Missed practice, wierd dreams

I have skipped a few days' pratice lately, due to
various feeble excuses that all basically boil down to
lack of tapas. (I'm referring to niyama here and not
Spanish food, ok?).

And I have also, possibly as a
result, been having the most wierd, vivid and unpleasant
dreams. E.g. one in which I was engaging in violent
vigilante-style actions in the town where my family used to go on
holiday when I was a kid, in a kind of bucolic "The
Archers" meets "Get Carter" scenario. [The real "Get
Carter" not the ridiculuous Stallone travesty. Please.]
Another in which I was being ferociously attacked by my
mother's cats (she doesn't have any in real life) while
protesting to her about debts she had signed me up for
without my consent. Clearly wide open to both karmic and
freudian interpretations.

All this leaves me
waking up at least as tired as when I went to bed, so
that's it. I've learned my lesson. No more skipped
practices.

Doing ashtanga and meditation make my dreams so
much more intense and vivid. Ever find yourself doing
yoga in your sleep? In a few dreams I've had, I amazed
myself by doing some more difficult asanas (like splits,
for example), and they were a piece of cake. If only
it was that easy in "real" life!

Couple of weeks ago I dreamed that I was doing,
with ease, that really cool-looking posture in which
one leg is behind your head and the other is straight
over your elbow while you are balancing on your arms.
It's a cross between koundinyasana and
ekapadasirsasana: wish I knew the name. You see David Life in this
position in those Yoga Journal ads for Jivamukti, and
David Swenson does it near the end of the demo on his
videotapes.

Anyway as I was performing the posture this Voice boomed
out: You Are Ready!! So next day just for fun tried it
out just after the leg-behind-the-head sequence in
second series. Needless to say I was NOT ready and
popped right of it after a couple of labored
breaths.

So much for dreams. Does anybody know the name of
this fascinating asana, and what series it's
from?

Peace and Good,
Homer

[passionate_freak]

No matter what we do in the name of Yoga...it is incomplete... provided by the Rishis it contains lot more things...simply stretching body and trying the meditaion relates us to no significant result close to the perfection.
Yoga is to awake the Kundalini...but not the way the world been practicing.
Wake up people.