Since 2008 I’ve been running workshops and writing books about lucid dreaming, Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep and shadow work. To find out more check out my full bio below…
Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow work and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep.
Charlie formally became a Buddhist at the age of 19 and lived at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist Centre for 7 years. He’s been lucid dreaming for over 25 years, was under the mentorship of Buddhist psychology pioneer Rob Nairn and was “authorised to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008. Since then he has written four books which have been translated into over 15 languages and has run workshops & retreats in more than 20 countries.
He’s spoken at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, taught workshops for the NHS, Metropolitan Police, Reuters News Agency and the British Army Air Corps as well as presenting his work with military veterans on Sky News and at the Ministry of Defence Mindfulness Symposium.
In 2018 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma affected sleep. These teachings form the core of his latest book Wake Up to Sleep.
In 2023, the first pilot scientific study into Charlie’s methods was published in the peer reviewed journal Traumatology in which 85% of participants experienced “a remarkable decrease in Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms” within 1 week by using lucid dreaming alone. group”
Two years later a follow-up study based on the same protocol was published in the European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation and found that participants “exhibited significant reductions in PTSD symptoms and nightmare distress compared to the control group”.
Charlie has since done a TEDx talk about those two studies which was blacklisted by TED for falling foul of their "scientific standard guidelines" and is currently under appeal. Make up your own mind and watch the talk here.
For the past few years Charlie has been training therapists to use lucid dreaming with their clients, a training which consists of both the 100 hour Lucid Dream Facilitator Training and the forthcoming 2026 Post Graduate Diploma in Lucid Dreaming that he will be offering through Karuna Dartmoor the centre for Core Process Psychotherapy.
Charlie's commercial work includes co-creating the "Room to Dream" package for the Kimpton Fitzroy Hotel and offering in house sleep coaching at Nomade Tulum.
In his past life he trained and worked as an actor & scriptwriter before running a hip hop collective called THROWDOWN throughout his 20’s.
He now lives in London, with his partner Chloe, a mini-dachshund called Waffles and a chow-chow called Bao.
When he’s not teaching he enjoys kickboxing, surfing and pretending to meditate.
I am deeply grateful for my teachers Lama Yeshe Rinpoche, Choje Akong Rinpoche, Lama Zangmo and Rob Nairn.
Lama Yeshe Rinpoche is the abbot of Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland and is a meditation master specializing in the death and dream bardo practices. He is the only Lama in the West to have completed three 49 day dark retreats.
The late Choje Akong Rinpoche (1939-2013) was a tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and founder of Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland. He was a humanitarian who helped millions of people through his international charity ROKPA
Lama Zangmo is the director of Samye Dzong London Buddhist Centre. She has spent over 9 years in meditation retreat and teaches regularly at the London centre
Rob Nairn is a pioneer of mindfulness meditation in the West, the representative of Akong Rinpoche in Africa and the founder of Mindfuness Association UK.
I also want to thank and acknowledge my mentors YaAcov Darling Khan and Tim Freke.
I highly recommend checking out their workshops and books.
Tim Freke is a philosopher and internationally published author of more than 35 books on spirituality and awakening. In 2020 Watkins Magazine listed him as one of ‘The 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People’.
Ya'Acov Darling Khan is a shaman and the author of the best-selling Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart. He’s one of the world’s foremost teachers of embodied consciousness and is the co-creator of Movement Medicine along with his wife Susannah.
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