This document introduces the technique of Embodied Imagination, which was pioneered by Robert Bosnak. Embodied Imagination views dreams and memories as embodied environments that one can re-enter through a hypnagogic state to explore images through feelings, sensations, and multiple perspectives manifested in the body. This leads to profound transformation and has healing effects for those with illnesses, trauma, or blocks. The technique takes dreaming as a paradigm for working with images from memory, dreams, art, and uses questioning to explore these images from a variety of perspectives through embodied awareness.

1. Embodying the Imagination An Introduction to the work of Robert Bosnak Sheila McNellis Asato, M.A., E.I.C. June, 2010

2. What is “Embodied Imagination?”

3. “ Embodied Imagination is a radically new technique which views imagery - dreams and memory flashbacks -- as embodied environments in which we find ourselves.”

5. In Embodied Imagination, we work on images from a perspective which stimulates unfamiliar states of consciousness and help contain them in expanded body awareness.

9. . From the dreaming perspective, an image is an environment in which we find ourselves

10. Based on this notion, one can “re-enter” the landscape of a dream and flashback to the images, whether it is a memory from waking life or from dreaming.