What are the Yogas on Dream, Sleep & Death? Dream and Sleep Yogas are
a rarely taught category of teachings and practices. This cycle of
teachings explains the relationship between the states of dream,
sleep, waking and full enlightenment. It is often said in the non-dual
meditation and yoga traditions that in order for you to attain
irreversible realization you must be fully realized in the dream and
sleep states as well as in the waking state. This means to have
completely pierced the limitations of the mind of the dreaming and
sleeping states, and thereby abide in your true nature. Applying the
practices of dream and sleep yoga feeds your formal seated practice
and your state of integration. Program includes: -Dream Yoga Mantra
Initiation - Step-by-step instruction in the Outer & Inner practices
of: -Dream Yoga- Sleep Yoga of Clear Light - Text references to the
practices and their desired results. - Clarifying the various
categories of dreams to understand their significance in your
spiritual practice and overall trajectory. - Clarifying significant
dream symbology as a system of feedback from your inner psyche on the
process of kundalinī awakening and expansion. About the Death &
Dying Teachings: Death is considered to be the most important and
pivotal experience in a yogin’s life. It is the one moment when you
can permanently recognize your own True Nature or svasvabhava, and
become liberated even if you were not able to free yourself from
samsara during your lifetime. The ancient teachings on death and dying
give you the tools and understanding to successfully navigate the
dying process and the after death states. By applying the death
practices in your daily spiritual routine and invoking their effect at
the moment of death, you will increase your opportunity to attain full
realization in this lifetime. Program includes: - Teachings and
practices on death and dying as a moment to moment integration
practice resulting in rapid movement through the first 6 stages of the
12 Stage View Teaching. - Transmission of the Brhadaranyaka Upanisad
chant performed as meditation on death and impermanence as well as for
benefitting those who are dying. - Transmission of the
Mahāmrtyunjaya and its three “bija” or seed syllables, and how
to use it for cultivating non-attachment and how to dedicate it for
the benefit of those who have just died and are transiting the
after-death states. - Clear explanation of the process of the
dissolution of the 5 elements during the various types of death one
may encounter, and how to usefully assist the dissolution process,
instead of impede it. - Explanations of the different types of
“deaths” attainable through practicing non- dual Dharma. - Clear
teachings differentiating the destinations reached by the being after
death, based on the type of life lived and practices mastered. -
Teachings on the nature of the “self”, and what it is that dies
and is reborn. - Explanation of the daily rituals one practices for
their own cultivation of death yoga, and a clear explanation of the
ritual, chanting, prayers, mantra and visualization performed for
someone who has recently died. Who is Dharma Bodhi? Dharma Bodhi has
been made a lineage holder (Acarya) of two non-dual meditation and
yoga traditions. In late 1987 after a year of intensive apprenticeship
with Mahatma Sarasvati in a lineage of non-dual Śaivite Yoga he took
initiation and entered into an 18 month unbroken solo practice retreat
in the meditation methods of Tantrik Yoga. By the end of 1996 Dharma
had completed 10 years of practice retreats and studies with his
Indian masters. He had been trained in what was ostensibly non- dual
Śaivite Tantrik Yoga and meditation, but his first Indian Acarya
made it very clear that what he was learning is the “Yoga”
tradition. Dharma would later learn that by “Yoga” his teacher
meant the Oral-Practice Tradition of the Mahāsiddhas. His journey
into the world of Tibetan Yoga and Meditation began at his Indian
teacher’s prompting. He urged Dharma to continue his advanced
meditation studies with qualified Tibetan yogis. Shortly thereafter
Dharma began to attend Dzogchen meditation retreats held by Ayang
Rinpoche in Bodh Gaya, India and also with Penor Rinpoche in Canada.
He took many meditation and View Teaching programs with other lamas
including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche whose openness and non-sectarian
style of teaching would influence Dharma’s approach. This began a
period of intensive personal study of the biographies of the
Mahāsiddhas of the traditions of Śaivism, Bön, Vajrayana, and
Daoism. It is common for a traditionally trained Acarya to learn many
branches of knowledge that support the central axis of Yoga and
Meditation. To this end Dharma has also completed training in Indian
astrology (jyotish), palmistry (hasta samudrika), sacred architecture
& geometry (vastu) with Hart de Fouw and one of his senior students.
He learned Ayurvedic medicine with Dr. Vasant Lad and Dr. Ashwin
Shastry, and water offering rituals (puja), and fire ceremonies
(yajña & homa) were learnt by apprenticeship with master-priest
Śrī Rami Śivan, Head of the Australian Council of Hindu Clergy.
Now settled in Costa Rica, Dharma Bodhi lives with his wife Sukhalaya,
where they both are dedicating time to personal practice, and raising
two children. Together, Dharma and Sukhlaya are completing a project,
creating a written record of everything that Dharma has learnt in on
the spiritual path and continue to travel around the world teaching.
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