NEW RETREAT
DJEHUTY DREAMS: DREAM MYSTERIES OF THOTH
17th - 23rd November 2025
Journey into the dreamscapes of Djehuty (Thoth), the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, writing, and divine mysteries. This all-inclusive retreat will transport you to the sacred heart of Egypt, blending ancient teachings with transformative dream work.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
First Night in Giza: Sleep near the Great Pyramids.
Grand Egyptian Museum: Encounter Egypt’s timeless treasures.
Pyramids & Saqqara: Explore iconic ancient landmarks.
Journey Along the Nile: Flow with the sacred river’s rhythm.
Hermetic Retreat at New Hermopolis: Awaken your inner wisdom.
Ancient Hermopolis: Walk through the city of divine inspiration.
Akhetaten (Amarna): Stand in Akhenaten’s horizon of the sun.
This pilgrimage weaves together sacred spaces, ancient knowledge, and dream exploration for a life-changing experience.
COST & DETAILS:
Email me on 22sarahjanes22@gmail.com for full itinerary, costs and more info.
Latest Podcast
I loved chatting with Michael Phillip for his excellent Third Eye Drops podcast recently.
It’s always excellent to converse with a kindred spirit!
We talked about ancient Mysteries, dream incubation and a lot more.
Watch on YouTube CLICK HERE
EVENTS COMING UP:
Lapis Lazuli
An Introduction to Synaesthetic, Polychromatic Dreaming
5 JANUARY 18:00 GMT - 19:30 (Zoom) + recording
COST £20 Payment can also be made using PayPal: sarah@awakeandaway.co.uk || Ref: Lapis READ MORE
Lady of the Lake
Dream Myth Mini-Retreat (four nights) Cynghordy, Nr. Myddfai, Wales | January 9 - 13
Book now: 22sarahjanes22@gmail.com
This retreat will explore the mythologies and mysteries that surround the figure of the Lady of the Lake, and the local physicians of Myddfai. READ MORE
Dreaming Museum
A Guided Dream Journey Around The British Museum
Saturday January 18 | 11am British Museum
When we sleep do we travel to otherworlds in our dreams? Dreams have inspired and amazed humanity for millenia. Join Sarah Janes for a truly unique dream quest around the collections of the British Museum. READ MORE
Star Leopard: Dream Theatre of Dionysos
January 21 | 7pm - 10pm | Hastings Museum
Don your leopardskin, grab your thyrsus, bang your drums, shake your rattles and tambourines! Join the local Bacchae for an evening of participatory dream theatre READ MORE
RETREATS IN EGYPT, GREECE AND TURKEY 2025
Dreaming Museum: A Guided Dream Journey Around The British Museum
Saturday January 18 | 11am British Museum
When we sleep do we travel to otherworlds in our dreams?
Can we contact ancestors and gods in dreams?
Can we find clues about the future in dreams?
Can we heal our body in dreams?
Can we perfect our soul in the dreamstate?
Do we stop dreaming when we die?
What do my dreams mean?
Dreams have inspired and amazed humanity for millenia. Join Sarah Janes for a truly unique dream quest around the collections of the British Museum to wake up the sleeping gods and goddesses of dreams.
The word MUSEUM comes from the ancient Greek Μουσεῖον/Mouseion ‘Place of the Muses’. So let the museum really inspire you. The British Museum in London holds some of the most extraordinary, magical, supercharged and sublime artifacts from all over the ancient world, and there are endless objects, sculptures, statues, inscriptions and tales that relate to ancient dreamers and their dreamworlds. From carved wooden headrests for ritual dreaming with ancestors, to dream stories, spells, omens, potions and dream gods, this tour will illuminate the golden dreaming thread that runs through the greatest cultural, spiritual and artistic acheivements of mankind.
See you there!
Your ticket includes:
A DIVINE DREAM INCUBATION KIT
All ticket holders will also receive a link to Auset: Queen of Dreams a hypnagogic dream incubation audio track and a dream incubation practice kit which includes a handmade herbal weighted eye mask and my aphrodisiac lucid dream tea (Afroditea) made from herbs from my perfumed dream garden in Epidavros, Greece. Aphrodisiac herbs are excellent for lucid dreaming, they create a peaceful, pleasurable bodily state - this invites pleasant dreams, often with hints of love and eroticism, which in turn encourage more vivid dream scenes, lucidity and therefore better recall. Lucid dreams do not evaporate upon waking. The kit also includes beeswax prayer candles from Greece and a dream offering dish for dream rituals and divine requests (with a recipe for an ancient honey cake to share with the gods).
RETREAT IN WALES IN JANUARY 2025
CLICK HERE for retreats at the ancient healing dream sanctuaries of Greece, Turkey and Egypt
We will be working with myth, writing and painting, we will be drinking the mythic spring of the legendary healers of ancient Cymru and dreaming with the land.
