The Wisdom Podcast

Alejandro Chaoul on Body Buddhism (#135)

Mar 18, 2022

50:19

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Incorporating Pervasive Breath into Meditation Practice

01:26

Engaging the Body for Mindfulness

01:19

Yoga in the Hato Yoga System, Iri.

02:13

Is Yoga an Auxiliary Practice, a Supporting Practice, or a Main Practice?

02:41

Introduction

3min

Yoga and Buddhism in the West

3min

What Is Body Buddhism?

2min

Yoga in the Hato Yoga System, Iri.

2min

Is Yoga an Auxiliary Practice, a Supporting Practice, or a Main Practice?

3min

Do You Know How to Clear Obstacles?

2min

How to Intimidate Your Meditation Practice

2min

Youta Meditation - Is There a Double Breath?

4min

The Six Legs and Sixth Part of the Body

2min

10.

Are You Using Special Points When You're Rubbed?

3min

11.

The He Seems Unique, Right?

2min

12.

Jumping Jacks

2min

13.

Chavasana

3min

14.

Bringing Yourself Back to Balance

4min

15.

The Relationship Between the Wind and the Mind

1min

16.

Is There a Connection Between the Winds and the Body?

2min

17.

Translating a Tibetan Word

2min

18.

The Elements and the Lung

2min

19.

The Elements and the Wind

2min

20.

How Do You Find That Sweetpo Di?

3min

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Dr. Alejandro Chaoul, who has studied Tibetan yoga for thirty years with the tradition’s greatest masters, including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Dr. Chaoul and host Daniel Aitken explore

Tsa Lung Trul Khor (“channel/wind obstacle-clearing techniques”) yoga practice and its place in Dzogchen meditation;
the practice of “Body Buddhism,” integrating the body with the mind and breath;
the benefits of purification practices like Tsa Lung Trul Khor and the subtle body;
practices to help restore “dimmed awareness” to clarity;
quick techniques that can be applied immediately in practice and daily life for balancing;
his book with Wisdom, Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath, and Mind;
and more.

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