These are the beliefs at the core of Tibetan Dream Yoga, an ancient Buddhist practice that uses lucid dreaming to cultivate greater awareness and accelerate spiritual growth.
Andrew Holecek – Dream Yoga
Use your sleep time to explore your higher Self and cultivate a greater awareness that spills into your day and everything you do.
Discover “nocturnal meditation” that can help you make positive changes and enrich your spiritual life more quickly than your daytime practices.
Our spiritual journey is about “waking up” and becoming more aware… yet, what would it be like to imagine that you’re most “awake” when you’re sleeping?
AND, that you’re actually most “asleep” or “unconscious” when you’re awake and going about your day?
These are the beliefs at the core of Tibetan Dream Yoga, an ancient Buddhist practice that uses lucid dreaming to cultivate greater awareness and accelerate spiritual growth.
Scientific evidence of lucid dreaming (being “awake” and aware that you’re dreaming when you’re asleep) dates back only about forty years, yet Buddhists have recognized it as a potent dreamstate for centuries — a time when the conscious mind can meet the unconscious mind.
And, while many dreamers use the fascinating moments of lucid dreaming to willfully navigate or initiate dreamtime adventures, Dream Yoga goes beyond self-entertainment to help in the actual transformation of the unconscious, and more.
This age-old practice can be used for such practical pursuits as rehearsing presentations and performances, letting go of a past relationship, addressing fears, processing grief, transforming nightmares, alleviating insomnia, facilitating healing, and even preparing for your death.
Dream Yoga is an opportunity to witness your mind in the same way you do in your daily meditation practice AND to “stretch” your mind to discover new insights about yourself and life.
It allows you to greatly expand your awareness and possibilities for positive change — which can result in greater fulfilment, happiness, and even better health.
This is possible because in this dreamstate you can gain a heightened level of clarity while your busy daytime mind takes a backseat AND you get the deep rest you need.
This type of “nocturnal meditation” offers consistent benefits that show up in your daily life in real tangible ways. For starters, you begin to feel more grounded, aware, and even freer.
When Your Daytime Becomes More Illusionary…
A delicious feeling of liberation arises when you start to perceive your dreamtime as your most “awake” and fertile period for transformation, AND view your daily reality as less “solid” and permanent, as even having a more dreamlike or illusionary quality.
This other piece of the Tibetan Dream Yoga perspective doesn’t require that you pretend reality isn’t happening — you just don’t hold on so tightly to what appears on the surface of your life, which allows you to feel less burdened and much more joyful.
Viewing your waking life as more dreamlike, also opens you to a greater awareness that everything is constantly changing — and may not be as it seems.
ALSO, as you start to practice Dream Yoga, you discover that the more you meditate during the day, the more lucidity you experience at night in your dreams — because the more aware you become of your mind by day, the more aware you become of your mind (in lucid dreams) by night.
Adding to this “virtuous” cycle, more lucidity by night leads back to more “lucidity” or moments of deep awareness as you go about your day.
Dream Yoga offers a fast track to awakening 24/7!
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What If I Don’t Have Lucid Dreams?
You don’t have to be a lucid dreamer to join the Dream Yoga program. You’ll gain the insights you need to work towards experiencing this foundational dreamstate of Dream Yoga during the 7-part course.
You’ll discover the keys for initiating lucidity — strong motivation, good dream recall, and the power of intention.
You’ll also learn to work with the subtle body. As you fall asleep, you don’t only ease more deeply into the mind, you descend into this inner body — the part of you that supports the dreaming mind. In this way, Dream Yoga calls in your entire being.
Eastern spirituality and Western science have developed effective daytime techniques to induce lucid dreams. What we do during the day has profound effects on how we sleep and dream at night.
In this powerful new training, you’ll discover that by working with daily meditations and techniques, you can create “pop ups” that will ping into your mind when you dream, instantly transforming a non-lucid dream into a lucid one.
Meet Your Expert Guide in Dream Yoga
Author and spiritual mentor Andrew Holecek is one of the most seasoned Western teachers of lucid dreaming and Dream Yoga.
He’s a longtime practitioner of Buddhism and has explored the further reaches of spiritual practices for many years. He’s helped thousands discover the opportunities that exist in obstacles, including hardship and pain, death and dying, and problems in meditation.
In Dream Yoga, Andrew will guide you in discovering how to change your mind by changing your dreams. You’ll discover how to dissipate fears you may have of the “dark” (your unconscious mind) AND even how to transform nightmares.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop a liberating flexibility in your identity, transforming your very sense of Self — as you learn to explore your mind in new and creative ways.
You’ll discover the divinity at the core of your being — available to you every night.
