Buddhist Yoga

08/25/2026

Was invited to give a talk on Buddhist pilgrimage next week. Anyone have a copy of Khyentse Wangpo’s Pilgrimage book? It’s a hardcover and would love to read the intro. Of course, I am rereading a favorite travelogue by Gendun Chopel.
This image is from Lhasa.

08/25/2026

(www.beacupuncture.com) Last year - after roughly twenty years of clinical care - I took a yearlong sabbatical to focus on preservation work. For decades my personal interest in Rejuvenation and Longevity medicine, as well as contemplative healing came to the forefront. I travelled throughout Asia - India, Nepal, Tibet and China - as well as Europe and Mexico, deeply studying indigenous medical traditions and taking time for personal retreat.

In this present phase of my career, after having been a part of so many lives being brought into the world and part of the team care for countless local families, I naturally turned toward rejuvenation and promoting the best of health for decades to come.

As an international educator, I continuously travel and teach movement-based disciplines and the specialization in longevity and lifestyle medicine.
After years of teaching in the area of trauma and grief, my focus is also on end of life care.

These are important directions and roles as we grow older, practice the medicine wiser and with broader experience.

Traditional Asian medicine has always been a medicine for all of life’s phases. I started out in the first days with pediatrics, and now serve the whole spectrum and come full circle. The medical classics and the contemporary environment of care equally influence my approach to clinical therapy and healing.

In the coming weeks we will share our new website resources, detailing the integration work I have been developing - with information around rejuvenation (Chulen; rasayana), longevity medicine, movement and grief tending.

08/24/2026

https://menla.org/retreat/tibetan-yoga-and-the-wisdom-of-the-impermanent-body-longevity-rejuvenation-and-inner-healing/

Along with profound meditation methods for cultivating embodied wisdom, Tibetan Yoga practices also promote increased vitality, longevity and rejuvenation. As a traditional medicine doctor and movement therapist of over two decades, I have witnessed the benefit of integrating cultural approaches to....

08/22/2026

OPEN/AUDIT Class on BARDO OF MEDITATION - 10am to 1pm NY EST ([email protected]). In this two module course (open enrollment), participants will be taken through not only a tour of the six bardos, but also an experiential pilgrimage through primary and secondary sources - gaining an understanding of how Buddhist teachings - and in particular, Vajrayana instructions on the intermediate states arose.

We will also delve (especially module two) on Buddhist responses to death and dying - including prayers, ceremonies and aspects of funerary rites. We begin with the most fundamental prayers and liturgies, going through traditional practices adopted by most lineages.

You’ll be introduced to the main texts and traditions, and how to proceed in more deeply learning specialized areas of practice - such as the meaning and structure of methods for benefitting the deceased.

This course will open you up to a world of practical methods and deepen your understanding of how sadhana in our present life directly prepares us for our eventual time of death and dying.

Beginning with a progressive training in meditation, we will explore aspects of the view, and technical overviews of the bardos of dying and the bardo of becoming.

In the current and successive module, we will explore the psycho physiology of the bardo and Completion Phase yoga that are necessary to understand even ritual practices, and those meditations necessary for these Bardos.

Today’s community class will focus on imparting key meditation instructions for continued practice.

(Quotes from Khyentse Rinpoche’s commentary on Mengag Dzo, key verses by Longchenpa on the Bardo. In this course you will be introduced to the discourse of instructions related to these teachings in Nyingma tradition - including Karma Lingpa, Longchenpa and Guru Padmasambhava.)

08/21/2026

I have worked with Han Kop and the wonderful translators and dedicated practitioners of the Longchen Nyingthik Project.

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08/20/2026

Another title in the body of works exploring the applications of Polyvagal Theory to therapy, movement and healing is Polyvagal-Informed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy: Roots, Rhythm and Reciprocity, by Amber Elizabeth Gray.
Gray is among many collaborators in this dialogue between Polyvagal Theory (PVT) – a ‘theory’ that has impacted the field of trauma healing and body-oriented psychotherapies – with a unique contribution.

‘Movement is the prime state shifter, and to avoid overwhelm and activation of fear, intentionally inviting clients to engage in “premovement,” that is, to sense and begin to move the impulse that precedes a movement, or to just be able to initiate a wiggle of the fingertips, to take slightly longer or deeper than usual breaths, or make a slight tilt of the chin to pay attention to something in the space can initiate movement out of shutdown and stuckness (Gray, (pp. 37-38).’ Gray speaks of empowerment and mobilization as extending from these mindful observances.
From smaller micromovements, to micromobilizations – the shift from shutdown and mobilization is navigated.
These are principles I have discovered in my teaching of yoga and employ therapeutically, in clinic. To become aware and to shift out of frozen, immobilized states toward the spectrum of expression is indeed an empowering experience. It can come about in a nurturing recognition of the body’s wisdom – including the sacredness of shutdown and mobilization – our responses to social situations, threat and including oppression.

https://trivajra.substack.com/p/trauma-movement-and-healing?r=249vau&utm_medium=ios

08/20/2026

BARDO OF MEDITATION - Community class this Saturday (by application) 10am-1pm roughly.

FORMAT

(Orientation)

First 30 min will provide an overview of the six Bardos and orient us toward the initial topics - the bardo of this life and principally, the bardo of meditation.

Within the bardo of this life - we will explore how the teachings of each bardo are interconnected - and how they may influence our actions in this present life experience. Within this life, there are the subdivisions of dream (Milam) and the meditation (samten). We will elaborate on how specific practices up and including aspects of the Completion Phase.

This particular class will complete the presentation of ‘Lamkhyer’ and Mahayana mind training - with methods related to loving kindness and transformation of afflictive emotions or ‘taking poisons onto the path.’

It will conclude with the main pith instructions on tsalung healing related to meditation. We will cover obstacles to meditation and deviations, along with meditation remedies and antidotes.

Regarding the six perfections - meditation and wisdom - we will begin to address the view of the inner tantras - as they relate to methods related to the bardo.

OVERVIEW of MEDITATION

This extensive introduction to the bardo of meditation will provide a course of meditation instructions relevant to all levels of experience - beginning with shamatha and vipashyana, to more involved contemplative methods.

This overview will conclude with certain practices reserved for course participants.

This class will offer an extended meditation overview with guided practice. Participants are asked to have their cameras on - especially during the intermittent practice periods.

Participants not enrolled in our current ongoing course may apply. Suggested donation $25-40.

Registration and inquiries through email: [email protected]

08/15/2026

https://www.roboticscenter.ai/research/papers/from-vajrayana-tara-to-bengali-baul-a-computational-study-of-lexical-transmission-across-b-2606

08/13/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/trivajra

Tsalung and Bardo teachings

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08/09/2026

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