June 17 & June 24, 6-8pm ET
We are living in liminal times, an in-between world where familiar structures are dissolving and something new is trying to emerge.
It sometimes feels as though everything all at once is in a process of transformation, and we do not yet know what the world will look like when things settle.
What if our dreams are responding to this threshold moment?
Sacred Sleep explores the mysterious borderlands between waking and sleeping, the liminal space where fleeting images, sounds, sensations, and “dreamlets” arise as consciousness shifts between states. These threshold experiences have long been associated with creativity, intuition, healing, and insight.
As the outer world moves through rapid transformation, Nature itself mirrors this in-between season. Summer is a liminal space as well, suspended between planting and harvest, emergence and fruition. Is our dreaming reflective of this transitional time? What hidden wisdom is quietly forming beneath the surface?
Through guided practices, reflection, and exploration, this workshop invites us into a deeper relationship with sleep, dreams, and the unseen movements within the psyche and soul. Together we will explore practices designed to help us listen more closely to these threshold states, not as escapism, but as preparation for what is coming into being both within us and around us.
Part I unfolds during the expansiveness of summer. Part II, offered in the fall, will explore what these practices have revealed — and what inner harvest awaits.
Join us, and discover what is trying to speak through your dreams?
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Your Instructor: Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley
Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley
Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley is an integrative sleep specialist trained at Cornell Univ and NYU Sleep Disorders Center in NYC. He ran a Yale training hospital’s Sleep Center for 12 years, training resident physicians in sleep medicine and creating the first Insomnia Center in the region. Dr. O’Malley has published many peer-reviewed sleep medicine clinical research papers, several book chapters and conducted a number of Clinical Trials. He currently is in private practice, offers sleep education webinars through his educational company Your Optimal Nature, and is the invited sleep specialist monthly on the Night Club Podcast Ask the Sleep Doctor. Ed holds Advanced Certification in Bio- and Neurofeedback, Nature Awareness Training and Shamanic Energy Healing.
In 2006 Dr. Ed was called to enter One Spirit Interfaith/Interspiritual seminary and was ordained in 2008. He joined the faculty of the One Spirit Interspiritual Counseling Program (ISC) and in 2020 was invited to re-envision the ISC program. Together with two colleagues he created and co-facilitated the Interspiritual Companioning & Counseling Program (ISCC) through 2026.