AND, Andrew reassures us, you will NOT lose any sleep. There are ways — and particular times during your sleep cycle — to practice Dream Yoga, so you continue to get the deep, restorative sleep you need. In fact, Dream Yoga can be used to help you overcome insomnia.
Here’s more of what you’ll discover in this exciting, highly experiential new training:
- How anybody can do these practices — and not lose precious rest
- Why “nocturnal meditations” can be more effective than daily meditations
- How these meditations can accelerate spiritual development and purify karma
- How to use Dream Yoga to transform nightmares, alleviate insomnia, and even transcend death
- How these practices allow you to rehearse presentations and performances
- How to use Dream Yoga to resolve interpersonal issues and process grief
- Ways to enhance physical skills, and even facilitate healing through Dream Yoga
- How to empower meditation as a “super technique” for lucidity
- The sleep stages, and how to take advantage of “primetime dreamtime”
- The wake-and-back-to-bed technique, which can increase lucidity up to 2000%
- The role of diet in lucidity, and the place of supplements like galantamine
- The power of visualization, prana purification, and the Lotus technique
- How to play with hypnagogic and hypnopompic states
- How we suffer because we take things too solidly and seriously
- How to start to free yourself from the domination of the unconscious mind
- And much more…
Psychological and spiritual liberation occurs when we change our relationship to the contents of our mind, and Dream Yoga provides a rare opportunity to effect this transformation.
This powerful, new online program is for anyone interested in psychological and spiritual development, the creative powers of the mind, and even in preparing to transition from this life.
Dreamworkers will have the opportunity to spiritually deepen their approach to working with dreams, and those drawn to Buddhist meditation will discover how to bring their cushion time into their dreamtime.
And if you’re new to all of this, you’ll open the door to a greatly expanded and liberating way of approaching your life — day and night.
To practice Dream Yoga is to allow a type of constant consciousness, where the aware mind never turns off and you transition into the day bringing your heightened consciousness with you.
As Andrew tells his Dream Yoga students: This is what being “awake” actually means.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Andrew will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to build a foundation for lucid dreaming and Dream Yoga, and open your mind to greater awareness and your life to greater possibilities.
Each contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to turn your dreamtime into your a time for “nocturnal meditation” and heightened transformation.
Module 1: An Introduction to the Magical World of Nocturnal Meditations
Discover how lucid dreaming evolves into Dream Yoga — which develops into Sleep Yoga, which matures into Bardo Yoga — and how these practices lead to the deepest psychological and spiritual growth. You’ll learn what these practices are, where they come from, and what they can do for you.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How to enter “night school,” and take advantage of up to a third of your life usually lost in oblivion
- Why these practices can be more effective than daily meditations
- How these meditations can help you transcend death
- How anybody can do these practices — and not lose precious rest
- The science that supports these claims
Module 2: Discover the Many Benefits of Lucid Dreaming & Dream Yoga
The physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits of the nocturnal meditations are remarkable and will inspire you to engage and commit to these practices. When you’re working with your dreams, you’re working with your mind at foundational levels. This is why transformation can occur quickly, and often dramatically.
You’ll explore how the unconscious mind dictates much of conscious experience — backstage always runs onstage — and how lucid dreaming is a hybrid state where the conscious mind meets the unconscious, and can transform it.
In this module, you’ll discover how lucid dreaming and Dream Yoga can:
- Transform nightmares and alleviate insomnia
- Allow you to rehearse presentations and performances
- Resolve interpersonal issues and process grief
- Enhance physical skills, and even facilitate healing
- Accelerate spiritual development and purify karma
Module 3: Eastern & Western Daytime Induction Techniques
Eastern spirituality and Western science have developed sophisticated daytime techniques to induce lucid dreams. What we do during the day has profound effects on how we sleep and dream at night. By working with daily meditations and techniques, we can install “pop ups” that will ping into our mind when we dream, instantly transforming a non-lucid dream into a lucid one.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn the importance of journaling, and how to increase dream recall
- Discover the power of intention and belief: “I’ll see it when I believe it.”
- Learn about dreamstate checks, prospective memory, and dream signs
- Empower meditation as a “super technique” for lucidity
- Discover the two-way street (bi-directionality) between the conscious and unconscious mind
- Learn about sleep stages, and how to take advantage of “primetime dreamtime”
Module 4: Eastern & Western Nighttime Induction Techniques
Science and spirituality offer highly effective nocturnal methods proven to spark lucidity. In addition, Eastern and Western sleep hygiene practices prime us to wake up within our dream – and “clean up our act.”
