University Open Air: Preliminary Training I: Training Our Gross Body
It’s never too late to correct or make improvements to your posture, especially if it’s contributing to one or more health problems. Good posture is important to your overall health: it offers a variety of benefits including reduced back pain, increased energy, and greater confidence. Good posture also influences our subtle bodies and pranas and mind.
In this session, Dr. Chok will teach the optimum sitting posture, known as “the Seven-point Vajra Posture,” and its benefits according to Tibetan medical texts and Buddhist tantric texts. He will also introduce some other optional sitting and sleeping postures through practical exercises and one or two methods of meditation/mindfulness practice.
*Participants should bring a yoga mat or blanket—something to sit/lie down on.
Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam has dedicated his career to the continuance of Tibetan Buddhist culture and language in modern society. Ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he studied and practiced as a Tibetan monk for ten years. Having advanced his studies through institutions for two decades, Dr. Chok has obtained multiple degrees in Buddhist and Tibetan studies, including his PhD from the University of Delhi. He has studied and trained for decades in Buddhist studies, Tibetan yoga, healing, and meditation under the direction of many renowned Tibetan teachers of the major and minor Tibetan Buddhist traditions. An author, translator, and language instructor, Dr. Chok served as the Head of the Research and Translation Department at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala for thirteen years before relocating to the United States in 2019. Dr. Chok has taught prolifically in India, the United States, and over a dozen other countries, offering diverse and inclusive teaching series on meditation, Tibetan yoga, healing, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan language.
*In cases of rain, classes will be either moved to the Prospect Park Boathouse or canceled. Registered patrons will be notified by email on the morning of each course day and are also encouraged to check the UOA webpage and BPL Presents’ Facebook and Twitter pages for updates.
University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
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Brooklyn, NY 11225
It’s never too late to correct or make improvements to your posture, especially if it’s contributing to one or more health problems. Good posture is important to your overall health: it offers a variety of benefits including reduced back pain, increased energy, and greater confidence. Good posture also influences our subtle bodies and pranas and mind.
In this session, Dr. Chok will teach the optimum sitting posture, known as “the Seven-point Vajra Posture,” and its benefits according to Tibetan medical texts and Buddhist tantric texts. He will also introduce some other optional sitting and sleeping postures through practical exercises and one or two methods of meditation/mindfulness practice.
*Participants should bring a yoga mat or blanket—something to sit/lie down on.
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