Lucid dreaming - waking up and becoming fully conscious in your dreams - has intrigued legions of those seeking to explore their vast inner worlds. Yet for many, "getting lucid" for the first time can be elusive. And for those who have, there are few resources that show us how to use this extraordinary state for the greater goal of awakening to all of reality, day or night.

With Dream Yoga, Andrew Holecek brings us a practical guide for meditators, seasoned dream travelers wanting to go deeper, and total beginners eager to experience lucidity for the first time.

Here, you'll join this expert teacher of dream work and meditation to learn:

• How to awaken in your dreams naturally by using modern scientific principles with the insights and practices of Tibetan dream and sleep yoga
• Proven guidance to overcome common obstacles, enhance dream recall, focus and amplify awareness while dreaming, work with nightmares safely, resolve emotional blockages, and glean wisdom from your dreams
• A wealth of practices and tips that have helped thousands enjoy successful dream-time exploration
• Essential Buddhist teachings and tools for navigating the many realms of sleep (dreaming is just one of them)
• Direct insights into the continuation of consciousness beyond the physical body and death
• How to bring your skills together to engage with the hundreds of thousands of dream opportunities that most of us forget or dismiss

Have you ever wondered what happens when you sleep and dream? Desired to wake up in your dreams and have the time of your life? Or wanted to use your sleep hours to fully explore these dimensions, heal, and evolve? Dream Yoga answers these questions - not academically but directly - by showing you how to access this profound universe for yourself.
Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep, Andrew Holecek, SoundsTrue, Paperback, 325 pp, 2016, $19.95

Andrew Holecek teaches seminars on spirituality, meditation, and dream yoga. He is the author of The Power and the Pain: Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy and Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. For more information, visit andrewholecek.com.

	Foreword by Stephen LaBerge, PhD	ix
	Prologue	xiii
INTRODUCTION	Adventures in Consciousness	1
CHAPTER 1	What Is a Lucid Dream?	11
CHAPTER 2	A Map for Practices of the Night	17
CHAPTER 3	Understanding Sleep Cycles	29
CHAPTER 4	Western Lucid Dream Induction Techniques	39
CHAPTER 5	Eastern Lucid Dream Induction Techniques	57
CHAPTER 6	A Fundamental Meditation: Mindfulness	77
CHAPTER 7	The Lion's Gaze	89
CHAPTER 8	Advanced Meditations and Visualizations	97
CHAPTER 9	Illuminating the Deeper Mind	113
CHAPTER 10	The Mind's Fuzzy Boundaries	129
CHAPTER 11	A Taxonomy of Dreams	137
CHAPTER 12	Breaking the Frame: An Introduction to Illusory Form	147
CHAPTER 13	The Practice of Illusory Form	157
CHAPTER 14	Advancing to Dream Yoga: First Stages and Practices	175
CHAPTER 15	Higher Attainment: More States of Dream Yoga	191
CHAPTER 16	Near Enemies and Other Obstacles	203
CHAPTER 17	An Introduction to Sleep Yoga	217
CHAPTER 18	The Practice of Sleep Yoga	227
CHAPTER 19	The Fruition of Dream and Sleep Yoga	243
CHAPTER 20	Bardo Yoga	255
	Epilogue	263
	Acknowledgments	267
	Notes	269
	Suggested Reading	317
	Index	319
	About the Author	325