Toltec Lucid Dreaming
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The Art of Dreaming and Inner Change
Interestingly, love is the major super power in the world of dreaming.
Have you wanted to change repetitive patterns or habits? To be lucid in a dream means we engage our will in our subconscious life.
As the subconscious is the realm of our intuition it makes sense that becoming a lucid dreamer is a powerful way to honing your intuition skills. Lucid dreaming in the Toltec lineage is a practical set of breathing and mirror exercises to be done regularly.
Have you ever had the feeling of being awake in your dreams?
We are in a watershed moment for lucid dreaming. Flying, right?
We have a lot of information, memories and desires running around in our minds. We can even get important knowledge from our dream life. The subconscious is a big place.
The Art of Dreaming
Working with our subconscious gives us validation to our particular experience.
The therapeutic aspect of this practice is recognizing our destructive patterns, our inner petty tyrants and our guides. Part of the path of dreaming is releasing our addiction to suffering and embracing the beauty of our essential self.
Meditation calms the mind, see energy bodies and to heighten our sensory perception.
In our shadow work we heal ancestral patterns, plant dreams for our future and willfully bring balance back to our lives.
Being Able to See Yourself
Going inward and facilitating change takes subconscious intention. The art of dreaming helps restructure our habits and beliefs from the inside out. The exercises are just like physical exercise, they are repetitive and practical.
The mirror work you will begin to develop a different type of perception, and eventually with the special eye exercises your image will disappear or will turn into that of an animal or spirit nahual (dream energetic body)
The simplicity of chakras
The chakra exercises are a direct way for bolstering the energy body.
Our posture often reflects where we are leaking energy when it comes to other people.
Becoming masters of our own energy, we recognize our intuition. A pulse inside of us of honesty, self-love, divinity and inspiration.
In Nahuatl, our energetic body is called the Nahual. Nehua means I and nahualli meaning what extends. Combined they mean ‘who I am beyond the tonal and material reality. The nahual is governed by the moon. (This is from my teachers, Sergio Magana and Xolotl Chavez in Mexico City.) The tonal represents the sun, our mind and personality.
Focusing on the chakras can help us move stuck emotional energy in the body. Chakra work is also wonderful for recognizing posture patterns and energetic boundaries. Toltec lucid dreaming offers a meditative energetic breathwork practice called “Xayaxolohtli” or Xolotl’s Mask, Quetzalcoatl’s Nahual.
