FAQ

After each gated course you need 6 months to process and integrate your experience, and then a further 6 months to begin to turn your focus to the next gate. We run an online gathering around the time of the winter solstice to help you do this, and there are non-gated courses that you are welcome to attend at any time after coming on a Foundation Course. You are also welcome to re-visit any gate you’ve already been through at any time.

More information (including the order of the courses) is on the ‘Courses’ Page HERE

You need to be aged 21 or over.

Our venues do offer a few single occupancy rooms. Some of them require a supplemental payment, and all are on a first come first served basis by email request.

All of our courses are catered vegetarian. We ask you to declare any dietary requirements at the point of booking and our wonderful retreat centres will do their best to cater for genuine allergies and most intolerances. Sometimes this will incur a supplemental payment depending on the venue. There will always be an option for bringing some of your own food if you need to ensure your particular dietary requirements are met. 

We are keen to make our courses as accessible as possible. Email louise@dreamingawake.co.uk before you book so we can talk about what it is you need and how we might achieve it.

No. In fact, please don’t book at all if you’re taking or have recently taken (within the last three months, preferably six) recreational psychoactive drugs. This includes any form of psilocybin, ayahuasca, and marijuana. We also ask that you don’t drink alcohol for at least three days before and after a course, and recommend that you don’t drink caffeine for the same amount of time.

All of the Dreaming Awake training is centred around making safe, authentic connections. Ancestral work happens within our training by invitation only about 6 years in, when we have learned to discern between things that come with the sole purpose of our Best and Highest Good, our own projections, and things that have their own agendas. Periodically we offer a ‘Life and Death’ course which also covers the role of the psychopomp, but until you have a guide you would trust with your sanity and your life we actively discourage work that involves dead people.

It’s not ideal, no. Insofar as you are able it’s better to create a space for yourself where you won’t be disturbed, as if you were on a residential course. Some people hire a cabin for the weekend so they can guarantee themselves some peace to engage fully, others have a dedicated private space in their home. Whatever works for you, but please don’t work in-between sessions. It stops you from being fully present for the course and that’s simply a waste of your time and money. 

This time difference will be particularly tricky for you and isn’t recommended. Please email louise@dreamingawake.co.uk to be added to a waiting list for an Australasia friendly timed course.

No, please have your own screen – we need to be able to talk to you individually when giving feedback. 

If you can’t make all of the sessions, then please do not book onto the course – you need to be able to attend the entire thing live. The courses respond to the needs of each group. They are never recorded, not least for reasons of privacy.