EP13: Meditation & Dream Yoga

Ryan J Burton is a Meditation instructor & the Host of a podcast called After Awakening.  He has been on multiple meditation retreats that have helped him deeply understand why incorporating meditation into his lifestyle was game changer. We talk about the benefits meditation can bring to your life and emotional state. As humans, we have a series of experiences that happen in linear time, which have a beginning and an end, that makes up our life. Meditation can awaken you to be able to understand life beyond the construct of our 3d reality, and see life from a higher, more accurate perspective. We can become in touch with who we are behind our thoughts and emotions and dissolve the boundaries of what and who we think we are. Mindfulness meditation and formal sitting meditation are just two of the many ways to practice meditation. Different forms and schools of meditation have different goals, and benefits. We encourage everyone to find their own path and personal practice. 

Ryan also talks about Dream Yoga, a form of meditation that can help enhance dreams and lucidity. Dream yoga is a practice of combining meditation with sleep, particularly while first falling asleep, in the hypnogogic state, or when you first wake up and experience the hypnopompia state. You experiment with dream meditations and study your mind using the medium of dreams. As you pass in and out of the border of consciousness, and dreams come and go, Dream yoga meditations can help you realize the clear light of consciousness that lies beneath it all. Ryan mentions Samadhi, the highest state of consciousness one can achieve through meditation. It consists of a yoga practitioner reaching spiritual enlightenment where the self, the mind, and the object of meditation merge together into one.

Ryan's Links: @ryanjburton | Linktree.

Book recommendations mentioned in the episode:
The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Exploring the world of lucid dreaming by Stephen Laberge

The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Highlights 

6:45 Benefits of Meditation
17:45 Dream Yoga Intro
22:50 A Word on Esoteric Practices
33:44 Outro

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