An Eight-Week Journey to Self-Actualization
Are you ready to wake up? ⤵️
Dream Yourself Awake is an immersive eight-week live group journey into the foundational practices of ThetaSoma™—an experiential psycho-technology that has been described as dream-induction—woven together with ancient practices and dream sharing to catalyze growth, transformation and healing.
“Personal evolution becomes like nature; instead of being a struggle, our process, uninterrupted and undisturbed, becomes unfolding growth.”
All transformation begins in the dream state.
It begins with imagining, visualizing, and dreaming about who you want to be and what you want to make of your one, precious life.
Then, once your vision is clear, you are ready to change.
You want to feel more stable, more present, and more alive in your daily life.
You want to transform your limitations and realize your true potential.
You have a vision for your life that you feel destined to step into—a dream, really—but you wonder how to get there.
In our fast-paced culture of economic urgency, spiritual materialism, and viral reels—everyone wants quick fixes and quantum leaps into new realities.
But few people take the time to go within and find the real source of what is holding them back.
And almost no one is listening to their dreams.
In western culture, we have been taught that dreams are an individual experience—a symbolic projection of one’s own unconscious. But shamanic Indigenous cultures all over the globe tell a different story: dreams are an access point to another realm of experience, a living conversation with the more-than-human world.
Every night, the psyche shows us exactly where we are stuck—the fears, beliefs, memories, and wounds that block our energy from flowing freely. Every night, we are offered a doorway.
Dream Yourself Awake is the practice of walking through it.
The truth is that real, sustainable change doesn’t happen overnight. Self-awareness is a muscle that must be built inside our consciousness.
It takes time.
It takes repetition.
It takes practice, honesty—and usually it takes falling off the horse and getting back on again.
Real transformation requires a process of self-inquiry, reflection, and embodied practices to integrate our realizations, shift our vibration and become a new version of ourselves.
We dive deep inside the body, heart, soul and mind—and into the dreaming—to meet what is waiting there.
We listen.
We move slowly.
We become the change we wish to see in the world—from the inside out.
We get to the root, we sit with it, and we give it the space that it needs.
Then, when the soil is ready, we change.
In this way, waking up is not something we force; it is something we allow.
Why dreams? The theta doorway & the window of neuroplasticity.
The theta brainwave state is the threshold between waking and sleeping—the place where dreams are born. It is where ThetaSoma™ does its work. We journey there in meditation, awake, so that we can meet the dreaming mind with presence and the body as our anchor.
And here’s where science comes in: the Window of Neuroplasticity.
Modern neuroscience has revealed that the brain has specific windows where it becomes far more receptive to change. This is called heightened neuroplasticity—a period when new neural pathways can be formed more easily and old emotional patterns become malleable.
After experiences such as psilocybin, Iboga, ayahuasca, MDMA, LSD, or ketamine, the brain enters a 30–90 day period of amplified neuroplastic potential. In other words: your brain becomes biologically primed for transformation.
However, psychedelic experiences do not create transformation on their own. They open the door—but you must decide what walks through it.
This is exactly why Dream Yourself Awake exists.
We use meditation, dreamwork and self-reflective inquiry to consciously engage the neuroplastic window—whether it was opened through psychedelics, a big dream, life transitions, spiritual awakening, heartbreak, or simply the readiness to grow.
This process is not a quick fix or an overnight transformation, but over time—it works.
I cannot promise that you will make $1 million dollars, get instagram famous, or even find your dream relationship—to be honest, what you do with your awakening is totally up to you.
But I can tell you that this work creates a sense of peace that our world truly needs right now.
It creates a frequency of coherence, love, and resonance with who you are on a soul level.
And you will learn practices to shift your patterns at the root so that you can change—for real this time.
My own life is proof of that. Keep reading to learn the story. ⤵️
Meet Your Guides
ALEXANDRA CARELLI
Hi, I’m Alexandra—and I am going to take you on a journey home to yourself.
My life has been an absolutely wild psychedelic adventure that has tested me, challenged me, and cracked me open in every imaginable way. But through it all, I always trusted the magic of life.
