| 2 | Yoga Nidra Meditation Session: Cultivating Awareness through Relaxation, Visualization and Dream Yoga Practices | Otter.ai

| 2 | Yoga Nidra Meditation Session: Cultivating Awareness through Relaxation, Visualization and Dream Yoga Practices

Night Club1h 19min

Speaker 1

00:05

So maybe you can put a little Hi, little hands who was with me last

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time? Good.

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And um

Speaker 2

00:18

I was kind of Oh good. I was kind of curious about how the what experiences you had that night whether you were able to sleep better or maybe stay a little too much energy and currents in

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your body

Myra

00:32

or whether there was no change doesn't matter. What it is, but sometimes, yoga nidra can relax you but sometimes can send you like electricity in your body like maybe like it feels like nervous energy, that you feel kind of unsettled and maybe don't sleep soundly any comments before we begin

Marian Jensen

00:57

if there is no change that would be good to not change.

Unknown Speaker

01:05

Yes, Linda, whether she

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says slip normally. Okay,

Speaker 2

01:12

normal good, normal skirt. Well, I'm also eastern time so I go almost right after this to bed but I when I if I do a yoga nidra or meditation I have to give myself a lot of time before I can come down completely. I depends on the connection. So it's good that nobody got nervous and nothing get okay. What do we have there?

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01:35

This one says nothing that I can nothing that I remember. And

Speaker 2

01:39

no other dreams are no other nothing that is unsettling.

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01:48

We have another one that's that a couple. I am on Montana time I dropped but not lucid. And then another one that says I was very relaxed as I had in my timezone. I had a few hours before bed.

Speaker 3

02:01

Okay, good. So actually then everybody's going to be about the same again. So that's all good. So we became with the same point and it's always when I meet you here. It's an invitation. It's an invitation where I'm just sharing my practice. And

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02:21

I keep your my heart so if you're a dreamer come in. If you're a dreamer,

Speaker 2

02:28

a wisher a liar, a helper prayer a magic beam buyer if you're a pretender come sit by my fire. For we have some flags golden tales to spin. Come in. And come in and before we do anything else if you'd like to close your eyes and settle in

Speaker 2

02:53

and some of you may have been with some lessons given by Andrew and if you'd like to put your hand on your heart and check. Check the temperature check how we are doing how is the heart today

Speaker 2

03:19

and will we do this? Yes. Remember that I prescence here is just a cumulative of so many other little things that had happened so many people

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before us,

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so many family members and loved ones not so much love teachers. If you have a guru if you have commitments,

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any religion that you follow all those little parts of who we are

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and maybe we say thank you. Thank you for this opportunity.

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Thank you for the presence.

Speaker 2

04:19

Thank you for all the patience that people have given us. And when we've been challenged thank you for the opportunity

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to show love

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so we begin

Speaker 2

04:46

so we can do you can take it down if you like them. So last time we began with the slogans a little bit. We were talking and given a little bit of review and review and I don't know if you had the opportunity to see them in. I just when I finished the class the other day I remember that I have taken classes where Joseph first logon is discuss for hours and hours and hours. In the first login saying that the first thing is to preliminaries and the preliminaries are more important than anything else and we have heard that from Andrew from other teachers here all the time, because we have to begin from where we are. And we have to begin noticing how precious is this moment of life. And we have to also realize that we don't know when it's going to end and we have to kind of honor the laws of karma meaning that everything will though is not counsel directly you everything has an effect and that there is suffering for us and for others and somehow when we embark in this path we're hoping that we don't have to suffer that much or that somehow we're going to stop the wheel of life and somehow everything is going to go different. And then all of a sudden we realize that things keep happening to us anyway because life keeps evolving. But then we're the hope is that we will not be that afraid anymore because we see that we are much bigger than where we are this web returns this body us. And in this logins that as they discuss is kind of curious too because in a way they begin from the end they begin from the most absolute principle that there is and in a way is that the principle of ultimate bodhichitta meaning that it that love that you begin to feel unconditionally when you really can connect of how things really are and is kind of not very clear from the beginning but really begins from the end and that is the heart that that we connect to when we are really connected and hopefully when we get into deep meditation maybe tonight we will get some glimpses of what that what it feels like an opening and I was trying to figure out how to transmit when we say open and if you like to make it best with your right hand. I only need to see up and make a fist and make it as tight as you can be of nail it's almost like the nail as I get into the palm of your hand if you want to make the fit. Say maybe you will begin begin to feel your bicep and maybe your shoulder comes up just a tiny tiny bit and just squeeze and squeeze and squeeze and open

