What if your dreams weren’t random… but rehearsal for awakening?
In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily sits down with lucid dreaming teacher Mia Lux for a rich and provocative conversation about dream yoga, shadow integration, trauma healing, and preparing for death.
Mia shares how her fear of death led her into lucid dreaming and how the practice became one of the most powerful tools for integrating trauma, working with PTSD, and accessing deeper layers of consciousness.
Rather than dismissing dreams as meaningless, Mia invites us to see them as an accelerated path of self-inquiry. A way to work directly with the subconscious. A laboratory for transformation that requires no substances and no intermediary.
Key Moments:
00:00:00 — Dream yoga and dying before you die
00:02:10 — Why we ignore one-third of our lives
00:05:20 — Shadow integration through dreaming
00:08:15 — PTSD and trauma healing
00:18:00 — Lucid dreaming vs. Hollywood fantasy
00:36:00 — Medicine work without medicine
00:48:10 — How to begin practicing
00:58:00 — Integration and closing reflections
If you’re curious about consciousness, healing, or what becomes possible when you stop dismissing your dreams, this episode offers both inspiration and practical insight.
For Those Feeling the Call to Go Deeper
The integration Mia speaks about — nervous system capacity, shadow work, sustained awareness — is the foundation of Ziva Level 3.
Ziva Level 3 is for practitioners ready to embody what they practice. To move beyond peak states and into stabilized integration.
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ABOUT MIA LUX
Mia Lux is a lucid dreaming teacher who integrates Tibetan dream yoga, modern psychology, and trauma-informed shadow work. What began as a personal journey to heal her fear of death evolved into a powerful methodology for psychological integration and spiritual awakening through conscious dreaming.
Through her work, Mia teaches that dreaming is not escapism. It is direct access to the subconscious mind — a laboratory for healing, self-transcendence, and preparing for death while fully alive.
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