Charlie Morley
Combining lucid dreaming techniques, Tibetan dream yoga practices, neuroscience, shadow work, and conscious sleep methods, you’ll learn how to reconnect with the healing intelligence of the dreaming mind…
... to transform fear, calm anxiety, reduce stress, deepen spiritual connection, and cultivate deeper emotional stability.
Could the hours you spend asleep become one of the most powerful opportunities you have to heal anxiety, transform fear, and reconnect with a deeper sense of calm and clarity?
Most people go to sleep carrying stress, emotional overwhelm, racing thoughts, or recurring anxiety-driven dreams without realizing the dreaming mind may hold profound untapped potential for healing, insight, and transformation.
Across Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, psychology, and ancient dream traditions around the world, lucid dreaming has long been regarded as a powerful way to work directly with the mind while asleep, helping people heal trauma and emotional patterns, deepen awareness, and awaken a more conscious relationship with reality itself.
Author and lucid dreaming teacher Charlie Morley shares that lucid dreaming is not a rare gift reserved for mystics or naturally “gifted” dreamers. It’s a trainable human capacity that allows you to become conscious within your dreams and actively engage with the deeper layers of your mind while you sleep.
Join Charlie for a 7-week journey where you’ll learn practical lucid dreaming techniques to work directly with the deeper unconscious mind, and transform sleep into a powerful space for healing, spiritual growth, creativity, and awakening.
A lucid dream is a dream in which we are actively aware that we are dreaming as the dream is happening.
Once we are lucid we gain access to the deepest depths of the unconscious mind which allows us to engage in psychological healing at a level often unattainable in the waking state.
Known for his grounded, humorous, and deeply compassionate teaching style, Charlie has spent almost twenty years helping thousands of people experience lucid dreaming not simply as entertainment, but as a path of psychological healing, spiritual growth, and awakening.
Throughout the course, you’ll explore reality checking methods, dream planning, Inner Child healing, and conscious sleep approaches designed to help you cultivate greater presence, emotional freedom, and conscious participation in both your dream life and waking life.
Along the way, you’ll experience guided practices designed to help you consciously enter liminal dream states, remain aware as you fall asleep, recognize dream signs, and increase the likelihood of lucid dreaming in ways that feel safe, playful, and deeply transformative.
You’ll also explore how lucid dreaming can amplify meditation, support spiritual practices, strengthen creativity, and help train your mind to become less caught in fear, illusion, and habitual patterns of thinking.
As your relationship with the dreaming mind deepens, you may begin to uncover emotional patterns, fears, and unconscious beliefs that have shaped your waking experience for years. Rather than avoiding these inner experiences, you’ll learn how to approach them with curiosity, compassion, and awareness, discovering how even nightmares and anxiety dreams may contain profound opportunities for healing and integration.
You may also begin reconnecting with a part of yourself that has long been waiting for your attention: the imaginative, intuitive, emotionally intelligent dreamer within.
Rather than escaping reality, lucid dreaming teaches you to become more awake, aware, and compassionate both asleep and in waking life.
Are you ready to discover what becomes possible when you learn to wake up within your dreams?
During this reality-expanding course, you’ll:
- Practice powerful lucid dreaming techniques to actively shape your dream experiences
- Discover how lucid dreaming may support emotional healing, reduce anxiety and fear, reshape limiting beliefs, and deepen spiritual connection
- Recognize dream signs, strengthen dream recall, and work with your dreaming mind as an intelligent ally rather than something unconscious or random
- Explore the neuroscience of sleep, hypnagogic states, and lucid awareness while discovering why ancient dream traditions viewed dreaming as a path of awakening
- Create personalized Dream Plans, affirmations, and reality-checking practices designed to dramatically increase your chances of lucid dreaming
- Experience restorative practices like Yoga Nidra, NSDR, and liminal state meditations that can calm the nervous system and expand your awareness
- Transform your relationship with nightmares and shadow material by learning compassionate approaches to fear, anxiety dreams, and emotional healing
- Develop an ongoing lucid dreaming practice you can continue for years to come while exploring deeper questions around consciousness, spiritual awakening, and the nature of reality
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-week transformational course, Charlie will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to learn how to consciously work with your dreams to access healing, insight, emotional transformation, and expanded states of awareness both asleep and awake.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Charlie and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Charlie’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2026-07-01 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Charlie. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to develop a deep, ongoing relationship with your dreaming mind that can help you feel more aware, emotionally grounded, spiritually connected, and empowered in your daily life.
Module 1: Discover the Foundations of Lucid Dreaming to Access Healing, Transformation & Inner Guidance (2026-07-01 9:00:00 am)
Lucid dreaming is a way of reconnecting with a natural language of the mind you knew how to speak long before adulthood taught you to forget it.
