Integral Deep Listening, a form of Dream Yoga first developed by Joseph Dillard in 1980, accesses the source of not only your dreams but of the waking dream of your scripted life. It asks, “If there exist parts of yourself that are already enlightened and can tell you how to become so, shouldn’t you listen … Read more
For many, the term “dream yoga,” conjures up a spiritual discipline of Indian origin for the purpose of becoming lucid during dreams and sleep. Lucid dreaming has traditionally been done for two purposes, to understand and recognize the illusoriness of all experience so as to wake up out of it, and to gain yogic control, … Read more
Integral deep listening teaches that there are six core qualities. These are confidence, compassion, wisdom, acceptance, inner peace, and witnessing. This number comes from observation of the cycle of every breath: abdominal inhalation, chest inhalation, pause, chest exhalation, abdominal exhalation, pause. Each of these phases of breathing can be associated with a life process. In … Read more
]The six core qualities are ways of describing levels of awareness that transcend yet include the life of any one individual. Because such awareness is not born into a human life span, it does not die to it. It is a component of awareness that transcends the life and death cycle of individuals. Because such … Read more
Awakening Buddha means “the enlightened or the awakened one.” As such, “Buddha” stands for your awakened, enlightened life in the world. All yogas are disciplines whose purpose is such enlightenment, regardless of their religious background or spiritual preferences. Dream yogas view life as a dream; to become lucid within that dream is to wake up … Read more
You are asleep means you are of most of who you are. If you compare yourself to an iceberg, you are mostly in touch with the ten percent of yourself that is above the water. That is who you think you are most of the time. Even when you dream you still think you are … Read more
If there were to exist within you, right now, emerging potentials that are lucid, awake and enlightened and know the shortest way for you to become enlightened, wouldn’t it be worth your time to learn to listen to what they have to tell you and to follow their recommendations? Integral Deep Listening (IDL) is a … Read more
What is Dream Yoga? A yoga is a psychospiritual discipline. A dream yoga is a psychospiritual discipline which focuses on waking up out of dream, or dreamlike, states. Perhaps the best known of such yogas is Tibetan Dream Yoga. However, this is not a text on Tibetan Dream Yoga; there are many excellent resources on … Read more