yantra yoga The Tibetan yoga

of breathing with movement

Meditation and contemplation To balance strengthen and co-ordinate

Body Breath and Mind

YANTRA YOGA introductory course

with John Renshaw

15th –16th November 2014

Yogasara

10-12 Picton Street

Bristol

BS6 5QA

http://www.yogasara.co.uk/

Cost £100

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Info on yantra yoga www.shangshunguk.org

Any Enquiry's about the course

John 07939090412

Recommended reading and viewing about

Yantra Yoga

Tibetan yoga of movement, the art and practice of yantra yoga Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, Fabio Andrico

Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement (Snow Lion Publications) Chögyal Namkhai Norbu,

DVDs Tibetan Yoga of Movement:

Yantra Yoga unique series of positions and

movements are like enhanced walking

meditation. Slowly, rhythmically and

mindfully allowing the movements and asanas

to sculpture the breathing, whilst paying

attention to the sensations and dynamics of

prana, the waves of experience that integrate

the body, energy and mind to find its

authentic balance

Yantra yoga Health Benefits Yantra Yoga mainly helps balance our health through

coordinated breathing and movement, Done correctly, it can

remove blockages of energy. Fresh oxygenated breath is

brought into the body through the breath and impure breath

is expelled.

Yantra Yoga works with channels and prana/wind where it

harmonizes the flow of energy in the channels, and this in

turn calms the mind.

Unique to yantra is the ratio of breath to movement

approximately 5-6 per minute, this modulates the heart’s

rhythm and blood pressure to generate a more coherent

state , this can initiate a shift out of stressful emotional

states and lead to a more balanced HRV hart rate variability.

Each exercise has specific benefits which are influenced by

the dynamics of the position, movement and breathing.

Here are some of the general benefits

Improved breathing capacity and quality,

Improved joint and muscle flexibility,

Improved muscle tone and strength

increased vitality in general,

Benefit the digestive heat and function

Helps to heal and balance all the internal organs

Helps to move excess liquid out of the body

Helps to balance stabilise and promote greater

resilience with the ANS

Improved sates of mindfulness awareness and

relaxation

The essence of practice leads to a profound

experience of meditation and contemplation that help

us to be in our natural state.

Course for beginners

November 15th and 16th 2014

Yogasara Bristol

John Renshaw: Is an authorized 2nd level Yantra

instructor and Is one of the worlds most experienced

Yantra Yoga Instructors, who has studied under Chögyal

Namkhai Norbu and been teaching Yantra Yoga for over

25 years. John is also trained in Traditional Chinese

Medicine and runs a vibrant London practice.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu,

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, an eminent

Tibetan scholar and Dzogchen master,

began to teach Yantra Yoga to Western

students in the early 1970s, when he was

a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian

language at the Institute of Oriental

Main principles of Yantra Yoga

: Each Yantra consists of a sequence of seven phases of movement and breathing centering on specific retentions of the breath. This also con-stitutes one of the most pronounced differences between Yantra Yoga and other forms of yoga, some of the main positions in a yantra may look similar to asanas of Indian traditions such as ha-tha yoga, but they are applied in a different way, the priority being is that the movement and posi-tions naturally construct and shape the breath-ing and held breath, from this direct experience the practitioner learns and develops the different components of breathing, which are then easy to apply in breathing practices, these (pranayamas). help us strengthen and harmonize our life force by reactivating the cor-rect circulation of prana in the channels or Nadi. Pranayama is also a powerful tool for controlling our mind and emotions. In the more developed aspects of yantra yoga after appropriate instructions and practice in meditation and contemplation utilising body, voice, and mind together we have the possibility to achieve real knowledge, that is, the under-standing of our original primordial state. This is the true meaning of the word yoga in the term Yantra Yoga.

This system of Yantra Yoga called Nyida kha-jor in Tibetan, The Union of the Sun and Moon.It was orally transmitted in Tibet in the eighth century by the legendary Buddhist master Padmasambhava, to the great Tibetan translator Vairochana, and is one of oldest rec-orded yoga systems in the world,it has been passed down in a continuous succession of teaches to the current lineage holder Dzogchen master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. What is Yantra Yoga? Yantra yoga consists of A total of 108 exercis-es or movements, it begins with three unique preliminary groups of 18 exercises, 1st Their purposes is to warm up the

body; mobilize the joints, 2

nd train the different aspects of the

breathing, and ways of holding the breath;

3rd to open the energy channels. The main body of the practice consists of 75 core movement sequences (yantras), and a number of pranayamas. A key principle of yantra is the coordination of breathing and movement based on a specific rhythm.. usually to a count of four which is ap-proximately 5- 6 breaths per minute, in the ad-vanced yantras the main position are held longer.

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