportunities for personal growth and greater creativity. Connect with Meredith to make an appointment or to request more information.

Dream Groups

“It is not knowledge that draws me deeper into the path, but the longing to experience the undefinable, to catch a brief glimpse of those moments that touch me with profound joy—that change me forever—again.”

Meredith graduated from The Robert Moss School of Active Dreaming with additional training in Imaginal Healing and Shamanic Approaches to Death and the Afterlife.  Her dream groups provide an opportunity to connect with others who enjoy sharing dreams and exploring how they can help you to live a more conscious life.

“Dreams help us to tap into the sources of healing and creativity, and guide us toward mindful choices in our waking lives. Through sharing dreams, their symbols, and themes we discover a deeper understanding of ourselves and others. By studying dreams we can craft better relationships and create more fulfilling careers. When given attention, dreams clarify the issues that face us on a daily basis.”

Connect with Meredith to request more information.