We’ve all experienced it: you start to fall asleep... but then your mind kicks in, your body feels restless, and sleep seems far, far away.
You’ve cut the caffeine, banned the screens, blacked out the curtains, and followed every sleep hygiene rule in the book — but no matter what you try, the nights still feel long and frustrating. And even when you do manage to drift off again, it rarely feels sufficient or restorative.
The core problem? We have a misguided, erroneous view of sleep. We’ve been taught to view sleep as a functional state of unconsciousness programmed solely to improve and recharge our waking lives so we can be productive again.
As Dr. Rubin Naiman, clinical assistant professor of medicine, puts it, “There’s no question that sleep effectively supports our waking lives, but sleep is so much more than that. It’s a gateway to expanded consciousness, spiritual healing, and inner peace.”
His work is rooted in decades of clinical practice, research, and personal experience — from working with patients in hospice to consulting with rock musicians on dream-inspired lyrics.
Join Dr. Naiman for a free online event, where you’ll discover an effective new way of relating to sleep that draws on spiritual insight, science, and the forgotten language of dreams.
He shares that sleep is, in fact, a bona fide spiritual practice. It begins in earnest when we recognize our mattress as a meditation cushion, our pillow as an altar, and reconsidering that gentle, hazy zone between waking and sleep as a sacred space.
Dr. Naiman describes this space as a psychospiritual borderland — a place where the worlds of waking and sleep seamlessly converge. You’ve encountered it in the moments before drifting off, or when you stir briefly at 3:00am.
During the event, you’ll be guided through a multisensory practice designed to help you visit the shoreline of sleep and dreams. With breathwork, imagery, and gentle guidance, Dr. Naiman will show you how to access this sublime threshold.
You’ll explore how the twilight space between waking and sleep is a powerful state of consciousness in its own right. When you learn to lean into this liminal zone, your waking consciousness begins to soften, awareness expands, and you’re enveloped in a spacious and gentle fog of dreaminess.
You’ll discover how to let go of “trying” to fall asleep — and instead lean into the dreamy consciousness that naturally carries you there...
Be prepared to gain a radically new understanding of insomnia, not as a failure of your biology or willpower, but as a resistance to the natural shifts of consciousness your system longs to make.
The child of Holocaust survivors, Dr. Naiman found solace in sleep and dreams early on. Later, psychedelic exploration, mentorship from luminaries like Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and his own near-death experience shaped his understanding of consciousness as an untapped resource for healing.
He’s since become one of the world’s most respected voices in integrative sleep and dream medicine. And what he’s discovered is sobering: we are not only sleep-deprived, we’re also dream-deprived. And as our collective dreaming fades, so too does our access to empathy, creativity, and spirituality.
This event is an invitation to reimagine every aspect of sleep.
You’ll see that what wakes you up at night isn’t what keeps you up, and that staying awake is often fueled by the belief that you must do something to return to sleep.
Perhaps most importantly, you’ll rediscover that sleep begins in a space you’ve always had access to, even if you’ve forgotten how to enter it.
