Turning dreams into yoga practice
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Did you ever wonder why we dream? Why is it important not to reduce our sleep time? How can we benefit from sleeping? How can Dream Yoga help us?
«Life and dreams are leaves of one and the same book.» Arthur Schopenhauer
Everybody has dreams. Sometimes they are vivid and sometimes we can’t even remember them. And it does not depend on body fitness level, views on life, hobbies or how well trained our mind is. However, some people believe that real life «happens» only while we are awake. Dream yoga will teach us how to change our attitude towards the state of sleep so that we use this time meaningfully.
Should we reduce our sleep time?
Those who believe that time spent asleep is not effective, start to reduce their sleep time, sometimes bringing the amount of sleep to critically low values. Thus, a person can be very tired when they are awake. Over time, chronic lack of sleep begins to adversely affect both mental and physical conditions: concentration decreases, memory deteriorates, apathy and lethargy, irritability and tension are observed. Hence, it is crucial to realize the importance of sleep, stop reducing its time, so as not to exhaust either the physical body or the psyche.
The importance of regularly being in three states of consciousness
If we want to spend time productively in our sleep, as Dream yoga teaches us, first of all, we need to understand what states of consciousness a person can experience. The theory of Yoga tells us that a person has three groups of bodies: the gross — our physical body, the subtle — our thoughts and emotions, and the subtlest — the causal.
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Знание Йоги стремительно исчезает. Несмотря на многочисленные йога-клубы и классы преподавания Йоги, очень мало мест, где мы можем получить само знание, его основы и базовые принципы. Но даже в тех немногочисленных школах, где преподают теорию Йоги, очень часто приходится тратить много времени, чтобы понять, о чём идёт речь. Как передавать учение Йоги, чтобы оно сохранилось? Какие моменты стоит учесть? Как при этом могут помочь современные технологии?
When we are born, we have to trust this world, represented by our mother and father, our relatives, the society in which we grow, and the country where we live. Growing up, we become strong and independent, renouncing everything that, in our opinion, restricts our freedom and everyone whose opinion is in contrary to ours. Choosing the path of confidence, we choose the path of bhakti yoga.
How to upgrade your personal yoga practice? The answer to this question was given by the sage Patanjali in the 2
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Every day we have a lot of different thoughts. By day we think about the essential things, like earning money, our next meal, buying a gift to a friend. By night we are addicted to the Internet, TV and sorting the household matters. In addition, we always need to maintain relationships in society: to communicate with colleagues, pay attention to relatives, resolve conflicts and misunderstandings with loved ones. It takes a tremendous amount of our time and effort. We do not maintain resources to understand ourselves and to put our lives in order. How can we listen to ourselves when our attention is constantly focused on the things around us? Retreat would solve this problem.
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Начиная интересоваться Йогой как системой самопознания, с первых шагов мы узнаём о трёх её китах — трёх принципах Йоги. Всесторонне, с разных ракурсов рассматривая эти принципы, мы получаем Знание о них. Логично и последовательно принимая и применяя их в своей жизни, мы всё больше убеждаемся: да, принципы — это фундамент, почва, на которой вырастают настоящие йоги, да и просто хорошие люди. Что это за принципы и что значит принять на себя принципы Йоги? 
People have always been attracted by road and journey. Going on a road opens so many things up. “Following the paths” — is the ancient practice of self-exploration, which was a part of tradition all over the world over many generations. Travelling pilgrims, wanderers, wayfarers, travellers and hikers — we can read about them in all ancient scriptures, including the Vedas. The purpose of these journeys could be various: to make the body stronger or to purify the mind, to overcome oneself, to widen personal borders, to get to know other countries and people, visiting sacred sites; or just travelling without any particular purpose, for the sake of the road and walking along it. The practice “Following the paths” fits into the concept of austerity, as it involves some difficulties on the way. 
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In the previous article, we examined the main axiomatic statements in Yoga regarding creativity, its nature and the necessary components for the emergence of our creative inspiration. In this article we will analyze in more detail the questions: what inspiration is, why it is so ephemeral and why it disappears as suddenly as it appears. We will try to understand what brings us to «the agony of creation» and how we can work with it.