This enlightening online dialog brings together the ancient wisdom of Tibetan dream and sleep yogas with cutting-edge sleep science. Danny Lewin, Ph.D., Ed O’Malley, Ph.D., and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal will explore the profound interplay between traditional spiritual practices and modern scientific understanding of sleep. The discussion will delve into the role of sleep in both spiritual practice and physical health, featuring insights on biofeedback and sleep technology such as the WHOOP and Oura Ring health tracking devices.
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This event is one of a series of eight “Kathmandu Dialogues” offered by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in conjunction with a February 2025 celebratory event for His Eminence Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, the foremost living teacher and protector of the Yungdrung Bön tradition of Tibet. Learn more
About the Presenters
Danny Lewin, Ph.D., D.ABSM, CBSM, is a licensed clinical psychologist, sleep medicine researcher, clinician and pediatric psychologist. He was the founding director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary Behavioral Medicine Program at Children’s National Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Danny served as the director of clinical sleep medicine at the National Institutes of Health, National Center on Sleep Research. In addition to directing clinical sleep medicine programs, he was director of an NIH-funded sleep research laboratory. He has published more than 50 articles and chapters. Danny is a certified yoga and meditation teacher and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist.
Ed O’Malley, Ph.D., FAASM, is an integrative sleep specialist trained at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and NYU Sleep Disorders Center in New York. For 12 years he served as director of the Norwalk Hospital (teaching hospital of Yale University) Sleep Disorders Center, training resident physicians in sleep medicine and creating the first insomnia center in the region. He holds advanced certification in bio- and neurofeedback and is a certified nature awareness trainer. Ed takes a broad approach to sleep and wellness, moving easily between the technological, spiritual, and natural worlds. He guides clients to slow down, becoming mindful of what really matters. More about Ed O’Malley
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is an acclaimed author and a respected teacher of students worldwide. He completed an 11-year course of traditional studies at the Bön Dialectic School at Menri Monastery near Dolanji, India, and was awarded his geshe degree in 1986. He now lives as a householder, and has been living and teaching in the West for more than 30 years. Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha International and the founder of CyberSangha, He is the author of many books, including the best-selling The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening (Shambhala, 2022). Learn more about Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
I am a Clinical Neuropsychologist, and practice in Charlottesville Va.
In my Phd program at Saybrook University, I did a 6 month dream study with Dr. Stanley Krippner, in which I was part of a group that shared our dreams.
I have used his dream analysis method since 1987 when I studied with him.
Stanley was run over by a truck, and lay in the road for four hours with severe broken bones throughout his body. He meditated, and prayed, and lived to go back to teaching following his traumatic accident.
It was believed that his meditation and prayer are what ket him alive until someone rescued him!