The River of Life: The Inner Practices of Tantric Yoga
The River of Life: The Inner Practices of Tantric Yoga Resolve current issues and set a new direction for your future. A progressive series of practices which will use a varying combination of breath, Mantra, self-reflective meditation, Cakra Sādhana , and Deity Yoga. All practices can be done seated on the floor or on a chair.
Working with the Nāḍī-s – Langhana & Samāna
Langhana & Samāna Prāṇāyāma Balance your autonomic nervous system and promote deep relaxation using specialized nostril breathing techniques combined with either Langhana or Samāna breathing ratios. A progressive series of practices designed to manage stress, balance the emotions, clarify the mind, and promote deep relaxation.
Working with the Nāḍī-s – Bṛṁhaṇa & Samāna
Bṛṁhaṇa & Samāna Prāṇāyāma Stimulate and activate your system using specialized nostril breathing techniques combined with either Bṛṁhaṇa or Samāna breathing ratios. A progressive series of practices designed to build courage, stimulate the immune system, balance the emotions, clarify the mind, and activate your creativity.
Tantric Laya Yoga Meditations
The Ancients evolved a complex symbol system and associated methods of practice to help us understand and transform ourselves at the level of thought, feeling, impulse, and ultimately conditioning. In this progressive series, we will use these symbols and methods in meditation to explore and transform our dysfunction and actualize our potential. Meditations on the seven cakra-s…
Hṛdaya-Granthi Bhedanam: The Knots of the Heart
We live in perpetual state of identification with and attachment to changing internal conditions and external circumstances, not seeing our true nature. The Ancients said that the cause of this perpetual cycle (saṁsāra) is the bondage of – Avidyā (ignorance), Kāma (desire) and Karma (action) – resulting in the tension and suffering of distorted self-perception,…
Devatā Yoga – Samāna
The Ancient practice of Devatā Yoga uses the symbolism of the Vedic Gods and Goddesses as a means of helping practitioners realize and actualize what the tradition calls our ‘innate Divine potential.’ There are three practices for each Deity.In the Bṛṁhaṇa class, learn to chant the a specific Gāyatrī Mantra and use it in Āsana & Prāṇāyāma.In the Langhana class, continue to learn the Gāyatrī Mantra, using a different combination of Āsana…