University Open Air: Tibetan Breathing, Yoga and Meditation for Physical and Mental Wellbeing

In the first part of this workshop, you will explore the intricacies of breathing technique, including breathing mechanisms, natural breathing patterns, and the profound benefits of this ancient practice. You will learn about body posture and experience the seven powerful breathing techniques, each offering unique benefits for your health and vitality. 

These breathing techniques improve the function and health of our ten main organs. They also reduce stress, anxiety, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure; improve sleep quality; increase mindfulness and enhance cognitive performance, and so on. We will learn the following seven breathing techniques:

1.   Bellow Breathing: It is good for obesity, constipation, gastric, acidity, cholesterol, allergic problems, asthma, snoring etc.
2.   Skull Illuminating Breathing: It increases the metabolic rate and aids in weight loss, stimulates all abdominal organs etc. 
3.   External Retention Breathing: It stimulates your abdominal organs and enhances digestion and elimination process etc.
4.   Channel Cleansing Breathing: It cleanses the channels, balances the breathing in the two nostrils, activates both brain hemispheres etc.
5.   Humming Bee Breathing: It creates a soothing effect on your mind and nervous system. It releases stress and anxiety etc. 
6.   OM Chanting Breathing: It helps to relax your mind, reduce stress, sleep well, deepen the quality of sleep, improve memory and concentration etc.
7.   Ocean Breathing: It soothes your nervous system, calms the mind, reduces stress, increases inner heat, and lowers your blood pressure etc. 

In the second part of the workshop, you will learn how to deal with negative emotions with help of some secret Tibetan breathing methods and some easy physical exercises and some single pointed meditation techniques. 

You will get plenty of time to ask questions on Tibetan breathing yoga and meditation general.

*Participants should bring a yoga mat or blanket—something to sit 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. He has written and translated more than 37 books and numerous articles into English and Tibetan. Since the pandemic, he has taught virtual courses all over the globe.