A four-day lucid dreaming & psychonavigation retreat · Ashland, Oregon · January 14-17th, 2027
Come navigate expanded states of consciousness with lucidity.
Four days of lucidity training, Psychonavigation™, drumming journeys, and ceremony with the plant allies - held in person, in a sacred container.
Every night your psyche delivers profound insight and the answers to your deepest questions. However, for most of us those messages are gone by morning. This retreat is built to catch them: a small circle, four unhurried days, drumming and movement to open the body, an evening in ceremony with the plant allies, and a space designed to help you get lucid, stay lucid, and navigate what you find - with real preparation before you arrive and real integration once you're home.
Apply to Reserve Your PlaceThe Shape of the Retreat
Four days of dreaming, drumming, and ceremony
Each day builds on the last - the way a dream sign becomes a key, a state check becomes a habit, and a habit becomes a doorway into lucidity. Nothing here is rushed, including what happens before you arrive and after you leave.
Arrival & Coming Together
We arrive, settle into the space, and open the circle. You'll set both a dream intention and a ceremonial intention for the retreat, walk through what preparation has asked of you in the weeks leading in, and move through a sunset embodiment and dance session before the first night's shared dreaming ritual.
Learning the Language
Morning tea dream circle: we compare notes on the night's shared dreaming attempt. Then we get technical with Psychonavigation™ training - reality checks, dream sign mapping, and induction method - followed by an afternoon shadow work study and drumming journeys to really prepare for what might arise and be able to hold it with skill.
Drumming & Ceremony
A quieter morning tea circle, then rest, journaling, and final preparation through midday. In the afternoon, the circle moves into ceremony with the plant allies, held within Oregon's licensed, legal framework and guided by state-licensed facilitators - the retreat's deepest journey.
Integration & Closing
The final day is given entirely to integration - a tea circle built to help ceremony settle into something usable, not just something that happened to you. We close with a group circle, a take-home integration plan, and time to say goodbye before departure.
What's Held in the Circle
Five powerful practices, one retreat
Morning Tea Dream Circle
Each morning opens the same way - tea, low light, and a circle where the night's dreams get spoken out loud before the day can talk you out of them.
Lucid Dreaming Training
Reality checks, dream sign mapping, and induction technique, taught through Nisha and Norma's method for consciously moving through inner and dream space.
Drumming Journeys
Guided journeys held by the drum - rhythm and breath used to open the body and the group's shared field ahead of deeper ceremony.
Ceremony With the Plant Allies
An evening in ceremony, held within Oregon's licensed, legal framework and guided by state-licensed facilitators. The retreat's deepest and most closely held journey.
Shared Dreaming
A guided group incubation ritual on our first night, where the whole circle sets out to meet inside the same dream - and compares notes by morning.
The Container
A space designed for you to be properly held
Expanded consciousness is a threshold state, and thresholds (dream or ceremonial) need the right conditions. We've built this retreat's container the way you'd build a ritual: with intention.
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The Journey to Completion™
Norma's powerful trauma healing and shadow integration methodology that has led thousands of people through to complete healing of habitual patterns and shadow wounds. At the core of everything we do this system helps to hold what arises in a safe and skillful way.
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A dedicated movement studio
Open floor space for daily embodiment, dance, and drumming work, separate from where we sleep and talk.
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Dream & integration teas
Calming blends served at every morning circle, before ceremony, and through integration.
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A shared dream altar
A communal space for the objects, drawings, and notes each dreamer brings out of the night - and out of ceremony.
Held By
Nisha & Norma Burton
A mother and daughter team with thirty-plus years of combined dreamwork between them, teaching side by side. Norma brings decades of depth work and retreat-holding experience; Nisha bridges it into the language of lucid dreaming, Psychonavigation™, and the body.
Preparation & Integration
What happens before and after matters as much as the retreat itself
Four days can open a lot. We hold the weeks on either side of them just as carefully.
Preparation
- A private call with Nisha or Norma to review intentions and readiness
- Dietary and lifestyle guidance for the two weeks leading in
- A short dream journaling and reality-check practice to prime lucidity before you land
- Reading and audio on what ceremony asks of you, and what it can and can't do
Integration
- A closing integration circle on your last morning, before goodbyes
- A private follow-up integration call within two weeks of returning home
- A private group thread with your circle for continued dream and integration sharing
- An invitation into Nisha & Norma's ongoing Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Living community
The Details
What you need to know
Ceremonial elements of this retreat are held for eligible adults 21+, within Oregon's licensed, legal framework, and facilitated by state-licensed practitioners. Full eligibility and screening details are shared during your application call.
If you feel a calling
Come find out what your dreams have been trying to tell you.
Four days. One circle. A dream you'll actually remember.
Apply to Reserve Your Place