The Tibetan Yogas of
Breath and Movement
This
all-new online workshop, with personal guidance from Geshe Tenzin
Wangyal Rinpoche, makes accessible the ancient Tibetan Yogic
Practices
of Breath and Movement.
These practices will
awaken your subtle energy body, opening and clearing your energy
centers and channels. They will help to bring you physical
fitness, mental well-being and spiritual growth, and
allow the natural human qualities of love, compassion, joy and
equanimity to arise.
The practices
involve focusing your mind and directing the subtle breath a
certain way, while performing a series of simple but powerful
body movements. Suitable for both physically fit and beginners
with no physical training.
How can these
practices affect your life?
In society today,
we elevate the status of our conceptual mind and seek change
through our intellect. But how we experience mind itself is a
product of wind or "lung", which is a Tibetan word for
prana, or qi or chi. By
manipulating and directing lung in the Tibetan Yogas of Breath
and Movement, we can access the mind. The
mind's capacity of either joy and clarity or stress and confusion
is all dependent on lung. In the wisdom traditions of India and
Tibet there is a vast knowledge about lung and how to work with
it to access and affect our mind and, through it, our state of
consciousness, energy levels and, ultimately, our life.
The
Tibetan Yogas of Breath and Movement consist of two ancient
teachings: The Nine Breathings of Purification, and the Five Tsa
Lung exercises.
The Nine Breathings of
Purification, a meditation technique that has been practiced
for thousands of years, uses the body as the means of connecting
with one's natural mind. Basically, the practitioner takes an
upright posture that supports wakefulness and imagines a simple,
sacred anatomy of three channels of light within the body. After
reflecting upon the presence of challenges in one's life, the
focus is brought to the inhalation as the breath is imagined
moving through specific channels in the body, held slightly, and
then released with the exhalation. As the practitioner releases
the breath through a specific channel, subtle obscurations are
released facilitating the recognition of openness. After nine
successive breaths, the practitioner rests in open awareness,
bringing clear attention to the openness itself and connecting to
this source of all positive qualities.
The Five Tsa Lung Exercises are movements that work with five
chakra locations within the central channel of the body: the
crown, throat, heart, navel and secret chakra. The Tsa Lung
exercises open the chakras in order to access the deeper wisdom
that is always available. Tsa is the Tibetan word for
channel, and lung is the word for wind (called
prana, qi or chi in other traditions), which we work with
in the Nine Breathings of Purification. In these exercises, you
inhale, bringing your focus and breath together to a particular
chakra in the body. Then you reinhale and hold the breath and
focus while performing a specific movement designed to open the
blockages and obscurations of that chakra. After releasing the
breath, you rest in open awareness, which allows you to become
aware of more subtle qualities.
Together, these practices
will allow you to discover your inner wisdom and to express your
greatest potential.
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