I won’t divulge my whole trauma story in this short bio, but I will say this: a series of experiences of early childhood abuse and attachment wounding left me with a case of complex-ptsd, major relational dysfunction, and a legendary anger problem.
I spent the first thirty years of my life running away from myself. I self-sabotaged, burned down opportunities, abandoned relationships, and destroyed entire chapters of my life before I finally woke up one day and decided I needed to change.
So, I surrendered.
And then, at thirty-one, I woke up inside a dream for the first time.
The colors around me become extraordinarily vivid—like an entire scene becomes alive. I felt so alive that it was like I had stumbled into a hidden layer of reality. As soon as fear took over, I woke up. That was the beginning of a long apprenticeship with my dreams—learning that waking up in our dreams teaches us how to wake up in our lives.
It took countless journeys with psychedelic medicine, seven years of therapy, every podcast and self-help book I could find, and many nights down on my knees in tears begging the plant spirits and ancestors to help me—but I found a way through the tangled webs of my own psyche.
I can sit here now and say that my life has truly changed. I haven’t had an anger outburst in years; my intimate relationship is a sanctuary for love; and I wake up every day devoted to my soul’s purpose.
What I learned along the way is that it was not one tool or modality that transformed me—it was the process itself. The rhythm of self-awareness, reflection, responsibility, compassion, embodiment, and practice.
I became the vehicle through which transformation could occur.
I don’t share all of this to pretend I am fully healed and resolved, because I will be the first to say that I am most certainly not. But I don’t get lost in the trauma drama anymore.
From High School drop-out; to traveling Yogini; to Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy; to PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, I have taken a rather unconventional and circuitous route to my healing. Today my doctoral research focuses on Senoi-inspired dreamwork, relational dreamwork and dreamwork for couples, and earth dreaming.
They say that there are no new ideas, only new arrangements. Now, I offer you this method—a living practice for dreaming yourself awake—in a form that, just maybe, will work for you too.
Learn more at www.alexandracarelli.com and read my writing on dreams, love and the nature of being human at Earth•Dreaming.
BENJAMIN MOSS
I am facilitating Dream Yourself Awake with my incredibly gifted, loving and supportive partner, Benjamin.
Benjamin is a masterful visionary artist who creates stunning works that express his relationship to femininity, the Earth, and the cosmological process. His dedication and discipline to his craft inspires me every day—and I am so excited to bring his creative magic into ThetaSoma™.
Benjamin is a sensitive dendrophile, a lifelong seeker of truth, a seasoned meditator, and well-versed in slaying his own demons as a recovered addict.
He has successfully completed four vipassana meditation retreats—one of which required 21 days of silence.
Benjamin was born in a small town in North Dakota where he was raised within a strict catholic belief system that indoctrinated a fear-based relationship to God. In college, he became interested in philosophy which illustrated the false narratives of Christianity and shifted his views to a more rationalist perspective—eventually leading him to nihilism.
The rejection of his early christian belief catalyzed a spiritual crisis that resulted in a penchant for self-destruction.
Lost in a nihilistic spiral throughout his twenties, Benjamin became gripped by substance abuse and for a period of time, he totally lost the tether of connection to Self.
At some point, he was introduced to Ayahuasca and sat in over sixty ceremonies. While Aya provided some temporary spiritual relief, eventually there was a rupture within the community that led to an even deeper level of psycho-spiritual crisis.
The decade of his thirties found Benjamin flirting with disaster as he pushed the edges of his consciousness with drugs and alcohol.
It had gotten so bad, that he stopped creating Art.
Finally, after well over a decade of addiction, Benjamin decided he need a change—or his habits would cost him his life. He booked an Iboga retreat in Thailand and set off for his most transformative experience to date.
Iboga is a powerful master plant medicine from Africa that takes you on a 24+ hour visionary journey into the heart of your biological narrative. Iboga evokes a waking dream where the experient relives all of the traumas, wounds, experiences and beliefs that have created your sense of self—and it forces you to find a sense of peace and forgiveness.
