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Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition: a spiritual and physical practice in pursuit of an expanded experience of the human body and its energetic and cognitive potential. Ian A. Baker progressively introduces the core principles and practices of Tibetan yoga in this pioneering overview. In addition to meditations, visualizations and practices for the breath and body, these include elements rather less familiar to yoga initiates in the West, including sexual yoga; dream yoga or lucid dreaming; and yoga practices enhanced by psychoactive plant or mineral substances. Baker draws on contemporary scientific research and contemplative and humanitarian traditions to enable the reader to understand these practices. The book includes ethnographic photography and works of Himalayan art that have never been published before, as well as illustrations of yogic practice and theory from historical books of instruction.

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Author:   Ian A Baker
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight:   1.140kg
ISBN:  

9780500519264

ISBN 10:   0500519269
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   09 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Thinley Dorje * Foreword by the venerable Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche * Introduction * I. Outer, Inner, Secret: Yoga in Indo-Tibetan tradition * II. Elemental Wisdom: Varieties of meditative experience * III. Immaculate Perception: Freeing the Imagination * IV. Enlightened Anatomy: The yoga of channels, winds, and essences * V. Flowing Wholeness: The yoga of integral movement * VI. Incandescence: The yoga of unbound fire * VII. Numinous Passion: The alchemy of desire * VIII. Noetic Light: The infinite brightness of being * IX. Dreamtime: The yoga of lucid sleep * X. Exit Strategies: The yoga of transcending death * XI. Liminality: Navigating transitional states * XII. Potent Solutions: The yoga of entheogens and elixirs * XIII. Primal Radiance: The yoga of innate perfection

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Ian Baker has studied Tibetan art and culture for more than thirty years. Among his other books is The Tibetan Art of Healing, also published by Thames & Hudson.

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