Dr. Keren Vishny
Dr. Keren Vishny is a psychotherapist and certified Natural Dreamwork Practitioner. She is also a teacher and workshop facilitator affiliated with the CG Jung Center, Evanston Illinois, and the Marion Woodman Foundation. Over her 28 years of work in the healing arts, Keren has shifted from mainstream medical practice to a focus on psycho-spiritual healing through dreams.
Keren has a master’s in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University, studied for many years with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman and completed the BodySoul Rhythms Leadership training offered by the Marion Woodman Foundation.
In 2012 she met poet/ dreamwork practitioner Rodger Kamenetz, whose guidance and mentoring provided the capstone to her dreamwork training.
Blog Posts by Dr. Keren Vishny
Unfreezing The Light In Our Dreams
When we say that a person in love is glowing it may be more than a metaphor: There is a physical radiance palpable in each of us at times when we are open-hearted and fully alive to our surroundings. Recently I’ve begun to notice this radiant quality in some of my dreams. The imagery of these dreams glows golden (even if the background is dark) with light emanating from the dream figures as well as from dreams’ landscape.
What’s In Your Cage?
Who are the creatures in our dreams? And what does the way they are depicted express about our own experience and predicament? These are questions I have asked myself over the years, never fully comfortable with any one answer. Maybe that’s because dream creatures are so multifaceted.
Coming To Our Senses In Our Dreams
In Natural Dreamwork, we encounter images as living presences. We allow the images to ‘speak’ from the particularity of their being. These encounters are the gateway to deeper feeling and deeper knowing. Dreams present us with many questions, but sometimes it takes the gentle presence of another to even hear the questions.