Speaker 2

07:49

that's sensation is nothing that you push is nothing that you're forced is like a motor current. That just happens and we it happens not when we go

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forward or when we like

Speaker 2

08:11

and that's the same way that the body contracts. That's the same way that the jaw contracts. So if you want to get familiar with that sensation, that sensation is actually very, very

Myra

08:30

I think powerful, because we can feel that same sensation when we are fearful. If we let go of that fear just for a second we feel that sensation so if you think about it, the things that we have done to live for as a know people that like extreme sport, that thrill or people that like to drink that first or second cup of wine before they think that they need more to feel better. Or differs by something that you really enjoy. All those had that little sensation with for a moment you stop. I'm sorry, you stop wanting

Speaker 2

09:12

it's like that opening you stop one thing we think that we want more of something else. And we do that with the teachings too. We want another formula. Maybe pay in this next class we would get something that we didn't get before any may be true but it's not coming that way. So I'm going to admit we're going to do a lot of short meditation again to see this so we got into what is to open.

Speaker 3

09:40

Before we do that in in yoga, we have it too. So sometimes you ask somebody to stretch and when they stretch they try to go so far did they go past the posts?

Speaker 2

09:55

Because when you go in there is a moment where there is a center level of tension for you are not pushing more than you have to. If you push more than you can you are past the pose. You back up a little bit. And in there, there's a release where you feel like you're not holding anymore. And we can do that in the teachings. We can do that in meditation. We can do that with anything we're aiming forward. To. And I get all these little things because what I am trying to bring with my practice is different ways and suggestions of how to feel it in your body. Because once we get to feel it, then we know what we're looking for. And then it begins to repeat hopefully more frequently. And when we are stressed and we are in sorrow we are in with certain illness, if we remember that and we establish first a little glimpse of just a few seconds and maybe a few minutes so maybe we know what tools we do. That's why we have so another thing that we try to do is that we lean forward. And that took me a while for me to understand what does it mean to lean forward. So if you want to close your eyes, we're just going to pound

Speaker 4

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to five. But again, just feel your body

Speaker 2

11:28

and feel the weight of your body. If you're sitting just notice your sit bones

Speaker 2

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maybe you notice the respiration when everything gets a little quieter

Speaker 2

11:54

and then we're going to count to five inhale, one exhale. One. inhale to exhale two. So let's begin inhale one

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exhale, one. inhale to exhale, two. Inhale, three. Exhale, three.

Speaker 2

12:27

Stay there. How many of you already had a four in your mind? If you had a four in your mind before I counted you were leaning forward. And that is the energy of the anticipation when we are not in our seat. So how many of you saw a little four in your mind scream? I did and I do it all the time. Because we're always trying to anticipate so when we're going to go to the new yoga nidra and when we're going to go to the parts of the body. Notice whether it's you know that the second finger is going to come you're already there before it's mentioned.

Myra

13:13

It that is the case it really doesn't matter that you did it or no is the awareness that you did it because that is what gives you the the tools for you to know when the mind is going to go array or when rumination is going to come. Because would old is the purpose is to make the mind serviceable. Like je Tsongkhapa said we The purpose is to make the mind service volley for that we need to know what the mind is doing.

Speaker 2

13:43

So another thing that I wanted to reveal before we go is sometimes we get many people that says that they cannot visualize

Myra

13:52

in some of us look at people that can really visualize really easy and say Oh, I wish I could do it

Speaker 2

13:57

like that. But there's different ways to feel it. So if I asked you right now whether your kitchen is clean or not, do you have an idea of your kitchen?

