Tibetan yoga : Principles and Practices

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Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice in pursuit of an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential. Ian A. Baker progressively introduces the core principles and practices of Tibetan yoga in this pioneering overview. In addition to meditations, visualizations and practices for the breath and body, these include elements rather less familiar to yoga initiates in the West, including sexual yoga; dream yoga or lucid dreaming; and yoga practices enhanced by psychoactive plant or mineral substances. Baker draws on contemporary scientific research and contemplative and humanitarian traditions to enable the reader to understand these practices. The book includes ethnographic photography and works of Himalayan art that have never been published before, as well as illustrations of yogic practice and theory from historical books of instruction.Table of ContentsForeword by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Thinley Dorje Foreword by the venerable Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche Introduction I. Outer, Inner, Secret: Yoga in Indo-Tibetan tradition II. Elemental Wisdom: Varieties of meditative experience III. Immaculate Perception: Freeing the Imagination IV. Enlightened Anatomy: The yoga of channels, winds, and essences V. Flowing Wholeness: The yoga of integral movement VI. Incandescence: The yoga of unbound fire VII. Numinous Passion: The alchemy of desire VIII. Noetic Light: The infinite brightness of being IX. Dreamtime: The yoga of lucid sleep X. Exit Strategies: The yoga of transcending death XI. Liminality: Navigating transitional states XII. Potent Solutions: The yoga of entheogens and elixirs XIII. Primal Radiance: The yoga of innate perfection