In the 90s as a new yoga teacher, I often received images and instruction in my dreams and meditations from other yoga teachers. I incorporated those experiences in my instruction of others. My lineage includes physical teachers, as well as those astral teachers from that level of consciousness.
From time to time, I still receive such experience, keeping my practice and instruction fresh. When it occurred in meditation yesterday, I immediately gave thanks for the guidance. In doing so, I keep the channel open between myself and my guides.
What inspires your practice? Can you give thanks to those who show up in the non physically realms just like those in the flesh? Ki to Happiness thanks all her guides and teachers who appear in dreams and meditations as well as those embodied.