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Course Description
Do you want to be more authentic, more integrated, more awake? Then your shadow side has to be faced and embraced.
What is the shadow? It’s made up of whatever we hide from others: our shame, our fears, our wounds but also our divine potential, our creative power and our hidden talents. The shadow is a huge source of benevolent power and potential but until we bring it into the light this power will remain untapped and our full potential unreached.
This 7-week course will guide you into the dazzling darkness of the shadow and show you how to unlock the gold within. Using ancient methods from Tibetan Buddhism alongside contemporary techniques from mindfulness, insight training and Western psychology the viewer is guided through a profound process of transformation. This course is about waking up to our inner freedom and becoming more authentically human.
Through guided meditations, dream work, shamanic mask practice and deep psychological inquiry we’ll learn how to befriend our shadow with loving kindness, as a way to heal our minds and open our hearts to our highest potential.
What will the course explore?
- Integrating the shadow
- Uncovering your golden potential
- Transforming shame into authenticity
- Healing your sexual shadow
- Making friends with your past and yourself
- Embracing the shadow through dream-work
What are you going to get from this course?
- Everything you need to transform your shadow
- Over 50 tutorial videos making up over 4 hours of cinematic footage
- Dozens of powerful shadow integration practices
- Exclusive guided dreamwork meditations
- Life time access to all videos. (streaming only)
- Access to all the units at any time, so that you can choose the pace of the course
Is this course for you? Yes, if you want to…
- Become a more helpful human being
- Unlock your inner gold
- Step out of shame and into authenticity
- Expand your personal and spiritual growth
- Decode the shadow in your dreams
- Have more energy, more creativity, more spiritual growth and radical authenticity.
Based on Charlie’s ten years of teaching experience this course will take you on a life-changing journey deep into the dazzling darkness of spiritual transformation. The light that we will find there is brighter than we could ever imagine!
Pre-release course reviews
“Inspiring, moving – just brilliant! Charlie is a great communicator”- Mike G
“Fantastic course! So engaging, so honest, so helpful. Something’s shifted for me” -Sundra
“The course was very insightful, Charlie is great at presenting”- Peter GS
“A wonderful course! It opened up my heart and mind.”- Rowena
About the course leader Charlie Morley
Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of both lucid dreaming and shadow work. He received the traditional “authorisation to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism from Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008 and has since run retreats and workshops around the world and written three books which have been translated into 11 languages.
He’s spoken at Cambridge University, the TED conference in San Diego, is a regular expert panellist for The Guardian and continues to teach on mindfulness retreats for armed forces veterans. In 2017 Sonima magazine called him one of “The Next Generation of Meditation Instructors”.
For more info see www.charliemorley.com
* this course is non-refundable
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Course Curriculum
| Week 1: Our dark and golden shadows | |||
| Introduction to the Embracing the Shadow Course | FREE | 00:01:38 | |
| What is the dark shadow? | FREE | 00:02:04 | |
| What is the golden shadow? | FREE | 00:03:23 | |
| The shadow of the world | 00:00:54 | ||
| What is shadow integration? | 00:01:31 | ||
| Shadow dreaming | 00:02:24 | ||
| Lucid Living | 00:01:14 | ||
| Daytime Exercise: meeting our personal shadow | 00:18:20 | ||
| Nighttime exercise: keeping a dream recall | 00:06:35 | ||
| Week 2: Constructing and projecting the shadow | |||
| The Benefits of shadow work | 00:14:55 | ||
| Fear of the dark | 00:02:02 | ||
| A self-created archetype? | 00:01:04 | ||
| Suppression, repression, denial | 00:02:53 | ||
| Shame, fear, judgment | 00:06:30 | ||
| Shadow projection | 00:10:36 | ||
| Daytime exercise: recognizing the projected shadow | 00:08:03 | ||
| The seeing is the doing | 00:01:08 | ||
| Night-time exercise: dream diary | 00:06:19 | ||
| Week 3: The childhood shadow | |||
| Acceptance, friendliness, kindness | 00:04:24 | ||
| Burying our treasure | 00:07:33 | ||
| Inner critic and forgiveness | 00:06:49 | ||
| Daytime exercise 1: Hand on heart meditation | 00:01:58 | ||
| Daytime exercise 2: the bag that we drag behind us | 00:09:28 | ||
| Night time exercise: Hypnagogic Golden Shadow | 00:03:52 | ||
| Week 4: Dropping the mask | |||
| Mindfulness meditation | 00:04:05 | ||
| Daytime exercise: 3 minutes mindfulness meditation | 00:05:36 | ||
| Dropping the mask & habituated to shame | FREE | 00:15:06 | |
| Nighttime exercise: recognizing the shadow in dreams | 00:07:30 | ||
| Bonus exercise 1: No mud no lotus | 00:08:31 | ||
| Bonus exercise 2: eye-gazing | 00:05:40 | ||
| Week 5: Nightmares and Shadow lucid dreaming | |||
| 3 New perspectives (A dream that is shouting, Signs of a healing Mind, Energetic potential) | 00:10:16 | ||
| Lucid dream shadow work | 00:06:25 | ||
| Embracing the dark shadow in lucid dreams | 00:05:46 | ||
| Embracing the golden shadow in lucid dreams | 00:05:57 | ||
| Daytime exercise: circle of allies | 00:03:30 | ||
| Week 6: The Ancestral and Sexual shadows | |||
| The ancestral shadow | 00:03:26 | ||
| Daytime exercise: healing the ancestral shadow | 00:09:14 | ||
| The Parental shadow | 00:02:32 | ||
| Daytime exercise: healing the parental shadow | 00:05:38 | ||
| Daytime exercise: sexual shadow mask work | 00:14:12 | ||
| Night time exercise: ancestral shadow dreamwork | 00:04:56 | ||
| Week 7: Revolutionising the shadow | |||
| Tibetan Buddhist shadow work | 00:06:42 | ||
| Tonglen | 00:04:18 | ||
| Daytime exercise: Tonglen | 00:05:10 | ||
| Death: the ultimate shadow? | 00:07:10 | ||
| Daytime exercise: 7 days left to live | 00:06:23 | ||
| Daytime exercise: The Life review | 00:14:14 | ||
| Daytime exercise: The Gratitude Visit | 00:04:27 | ||
| Night time exercise: 4 ways to die consciously | 00:07:16 | ||
| Conclusion of the Embracing the Shadow Course | 00:01:40 | ||
Really juicy
This is a course that will make you work hard, will get you to face your fears and reflect deeply. It will take time, but the results are absolutely worth it ❤️
Shadow: consider yourself embraced!
