211: Lucid Dream Yoga
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We spend a third of our lives asleep, but most people treat sleep and dream states like second rate citizens of consciousness, always given the back seat to waking states. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll learn how yoga and mindful sleep go hand-in-hand, and why serious yoga students should learn to zonk out like a pro.
Andrew Holecek is an author, spiritual teacher, and humanitarian. As a long-time student of Buddhism that he teaches with a contemporary perspective – blending the ancient wisdom of the East with modern knowledge from the West.
He is the author of three books, The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy, Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Perspective, and Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening Through Lucid Dreaming.
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Listen & Learn:
- How your diurnal practices (waking state) set the stage for good or poor sleep
- Why you need to develop a lucid relationship to your waking consciousness before you'll be able to consistently lucid dream
- How to appreciate and nurture hypnagogic (just before sleep) and hypnopompic (just before waking) states
- How napping can be a great way to induce lucid dreams
- How to Have Wake Induced Lucid Dreams (WILDs)
- How "dreamlets" of 10 seconds or also very powerful
- Best practices for sleep hygiene: stone-cold sober, clean, empty belly, mindful/meditation/prayer/gratitude practice, darkroom, no screen time, lie on right side (sleeping lion mudra, same as Buddha death), galantamine supplement
- Why serious yoga students need to be careful not to become a "state junkie" hopping from one peak state experience to the next
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Do we need to take supplements?
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a yoga talk show listener and you like all of the weird and wacky health stuff that we talk about on this show, |
| 0:06.5 | breathing exercises, low glycemic eating, meditation, yoga, flexibility, I'd like to invite you to take a look at my best |
| 0:17.2 | year ever, New Year's retreat. This retreat is happening in my hometown in Barcelona, |
| 0:22.0 | Spain right after Christmas all the way through New Year. |
| 0:25.7 | We have a New Year's party. |
| 0:27.6 | And the idea is really to set the stage for your best year ever, and the impetus for this course |
| 0:31.6 | was I had a really terrible year last year and I realized that my best intentions were kind of moot without action plan without support without some kind of realistic plan for getting from where I was to where I wanted |
| 0:46.4 | to be and I think a lot of people fall into this trap where you have this idea about what |
| 0:50.4 | you'd like to accomplish and you're super gung-ho and you're super passionate |
| 0:54.3 | but it's not enough you really need support and you need a game plan and you need tools |
| 0:59.7 | to get you there because what happens when stress gets overwhelming what happens |
| 1:03.7 | when family crises come up what happens when your health fails what happens when |
| 1:08.1 | you get sick what happens when you go broke or what you have some kind of financial |
| 1:12.2 | challenge and so we're going to be |
| 1:13.9 | doing a bunch of stuff we're going to be talking a lot about food nutrition of |
| 1:17.2 | course can't help myself we're going to be learning specific breathing |
| 1:20.0 | techniques to manage stress to invigorate your body to put you to sleep. |
| 1:23.2 | We're going to be working of course with flexibility training. |
| 1:25.7 | We're going to learn all five yoga body signature sequences that we use in my studios in Barcelona. |
| 1:31.3 | We're going to play around on the yoga trapeze. We're also going to spend |
| 1:34.2 | quite a bit of time outdoors. So we're going to go hiking, we're going to swim in the sea, we're going to be on the beach, |
| 1:39.2 | we're going to watch the sunrise. It's going to be a really, really intense intense and fun week and we've already got |
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