Lucid Minds: Dreams & Mental Health
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Teacher: Dr. Nida Chenagtsang with Dr. Caroline Van Damme
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Open to all
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May 10 - 13 2025: Livestreamed from Pure Land Farms
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Schedule
May 10, 11, 12 & 13 2025
Course Includes
In this innovative workshop, Dr. Nida presents the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Dream Yoga as a powerful modality for mental health practitioners. Participants will explore how our dreamscape serves as a mirror to our waking psychological landscape, revealing unresolved emotions and subconscious patterns that often remain hidden during conscious awareness.
Through both theoretical foundations and practical techniques, participants will learn how recognize dreams as gateways to psychological insight and emotional healing.
The course examines how dream yoga practices can help identify and transform obstacles, release deeply held trauma, and resolve psychological blockages that manifest in both dreams and waking life. By familiarizing themselves with these techniques, practitioners will add a unique dimension to their therapeutic toolkit—one that honors the mind's natural capacity for self-healing through conscious dreamwork.
This approach bridges Eastern contemplative traditions with Western psychological frameworks, offering an integrative path toward emotional resilience and psychological wholeness.
This course will combine theory with practical dreamwork and traditional Tibetan Dream Yoga meditation practices from the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition.
This practice is open to all however it is particularly suited to counselors and those in the field of mental health.
Included in this course will be dialogues with Dr. Caroline Van Damme, adult psychiatrist and family and systemic psychotherapist and co-teacher with Dr. Nida of SRI's Sowa Rigpa Counselor training. The program will be livestreamed from their Counselor retreat during Dr Van Damme's first visit to Pure Land Farms!
The course examines how dream yoga practices can help identify and transform obstacles, release deeply held trauma, and resolve psychological blockages that manifest in both dreams and waking life. By familiarizing themselves with these techniques, practitioners will add a unique dimension to their therapeutic toolkit—one that honors the mind's natural capacity for self-healing through conscious dreamwork.
This approach bridges Eastern contemplative traditions with Western psychological frameworks, offering an integrative path toward emotional resilience and psychological wholeness.
This course will combine theory with practical dreamwork and traditional Tibetan Dream Yoga meditation practices from the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition.
This practice is open to all however it is particularly suited to counselors and those in the field of mental health.
Included in this course will be dialogues with Dr. Caroline Van Damme, adult psychiatrist and family and systemic psychotherapist and co-teacher with Dr. Nida of SRI's Sowa Rigpa Counselor training. The program will be livestreamed from their Counselor retreat during Dr Van Damme's first visit to Pure Land Farms!
In Person Attendance
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Born in Amdo, in Northeastern Tibet, Dr. Nida began his early studies of Sowa Rigpa at the local Tibetan medical hospital. Later, he was awarded a scholarship to enter the Lhasa Mentseekhang or Tibetan Medical University, where he completed his degree in 1996, with practical training at the Tibetan Medicine hospitals in Lhasa and Lhoka.Alongside his medical education, Dr. Nida trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism. In particular, he trained in the Longchen Nyingthig tradition of the Nyingma school with his root guru Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen and in the Dudjom Tersar tradition with Chönyi Rinpoche and Semo Dechen Yudrön. He received complete instruction in the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage, the unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Medicine, from his teachers Khenpo Tsultrim Gyaltsen and Khenchen Troru Tsenam, and was requested to continue the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage by Jamyang Rinpoche of the Rebkong ngakpa and ngakma community.A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in Tibetan and English, which have been translated into several languages. He has extensively researched ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained acclaim in East and West for his revival of little-known Tibetan external therapies.