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Everybody got a kitchen

Speaker 2

14:15

if I asked you what is behind you, is it a wall is it occurred then something comes up

Speaker 3

14:23

so if I mentioned lift your right foot, your mind goes right through your right foot.

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And that's the mind traveling. So sometimes

Myra

14:30

I think we missed a flight thing. So we make it a little bit more difficult because we hear through words and concept what other people are feeling and thinking and those are genuine, but maybe we're missing how lucid we are. Maybe we're missing how aware we can be. And I think especially we're missing how perfect this moment does. And this is the right moment for now. And I want to believe that this is the right formula and we can all together right here right now just do a little bit of magic with a little meditation. So the second flogging in Atisha is the consider all dharmas as dreams in dharmas has many different it can be to hold or hold, but in here is more like phenomena.

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So consider all phenomena,

Myra

15:22

all the things that are happening like dreams and we have heard this from my T shirt, I mean the illusory nature of life. So what is trying again? Is to bring the most the deepest concepts because we know that we want everything to be lasting, solid and independent. And if it's a loss, illusory, and it's like dreams, then it's not solid, independent, the way that we think it is, it isn't manifestation, it is here, but it's like a dream in the sense that is the luminosity of life where we have heard in many things. So when we have the ability, sometimes in the yoga nidra and we say for example, if I give to you images of things that can come in, you're in a yoga nidra and I say house and house calm. Where does that lie calm? Where does that concept comes? It comes from the luminosity of your mind. And that's where the dream also comes from.

Speaker 2

16:28

And that is everything that happens around us. We want it to be eternal and not not to get sick and not to age. But that is the illusory part. It's not like that.

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And we have lived enough to know that. Well, we

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still hoping

Speaker 2

16:45

we're still hoping. So we're going to this time unless I have any comments or any questions. I invite you and I thought I should do this today. If any of you have the litter mask that Andrew has been suggesting. Maybe you can use it for your needs or you can wait a little bit and you can use it or you can just close your eyes or turn off the lights it is better maybe some people do not want it. I would do it sitting you can do an interest sitting. We're going to begin a little bit of exercise with a body and then we're going to lay back if you want to say just stay there. Find a level of comfort. Try not to lay if you lay back that Shin does and go like right into the shin comes a little bit towards the chest to elongate the part of the head, but find a lot of support for the body like you really can stay here and he feels good. If he doesn't feel good, then you would be a little stressed so the question is how comfy can we be you close your eyes again.

Speaker 2

18:14

I am going to almost repeat the same method that we have used a few times. Yes, it is. Just repetition and practice. However, there's different schools different ways I haven't done this 61 points literally because I think it's more use and sometimes we jump from one to the other without

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allowing the body to relax. So welcome and come in

Speaker 2

18:51

and they need your columns. Immediately from the time that you are just beginning to set up any set process that is done with a lot of awareness of what you're doing so if you're sitting filling your seat and your feet on the floor, if you're in your back, feeling your back support it

Speaker 2

19:25

allowing the body to use drop in one section of the body at a time almost like you are laying back in the most comfortable mattress or foam. That just gives you the right amount of support in the right areas and you have to nothing to do or just open

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and let go

Speaker 2

19:56

and almost feeling that the whole weight of your body is in the last third of your body towards the back.

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You're going in

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noticing the heaviness of your head

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the crown of your head feeling the crown of your head

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and almost feeling that that crown is opening

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the muscles of your face

Speaker 2

20:47

a big corners of your eyes and even though your eyes are closed or see magining like a curtain is closed and and your lips are closing solid three but the eyelashes just kiss each other

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the back of your nose

Speaker 2

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allowing a motor opening in your mouth like you're saying

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your jaw drops

Speaker 2

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and this energy comes from the crown or the head just bathing your body from the inside almost like honey. Slowly coming cleansing.

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Cleaning

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feeling spacious and warm.

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The size of the neck the front and back

Speaker 2

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and these very soft, very stuck current. Close to your shoulders front and back.

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upper arms. elbows, wrists and fingers

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the back of the hands feel solid

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the palms feel warm

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your collarbones.

