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Wednesdays, July 15 to Aug 19
6pm-8:30pm
Moon Garden:
Dreaming, Plant Allies, & Collective Imagination
With Adam Elmaghraby
Moon Garden is an immersion into the wisdom of dreams, plant allies, and collective imagination.
You will learn to harness your dreams as guides and a supportive structure for your health and healing. In every session, we will learn about dream work from different perspectives, spanning indigenous/animist to modern discourse, brought to life in a weekly projective dream circle. Projective dreamwork is a participatory method for workshoping dreams in a group.
This offering does not require prior experience with dreamwork or herbalism; all are welcome to participate in discovering dreams for health and healing.
The Journey
❋ Week 1
Dreams as Messenger: Awakening the Inner Listener
An initiation into the dreaming life and our time together. We orient to the dream as a living communication — from psyche, from body, from the more-than-human world. We explore practical and ritual approaches to deepening dream
❋ Week 2
Rewilding the Dream Landscape
We enter the tension between modern and Indigenous dreaming cultures — what has been lost, suppressed, and what persists. An inquiry into why dreaming matters now, and how collective dreaming becomes an act of liberation and healing.
❋ Week 3
Plant Courtship & the Dreaming Body
An exploration of the dream in plant initiation traditions — their history, their logic, their ethics. We bring our own encounters with the plant world into the circle and begin to map the intelligences that have been reaching toward us.
❋ Week 4
Circle Work: Dreaming Together
We practice projective dreamwork as a group — a method of communal meaning-making in which each voice in the circle becomes a mirror for the dreamer. Dreams are shared, held, and explored together.
❋ Week 5
Initiation into the Inner Pantheon
We descend into the deep grammar of the dreaming psyche — the archetypes, totems, and guides that move through our dreams as emissaries of the Self. Drawing on Jungian depth psychology and cross-cultural initiation traditions, we explore how these figures arrive not as symbols to decode but as presences to enter into relationship with. Who has been appearing? What do they ask of us? We map our personal and collective guides and begin the work of conscious initiation.
❋ Week 6
Claiming Our Myth: A Closing Ritual
We close the intensive by naming what has moved through us — the images, the threads, the invitations. Dreams are shared in a final circle. We close with prayer, a renewal of intention, and the blessing of what is being carried forward.
Instructor’s Note:
Students should arrive on time. We will create a collective container that requires participation as a dreamer and a listener.
Dreamers are expected to have the intention of deepening their dreams for the duration of the class
Previous dream recordings and expertise are welcome
There will be occasional readings and podcasts
Dreamers will be invited to join a signal group chat to build a community and share updates about the experience of dreaming.
Meet your Instructor
Adam Elmaghraby
Adam works with dreams because he believes they are the most honest expression of who we are. They don't perform. They don't manage impressions.
Plants taught him felt knowledge. What he discovered is that he had been doing this work his whole life, blending the realities of his Egyptian American ancestry with practices that deepen his attunement to the world.
For the past ten years, he has been working with South American & Western herbalism and dreamwork to recover his own inner authority and begin sharing it with others.
He holds degrees in Philosophy and Pan-African Studies, an MBA in Design Strategy, and is completing his clinical practicum in herbal medicine with Plant Spirit Talks. He has hosted workshops at the World Ayahuasca Conference, Meta Reality Labs, and PST.
He lives in Oakland with his daughter, Soraya.
Join the Dream Journey
Moon Garden is an immersion into the wisdom of dreams, plant allies, and collective imagination. Through weekly projective dream circles and perspectives spanning indigenous to modern traditions, you will learn to harness your dreams for health and healing. No prior experience needed. All are welcome.