Dream Temple at the Spring Equinox

Gather, dreamers.

And enter the Dream Temple.

We invite you to a night-long gong bath. Yes…you heard us right. An immersive Gong Bath that resounds throughout the starlight hours, where we rise with the sun the following morning.

This is a unique experience to explore your own self-healing through sacred rest and the imaginal realm. To allow layers of the waking-self to dissolve so that you can reconnect with your own Divinity.

“When we sleep, everything we know as ‘me’ disappears.” (Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche)

What is a Dream Temple?

At our earliest times, we knew sky language, we journeyed in the liminal and we healed in lucidity. The godly beings of the mythic universe visited us in the dreamworld to bring us the medicine and miracles we asked of them.

The Dream Temple is a sanctuary for states of inner awareness (similar to those experienced in Yoga Nidra), hypnagogia, and lucid dreaming.

There’s an expansiveness to this meditative experience with the addition of sound and scent. How better than to lose yourself in a dreamscape drenched in healing frequencies and vibration.

"The practice of ‘Temple Sleep’ is well-evidenced in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman archaeology and literature. I believe the practice of ‘dream incubation’ reveals many secrets regarding the journey of human consciousness, the evolution of memory and language, the mind-body connection, the placebo effect and the unconscious mind’s potent response to imagination, story and symbolism. " (Sarah Janes)

Healing Rest

We believe in the healing potential and power of rest. The deepest rest.

Research shows that 30 minutes of a Yoga Nidra practice is equivalent to 2-4 hours of sleep, and that 20 minutes of a sound bath is equivalent to similar. When we enter this transitional state our mind, body and inner knowing respond. Brainwaves slow to quieten the logical mind, allowing our intuition to rise, our imagination to heighten, and otherworldly inspiration to find us. The Body-Mind can unlearn and re-learn, transforming self-limitation into self-liberation.

“Every night we have an opportunity to know our past, to know what we are supressing, to know our wounds…and through lucidity and the awareness of the dream we have an opportunity to rewrite the story, rename the story, delete the story, get free from the story. All these possibilities are there.” (Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche)

Sound Asleep

The Gong Puja was invented by Gong Master Don Conreaux, who learned his ancient craft from his teacher, Yogi Bhajan.

A Gong Puja is a ceremonial encounter with the Gong and its divine sound for an extended period of time. The word ‘puja’ derives from Hinduism and Buddhism, meaning ‘an act of worship’.

At our Dream Temple, we weave these two wonders together. The ancient medicine of ‘Temple Sleep’ and the ancient healing wisdom of the Gong. Our playing, our dreaming, our receptivity… they are acts of worship.

“The miracle of the gong, as a full-bodied sound phenomenon, is in the acoustic field it creates… it is a dream state, whether it’s a day or night dream, and the imagination takes over from the calculating mind as our own unique inner theatre occurs.” (Don Conreaux)

Rising Spring

Seasonally and astrologically, March-time is where we awaken once more. It’s the mid-point where our awareness of nature and sentience heightens.

We wish to honour this Earthly magic and mystery with the Dream Temple. A time where we shed stagnancy, erosion, debris that no longer serves us, and surrender to a brightening light. A time where the veil thins and our senses elevate. A time where we rest, readying to bloom.

The invitation is for you to be as comfortable as possible and as receptive as possible, allowing yourself to sink into a sound immersion brimming with healing intention, vibration and tone.

20:00 | Arrival and Opening Ceremony

21:00 | Mythic Journey

22:00 | Sound Bath

06:30 | Sound-rise

07:00 | Grounding

07:30 | Closing Ceremony

When + Where

Overnight, Friday 17th March-Saturday 18th March, 8pm – 8am

Wonderful Things studio, 4 Hoy Street, Thanet Tower, Unit 11, London E16 1XD

Standard Temple Ticket: £75

Comfort Temple Ticket*: £90

Affordable Temple Ticket: £60

*A comfort ticket secures you a comfortable futon or floor matt for the night. We had 10 available and we only have 4 left!

This will be an intimate gathering so you will have prime position to receive the Gong.

To grab your Temple Ticket from Rooted Healing directly (and to learn more about who we are) go here: https://www.rootedhealing.org/dreamtemple

What to bring:

As much as you can carry to be comfortable. We’d recommend a camping mat/mattress or yoga mat, a sleeping bag, and a pillow to support your head. The studio will provide bolsters, eye masks, and a single blanket per person. Duvets are welcome! You’re also invited to bring extra blankets or bed linen for yourself if you like. A water bottle and journal are recommended. We will have the heating on all night so we should be shielded if temperatures are cold outside.