Speaker 2

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The back of your heart area. between your shoulder blades

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solar plexus lower back lower stomach

Speaker 2

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from the crown or the head to your seat. Your body is bathed by this energy, soothing energy, relaxing energy and now he calms through to both legs.

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In advise guys, Otter thighs, front and back. Let go

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the knees feel open and relaxed.

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No we're legs

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ankles heels the top of your feet your toes

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the areas between your toes

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and it's all good.

Speaker 2

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Now slowly we're going to inhale from the nose up, down to your soles of your feet. And when you exhale from the soles of the feet up,

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up out to the crown of the head so slowly inhale all the way down

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and you exhale, even if it's just your imagination, maybe the breath is short and you cannot get it but just imagine the energy like Iraq and energy going all the way up. Do this three or four more times in your own time. Inhale into your nose

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all the way down

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and exhale from your feet

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all the way up

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and we'll be quiet for the next three.

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Now coming to the center, the center of

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your heart area

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maybe they are you see and brought up point of light

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diamond like

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27:04

now you set an intention for your practice

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something that you would like to understand something that you would like to heal something that you'd like to

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serve or accept.

Speaker 2

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Now notice whether you feel any kind of sensations after that intention, maybe your heart got a little achy. Maybe you had doubts regarding whatever it was just notice.

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Now bringing your attention to your right thumb.

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Bri index finger third finger fourth letter finger the palm of the right hand that tap your wrist open lead calm. lower arm right elbow

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right shoulder the front of your right shoulder the back

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underneath that right arm the right side of your waist

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imagining the area between your ribs

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the right side of your stomach

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right hip right thigh open let go. Right knee lower leg

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right ankle right heel the top of the right foot this song big toe. Second, third, fourth for lorito.

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Noticing the whole right leg imagining the space that right leg occupies

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open. Spacious limitless the right arm

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imagine in this space that

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right arm occupies and letting go.

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Left on index finger middle ring finger left letter finger top of that left hand the palm open vibrating pure light the left wrist lower arm. Elbow over the left shoulder the front of the left shoulder the back

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underneath that left hand arm the left side of your waist this space between your ribs

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this side part of your stomach in the left side

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left died is open. Spacious and relax

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left knee left lower leg ankle heel the top of that left foot the bottom of that left foot

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there big toe Second. Third or modal one.

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Note only notice in the left leg as a whole.

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open and relaxed

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and noticing the space that is left like occupies

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no in not out spacious the left arm as a whole

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notice in the space that left arm occupies.

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Your torso from your neck to your hips. Front and back.

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Now notice in this space your body occupies from your shoulders to your toes.

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Light pure Star Dust

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open and relax

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your forehead the size of your forehead your eyebrows the back of your eyes the inner corners of your eyes the outer corners of your eyes just let go.

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Nose in and out

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the back of your tongue the size of your tongue

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noticing any taste that may come up

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your jaw

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now noticing the space your head occupies.

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Open and relax

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now noticing the space your whole body occupies.

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No need to look at details. Just noticing the pure energy

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the vibrating energy that your body occupies.

Speaker 2

38:30

For the next couple of minutes, just stay there just seeing whatever it comes up or images concepts

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or nothingness

Speaker 2

38:44

tingling sensations word called solidity whatever sensations or concepts come just noticing and just allow him to float away

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Maybe now bring in the image of a beautiful ocean

Speaker 2

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see the waves smell the salty air

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rain forest

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maybe you can hear the rain see the lushness of the greens here to burn

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a congested city

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with cloudy skies and pollution.

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Celebration

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the big party

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maybe has balloons beautiful landscapes blah lots of people laughing and dancing

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a child that just had a boo boo and he's hurt

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and he's crying

Speaker 2

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feeling the heart of a loved one when you feel so embraced,

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accepted,

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seen and loved

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maybe a moment that you have doubted yourself

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and feel not sure what's coming.

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tears roll down your eyes

Speaker 2

44:06

good piece that you feel with a work or a job well done that you feel satisfied

Speaker 2

44:30

perfect morning where you failing Bigarade it maybe you're having some tea or some coffee and at that moment everything is just perfect.

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Sign race.