After the retreat, Benjamin was able to maintain a full six months of sobriety for the first time in his life and returned to his lifelong work as a visionary painter.
Benjamin and I practiced ThetaSoma™ together as an integration tool—which further helped him to heal the root of his addictive patterns and settle into a daily rhythm of sobriety.
Now, Benjamin continues to live devoted to his daily painting practice, to sobriety, and to his sense of purpose.
Benjamin currently lives and paints in the forest of Nevada City, CA where he communicates the emotional depths of the human soul through his devotion to creating visually-stunning works of visionary art.
Learn more about Benjamin and see his art at: www.benjaminmossart.com
There is always a moment when we are ready to wake up.
When that moment arrives—if we can open to it—then we experience transformation as a natural, evolutionary unfolding.
The Dreaming Journey
Dream Yourself Awake moves through the eight essential practices of ThetaSoma™—meditation, reflection, responsibility, practice, commitment, surrender, union, and emergence—each paired with a dreaming practice.
Together, they activate neuroplasticity, deepen inner awareness, unwind trauma patterns, and support the emergence of a more coherent, present, and authentic version of you.
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Learn the core ThetaSoma™ process—a somatic-based meditation practice that guides the system into a theta-dominant state, the threshold of dreaming, while staying grounded in the body. Begin a dream journal and set your first intention to remember.
This opens the field for nervous system regulation, pattern recognition, emotional clarity, intuitive intelligence, and dream recall. Meditation is the gateway to the Inner Witness—the one who can wake up inside the dream.
“When we meditate in a completely engaged way, we lose the sense of time. Then the brain creates new neural networks. Both the functioning and the structures of the brain change. To a real-time brain-scanning instrument, those changes appear as great harmonic complexity. Biological evolution happens in real time as a reflection of spiritual evolution.” –John Stanley and David Loy
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Explore the roots of emotional patterns through dream journaling and dynamic self-inquiry. Get real with yourself. Notice the sensations, emotions, impulses, and memories that arise in the body as you re-enter a dream. This builds interoceptive awareness, which is essential for trauma resolution and behavioral change.
On a relational level, we open the Senoi-inspired dream-sharing circle: telling our dreams aloud and listening to one another with conscious communication, co-regulation, and attunement. Transform projection into empathy, and connection into a field of awakening.into empathy and connection into a field of awakening.
“Sit, be still, and listen,
For you are drunk,
And we are on the edge of the roof.” –Rumi
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Transformation requires a deep sense of responsibility. In the dream, every character, monster and landscape is a part of us asking to be known. Practice dialoguing with dream figures and meeting the shadow face-to-face.
Recognize the patterns you are running, the choices you are making, and the ways you are shaping your own experience—asleep and awake. This is not self-blame; it is empowerment. Responsibility unlocks your capacity to choose a different future.
“Our instructions–and I’m talking about for all human beings–our instructions are to get along.” –Chief Oren Lyons
“The ego-self can be retrained, to develop a more inclusive identity. I am more than me. I am connected to you. I am a member of we.” –John Stanley and David Loy
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Develop a new personal practice: daily dream recall, reality checks, and present-moment awareness that bridges the night and the day. This is the process of becoming the change.
Practice is where transformation becomes tangible—through breath, attention, behavior, and emotional regulation. This is the heart of rewiring. This is where the old patterns weaken and the new ones strengthen.
“Practice implies process; there is no beginning and or end, but a life-time of engagement and discovery.” –Steven Harper
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Change happens through commitment to the process. It will get hard; keep going.
Set a clear intention for who you are becoming and learn to incubate a dream around it—asking the dreaming for guidance before sleep. This transforms insight into direction and gives the brain a stable target for rewiring. Commitment reinforces the new neural pathways you are building.
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You are starting to find your groove. Now let go, and let the magic happen.
This is the week we explore lucid dreaming—waking up inside the dream—and the practice of moving through fear toward pleasure, rather than waking ourselves out of it. Soften the armor, release control, and allow the deeper intelligence of the psyche to emerge.
