Ignite your Lucid Dreaming

This full-featured online course will ignite your dream life, providing you the best catalysts for more frequent and impactful lucid dreams.

You will be guided through the most scientifically validated methods for lucid dreaming as you move deeper into the mythic landscape of the imagination.

You’ll wake up to your waking life too as you unlock old energy patterns, igniting confidence, creativity and vitality.

The best part: you’ll get guidance from lucid expert Ryan Hurd along the way … and be inspired by our community of dreamers.

Essential details: This is a live online workshop with a secure, moderated forum for dream sharing.

4 live sessions are all on Tuesdays: June 3, June 10, June 17, and June 24 -- all at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern / 6PM London. Each live session is about 75 - 90 minutes long, depending on discussion.

Course also includes live recordings, moderated forum, exclusive downloads and direct feedback from your instructor. This is a live, cohort-based course built for transforming your dream life.

What is the shamanic approach to lucid dreaming?

A lucid dream is when you know you are dreaming while still in the confines of sleep.

The shamanic approach to lucid dreaming is a bridge between the modern, scientifically-validated practices for lucid dreaming and the ancient worldview of our deep ancestors.

All around the world, advanced dreamers from the last hundred thousand years (give or take) have had lucid dreams that were directed towards the gathering of information previously not available, for the aggregation of vital energy, and most importantly, for healing.

The possibilities aren't so much endless as they are eternal.

We are supported, because our ancestors have been here before.

Here's What You'll Leave with:

A Tailored Plan to Go Lucid

Awaken to the dreaming moment with tailored skills that address your own dreaming roadblocks

A Map to Stay Lucid and Go Deeper

Experience lucidity that takes you past the initiation of the first sixty seconds into soulful encounter with dreaming intelligence(s)

Your Mythic Powers, Rediscovered

Move beyond the default mode network into transformative worlds of vibrancy, information and ecstasy

Confidence when Facing the Unknown

Draw secure boundaries and stay open to possibility

Who is this course for?

Beginner, Lapsed and Advanced Dreamers

This course meets you where you're at, with practices tailored to your unique lucid roadblocks

Psychonauts seeking clarity

Lucidity shares many traits with other altered and extraordinary states and the work we do in the dreamworld benefits all our explorations.

Sensitive Dreamers

This course is especially helpful for those have lost confidence after facing initiatory ordeals and lucid nightmares

Therapists, ministers and spiritual directors

Learn how to better support clients who move in these deep waters

Testimonials

If you're having trouble becoming lucid or waning more lucidity in you dreams, I can't recommend Lucid Ignition enough! He provides you with a comprehensive view of the dream world, but more importantly how the dream world and the waking world have reciprocal interactions. In addition he provide you with practices to help you overcome the difficulties you may have with your lucid dreaming practice.

Dennis

a really enjoyable journey! After getting so many information about LD technics, reading tons of books, I missed the human dimension of learning: join a group, get practical direction, focus on a period of time of practice, share with other people. The group was dynamic, open-minded, motivating. Ryan replied to questions, shared from his long experience, both success and failure, provided a lot of information.

AlexFounder of DreamLeaf

I cannot imagine a better or more professional class for either beginner lucid dreamers or someone who needs to up their game.

Paul Z.

I've read many books on lucid dreaming, but the personal mentorship that Ryan gave me was invaluable. He is extremely knowledgable and broadly so. Everyone was able to gain something specific and personalized from him during our meetings.

DashielleFounder of WishTender

Course Outcomes

If you engage in the material and do the suggested practices, you will abe able to experience:

longer lucid dreams in which you remember your intentions
less premature awakenings
more frequent lucid dreams that move your mythic story forward
successful out-of-body experiences and healing hypnagogia
a new zest in waking life .. with more magic, courage and creativity

You’ll also be able to:

Understand your default role in lucid dreams (and non-lucid dreams too)
Discover the mythic imbalances in your dreams
Clear the lucid roadblocks that hide in your lucid shadow
Avoid classic traps in lucid dreams by shifting your mythic role
Go deeper and further into your Lucid Dreamwork like never before

What's more, we can reverse-engineer what's missing from our lucid dreaming practices as we inventory which lucid gifts we practice well, and which ones we haven't explored at all.