This is an excellent course, which has helped me build on Charlie Morley’s Lucid Dreaming course I have already done. The course builds up gradually, providing a whole host of tools and techniques to help students befriend their shadows. I found that I had more lucid dreams, remembered more things from my past, felt more integrated and whole, even before I had completed the course. I know that this is just a first step, and can’t wait to continue the journey.
Life changing! This was another fantastic trip with Charlie Morley!
A fantastic course filled with such powerful yet simple exercises. This material is so valuable and should be taught in all of the therapy training curriculums. The production values were good and the material broken out into very useable lengths. I plan to continue to use this course for the rest of my life as dying consciously has been a goal since my teens. Thank you Charlie and The Academy for bringing these deeply transformative practices and exercises into the light! Charlie your Buddhist teachers knew what they were doing when they trained you to bring this path to the Western community. Thank you isn’t enough. Deepest gratitude for your light in this dimension of the dream. Thank you to you all and to all your teachers. Namaste!
Total life transforming, not only for myself for all my loved ones (and enemies too :))
Definitely the most transformative best course I’ve ever done, not only for myself, but total transformed my relationships with my family and close friends, and even enemies.
Recommending everyone to do the course, along with or after doing Charlie’s lucid dreaming courses. Whereas the lucid dreaming is a great foundation course, shadow integration is like a whole new level Masters course.
Humble & Practical
What an accessible and thoughtfully constructed journey. I feel like Im off to a good start in a positive line of inquiry in life.
Wonderful
Such an accessible and helpful course, and Charlie presents it in such an intuitive manner. You can tell how closely the content aligns with his life path. Arguably, it’s worth its weight in gold(en shadow) ?
Outstanding
Thank you so much! I absolutely loved it, the exercises are very powerful and life changing! I would suggest to my clients to do this course!
Illuminating Course!
Wow, I’ve just finished this course and feel pleased that I’ve dipped my toe into the shadow waters!
Firstly I would like to thank Charlie for his amazing videos, stories and sharing his own dark shadows. I love his enthusiasm, humour, inspiration and his humility. I’m now planning the next course on Lucid Dreaming.
This course has enabled me to pursue studying shadow aspects, entering into therapy and engaging with some of my own clients on a deeper level. Of course, there’s the Golden Shadow which is often neglected so I’m happy to be exploring that aspect too.
Lastly I would like to thank Shamash and his co workers for bringing this course to the Awake Academy. I hope there are more courses like this.
Lots of love ?x
Awesome, highly recommended!!!
During those weeks, I had a very vivid, lucid dream, in which I met, talked to and, in the end, embraced my shadow. It was such a transformative experience! I woke up blissfully! It’s changed the way I look at my fears and worries. Thank you, Charlie, for your teachings!
Life changing
I uncovered some amazing truths, both golden and dark. Self acceptance made easy and dark experience vanishing, almost like it never happened. Energy levels and happiness excelled.
Many blessings and good health to Charlie and his family.
Brilliant, powerful course
This is a brilliant course – powerful exercises that cut through to some of the most important feelings and questions. The mask exercise in particular really shifted something for me that has been incredibly helpful. The course is thoughtfully put together and taught in a gentle and inspiring way – Charlie’s warmth, humour and honesty make him the perfect teacher for this compassionate exploration of the shadow. Huge gratitude and respect.
Gratitude ?
Thanks Charlie.excellent companion to your book and I really like the captions with each video.Happy continuation ?
Excellent
I loved the book! And now the online course has massaged the lessons deeper into my being. I feel very inspired and I’ve started practising the exercises with renewed vigor. I’m looking forward to working through the lucid dreaming course. Thank you Charlie, and well done, hope to work with you in person in the future.
Very adventurous and learning , meaningful
Very good course