Belonging is not an external place into which you seek admission,
but the feeling that results from an internal set of disciplines and skills that can be cultivated.
WHAT IS A
DREAM CIRCLE?
Dream circles are communities of practice, shared council and wisdom. Each encounter is comprised of a process/action to embody, inquire or inspire, dyadic and small group inquiry and circle wide sharing. In circle we practice deep listening and witness as well as have the experience of being received and held and in doing so co-create a vessel for our stories, grief and profound love for the world. We sing, give testimony, and share in the transformation of solitary struggle into the shared work of the village. We honor the seasons, give space to think deeply about shared environmental and social concerns, as well as work together to resolve trauma and come into deeper aliveness and alignment with our own truth.
By committing to one another for deeper periods, we come to discover the imperfect beauty and resilience of an egalitarian space crafted over time which has worked through the surface to delve into the rich space of relational spirituality. Dream Circles are inspired by traditional practices from global indigenous communities, land-based cultures, as well as the work of deep-ecologist Joanna Macy, Poet and Psychotherapist Francis Weller and others.
Ouroboros is a diverse and supportive community that comes together weekly to nourish and enjoy the relational, contemplative, and creative practice of mutual council, peer support, and witness. We generate an intention to awaken and heal ourselves so that we may extend this enlivened presence into our lives. This circle is gender inclusive and has members spanning five decades of life.
Expect laughter, tears, silence, and practices to strengthen your ability to listen and be supported and present for what matters most in life. Entering its fourth year, new members are accepted based on the availability of space and alignment with the norms and values of existing members.
Main Gatherings: Every other Monday, from October through mid-April
Optional co-held Zooms: On the off weeks, there will be a one-hour Zoom space for mutual aid and contemplation, facilitated by rotating members of the circle
A spring retreat: We’ll culminate our journey with an optional day-long retreat at Westways (Long Island) Details to come.
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Oct: 6, 20 Nov: 3, 17 Dec: 1 Jan: 12, 26 Feb: 2, 23 Mar: 9, 23 Apr: 13, (27 for make-up day if needed)
Monthly in-person circle of council, practice for new and seasoned members of the community. Emboddied, relational, seeed planting, collective librative stategies, creative praxis, contemplation, co-awakening, A congregation from the cracks.
In person
Flatiron District, NYC
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October 27th, 2025
November 24th, 2025
December 8th, 2025
February 9th, 2026
March 30th, 2026
April 27th, 2026
DREAM CIRCLE AGREEMENTS
Show Up for Yourself and Others with Kindness
Move at the Speed of Trust
Confidentiality and Containment
Bring it to the Circle
Sovereignty and Interbeingness
WHAT TO
EXPECT
These 2 hour weekly gatherings will feature embodied practices, contemplative practices and a deeply held sharing circle to support the empowerment, and health of our members. Circles are deeper opportunities to do personal work in the accelerated space of group consciousness. Our grief, joy, strengths and vulnerabilities are all gifts to the collective and we have the opportunity to see ourselves reflected and to be expanded by the presence of community.
The power and potential for healing in a group far exceeds the potency of individual one-on-one therapy. As humans we long for the opportunity to be received, witnessed and known, we simultaneously also long to contribute our gifts and wisdom to the community. In our Dream circles we build a vessel strong enough to hold our collective and individual grief, beauty and evolution. Our circles call for a powerful commitment to develop our abilities to listen deeply and to hold, to reflect and tend as well as to share emerging insight and revelation. Over the course of a cycle we explore practices to deepen our contact with soul and what soul is longing to express and bring into the world.
Circles are between 6 - 15 people at facilitator’s discretion
A Prayer
To join a circle you will be guided to complete our intake form. This application is the first step in our process of getting to know each other and ensure that everyone ends up in the most nourishing place possible.
Luisa Giugliano
MDiv, MFA, IYAT
Luisa Giugliano, IAYT, MFA, is a mother, poet and circle tender who has been committed to seeding and nurturing liberative spaces for co-awakening for two decades. Her work as a yoga therapist weaves creative, contemplative and somatic practices to support the tending of grief, and to reclaim and center the sacred. Luisa works with individuals, couples, families and collectives. As a facilitator, Luisa is known to invite transformative group processes that develop village mindedness as well as personal sovereignty. Luisa is the founder of Dream Hive, a Center for Circles and holds an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She is faculty at Sacred Yoga Therapy School and currently pursuing her Masters of Divinity from the Thich Nhat Hanh School of Socially Engaged Buddhism at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. She is a multi-lineage participant in both Buddhist and Quaker spaces. Her current writing projects are both scholarly and poetic and explore kinship, belonging, ecology and theology.