Charlie will explain the surprising science, healing potential, and transformative possibilities of becoming conscious within your dreams.
You'll explore how lucid dreaming differs from astral projection and other dream states while discovering why children naturally access lucidity with such ease.
Along the way, you'll learn how lucid dreaming can support emotional healing, spiritual insight, creativity, and even reshape limiting beliefs by working directly with the deeper unconscious mind.
You'll also begin practicing the first two steps of Charlie's "Four D's" approach - dream recall, dream diaries, dream signs, and dream planning - so you can start strengthening your dream awareness from the very first night.
In this opening module, you'll:
- Be guided through a hypnagogic dream recall practice and begin your own dream diary to strengthen your connection with the dreaming mind
- Discover what lucid dreaming actually is and how to recognize when you've become conscious inside a dream
- Explore the leading-edge neuroscience behind lucidity and why modern science is finally validating what ancient dream traditions have long understood
- Learn how lucid dreaming may support emotional healing, reduce anxiety and fear, reshape limiting beliefs, and deepen spiritual connection
- Reconnect with your innate capacity for lucid dreaming to make sleep feel exciting, creative, and deeply restorative
Module 2: Create a Personal Dream Plan to Deepen Lucidity & Spiritual Connection (2026-07-08 9:00:00 am)
Lucid dreaming has been practiced for thousands of years as a path of healing, awakening, and spiritual discovery across cultures around the world.
Charlie will guide you through the history of dreamwork traditions - from Tibetan dream yoga to Indigenous and mystical approaches that view lucid dreaming as a sacred doorway into expanded consciousness.
As you explore these deeper perspectives, you'll begin cultivating a greater sense of reverence, connection, and trust in the dreaming mind.
You'll also create your own personalized Dream Plan, a powerful ongoing practice designed to help your dreaming self recognize exactly what you want to experience, explore, and heal within your lucid dreams.
You'll begin recognizing the signs, symbols, and invitations your dreams may already be using to get your attention.
In this module, you'll:
- Create your own personalized Dream Plan vision board to begin shaping the lucid dreams you most want to experience
- Explore the ancient roots of lucid dreaming and discover why many mystical traditions view it as a powerful path of awakening
- Learn how to work with dream signs and recurring symbols to help increase your chances of becoming lucid while dreaming
- Discover the spiritual and emotional benefits of lucid dreaming through the lens of dream yoga and global dream traditions
- Develop a deeper sense of trust in your dreaming mind and recognize that humans have safely explored lucid dreaming for thousands of years
Module 3: Rest in the Liminal to Expand Your Consciousness & Awaken Your Lucid Potential (2026-07-15 9:00:00 am)
Between waking and sleeping exists a mysterious threshold where imagination, intuition, healing, and lucid awareness naturally begin to emerge.
Charlie will guide you into the science of sleep cycles, altered states, and the liminal spaces of consciousness known as the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states.
You'll discover how conscious rest practices like Yoga Nidra and NSDR can help calm the nervous system, restore energy, and strengthen your ability to remain aware as you drift into sleep.
You'll explore why these naturally occurring states have long been associated with creativity, insight, hypnosis, and profound inner experiences.
Come prepared to get comfortable, because this deeply experiential session invites you to directly enter these dreamlike thresholds for yourself.
In this module, you'll:
- Be guided through deeply restorative lying-down practices designed to help you consciously enter liminal dream states
- Explore the science of sleep cycles and discover what actually happens in the brain and nervous system as you fall asleep and wake up
- Learn how to remain aware within the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states where lucid dreaming naturally begins to emerge
- Practice planting intentions and dream seeds within the liminal state to strengthen your lucid dreaming potential
- Discover how conscious rest practices can restore energy, regulate the nervous system, and prepare you for deeper dreamwork in the weeks ahead
Module 4: Cultivate Lucid Awareness to Transform Your Waking & Dream Life (2026-07-22 9:00:00 am)
Lucid dreaming doesn't begin once you fall asleep - it begins with how awake you are during the day. Charlie will share about lucid living, where heightened awareness, curiosity, and presence become the foundation for breakthrough dream experiences at night.
Building on the "Four D's" technique, you'll explore reality checking practices drawn from Tibetan dream yoga and Castaneda-inspired traditions that train the mind to question ordinary perception and recognize the dreamlike nature of reality itself.
As your daytime awareness strengthens, you may begin experiencing moments of lucidity, synchronicity, and deeper connection both awake and asleep.
By learning to look more closely at your waking experience, you'll dramatically increase your chances of becoming conscious inside your dreams.