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Laughter

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silence

Speaker 2

45:42

before we go anywhere else, just notice if you had any changes in your body with the images and the emotions

Speaker 2

46:04

relaxing your body back again. Like you're laying completely back even a little deeper back

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the muscles of the face

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completely relaxed.

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Your shoulders come down

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a little bit more

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you're Hi feels open and receptive

Speaker 2

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palms of the hands the tingling sensations on your fingers.

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Your legs Lauren and relax.

Speaker 2

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Now we're going to inhale to four, exhale to six very very softly

Speaker 4

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So we inhale 234 exhale. 23456 inhale four. Exhale

Speaker 2

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do this three or four more times and when you exhale imagining the energy coming all the way down to your feet again

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let go

Marian Jensen

49:17

call me back to the center of the center of your heart. Checking with that intention. One more time. Maybe repeating the intention three times for yourself.

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Bringing the attention to the area around the room where you're at.

Speaker 2

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Like sometimes to imagine like golden

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energy around the room

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50:26

then come into an area about four feet. From your body

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to feed from your body

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coming to your skin

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bones muscles tendons

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your organs

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the area below your belly button.

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A point of light

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your heart area. Point of Light

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your throat point of light

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the center of center of your head at point of light

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the crown of your head point of light

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became to breathe and motor fuller.

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Maybe you like to bring a motor movement to your toes and your fingers.

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52:43

Maybe rolling to your right side for that lions pose.

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Take a few breaths there and then we need in the front

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check in.

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53:53

So how do you feel

Speaker 2

54:02

anything different about these different every time any comments any likes especially I like to know that this like so I don't do it again for you. We went a little deeper and a little longer.

Speaker 4

54:17

Let's see. Oh yawning is good does setting the um just just the nervous system.

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54:28

So you were ready almost ready to sleep.

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54:30

That's good.

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54:33

Does the nervous system finally know?

Myra

54:35

That happens also I think I said it already in classes when I took that training as if you are in your yoga classes and you're in class or they're yawning that means that you are doing a good job. So okay.

Speaker 3

54:48

Because that's the system resetting. So we have some images there that were a little deeper and some of them had a lot of emotion in them. So I was wondering whether you noticed the contraction in your body whatever twitching in the body, sometimes we react and if you had any kind of reaction to any of them including the reaction I cannot see that I you know I really don't care. I'm not going to go there that is a reaction to

Myra

55:19

so that is a reaction of of indifference in this way. So in that reaction is a reaction or a see if you had there then there was visualization.

Speaker 3

55:30

Because you cannot have that reaction without visualization. You had made a conscious decision really fast. You're not going there. So I want you to notice that little space that happens between

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so I don't

Speaker 2

55:45

I don't know if you're there because I cannot see what one of the comments were.

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55:50

So someone said I fell asleep and had a short dream. I love these sessions. And then another comment is the ocean was so peaceful and then have another one that says deep relaxation. Thank you, Myra. So quiet okay.

Myra

56:04

So that dream probably was like a dream what I don't know. And it could have been also a liminal state, which is very, very powerful.

Speaker 3

56:14

And that is I was I was waiting for somebody to fall asleep because that's a natural descending so you're descending, descending, descending, descending, so you got into that level of the REM sleep, and he could have been liminal. If you were kind of like I could have pull your really fast out of it. And you were not that deep. So that is a very interesting state to just remember that you can get this recordings and just get that one part only, especially if you wake in the middle of the night or something like that and see how this recording affects you different ways in different times.

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56:54

Let's see feeling relaxed yet heightened body awareness of vibration.

Speaker 2

57:01

Yes, we did we did something so you will feel more that because sometimes we feel that kind of electric like you touch something like that could have happened to some people depends on what are your propensity is not better or not better, but some people have more propensity to feel that kind of sensations in their body. Some of us are more brain and we think in concert, some of us just feel it with the whole body the energy.

Myra

57:27

So remember that the purpose of that this is just a technique, and they call it yogic sleep, and he goes lower in terms of the vibrations of the brain waves and that's why can become liminal. But it is just the for me is another tool to notice and to be aware, and it's almost like you can see more because you can feel more and if you can play and harbor in that little state of mind that is also very creative. That's where we have the you know the creative things of creative people because you're you're becoming more transparent. So if filtrates so you're connecting deeper and deeper and deeper.

