A 5-Week Sacred Walkabout Course

we keep our eyes on the night:

reviving the indigenous mind

guided by tayria ward ph.d.

“What do you do when you are in your huts at night? Do you watch TV?”

The man answered, with a slight but respectful amusement:

“No. We keep our eyes on the night.”

this phrase has become iconic for tayria…

Spending time in africa with the … tribe

Initiated for tayria a journey into the quality of mind and attention that has been lost to us.

The ability to communicate with every element of life and matter, in earth and stars, is genetically coded into the human.

It is our original psychic endowment, patterned into our creation at the cellular level.

This capacity of mind and thinking is indigenous to every single human.

And over 5-life changing weeks Tayria will guide you home to these original, ancient terrains of your psyche and life.

meet tayria ward, ph.d.

Depth Psychologist, Dream Analyst, Teacher, Lecturer, Vision Quest guide

Tayria Ward, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist and dream analyst. She has worked intensively with her own and others’ dreams for more than 50 years, and holds a doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. For nearly three decades, Tayria has also been a passionate student of Indigenous ways of knowing and being, exploring how dreams, intuition, and the deeper intelligence of the psyche guide human life. Tayria helps people reconnect with what she calls “the collective dreaming mind”, a living field of wisdom revealed through our dreams.

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what students of this course say

  • “This amazing course has probably been the first where I have been glued to every word that was being shared, where I could feel a deep resonance and activation in every cell of my body. Tayria's sharings are so immensely rich and inspiring and I often experienced a powerful activation while listening to her that made my whole body shake. Her stories also greatly helped me to validate and find context for my own experiences and I feel like the doors to the indigenous aspects of my soul have swung wide open within me through this course, allowing a new level of knowing and understanding the ancient ways of living, of walking both worlds, of experiencing life as a lucid/ conscious dreamer and story teller... :O)"

    ~ Birgit

  • “Keep our eyes on the night reminded myself that the unseen and its mystery and potency and unfathomable knowledge is not understandable nor accessible with "daylight world" linear mind. Tayria through her experience took us on a journey gazing straight from the eyes of the indigenous mind. Now, I feel confident to explore, navigate, discover in a NEW way the day (and the night) with more grace and wonder. What an incredible adventure this course was and is JUST the beginning."

    ~ Florence

  • “Taking the course Keep your Eyes on the Night with Tayria Ward was a rich psychological deep dive into our indigenous roots as humans walking this planet. How differently we use to view the world around us, connected and alive and reciprocal. I appreciated Tayria’s passion on this subject. This course has shifted my perspective on Life, and enjoyed taking it pregnant. Thank you!"

    ~ Katrina

this is a pre-recorded class. upon joining, you will receive access to all course recordings & materials.

module 1: the psyche is archaic: what is the indigenous mind?

Understanding who we are at the deepest levels, prior to culture and domestication:

  • Identify with our ancient origins in consciousness in new ways

  • Discuss the human’s current dominant mode of thinking, which C. G. Jung calls directed thinking, which Heidigger calls technological thinking, which Brian Swimme calls the modern industrial mind

  • Reconnect to the profound creativity and intelligence of the original mind

  • Become increasingly aware of the Great Conversation that is actively taking place among all elements of our planetary home; listen and engage

module 2: dreams, dreamtime and dream thinking

In the beginning was the dream:

  • Understand dreams as reports from a dimension of consciousness that inhabits all things

  • Explore the aboriginal concept of the Dreamtime, which is entered during both waking and sleeping hours

  • Loosen our attachment to “directed thinking” and learn to develop capacity for dream thinking, mythological thinking, an ancient form of knowing and perception

module 3: the Black sun

Participate consciously with death and resurrection rites in soul and psyche:

  • Reflect together on what is required to undergo the deconstruction of learned ways of thinking and of creating identity

  • Learn about the alchemical, psychological process of the nigredo necessary for the transformation of consciousness

  • Explore the Art of Dying: “You have to die before you die, so that when you die you don’t die,” as the shamans say

  • Embrace darkness as a creative womb of gestation, revelation, comfort and joy

module 4: finding your songlines: following your dreaming tracks

Consider the patterns and constellations of deep energy that guide your life:

  • Learn the aboriginal concept of listening to the Songlines spread out across the terrains of world and soul

  • What does it mean to find and follow your own Dreaming Tracks?

  • Hear Tayria’s reflections on the tracks of dreams that have led her consistently through 50 years of recording and following the wisdom of her dream

  • Reflect, find and express your own dreaming tracks, and learn to follow them forward

module 5: reinventing the human: a new Cosmology

How to live day-to-day with an awakening and transforming psychology and cosmology; vision questing as a way of life:

  • Reflecting together on what it means to be human; consider more deeply the ancient “Who am I” question: Know Thyself

  • How to create the “Viable Human”, in the words of Thomas Berry

  • Consider the New Earth, visualize and enter it consciously and together

  • What do the ancient and new sciences have to teach us about who we really are?

regular price: $555 USD

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“It is now possible for us to remember, to awaken, to reclaim the origins in consciousness that in earlier times were available to us. The same colossal creativity that imagined and manifested plants, trees, bugs, birds, lions, giraffes, zebras, elephants and humans is who we are at the deepest roots of our being.”

~ Dr. Tayria Ward, Ph.D

about tayria ward, ph.d.

Tayria Ward has a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology, worked for 20 years as a minister, and later taught as a professor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She now supports people on a profound psychological and spiritual quest through dream analysis, depth psychological and spiritual mentoring, as well as through retreats, dream groups, vision quests, online classes, and regular lectures and interviews on a wide variety of subjects.

Along with her current major interest in recovering the value of working with our dreams and understanding the nature of the Dreamtime, Tayria’s doctoral work led her into a passion for the study of the ways of sensing and knowing carried by Indigenous peoples, past and present. Her dissertation is entitled Reawakening Indigenous Sensibilities in the Western Psyche.

Tayria believes our connection with the intelligent voices of the non-human world and those of the invisible world has been undervalued and often severed, to the detriment of our health psychologically, emotionally, physically, socially, and environmentally. Tayria’s work is devoted to helping recover this connection and restore this health. One of her major tools in working with individuals and groups is the messaging system found in the dreams of the night.

She has written down her own dreams and worked with them consistently since the age of 24. She has studied the world’s religions avidly, worked intensively with shamans from Africa and a variety of other traditions, studied the theories of Carl Jung for decades, including completing her doctorate in Depth Psychology, and spent many years in the analysis of her own dreams with some of the finest Jungian analysts.

What students say about Tayria's work:

“I loved Tayria’s beautiful class with her unique teaching style, through story sharing! Each week, her classes made me feel relaxed, and ready to get cozied up to hear her various antidotal tales. I love her as a person, her sheer authenticity shines through her lovely eyes. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing all of her stories and what she received by going through her many trials and tribulations, she’s quite remarkable and so inspiring! She’s a wise women someone I highly look up to, but feel fully comfortable being around if I had an opportunity to be in person listening to her shares. Great Job 👏 and Kathleen too was intrinsic with her assistance. Thank you”

~ Lori