In this module, you'll:
- Practice playful reality-checking exercises and a "weird" technique to strengthen lucid awareness throughout your day
- Discover how lucid dreaming begins with lucid living and why your waking awareness directly shapes your dream awareness
- Explore the dreamlike qualities of ordinary reality and learn how questioning perception can trigger lucid breakthroughs
- Learn the "Columbo Method" for investigating whether you're awake or dreaming in ways that carry over into sleep
- Develop greater presence, awareness, and connection in daily life as you begin cultivating lucidity both day and night
Module 5: Heal Your Inner Child Through Lucid Dreaming (2026-07-29 9:00:00 am)
Gain a rare opportunity to meet the deeper emotional and archetypal parts of yourself with awareness, compassion, and presence as Charlie helps you discover inner child healing within the dream state...
... where unmet needs, emotional wounds, wonder, creativity, and childlike joy can all begin to resurface and heal.
Drawing from ancient dream traditions spanning Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and Mexhica practices, you'll explore techniques that have helped dreamers consciously enter lucidity for centuries.
One of these is the Hypnagogic Affirmation Technique, a proven approach designed to strengthen dream awareness and dramatically increase the likelihood of lucid dreaming.
For many participants, this is the point in the journey where lucid dreams begin arriving more naturally and consistently.
In this module, you'll:
- Practice the Hypnagogic Affirmation Technique and create your own personalized affirmations to strengthen lucid dreaming
- Explore how lucid dreaming can help you reconnect with and heal wounded aspects of the inner child
- Learn why childhood wonder, excitement, and imagination are powerful gateways into lucid awareness
- Discover the ancient nighttime practice of "cutting the night" and how waking consciously during sleep can support lucid breakthroughs
- Develop practical techniques to help increase your chances of experiencing lucid dreams in the weeks ahead
Module 6: Work With Your Nightmares to Access Healing & Conscious Dreaming (2026-08-05 9:00:00 am)
What if your nightmares aren't punishments or signs that something is wrong, but urgent messages from parts of yourself asking to be seen, heard, and healed?
You'll learn about a radically compassionate approach to shadow work and nightmares inspired by Jungian psychology, Tibetan dream traditions, and modern neuroscience.
Rather than fighting frightening dream imagery, you'll explore how anxiety dreams and nightmares may actually represent the mind's attempt to process fear, emotion, and unresolved experiences in service of healing.
You'll also learn why many lucid dreams begin inside nightmares, and how consciously engaging with these dream states can become a powerful gateway into greater freedom, integration, and self-understanding.
Charlie will guide you through practical techniques designed to help you feel deeply supported and safe as you enter these powerful dream spaces.
In this module, you'll:
- Practice the WILD technique for consciously falling asleep while maintaining awareness into the dream state
- Experience the Circle of Protectors Meditation to create a deep sense of safety, support, and groundedness before sleep
- Discover why nightmares and anxiety dreams may actually be signs of healing, emotional processing, and inner transformation
- Learn how to work with shadow figures and frightening dream imagery through compassion rather than fear or avoidance
- Explore how nightmares can become powerful gateways into lucidity, healing, and deeper self-understanding
Module 7: Integrate Lucid Dreaming Practices to Support Lifelong Spiritual Growth & Awareness (2026-08-12 9:00:00 am)
Charlie will help you integrate everything you've explored throughout the course while introducing advanced practices from the Tibetan Dream Yoga tradition, designed to deepen lucidity and strengthen your connection to the dreaming mind.
You'll learn about practical methods for sustaining your practice longterm, including techniques that may dramatically increase your likelihood of lucid dreaming.
Along the way, you'll explore the wider spiritual implications of lucid dreaming for conscious dying, universal consciousness, and awakening to the deeper nature of who you are.
Rather than an ending, this closing session marks the true beginning of your lifelong journey into lucid living and dream exploration.
In this final module, you'll:
- Practice the Wake, Back to Bed, and Guru in the Heart techniques to strengthen lucidity and deepen your connection to the dreaming mind
- Receive a full integration and recap of the core theories, tools, and lucid dreaming practices explored
- Learn how to create an ongoing lucid dreaming rhythm and "dream date night" practice to continue developing your skills after the course ends
- Explore advanced Dream Yoga perspectives on consciousness, spiritual awakening, and the deeper dimensions of dreaming
- Discover how lucid dreaming may support conscious dying, expanded awareness, and a more direct relationship with your own inner divinity
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-06-21 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Charlie’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Our Dark and Golden Shadows
PDF Excerpt From the Guidebook, "Dreaming Through Darkness," by Charlie Morley
Almost 20 years ago, Charlie Morley was introduced to a powerful approach to psychological growth that completely transformed his understanding of himself and the human psyche shadow integration. In this illuminating excerpt from his guidebook Dreaming Through Darkness, you'll explore how the shadow holds not only the parts of yourself you've learned to hide - such as fear, shame, and emotional wounds - but also your untapped gifts, hidden strengths, and deeper vitality. Charlie will guide you through a radically compassionate perspective on the unconscious mind, helping you begin to relate to your inner world with greater honesty, courage, and curiosity. As you read, you'll discover how integrating the shadow can help you access more authenticity, emotional resilience, confidence, and creative energy in your waking life. You'll also begin to understand why the parts of yourself you've rejected may actually contain the very wisdom and wholeness you've been searching for.
