Yantra Yoga is a system of yoga movements like poses in motion and using the breath to clear the mind and bring health to the body.
What is Yantra Yoga?
Yantra Yoga is one of the oldest recorded systems of yoga techniques in the world. Its unique series of poses and movements, combined with breathing, can help coordinate and harmonize one’s vital energy so that the body and mind can relax and find its authentic balance. These Yoga postures contain a wide range of movements and breathing techniques that can be applied by everyone, and it is a superb method to attain optimal balance, health, and relaxation.How do you practice Yantra Yoga?
If you are familiar with yoga these books and DVDs will be a strong introduction to the movements and breathing practices. It is best to find a teacher or work within the community or take an online course.What are the benefits of Yantra Yoga?
Yoga is the Hundi word for union or yoke, meaning bringing the body and mind together and Yantra Yoga is based on the ancient text known as The Union of the Sun and Moon, written by Vairotsana, who brought Dzogchen and this yoga practice to Tibet.So Yantra Yoga can be understood as bringing together the subtle energies of body and mind and this practice will bring about a stronger clarity of mind and a healthier body.
Books
Breath Yoga
Book for Yoga breathing with a bases in Yantra Yoga.
Breathe As You Are
If you have any questions about the breath during Yantra yoga practice this is the book. There are very detailed explanations about theroy and practice.
Some of the major topics include- The 7 point posture
- The 4 phases of breathing and how to coordinate them
- Complete explanation of breathing patterns for Yantra warm up exercises.
Tibetan Yoga of Movement
Tibetan Yoga of Movement introduces the method of Yantra Yoga, a traditional Tibetan form that is one of the oldest recorded systems of yoga in the world.
This text comes from one of the oldest known documents relating to yoga in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. There is a brief description of 75 movements or poses similar to those of Hatha Yoga forms, but different in the coordination of movement and breath.
18 Preliminary Movements This book provides instructions on the 18 preliminary movements or warmups, divided into three groups, that are not taught in Indian systems.
We can only speculate where these instructions came from. Their purposes are to warm up the body; train the different aspects of breathing, in particular, the holds; and open the energy channels, and these three groups of exercises are linked with the main practice.
Yantra Yoga
Yantra Yoga, the Buddhist parallel to the Hatha yoga, is a system of practice entailing bodily movements, breathing exercises, and visualizations.
Originally transmitted by the mahasiddhas of India and Oddiyana, its practice is nowadays found in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, more generally known under the Tibetan term Trul Khor.
The Sanskrit equivalent of Trul Khor is Yantra, meaning the Union of the Sun and Moon, transmitted in Tibet in the eighth century by the great master Padmasambhava to the Tibetan translator and Dzogchen master Vairochana, can be considered the most ancient of all the yoga systems of Yantra, and it contains also numerous movements which are also found in the classic Yoga tradition.
~ Paperback 416 pages
~ Publisher Snow Lion
~ File Size : 17562 KB
~ Language: : English
~ Publisher : Snow Lion
~ Text-to-Speech Enabled
Yantra Yoga DVDs
Beginner Practice
This practice is an introduction and sets the stage for the Yantra Yoga exercise practice. BreAthe DVD The Perfect Harmony of Breathing Even though simple and effective, the sequences help deepen and clarify the practitioner\’s experience of breathing.DVD Details
~ Actors Fabio Andrico and Yamila Diaz ~ Number of discs 1 ~ Studio Shang Shung Institute ~ Directors Fabio Andrico ~ Run Time 133 minutes
This DVD series covers the full spectrum of Yantra Yoga. Each volume contains two discs: the first features detailed instruction in the movements, while the second is to follow during practice.