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58:19

I, I wanted to

Speaker 2

58:23

only I was going to do it before now, but I was going to do some of the dream yoga exercises with the Red

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58:36

Lotus or red.in your throat so

Speaker 2

58:40

it's a little bit after nine I think I have a little bit more time if you don't have time. That would be okay. But I would like to incorporate the yoga nidra with some of the dream exercises, some dream yoga exercises because I think it's a great transition for us to keep practicing. Because sometimes I feel like we keep learning more and more and more techniques. And we if we get to practice some of the basics over and over and over again and remember just the basic principles. I think it would give us a very good foundation. So any takers?

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59:19

Yes. Okay.

Speaker 2

59:20

So remember that the difference between lucid, lucid

Myra

59:26

lucidity in a way that is sold more frequently as a magic pill for all ailments. In Dream Yoga. It is that in Dream Yoga, we're incorporated the teachings and his sense of a vision of what reality is and how reality is not solid is not independent, and that's why we incorporate it with other teachings. So the thing that we want to get is to notice how to be lucid in life, how to be aware in life, not only in our dreams, but it's how to live lucidly. And we forget sometimes how to live literally because we're always aiming forward for the next hit the next trill the next lesson, the next exercise the next vitamin that is going to make us very strong and vital. And we do not stay in the moment. One thing that I like to sometimes when I had my classes to teach in terms of lucidity, so imagine that you are in your class and are in your kitchen

Speaker 2

01:00:41

looking for something and you look and look and look and you know that is there but you cannot find that you cannot find that you're distracted. How can I have lost this one more time and you kind of upset with yourself.

Myra

01:00:54

In all the sudden you see something in you find a piece of clothing, a picture from many years back with something that you had not seen before for a long time. Know what you were looking for. When you see something sometimes I find like even clothing, they still have the tag and I never I forgot that I bought it and I feel guilty too, but don't tell anybody. So I find that and all the sudden everything stops

Unknown Speaker

01:01:27

oh my gosh look at this, I forgot.

Speaker 2

01:01:32

God is a moment of lucidity. And at the same time is a moment of bereavement remembering and in dire my that's where we do in the teachings of meditation. That's where we do where we learn how to live and to be fully human. That's where we are becoming a slum city of just having more of those moments where everything stops. And the moment that everything stops is the same as the moment when when you open your fist

Unknown Speaker

01:02:05

everything stops there to

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01:02:08

is the same as the moment in between your breath.

Unknown Speaker

01:02:12

Everything stops

Speaker 2

01:02:15

and I suspect that our T shirt has been trying to tell us that for a long time and that is a moment of lucidity. And that is the moment where you're enlightened. Because the lights are a lot brighter at that moment. And that's what we get with Dream Yoga. And another thing is that if you look at teachers that they'll tell about dreams, sometimes they tell that same dreams vary and over and you only need one of those two big dreams in life to be a big change in your life.

Myra

01:02:51

What is important is not as dreams at night so much, but the lucidity that we can bring and make it transparent the same way that we were doing with the yoga you're making just one container of awareness. And hopefully that's why but because we do it with our spaceship, meaning this body is so spacious

Speaker 2

01:03:14

and we need to get to know it and to feel it. Then we do the physical exercises because the breath and the body ride together. And when they ride together, we get to know each other a lot better. So let's begin

Unknown Speaker

01:03:32

with tapping. Let's do a lot of tapping.

Speaker 3

01:03:35

You know tapping. This is very mysterious, but we're just going to use this two fingers and tapping the Third Eye

Speaker 2

01:03:46

silly silly. You came to play. That's why I read the poem to begin with. I'm telling tales. Tap you close your eyes. Imagine that point of light at the end of the meditation. That light may even get a lot larger and bigger. And then bring it to your throat and tap maybe Madden in VR like a red dot

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and then your heart area

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tap tap tap

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01:04:32

just

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01:04:40

pick any hail to the nose

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and let it go to your mouth.

