Have you ever intentionally forced yourself to continue dreaming a sweet dream in the morning? Or after you suddenly wake up from a nightmare, you close your eyes and continue with the dream just to make sure you get a happy ending? All these are forms of dream yoga. The only difference is that you don’t quite understand at which point in your sleep you should actualize the dream so ideally, you are already awake.
A Practical Lucid Dreaming Experience
Do you believe in hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis seeks to tap into your unconscious mind. Either the therapist puts you into a lucid dream by a series of imaginations or repetitive sounds that make you slowly drift to sleep.
You can apply the same technique to achieve dream yoga. But first, is it really worth the effort?
Advantages of Dream Yoga
A Tool for Healing and Self-control
We all have fears in life, don’t we? However, for some people these fears define them. For example, a person who is afraid of snakes will wake up sweating if they experience snakes in their dreams. And probably, during the day, any slithering creature they come across might raise their blood pressure.
Dream yoga dares you to face these fears. Is your dad so sick that you keep dreaming of his burial? Face that fear and create a “happy ending” in your lucid dreams. You see, the brain never sleeps. It doesn’t differentiate dreams from reality. Therefore, when you constantly channel happy thoughts in your dreams, your brain reprograms and releases the phobias we carry along in life.
As a result, if you apply the same concept to most of your fears, you achieve the greatest control and peace in your life.
Self-discovery and Unleashing Your Full Potential
Have you read a book called “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne? The book is all about using your brain to attract positivity in your life. The author explains that today’s billionaires are not by chance. They understand and apply “the secret”.
Dream Yoga helps you tap into your brain’s full potential. You can task your brain to find answers to the questions you couldn’t handle while awake. You can also create situations just as you want them to happen. Be it your dream job, your dream family, etc., you can start creating them tonight in your lucid dreams.
Eventually, if you apply the secrets you explore in your dreams, these imaginations will come to be. How soon they happen depends on the amount of effort you put in after you wake up.
I must also mention that this particular advantage is misused quite often. People create fantasies that affect them negatively and in the end, they get lost in these fantasies. Don’t get too fascinated or attached to your dream creations such that you reinforce your mind’s negative habits. Learn to separate light from the darkness: even in your dreams.
Dream Yoga Generates Happiness
Assume you’re having a dream where your boat is almost capsizing in a river. If you start thinking it’s real, you can get terribly scared, right? Now imagine you have mastered the art of lucid dreaming. At this point, you just tap into your unconscious mind, start jumping left and right, and balance that boat like “Wakanda” in the movies.
How does that make you feel?
Like Superman, right?
You also make sure that you wake up once the boat has safely docked.
Similarly, you can play around with ordinary life challenges. You stop being more reserved, timid, and more cautious, and instead, live your life to the fullest. Your life becomes your dream. Eventually, just like other types of yoga, dream yoga builds self-esteem and improves your self-confidence.
How to Practice Dream Yoga?
Now that you understand the need to be conscious in your dreams, let me teach you the simple steps to achieve dream yoga.
Start with Affirmations
Say it repeatedly to yourself “tonight I will become lucid in my dreams”. Feel this affirmation and believe it in your heart. We call this the law of intention.
Alongside affirmation, create good thoughts as you draw closer to bedtime. Usually, your last thought creates your dream structure.
Relax
When you finally lie on that bed, relax. Take deep breathes and count backward if you have to. If you’re unsettled, you will not achieve dream yoga.
‘Sleeping Lion’
This is considered the best posture to sleep, dream, or die. You sleep on your right side to employ the calm states of consciousness and facilitate throat chakra. You also block masculine negative energies that interfere with waking consciousness in this position.
Evoke Throat Chakra
Bindus are concentrated points that influence your conscious mind (mind drops). And where the bindus go, they dictate your consciousness. When you’re awake (like during the day), the bindus are concentrated in the forehead. When you’re deep asleep, they go to the heart. However, when you’re waking up from deep sleep, the bindus converge towards the throat. As a result, it is important that you evoke throat chakra before you fall asleep.
Self-Hypnosis
Create an image in your mind that starts from the forehead and ends in the throat. This can be a small light or a drawing of the chakras at this level. Follow that light/drawing and in no time, you will be fast asleep.
Lucidity
According to, Charlie Morley, an icon in the art of dream yoga, to experience this form of yoga, you must become lucid in your dream. By lucid we mean the conscious mind starts to explore as you use your unconscious mind.
To test your level of awareness, practice things that are unachievable in real life. For example, you can fly around or try walking through a wall. Initially, your mind will convince you it’s real, and you find it almost impossible to achieve. However, if you stay with it, and convince yourself that it’s an illusion, you will eventually walk through that wall.
Alternatively, play mind games. Try walking through that wall backward. As long as you don’t see the wall, you will definitely walk through it. And just like that, you now know the magic key to turn on your consciousness.
In Conclusion
Lucid dreams are extraordinarily vivid, pleasurable, intense, and exhilarating. I consider my lucid dreams some of the most wonderful experiences in my life. I can be anywhere I want. All I have to do is close my eyes and make sure I tap into my consciousness. Have you experienced dream yoga? If not, you have no idea what you are missing!