Senior Instructors Fabio Andrico and Laura Evangelisti, together with other Yantra Yoga practitioners, present traditional Yantra Yoga as they learned it from Dzogchen Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
Tibetan Yoga of Movement Level 1
Level 1 includes beginning instruction on the three preliminary series, as well as the 1st Series of Yantras. Level 1 DVD Details~ Director Tatyana Khodakivska
~ Run time 2 hours and 26 minutes
~ Actors Fabio Andrico, Laura Evangelisti, and Various Yantra Yoga Practitioners & teachers
~ Studio Shang Shug Institute
~ Number of discs 2
Practices covered in Level 1:
– Vairocana Posture
– Warm-Ups
– The Nine Purification Breathings
– Tsigjong: Loosening the Joints
– Lungsang: Purifying the Prana – Tsadul: Controlling the Energy Channels
– The Five Yantras of the First Series
– Vajra Wave: Overcoming Energy Obstacles
Tibetan Yoga level Two ncludes follows level 1 and includes the Pranayama of Rhythmic Breathing.
Tibetan Yoga of Movement Level 2
Level 2 is designed for those already proficient at the 1st level, including instruction on the remaining four series of Yantras and the Pranayama of Rhythmic Breathing.
Level 2 DVD Details
~ Director Tatyana Khodakivska
~ Run time 2 hours and 28 minutes
~ Actors Fabio Andrico and Laura Evangelisti
~ Studio Shang Shung Institute
~ Number of Discs 2
Movements covered in Level Two:
– The Five Yantras of the Second Series
– The Five Yantras of the Third Series
– The Five Yantras of the Fourth Series
– The Five Yantras of the Fifth Series
– Rhythmic Breathing: Pranayama
– Vajra Wave: Overcoming Energy Obstacles
This DVD series covers the full spectrum of Yantra Yoga.
Each volume contains two discs, the first features detailed instruction in the movements, while the second is to follow during practice.
Special attention is placed on the way to begin and end each practice session.
About The Authors
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
At the age of 3, Namkhai Norbu was recognized as an incarnation of a great Dzogchen Master in Tibet. He received a full education as a truiku lama and started practicing with several great masters.
Norbu left Tibet because of political events and at one point became a Professor of Tibetan Language at the University of Naples.
About Fabio Andrico
Andrico has been exposed to many different yoga traditions. He met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and had the rare opportunity to learn the Tibetan Yantra Yoga directly from this lineage.
He is both a Hatha Yoga and Yantra Yoga instructor and is authorized to train new Yantra Yoga teachers. He has thought internationally to large groups on six continents.
Lu Jong Tibetan Healing Yoga
yantra yoga is just but another name for hathayoga,union of sun and moon means union of ha and tha.
The postures are identical,108 asanas and synchronizing breath and movement wich is the basis of hathayoga.No asana can be performed without proper breathing.
This is plain hathayoga,it’s exactly the same,there is no mystery here.
Just like tantra originated in Tibet so did the 108 asanas of hathayoga.These practices have then travelled to India through the indus valley all the way to the bay of Bengal via Gorakhpur where the nath sect began sorting and thus puryfying this system by selecting the most powerful asanas of them all.
Most of the exercises taught here are useless because unadapted to modern men and women whose bodies are overtoxified.This system of practices can even prove harmfull….a powerful cleanse is necessary prior to trying this system.Also the western body type in general isn’t fit to engage in these movements proficiently.
Only 26 fundamental asanas of hathayoga according to Bikram Chourdurys system of asanas can lay the foundation for further practices without bringing the body out of balance and create misalignment in the bones and limbs.
Asanas are asanas regardless of the system.Breath is breath and remains breath no matter wich system one chooses.
What matters is :proper breathing and the right choice of the asanas series one will choose.
Masters have created such series based on very sharp criterias.
Yantra yoga series resembles what is called vinyasa yoga in south India.In fact,if you’re looking for a yantra yoga teacher just look at Krichnamacharya,he brought his practices from Tibet where he learned them from Vamana Rishi who himself was intitiated into Yantra yoga wich is Tibetan hatha.
In fact,yantra yoga resembles vinyasas like crazy.
Here no mystery.