Speaker 2

01:04:50

Take an inhale to the nose and when you let it go to your mouth now imagine that that in your throat and activate the throat area inhale

Unknown Speaker

01:05:06

analytical

Speaker 2

01:05:10

and imagine that red dot here if you want to open your eyes, look to the right softly and left and we're going to do seven right first and then left and do very slowly I don't believe some of the lessons sometimes that they have their motor violent and that can activate that area too but it's not necessary. Your attention is into the throat area. It red space if you have the Red Lotus in your mindstream the Red Lotus, so I have two more for me and then come to the center. The game left and then right seven times. If your neck is not good and sometimes we have physical limitations. Close your eyes and do it with your mind's eye choose do that like you're doing it that's perfectly fine. The body doesn't know the difference. Just empower your body to feel completely even if it's with your visualization. I have one more me

Unknown Speaker

01:06:26

and come to the center and just wait.

Speaker 2

01:06:32

There we're going to do circles but we're going to very soft circles imagine that you have like a chalk in the tip of your nose and we're just making little circles beginning first ray. So we're not going all the way to the back. We're just going to make circles always bringing the attention to the throat chakra could be a lotus so it could be the red dot

Unknown Speaker

01:06:58

the red Pearl powerful

Speaker 2

01:07:06

when you get seven you come to the center and became a left and right. Again just your nose. Attention in the throat area. The energy goes where your mind and attention goes. That word s goes remember this is another one that you close your eyes. Imagine the red Pearl and you don't have to do the circles if your body doesn't allow you to do that.

Speaker 4

01:07:40

And then we're going to go down and center seven times down and center buy more attention in the pearl

Speaker 2

01:08:10

I'm not going to do back because I don't think that many of our necks are good for that. But if you want to go back and center you can do that seven times. Yeah, do eat very careful not to stress the body. You can do it with your mind's eye

Speaker 2

01:08:36

and now thinking about that red pill and I'm going to do a little bit of an exercise of purification of the body that I learned from Michelle law. And it's kind of funny, we're going to do 21 times and it is like a little song. So

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01:08:50

it's ah ah ah ah I

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01:09:00

ended the 21 is

Speaker 4

01:09:01

ah you're climbing solo. Okay, can we play let's play. Okay.

Myra

01:09:08

This is going to do three times so I do you can do it at home or just listen to me so

Speaker 4

01:09:14

ah ah ah ah

Unknown Speaker

01:09:28

two more time I

Speaker 2

01:09:42

notice your body before we do the last one. Just notice the vibrations up feel anything. Just come back to that red lotus or red Pearl

Speaker 4

01:09:53

ah ah

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silence

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01:10:22

tonight I will remember my dreams

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I would be aware in my dreams I will be conducive in my time.

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01:10:35

Tonight, I will remember my dreams.

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01:10:39

I would be aware of my dreams I would become lucid in my dreams. Tonight

Speaker 2

01:10:51

I will be remembering my dreams. I will be aware of my dreams. I will become lucid in my experience

Speaker 4

01:11:10

come back to that same area that red Pearl

Unknown Speaker

01:11:31

knowing that already you are remembering the tree

Unknown Speaker

01:11:40

because all phenomena is like a tree

Unknown Speaker

01:11:58

then we open our arms up they come together and to worse their heart do you see manage imagining that oh well. We have done here today.

Speaker 2

01:12:14

All the tails the tendency in the plane the relaxation, the lessons, the energy and the love can be shared. And it would be for the benefit of all sentient beings

Unknown Speaker

01:12:30

and that is true.

Speaker 2

01:12:36

Thank you for your presence here tonight. And for the opportunity of sharing my practice. Sweet dreams tonight. May your awakened hearts grow and flourish ever more. And more. Now, Mr.

Speaker 1

01:12:55

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So that's a good one. Do you think you'd like to?

Speaker 3

01:13:00

I can do that all day. If I get upset, sometimes I'm like really upset and I'm like, oh we can get it a little bit more remind me to do it next time because there's one thing that we can do it in terms of the little triangle that we can also visualize but I think today what's good to introduce you to that.

Unknown Speaker

01:13:22

Any questions?

