Deconstructing Yourself

Practicing Tummo with Peter McEwen

Jun 25, 2024

Meditation coach Peter McEwen and host Michael Taft discuss practicing Tummo, deity yoga, subtle body, challenges of Tummo practice, bliss, and staying with disturbing experiences. Peter shares insights on body energetics, benefits of Tummo practice, and importance of accurate teaching to prevent harm.

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Tummo practice focuses on vital energies and shifting awareness to fundamental luminosity.

Tummo offers therapeutic benefits like enhancing pleasure and aiding in mental clarity.

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Introduction to Practicing Tummo with Peter McEwen

Peter McEwen, a meditation coach and founder of The Field, introduces Tummo practice and its aim of working with vital energies. The practice serves as a gateway to understanding luminosity and shifting focus from object-oriented awareness to clear light awareness. Tummo involves breath retention, visualization, and posture to foster the experience of fundamental luminosity within the practitioner.

Tummo- Identifying with Awareness over Objects

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Intro

1min

Exploring Logo Design, Wisdom Labs Work, and Tummo Practice Teaching

5min

Exploring the risks of incorrect Tummo practice

2min

Journey into Tummo and Personal Growth through Dharma Practice

4min

Exploring the Energetics of the Body Through Tummo Practice

25min

Exploring the Unexpected Benefits and Challenges of Practicing Tummo

14min

Exploring the Power of Attention in Calming the Mind

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Exploring Non-Dual Meditation at Mt. Madonna Center in Northern California

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Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation coach Peter McEwen about the traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice of tummo, deity yoga, the subtle body, ways that tummo practice can go wrong, bliss and semen retention, existential terror and staying with disturbing experience, and much more.

Peter McEwen is a meditation coach and the founder of The Field, which offers training, community, and the demystification of basic contemplative practices. Peter McEwen has been an ordained Vajrayana yogi since 1993 under the tutelage of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche, and Bruce Tift. He has completed the traditional 3-year retreat curriculum of Vajrayana Buddhism.

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