One of the best things about our cottage is that you can take the amazing Heart of Wales railway line - one of the most scenic lines in all of Europe! I always think trains are the best way to travel in dreaming. The train stop is Cynghordy - means "House of Meeting" in Welsh.
https://www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/
This is also a nice opportunity to have a proper digital detox, which I am 100% encouraging, part of my decision to choose this particular part of Wales! Phone reception and wifi is often blocked by the rugged landscape and this will really help to deepen presence thorugh waking life and dreaming.
Cost includes: Private accommodation, all food - local and wholesome produce - we will make our meals together, a dream incubation kit (includes herbal tea, Lady of the Lake dream incubation guided audio journey and a weighted herbal eyemask).
Cost: £580 - £450 for previous retreat attendees
Click play to listen to an audio sample of Lady of the Lake.
Music and mix by David Bailey, script and story Sarah Janes.
My guest workshop host and dream myth guide is my very good friend Rosanna Lowe. Rosanna is an award-winning writer and storyteller who specialises in narratives of people and place, the wild and the wonderful.
Rosanna writes across a number of genres, from sketch-writing for 3 series of BAFTA winning Horrible Histories to co-writing portmanteau feature film London Unplugged and Brighton The Graphic Novel. Her travel writing won the Times Young Travel Writer’s Award and a Royal Geographical Society Award and her ecological playwriting won Radio 4’s Young Sci-Fi Writers Award. She is particularly interested in the connections between water, healing, inspiration and flow states and she regularly runs Writing for Wellbeing courses for social prescription charities.
STAR LEOPARD: DREAM THEATRE OF DIONYSOS
HASTINGS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
JANUARY 21 2025
7pm - 10pm
Don your leopardskins, grab your thyrsus, bang your drums, shake your rattles and tambourines! Come join the local Bacchae for an evening of participatory dream theatre with dramaturge, storyteller and writer Rosanna Lowe. Divine soundscapes will be provided by Maria Christofi of The Sound Apothecary, and a Dionysian dream incubation session will be led by Sarah Janes of Dream Mysteries.
Each participant will also receive a dream incubation kit to deepen home practice - see below for contents.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Inside the carved heart of the ancient forest, storyteller and dramaturge Rosanna Lowe will lead participants to co-create a reworking of Euripides’ final masterpiece - The Bacchae. This play is uniquely centred on the god Dionysos, supreme lord of ancient Greek theatre, fecundity and religious ecstasy. Dionysos is one of the most intriguing and complex deities of the ancient Hellenic pantheon.
Rosanna Lowe is an award-winning writer and storyteller who has adapted the Greek tragedies: Medea, Elektra and The Bacchae for theatres in Bristol, Cambridge and Northampton. Her adaptation of The Bacchae was part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and was reviewed by Michael Billington in the Guardian: ‘this one leaves you shaken and stirred’.
To book a place please email : 22sarahjanes22@gmail.com
Very limited spaces available.
Your ticket also includes:
A DIVINE DIONYSIAN DREAM INCUBATION KIT
Aphrodisiac Dream Tea
Guided hypnaogic journey audio file for home practice
Greek beeswax prayer candles
Offering dish
Recipe for ancient Greek honey cake (a popular offering to the gods) - which you will sample at the event.
PAYMENT
£50
Payment can also be made by sending £50 via PayPal || STARLEOPARD click the button below to pay.
NEXT DREAM RETREATS
IN EGYPT AND GREECE - FOR THE DREAM ODYSSEY IN TURKEY SEE HERE
DREAM MYSTERIES OF AUSET
NEW HERMOPOLIS, EGYPT
12 - 18 APRIL 2025
Join me for a unique dream retreat in Egypt at the Hermetic oasis of the visionary Egyptian philosopher, Egyptology researcher and psychiatrist Mervat Nasser - New Hermopolis!
Mervat and I have been planning this collaboration for five years and finally it is happening!
I will also be joined on the retreat by sound alchemist Maria Christofi.
Mervat Nasser (MD, MPhil, FRCPsych) purchased a section of desert in Minya about 20 years ago and over time has succeeded in turning it into a flourishing oasis filled with plants, birds, trees and wisdom seekers.
Mervat has reintroduced many threatened native species including the sycamore fig sacred to Hathor, she's planted an olive grove and developed a biodynamic farm and kitchen.
New Hermopolis sits just back from the banks of the Nile - opposite Akhetaten - city of Akhenaten.
New Hermopolis is actually within the boundary of the ancient footprint of the city of Hermopolis - the city where Thoth and the Ogdoad created the world and where writing and the word were born!
Each room at New Hermopolis is a perfect dream chamber, constructed from high quality limestone quarried - from the very same source as the casing stones used for the great pyramid on the Giza plateau.
Auset is the ancient Egyptian name for the goddess Isis. Auset means throne in the ancient Egyptian language and she represents the primordial seat of kingship in ancient Kemet. She is creatrix of a sacred landscape. Upon her lap all pharaohs are nourished, they become divine.