Myra

01:13:31

It's kind of funny to see the lawyer stamp. So you have a question or do you just

Unknown Speaker

01:13:38

I'm not I'm not sure. Yeah.

Marian Jensen

01:13:41

So just I know there's not much time left but if you could just expand a little on the connection or the continuum of visualization and imagination.

Unknown Speaker

01:13:55

Well, wait, yes, go ahead. Finish the question first.

Marian Jensen

01:14:00

So I can I have a very vivid imagination. But so when you talked about for example, in the yoga nidra about seeing the ocean that was very, very vivid to me. And but then visualization as it used in the Tibetan teachings. For example, good practice is a different lace on that continuum, isn't it?

Speaker 1

01:14:31

Yes, but I was trying to free your this from some of that because I it took me a long time first regarding the Tibetan and the deities and all that I had trouble just visualize them because they could arguably is so it was so foreign to me. And then there was something that you know, they told me there is no god but I'm creating a guy so I was very conflicted. But then I it dawned on me and I have talked to teachers about it. That the day that you can really see that the luminosity because this this VAT is luminosity is no different than remembering the dream that you have or the ocean that you just saw in the Nidra that those two images are not different. They're the same. They're the same, but what they want is for you to lose the solidity of this body. Because if you can become Amitabha if you can become a judiciary, then you are a dream and then everything is possible. Right Okay, good. That is the gospel. Okay, that we realize that that is that is you feel it in your body. I mean, I feel it like you're feeling in your body right now. I mean, I have goosebumps all over my body. Because we think that we have to have this image and but the freedom of the tissues is that because we are so solid. They are it's like they are chiseling us away.

Marian Jensen

01:16:01

Very good. That's so helpful. Thank

Myra

01:16:03

you. But the thing that let me tell you the punch line is that when they choose us completely, we're empty inside there. is no difference between outside and inside. And we're expansive and we're everything. But we have the advantage of enjoying this version of ourselves completely right now and it's only to the spaceship and orient the spaceship that we can be free. Wonderful.

Unknown Speaker

01:16:30

Yeah. So much.

Speaker 1

01:16:32

Oh, but I was going to do visualization when you visualize there is a little bit of motion. You know, if you go to your kitchen right now and you find a lemon, and you rub the lemon and you find a knife and you squeeze the lemon in your mouth, your mouth is watering right now. That is a visualization you feel it completely is not a cartoon. Right?

Unknown Speaker

01:16:53

I understand.

Speaker 3

01:16:55

Yeah. Okay. Thank you for allowing me to say that I love that one. Any other.

Speaker 3

01:17:13

I've had a funny one when they maybe four or five years ago Andrew was visualized and I think it was an image of the Buddha and it was some I don't remember which one it was well, this one I had like this perfect Siddhartha Buddha is my my imagination. And he stood up I left.

Speaker 1

01:17:34

Me I finally got you. And I don't know what that mean. But I let it go. But that's the kind of Buddha's imagination just doing the thing but it's just tempting you you know how solid Can you see it? What can you see?

Unknown Speaker

01:17:48

But remember all that is for us to just lose this

Speaker 1

01:17:58

we have a few more minutes and no of it. And I would like if some of you that would like to come again. Just write notes tonight. Maybe even send me an email because this session is lasting.

Myra

01:18:14

You have do you have something that is vibrating? And keep going? And it could be just a better appreciation of a program that you always watch? Or maybe you see a flower that looks a little brighter? Or maybe you just have a smile on your face or maybe you have a dream. I mean, that's the kind of thing that we have to be calm, sensitive and aware to see how it just penetrates your life. And those are the things that we have to account for. Maybe for some people this guides part and you know the lights come down but in my case I see it in my daily life

Unknown Speaker

01:18:56

okay, you guys are super

Speaker 2

01:18:58

sweet dreams tonight and just remember that anything that I say or everything that I have done, I really owe it to all the people before me and any mistakes that I'm making. The different interpretation is that I'm in the path like you are. I haven't mastered anything. I'm just sharing my practice and I am really grateful that You allowed me to share my practice with you. So Blessings to you. Good night. Good night.

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