Lucid Dreaming – Oxford

Learn how to enter and navigate the astral worlds consciously.

We spend almost one third of our life asleep, where we slip in an uncontrolled way into an unconscious dream state, experiencing extraordinary mental images and sensations – only to return with vague impressions that we barely remember when we awaken. 

Many feel that there must be something more to dreaming than just some imagined series of events and images involuntarily occurring in the mind while we sleep.   

Imagine if we could make use of that time asleep, not just for resting and regenerating the body, but for learning, problem solving, exploring, healing and even for spiritual practice.

Lucid dreaming is the practice of becoming conscious while in the dream state, so that we can interact voluntarily with the dream world. The practice of lucid dreaming has been explored for thousands of years. The ancient yogic tradition revealed specific techniques of training that allow one to explore shifting states of consciousness while remaining fully aware, allowing one to ‘wake up’ while dreaming, and even to explore the dream world consciously.  

For yogis, this experience is more than just exploring the images and scenes created by the mind, it is something that takes place in another dimension of reality – the astral worlds, where we can discover our own astral body and gain deep insights into the multidimensional nature of our own spiritual being, and of the universe in which we exist. 

Expand your understanding of your waking reality and overall existence, that is difficult to obtain by other means.

Together, we will dive into: 

• The nature and structure of the astral dimensions according to ancient yogic and modern Western research. 
• How to bring awareness into altered states of consciousness 
• Techniques for recognising the dream state and ‘waking up’ while dreaming. 
• Yoga Nidra – the yoga of conscious sleep 

*Note, this workshop will not be about the interpretation of dreams, but rather about gaining an understanding of the astral worlds and learning how to enter and navigate them consciously. 

Why explore lucid dreaming?

• Make use of the time wasted being unconscious – add years’ worth of experience to enrich your waking life.

• Power of visualisation – When we dream we awaken a huge latent potential of the mind – visualisation becomes more powerful than in the waking state.

• Wish fulfilment – eating when on a diet, walking if you are paralysed, seeing if you are blind. Even people who were born blind or deaf can in many cases see and hear in their dreams. Subtle senses.

• Extraordinary experiences – We are free of physical laws, so we can do the ‘impossible’- fly, breathe underwater, explore any landscape, meet any character. In dreams we are free of social boundaries – can have erotic encounters, live fantasies.

•Adventure – You can choose an adventure – a classic or one of your own creation and be the hero. Not only is it exiting it can also help you see yourself in new ways and even go through different processes of learning and transformation. Separation- initiation – return. The classic journey of growth.

• Overcoming Fears/ nightmares – You have the power to face the fear/danger and find the source of it, nightmares come from the projection of our fears and lower resonances. Facing them we can transform the situation. 

• Creativity and Inspiration – Tap into incredible amounts of knowledge and inspiration – create, invent. Both writers, artists and scientists have come up with a lot of their creations while dreaming.

• Improving physical skills – sensory- motor skills that have already been mastered in rough outlines can be improved in lucid dreaming. 

• Problem Solving – Looking into the dream for advice, guidance, creative solutions, test solutions

• Healing – Physical ailments have a subtle cause that you can discover in your dreams

• Lovemaking – being able to meet with your beloved even when you’re not physically together

• Spiritual and Mystical Exploration – it can be a spiritual practice, offering opportunities for self-discovery, enlightenment, and even contact with higher states of consciousness or entities.

Who’s it for?

• For those who wish as a deep spiritual practice to explore the illusory nature of our personal reality, both in the dream state and waking state – to awaken an entirely new and expanded way of relating to yourself, others and the reality we exist in.

• For someone who wants to make use of the third of our life that we are unconscious, to use for enhancing your waking life

• For someone who is interested in a extraordinary method for exploring ones own subconscious mind – unlocking tremendous potential for healing, creativity, inspiration, problem solving