And, by also understanding the subtle body that supports the subtle dreaming mind, we can engage inner yogas that spiritually wake up the body and the mind, while physically helping us sleep.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The wake-and-back-to-bed technique, which can increase lucidity up to 2000%
- The role of diet in lucidity, and the place of supplements like galantamine
- The effectiveness of dream goggles, apps, and other gadgets
- The power of visualization, prana purification, and the Lotus technique
- How to play with hypnagogic and hypnopompic states
- How to reconstruct the “lost temple of sleep”
Module 5: Discover the Different Stages of Dream Yoga
Once you become lucid, a fantastic new world unfolds before you. Lucid dreaming delights in indulging that world; Dream Yoga works with transforming it. And by transforming your dreams in the progressive stages of Dream Yoga, you’re transforming your mind – what else is a dream made of?
Psychological and spiritual liberation occurs when we change our relationship to the contents of our mind, and Dream Yoga provides a rare opportunity to effect this transformation.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn how to change your mind by changing your dreams
- Develop flexibility in your identity – your very sense of Self
- Remove all fear of the “dark” – the unconscious mind
- Transform your nightmares, or purify them altogether
- Discover the divinity that lies at the core of your being, and is revealed every night
Module 6: Discover the Antidotes for Transforming Your Obstacles
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; and the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Common hurdles await any dream practitioner. These obstacles will reveal your blind spots.
You’ll discover how to transform your obstacles into opportunities for greater insight. You’ll even learn tricks for developing a sense of humor in the dark and techniques for playing with your enemies and transforming them into friends.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How to transform discouragement and impatience
- The near enemies of spiritual bypassing and nihilism
- Tricks for sustaining lucidity
- Tips for strengthening the clarity and frequency of lucid dreams
- The skills necessary for success
Module 7: Become a “Child of Illusion” Through Dream Yoga
You’ve discovered how nighttime dreaming practices lead to daytime transformation, and how lucid dreaming leads to lucid living.
During this last section of the course, you’ll find out how to become a “child of illusion” through Dream Yoga and soften the hardships of daily life. You’ll see how the nocturnal practices you’ve learned can make you more open, flexible, and playful, and how everything is enhanced by your heightened lucidity.
The qualities of the enlightened mind that are within you will start to shine!
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover the magic behind seeing the world as dreamlike
- Realize how we suffer because we take things too solidly and seriously
- Start to free yourself from the domination of the unconscious mind
- Learn how far the nocturnal meditations can take you
- Discover that “this is a dream, I am free, I can change”
The Dream Yoga Bonus Collection
In addition to Andrew’s transformative 7-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful bonus materials. These bonuses are being offered to complement what you’ll learn in the course and deepen your understanding and practice.
Dream Yoga & the Daytime Practice of Illusory Form
Audio Teaching From Andrew Holecek
A principal daytime lucidity practice is called “illusory form,” which is fundamentally about seeing our daytime experience as dreamlike. It’s a unique contribution of the Dream Yoga tradition, and a central practice that separates Dream Yoga from lucid dreaming. By practicing to see things now as being dreamlike, we grease the skids for seeing our nighttime dreams as dreams. Illusory form is a “fake it till you make it” practice. We don’t see this world as illusory, but the awakened ones do. They’ve “made it,” and naturally see the world as dreamlike. With the practice of illusory form, we emulate their perception — and come to see the world as it truly is.
The Non-lucid View: What Keeps Us in the Dark
Ebook Excerpt From Andrew Holecek
To fully comprehend the view of lucidity, it helps to understand the non-lucid view. As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War: “Know thy enemy.” This will help us appreciate the force of the “dark side,” and the power of our blind habitual patterns. What has kept us in the dark for so long? Where does our night blindness, or lack of lucidity, come from? By understanding our bias for wake-centricity — which is fundamentally ego-centricity — we can transform it, and wake up to all states of consciousness, including sleep and dream.
How to Meditate: A Detailed Explanation
Ebook Excerpt From Andrew Holecek
Because meditation is so central to lucid dreaming and Dream Yoga, we need to have a comprehensive understanding of how to practice it. As the modern sage and jokester Yogi Berra said: “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.” With a deeper appreciation of the art of meditation, we’ll grasp this seminal claim: dreams are to dreaming consciousness as thoughts are to waking consciousness. It’s the same mind at work in both states, and meditation trains that mind. In our terms, it trains it into lucidity.
Meditation & the Practice of Lucidity: What It Is & Is Not
Ebook Excerpt From Andrew Holecek
Meditation is a powerful daytime practice for lucid dreaming — it’s the diurnal practice of lucidity. The reason we’re non-lucid to our dreams at night is because we’re non-lucid to the contents of our mind during the day. Studies have shown that meditators naturally have more lucid dreams, and for a meditation master, all their dreams are lucid. What the poet Kabir once said about death also applies to dreams: “What is found then is found now.” You want to be lucid at night? Then be lucid during the day.
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