DREAM ILLUMINATION
1:1 DREAMWORK Session with Madeline
Decode the deeper meaning of your dreams
Dream Sessions are a space to discover the hidden wisdom woven within your dreams.
Dream interpretation books may offer helpful starting points, yet the meaning of your dreams are soulfully subjective. Your personal associations & lived experience are essential to discerning the deeper messages and meaning held within your dreams.
Through guided reflection, this session will help you discern the deeper messages within your dream, how it speaks to your waking life & what it may be inviting you to recognize, feel or give attention to.
LISTEN TO THE DREAM YOU’VE RECEIVED
This session offers a space to explore a dream you’ve had - its images, feelings & symbols, and how they may relate to your waking life.
It can also be a place to reflect on your sleep habits & bedtime rhythms, explore practices that support dream recall, and invite a richer relationship with nighttime dreaming.
Together, we’ll:
Explore your personal associations: what the dream’s people, places & events evoke for you.
Give voice to the dream: through guided inquiry and body-based exploration, you’ll be invited to express what its images or figures may hold.
Connect the dream to your life: reflect on how it may speak to your relationships, current challenges, longings or questions.
Make space for integration: we’ll identify a practice, reflection or step to bridge what you’ve discovered into your daily life.
Nurture your relationship with dreaming: as relevant, I may share bedtime practices for setting an intention, inviting a dream or supporting dream recall upon waking.
I’ll guide the process through reflective questions, careful inquiry & attentive support, helping you explore the dream’s meaning through your personal associations, emotional responses & lived experience.
About the facilitator
Madeline Giles is a somatic guide, breath facilitator & herbalist devoted to living and dreaming a more compassionate world into being.
A lifelong dreamer, Madeline has spent multiple decades deepening her relationship with dreams through intentional dreaming, consistent personal practice, and study with various dream teachers.
Madeline holds a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with an emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing. These studies form the foundation of her approach to dreamwork.
In 2024, she published her first book, Then I Woke Up: Dreaming with Mother Earth. She has also led multiple years of Dreaming Deeper, a course devoted to deepening relationship with dreams. Her Private Dream Sessions draw from the dreaming practices she has lived, loved and learned from, offering a compassionate space to listen to your dreams and explore their meaning in your waking life.
“I woke up from a terrible nightmare that shook me to my core. Through Madeline’s gentle prompts, I was able to see how this dream was a disguised gift showing me how to integrate elements of my life once cast into the shadows. This is deep work - and I know I’ll be integrating the messages from this dream for months to come.”
-Anne G.
Session Details
What’s Included:
75-minute private Dreamwork Session to explore a dream, its personal meaning & its connection to your waking life.
Optional pre-session questionnaire to share your dream, relevant life context & what you’d like to explore.
Personalized follow-up email with key reflections from your session and suggested practices to support integration.
Where we meet:
Sessions are held virtually via Zoom
Investment:
$225 for 75-minute session
FAQS
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You do not need previous dreamwork experience to receive a 1:1 Dream Session. However - if you have never done any coaching, therapy, or other practices that encourage a deeper relationship with your inner world, a 1:1 Dreamwork Session may not be the place to start. Send me an email at madeline@madelinegiles.com if you’re seeking clarity around this.
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Dream Sessions require a dream you received to work with in our session. If you’re seeking assistance in meeting and moving through nighttime anxiety, please consider exploring 1:1 Mentorship. For learning practices that can foster deeper sleep and dreaming, I recommend my course Dreaming Deeper.
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In short: No. While I will make reflections, ask open-ended questions, and serve as a guide through the terrain of your dream - the style of Dreamwork I offer is designed to highlight the subjective nuances within your own consciousness. This session is not a dream reading - what a symbol represents to me might mean something very different to you. Through our session, I will assist you in decoding the language of your dream while offering gentle witnessing, deeper inquiry, and compassionate validation around what surfaces.
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Sessions can be recorded upon request.
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Send an email to madeline@madelinegiles.com and I'll get back to you within 72 business hours.