Because here's the secret to advanced lucid dreaming:

Your lucid roadblocks are the secret to your power

Identifying your personal lucid roadblocks are not only evidence you are on the path — but also the key to your transformation.

Some examples of shifts you could see include:

Fly without getting entangled or suffering from low power
Increase your courage when facing unknown situations
Successfully move past guardian figures to complete dream initiations
Discover sacred ground in the dream and sit with wise elders
Dissolve specific fears and gain confidence
Experience spacious and healing places
Say your peace in mythic confrontations rooted in your childhood past
Transform your sleep paralysis nightmares
Move through fear when having an out-of-body experience (OBE)

Course Features

4 Live sessions

We meet on Tuesdays at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern / 6PM London. Dates are June 3rd, June 10th, June 17th, and June 24th

Private Courseroom

Recordings, downloads, extra resources and conversations are all here

Direct Instructor feedback

Ryan will be on hand to answer all your questions and focus your plans

Mugwort Ceremony

Dream expert Kris Lang will lead us on Thursday June 19th at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern

Course Curriculum

My courses are always co-created by the needs and interests of students, so consider these themes as starting points for our exploration.

Week 1 The Three Tiered Cosmos

We discuss the secret history of lucid dreaming, hiding in the world's ethnographic literature... and in your own deep ancestry. You'll get grounded and build your own lucid dreaming sanctuary.

Week 2 The Middle world

Artists, writers, scientists and creatives of all stripes have leveraged their dreams for greater access to the creative, dreaming mind. You'll meet the dream halfway and finally learn to fly in this co-creative altered state

Week 3 The Lower World

Lucidity in the underworld of the dream is magickal and alchemical, rooted in body wisdom and initiatory landscapes. Lucidity here blooms with strong willpower and making room for the art of surrender.

Week 4 The Upper World

We will ascend to the sky realms, where cosmic architectures, non-human intelligences, and non-duality beckon us to recrystallize the dream body. You'll get to know the lucid void and its etheric secrets.

About your Instructor

I'm Ryan Hurd, an award-winning lucid dreaming scholar, author of the impactful book Sleep Paralysis and editor with Kelly Bulkeley of the two volume reference set Lucid dreaming: New perspectives on consciousness in sleep.

I'm a trained anthropologist of consciousness who loves bridging Paleolithic cognition with modern dream science. I've published chapters in books such as Lands of the Shamans: Archaeology, Cosmology and Landscape (2018) and Folklore, People and Places (Routledge, 2023) and am a contributing researcher at the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network.

My peer-reviewed dream research has focused on lucid dream supplements, imaginal methods for social scientists, and mystical dreams. I also am credited with coining the phrase lucid nightmares, inspiring a fresh round of clinical research into healing lucid dreams.

I've taught how to use dreaming for ancestral remembrance and decolonization in a number of settings, including as part of the graduate program Indigenous and Peace Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica. My approach is anti-racist, non-appropriative, and welcoming.

Here’s what Robert Moss, bestselling author of Conscious Dreaming, has said about my work:

Ryan Hurd is an eloquent storyteller and a charming guide. You will find that his advice on lucid dreaming opens into the broader horizons of lucid living with eyes open or shut.

Let's explore the lucid dreamworlds together, from the sky realms, to the underworld, and everything in between.

Course Bonuses

A Lucid Amulet

Lucid Immersion eBook

More Testimonials

Before this course I had never had a lucid dream before-- this is the first time I've gone lucid! If you're both serious or just curious about whether lucid dreaming is for you, then I highly recommend this course.

Oneida W.

The workshop is excellent as it takes us through "ins and outs" of lucid dreaming. By sharing with students all the steps, details, and information materials Ryan takes us literally by hand to produce meaningful dreams.

Cory P.

I am so glad to have taken these courses. They have helped me enhance my practice of lucid dreaming, dream recall and astral projection. I have noticed more vivid dreams and also how much my dreams have been more adventurous by applying the new practices I have learned in the courses.

Jaime Lundquist-MunozContributor Author to Sacred Surrender and Divine Dreamers

Ryan is an outstanding and deeply compassionate instructor who has designed an excellent curricula. He consistently demonstrates his intuitive, caring self as he covers extremely useful information while always reminding us to do our dream practice with discipline bathed in an ocean of loving kindness.

Kathi W.

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