Surrender opens access to intuition, soul wisdom, emotional breakthroughs, symbolic insight, and subtle perception. This is where healing becomes effortless.
“We recognize that the universe is a self-aware creative process. This pure creative potential is in us too. It can awaken and free itself from the limiting identities and games of the human condition.” –John Stanley and David Loy
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We are dreaming each other awake. Experience interconnectedness across all aspects of self—and between us. Through relational and group dreamwork, we discover how our dreams speak to and through one another, and how dream sharing can become a practice of intimacy for partners, families and communities.
Union is not an achievement; it’s a state of coherence arising from the work you’ve done. This is where you feel aligned, whole, connected, attuned, open, and grounded. Union prepares the ground for Emergence—the expression of your new self.
“Love is the most powerful force in Creation, and it is our love for the Earth that will heal what we have desecrated, that will guide us through this wasteland and help us to bring light back to our darkening world. Love links us all together in the most mysterious ways, and love can guide our hearts and hands. And the central note of love is oneness. Love speaks the language of oneness, of unity rather than separation”. –Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Embody your new neural, emotional, and spiritual architecture. Dreaming must lead to celebratory action, not just reflection, so we bring our dreams into the waking world through ritual, art, and collective storytelling.
The final week is a celebration and a threshold crossing. As your inner architecture shifts, a new self emerges—one rooted in presence, possibility, and soul-aligned expression. Every thing, a symbol. Each person, an oracle.
“I thank you God for most this amazing
Day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
And a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
Which is natural which is infinite which is yes”
–E.E. Cummings
🦋 The Weekly Structure
Each 90-minute live group session follows a consistent rhythm designed to support psychological, somatic, and neuroplastic transformation:
Opening Meditation: drops us into the theta doorway, regulates the nervous system and prepares the brain for change.
Dream-Sharing Circle: a safe space to tell our dreams, integrate insights and deepen awareness together.
Teaching on the Weekly Theme: grounded guidance in transpersonal psychology, dreamwork and spiritual practice.
Live ThetaSoma™ Journey: each week, one participant receives a session as the group witnesses, regulates, and learns through the shared field.
All sessions are recorded for continued integration.
🦋 The Power of the Dreaming Field
A group container accelerates transformation. When one person heals, everyone feels it.
Witnessing a ThetaSoma™ session or a shared dream activates shared unconscious material, strengthens emotional resonance, and opens access to deeper layers of insight. This phenomenon—visible in shamanic, psychological, and spiritual traditions—creates a collective field where healing, clarity, and transformation unfold more rapidly.
There is medicine in being seen and there is medicine in witnessing. We are dreaming each other awake.
🦋 Your Commitment
Participants are encouraged to enter the eight-week journey with a clear intention to transform something meaningful—whether emotional, psychological, relational, creative, or behavioral—and a willingness to keep a dream journal throughout.
This may include: finding more peace, creating healthier relationships, expanding creativity, shifting an addictive pattern, working with recurring dreams or nightmares, learning to lucid dream, or whatever is alive for you.
Whatever you choose to dream awake, we walk beside you.
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE READY TO…
✓ Wake up inside your dreams—and inside your life
✓ Address the root causes of your patterns
✓ Optimize the 30–90 day neuroplasticity window from psychedelic work or a big dream
✓ Cultivate healthier, more attuned relationships, and learn to dream with the people you love
✓ Create emotional and somatic safety within yourself
✓ Live from authenticity rather than survival patterns
✓ Build a grounded, repeatable, embodied dreaming and spiritual practice
✓ Express your truth creatively and courageously
👉🏽 Begins 2027
Program Dates:
TBD
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WHAT YOU RECEIVE
An eight-week structure grounded in neuroplasticity, dreamwork and transpersonal psychology, designed to support real, lasting change in your emotional, psychological, and relational patterns
8 live weekly sessions (90 min) blending meditation, dream sharing, teaching, and a live ThetaSoma™ dream journey
1 private ThetaSoma™ session for individualized support and customized transformative coaching on what tools will work for you
A private community space for dream sharing, reflection, support, and connection throughout the journey
Recordings of all live sessions
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