Donna Marie Mazzola
Donna Marie Mazzola a passionate advocate for the potency of dreams and their ability to transform one’s waking life. It is her experience and belief that dreams offer moments of Sacred Encounter and bring Helpers who are incessantly and creatively tethering us to Soul. She is a Natural Dreamwork practitioner who offers both one-to-one and group sessions.
Because we know that the whole body dreams (not just the brain during sleep), attending to the wisdom of the body is key to dreamwork. As both dream practitioner and InterPlay leader, Donna attends to the imaginal realm through play, using movement, poetry, collage, painting, and other art forms to encounter the images, characters, gestures, and feelings in dreams — and to bring them to life. Donna guides clients to the wisdom of their own bodies to assist them in the transformational journey of dreamwork.
Donna is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and holds master’s degrees in Education and Wisdom Studies. A former middle school teacher, Donna worked in the Cleveland Municipal School District for 35 years. She is a long-time student of Creation Spirituality and a graduate of Wisdom University (2012). She also studied Projective Dreamwork at the Marin Institute (founded by Jeremy Taylor). In 2016, Donna began her journey of Natural Dreamwork with Rodger Kamenetz.
She has been facilitating dream groups since 2009. In addition to working with individuals, she offers group sessions through the Community of St. Bridget, her own faith community.
Blog Posts by Donna Marie Mazzola
Layers Of Contemplation
After bringing the dream images to life in a Natural Dreamwork session, a practitioner invites a dreamer to contemplate moments of a dream that have brought the deepest feeling. It is in those sacred moments of the dream that the healing medicine resides.
A New Way Of Seeing
There are moments in our dreams when we’re observing rather than acting. A scene unfolds before us, and we can be sure it is unfolding on our behalf. Other times, we are part of the dream and the action is happening a short or long distance from us. I remember a dream of my mother. I write: Mom is there; close to my face; I can see the pores of her skin.
Expanding The Imagination
Dreams do not often come to tell us what we already know. But they do come to shake loose our ego story—to tease apart the tight way in which we hold narratives about ourselves, our lives, and our predicaments. When our habitual storylines are disrupted, our egos may react and defend what is familiar.