Missed practice, wierd dreams

[Guest guest]

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?).<br><br>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. <br><br>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.

[Guest guest]

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!

[Guest guest]

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.<br><br>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.<br><br>So much for dreams. Does anybody know the name of

this fascinating asana, and what series it's

from?<br><br>Peace and Good,<br>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.