How PTSD & Trauma Affect the Brain
Teaching Video From Charlie Morley
Trauma may shape the nervous system, but it doesn't define who you are or determine what's possible for your future. In this insightful video, Charlie explores what actually happens in the brain after trauma and PTSD, helping you understand why certain patterns, reactions, fears, and emotional responses can feel so difficult to control. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and his compassionate approach to trauma-informed dreamwork, he explains how the brain adapts to overwhelming experiences, and importantly, how it can begin to heal. You'll gain a deeper understanding of the connection between trauma, the nervous system, and emotional regulation, learning why healing begins with awareness rather than shame or self-blame. This empowering session offers a grounded and hopeful perspective that can help you relate to your experiences with greater compassion, understanding, and possibility.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
The Basics
PDF Excerpt From the Book, "Dreams of Awakening," by Charlie Morley
Lucid dreaming is often surrounded by mystery, misconception, and exaggerated claims, which is exactly why having a grounded understanding of the practice can make such a profound difference. In this opening chapter from Dreams of Awakening, Charlie lays a clear and accessible foundation for working consciously with your dreams, helping you separate myth from reality while opening your mind to what lucid dreaming may truly make possible. You'll explore the core principles behind lucid dreaming, why it has fascinated spiritual traditions and modern researchers alike, and how dream awareness can become a powerful tool for healing, self-inquiry, creativity, and awakening. Written in Charlie's warm and approachable voice, this chapter helps demystify the practice without diminishing its wonder. It's the perfect starting point for developing a deeper relationship with your dreaming mind, and preparing yourself for the extraordinary possibilities that conscious dreaming can offer.
Circle of Protectors: Dream Recall Affirmation
Guided Audio Practices From Charlie Morley
Inspired by an ancient practice from the Tibetan Bön tradition, these calming guided audio practices are designed to help you approach sleep with a greater sense of safety, ease, and inner protection, especially if you experience nightmares, night terrors, anxious thoughts before sleep, or trauma-related dream disturbances. Charlie shares one of the most beloved techniques he teaches in trauma-informed dreamwork settings, guiding you through a powerful visualization practice that helps transform your sleeping environment into a sacred and protected space supported by compassionate inner protectors. You'll learn how intentional imagery and nervous system regulation can help reduce fear before sleep while cultivating a deeper sense of emotional steadiness and trust in the dreaming process. The accompanying "Dream Recall Affirmation" meditation is designed to be listened to as you drift off to sleep, helping plant gentle suggestions within the hypnagogic state to strengthen dream recall and deepen your connection with the dreaming mind. Together, these practices offer supportive tools to help you sleep more peacefully, remember your dreams more clearly, and begin relating to the night as a space of healing.
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Join the Global Community
Lucid Dreaming to Reduce Anxiety & Restore Calm offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Charlie Morley will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Charlie Morley
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from bestselling Hay House author and Mindvalley lucid dreaming teacher Charlie Morley — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to explore the healing, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of lucid dreaming while learning practical techniques to strengthen dream recall, recognize dream signs, consciously enter lucid states, and work compassionately with nightmares, the Inner Child, and the unconscious mind. Course sessions are on 2026-07-01 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Lucid Dreaming to Reduce Anxiety & Restore Calm
We feel honored that Charlie Morley has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a bestselling Hay House author and Mindvalley lucid dreaming teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about developing the practical skills and inner awareness needed to become conscious within your dreams and use lucid dreaming as a tool for healing, growth, creativity, and spiritual exploration, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Charlie Morley
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Charlie Morley is an author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration, and mindfulness of dream and sleep.
He has been lucid dreaming for over 20 years and was authorized to teach within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism in 2008. Since then he has written four books that have been translated into 15 languages and has hosted workshops and retreats in more than 20 countries.
He’s spoken at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Ministry of Defence. In 2018, he was awarded a grant to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach those who experience trauma-affected sleep. His 2021 book Wake Up to Sleep is a practical guide to these practices. Charlie has been the lead consultant on scientific studies into lucid dreaming at both Swansea University and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
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