The Waking Dream : 10 exercises from Colette Aboulker-Muscat

Colette Aboulker Muscat has taught Waking Dream for the past forty years in Jerusalem. To each person who comes for a consultation, she offers a short story leading to a waking dream, equal in intensity to a night dream. The surprise provoked by the story, and the shortness of the treatment are, for her, essential aspects of the process. The mental imagery itself allows one to overcome a problem or an illness. In this rare footage, award winning director, Patrick Bokanowski, films Colette giving a class in – what she considered – the 10 essential imagery exercises for healing. Colette provides feedback to students on their personal imagery and emphasizes the key component to healing.

Included is imagery to:

• reconstruct ourselves
• overcome sorrow and loss
• heal the body
• strengthen ourselves in the face of challenges
• throw away our difficulties
• unravel the complications that bind us

"A simple exercise [can lead] you to the direction where it can [tell] you where you stand, without your concrete thoughts... interfering. It tells you what is best for you, at that moment."
-Colette

Patrick Bokanowski - Le Rêve Eveillé (Excerpt) from Re:Voir Video on Vimeo.