Auset is Queen of Heaven, Giver of Life and Great of Magic. She has a special relationship with the medu netjer (god's words)/what the Hellenes called the hieroglyphs (sacred carvings) and her speech, her words, have magical powers. Her spoken words are a cure, they are dreamspells and enchantments. Alongside magical images of her son Horus subduing the wild beasts, Auset's Words of Power are carved into the Horus cippus - a type of stelae that was used in the treatment of patients in ancient sanctuaries of healing.
In the Greco-Egyptian pantheon Auset/Isis and Serapis became associated with miraculous dream cures and they were syncretized with Asklepios and Hygieia at the holistic healing sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidavros. It is believed the Mysteries of Isis in the Greco-Roman period were inspired by the Mysteries of Eleusis and that the rites were performed in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Epidavros. The rites for both these Mysteries were designed to improve the soul, and divine dreams were a well-attested way to have contact with the goddesses and gods - it was through such direct theurgic experiences that the soul's 'perfection' was achieved.
This retreat will focus on Auset's as a goddess of rebirth, regeneration, possessor of the Words of Power, magical healer, and as a goddess who appears in dream epiphanies. We will recreate the Mysteries of Auset and call her to our dreams.
ORACLE DREAM RETREAT MAY 2025
Oracle Dream Retreat
DELPHI, LIVADEIA, EPIDAVROS, GREECE
With Gary Lachman, Eric Wargo, Danny Nemu and Maria Christofi. 6 places now available.
DATES: 8 - 15 May 2025
DREAMING WATERS SEPT 2025
Dreaming Waters
MYTHIC PELOPONNESE, GREECE
with Daisy Eris Campbell - playwright + dramaturge, Keren Bester - dream perfumer + philosopher, David Bramwell - water pilgrim, writer + broadcaster, Lee Gerrard-Barlow - Hermetic magnetism, hypnosis, Jonah Emerson-Bell - astrologer, Maria Christofi - sound alchemist. MORE INFO
DATES: 20 - 27 Sept 2025
SARAH JANES BLOG ON MEDIUM
Gaul with the Caul: The Birth and Death Medicine of Telesphoros
Telesphoros is the hooded child-god of the Asklepion. Pausanius calls him — ‘the accomplisher’. He is ’the fullfiller’ ‘the perfecter’. In ancient Greek his name suggests an initiation of sorts, he is a kind of pint-sized hierophant of ‘the cure’. READ MORE
Enkoimesis
Enkoimesis (ancient Greek: ἐγκοίμησις) is a term often used to describe the therapeutic dream treatment carried out within the holistic healing sanctuaries of the divine physician Asklepios.
The etymology of the word reveals something of the nature of the specific experience — it describes an action or process of being lulled/put to or lying down to sleep within a particular place — READ MORE
PREVIOUS RETREATS
Greater Mysteries
20 - 27 September 2024
Autumn Equinox Retreat with special guest Maria Maragkou. Maria will lead us along the Sacred Way to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Elefsina.
Non-retreat participants can join us for the day on the 22nd of Sept for the Greater Mysteries event. Please email for details HERE
IN-PERSON EVENTS
Gods and Goddesses of Dreams Tour
Join me for six hours exploring all things dream-related at the British Museum. Bring a packed lunch, sketchbook/writing pad - make new dream pals and come and honour the gods and goddesses of sacred sleep. TICKETS
DATE: 26 Oct
TIME: 11:00AM - 16:00PM
South Wales Occult Conference
Ancient Greek dream ritual, the relationship between Hypnos and Thanatos and the role of Mnemosyne in dreaming and dying. TICKETS
DATE: 2 Nov
ONLINE EVENTS AND RECORDINGS
GODDESSES OF THE DREAM
RECORDING OF LIVE ZOOMS NOW AVAILABLE
(includes audio only file of guided hypnagogic meditation)
Payment of £20 can also be made by PayPal using the email address here:
sarah@awakeandaway.co.uk
Please be sure to include ref. 'godesses' and your name and email address for recording.
Each session is 1hr and 30 minutes and both include a dream incubation practice.
A fumigation of frankincense, comfortable place to lie-down and an eye mask are recommended accoutrements.
OTHER EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS
One-on-one Dream Incubation Sessions
One-on-one sessions from 5 - 10th July. Live from the orange grove in Archaia Epidavros, with the messengers and witnesses of the Muses the cicadas in the background. READ MORE
Dream Myth Audio
This 60-minute guided hypnagogic audio track was created for the DREAM MYTH course hosted by myself and Jonah Emerson-Bell.
It is free to download until the end of May and is designed to help you become more conscious of the processes of hypnagogia and enter lucidly into a dream. LISTEN HERE
Greater Mysteries at Elefsina Initiation
22nd Sept 2024
Maria Maragkou, Hellenic scientist, researcher, author and mystagogue will lead Dream Mysteries guests along the Sacred Way. This event is also open to 13 extra neophytes! Cost £222 and includes all tours, site entrance fees and an evening meal. EMAIL ME TO BOOK
COMING UP IN 2025
Dreaming Futures
Unique dreamwork retreats in Greece designed especially for entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, teams and policy makers. Click here for PDF
