New Year's Eve Dream Temple - Part 2 - Hypnosis and Trance

The Dream Temples of Ancient Egypt and Greece, used  hypnosis and trance as healing techniques. The Oracle at Delphi in central Greece, offered continuous guidance and healing for over a thousand years. Many traditional European and Near Eastern trance traditions like dream temples and oracles ended with the advent of Christianity over the course of the 1st Millennium CE. Many Christian rituals and holidays specifically incorporated local pagan traditions in order to make an easier transition to the new belief system, often incorporating trance inducing elements like incense, images, and singing.

Trance Dance is part of The Yogi Tree New Year's Eve Dream Temple. Nya Patrinos teaches Trance Dance as a unique blend of body movement, music, and meditation. The combination of these healing modalities creates a 'trance' state that promotes spiritual awakening, mental clarity, physical stamina and emotional well-being.During Trance Dance the yogi takes an 'inner journey' outside of their normal perceptions of space/time. Trance and ritual dance have been vital parts of shamanic and eastern dance cultures since the beginning of human history. Nya's contemporary approach to Trance Dance draws from the richness of these ancient traditions. The focus of Trance Dance is transformation, healing and spiritual evolution. Through Trance Dance we become freer, more open, and able to let go of physical and emotional blocks

New Year Eve's Dream Temple - Part 1 - New Year's Eve at The Yogi Tree

Dream temples began in Egypt but also existed in the Middle East and Ancient Greece. In Greece, they were built in honor of Asclepios, the Greek god of medicine and were called Asclepieions. The Greek treatment was referred to as incubation and focused on prayers to Asclepios for healing.

Dream incubation is a practice of focusing attention on a specific issue before going to sleep. A 2010 article in Scientific American summarizes a few of the incubation techniques from The Committee of Sleep as follows:

"If you want to problem-solve in a dream, you should first of all think of the problem before bed, and if it lends itself to an image, hold it in your mind and let it be the last thing in your mind before falling asleep.. Equally important, don't jump out of bed when you wake up—almost half of dream content is lost if you get distracted. Lie there, don't do anything else. If you don't recall a dream immediately, see if you feel a particular emotion—the whole dream would come flooding back.

If you're just trying to dream about an issue or you want to dream of a person who's deceased or you haven't seen in a long time, you'd use very similar bedtime incubation suggestions as you would for problem solving: a concise verbal statement of what you want to dream about or a visual image of it to look at. Very often it's a person someone wants to dream of, and just a simple photo is an ideal trigger. "

When we wake up in the morning we will take will write down our dreams before morning Sadhana. Further dream discussion will take place during breakfast.

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At the end of  the Yoga Nidra with Reiki Session New Year's Eve Session, Nya Patrinos and Jennifer Kelly will invite everyone to incubate their own personal dream..

THE YOGI TREE DREAM TEMPLE SCHEDULE:

7 pm - 8 pm Yoga

Break

8:15 pm to 8:45 pm Breath Work

Break

9:00 pm  to 9:30 pm Chanting

Break

9:45 pm to 10: 45 pm Hypnosis

Break

11:00 pm to 11:45 pm Trance Dance

Break to Ring in  New Year

12:15 am to 1:00 am Yoga Nidra with Reiki

1:00 am Lights Out with Dream Incubation (option to Spend the night at The Yogi Tree)

5:00 to 6:00 am Sadhana

Break

6:15 am Oatmeal Breakfast with Dream Discussion.

7 am Depart