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Awakening the Sacred Body

Tibetan Yogas of Breath and Movement

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Awakening the Sacred Body

By: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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The power of the breath has been recognized for millennia as an integral part of health and well-being. In Awakening the Sacred Body, teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche makes accessible the ancient art of Tibetan breath and movement practices. In clear, easy-to-understand language, he outlines the theory and processes of two powerful meditations-the Nine Breathings of Purification and the Tsa Lung movements-that can help you change your relationship to yourself, to others, and to the world.The simple methods presented in Awakening the Sacred Body and in the accompanying online video focus on clearing and opening your energetic centers to allow the natural human qualities of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity to arise. When sadness releases, joy is able to arise. When anger releases, love becomes available. When prejudice releases, equanimity prevails. And when lack of kindness ceases, compassion is present.These practices, which focus the mind and breath together while performing specific body movements, will help you discover your inner wisdom and express your greatest potential.This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download. Meditation Buddhism Spirituality Alternative & Complementary Medicine Tibetan Buddhism

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“Tenzin Rinpoche has written an eminently practical, lucid, and inspiring guide to traditional Tibetan body-based meditation practices. These practices are designed to help us let go of the habits of mind that obscure our experience of the spacious awareness and wisdom that is our true nature. Awakening the Sacred Body is an excellent resource for new and experienced practitioners alike.”
— Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Faith

“I feel as if Tenzin Wangyal read my mind and body and then, in his kindness and wisdom, gave me clear, inspiring, accessible methods for integrating them. The insights, inspiration, and practices from this book offer so much support. This should be required reading for all those with an interest in yoga and meditation.”
— Cyndi Lee, founder of Om Yoga and author of Yoga Body, Buddha Mind

“The wisdom tradition of Bön is yet another jewel from the spiritual treasury of Tibet. The Venerable Tenzin Wangyal polishes and presents it like a master jeweler, making it sparkle, delight, and give benefit. Read this book, work with it in a relaxed way, baby step by baby step, live with it, and your heart will open and your life will be way more fulfilling.”
— Tenzin Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Buddhist studies, Columbia University; president, Tibet House U.S.; and author of Why the Dalai Lama Matters

“Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche delivers the good news that there isn’t any life situation that doesn’t offer us rich material to work with. He generously offers us ancient methods for synchronizing body, breath, and mind, teachings which are readily applicable to our modern lives. I highly recommend them.”
— Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation

“The existence and role of subtle, vital energies in the body known in Tibetan as ‘lung’ remain unknown by modern science, for they are most directly revealed through first-person experience. In his new book, Awakening the Sacred Body, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche clearly explains various methods for refining and utilizing these energies, or ‘winds,’ to enhance one’s spiritual practice and awaken the body and mind. This is a valuable contribution to bringing the contemplative sciences of Tibet to the modern world.”
— B. Alan Wallace, author of Mind in the Balance
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This is a wonderful book which makes ancient Tibetan deep meditations accessible to the common people who want to reach enlightenment. Highly recommended.

Wonderful meditation book

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I didn’t know Tibetan yogas of breath movement existed before getting this book. The author goes through all the movements in depth. It comes across really clearly that the author is someone who is very familiar with this form of yogas of breath movement. They make it clear this is not to be taken lightly. If you watch videos of these movements online you’ll see there is a lot of focusing your mind. There are only a few minutes, but if you follow the instructions here you’ll find it quite relaxing. These yogas of breath movement work are really good.

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Like Tom Paines Common Sense, this little book has profound implications for our time. With clear and simple explanations, Tenzin Wampoyl Rimpoche demystifies spiritual mysteries.

Even better (in my opinion), he uses today's technology to illustrate this concepts. I don't know what it's like to be a shepherd, nor have I ever met one, but I certainly know how to delete files and check the remaining memory.

The icing on this delicious cake of a book is the narrator Marcy Vaughn. She is a senior teacher at Three Doors.Org which Rimpoche founded.

She is an extremely skilled narrator and would be wonderful if she chose to do a romance novel or other book. But she also understands and lives these concepts and you can tell that in her voice. It's almost as if you had a best friend telling you “come on, let's do this. It will be fun and you'll be glad you did!"

Spiritual masterpiece

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Rinpoche’s teachings are transformative! These truly are ancient practices for modern lives! Marcy’s narration is meditative and inspiring.

Beautifully written and life changing!

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I enjoyed these teachings very much. My Uncle was one of the earliest western travelers to Tibet, 1937. I have studied with my aunt, who was Theos Bernard’s partner, traveled and studied the tibetan language

Simple and clear instructions to complicated ancient teachings

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