Charlie Morley
Teacher of Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga
Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration 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 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 Army Air Corps as well as presenting hiswork with military veterans 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 a world first, he trained a group of therapists to use lucid dreaming with their clients, a training which formed the basis of his 100 hour Lucid Dream Facilitator Training which is now offered every 2 years. In 2023, the first 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. In 2024, Charlie gave his second TED In 2026 Charlie will offer the first Post Graduate Diploma in Lucid Dreaming at Karuna Dartmoor. 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 huge chow-chow called Bao. When he’s not teaching he enjoys kickboxing, surfing and pretending to meditate.