Foundations of Practical Tummo Meditation
Inner fire meditation helps to rewire our conceptual and experiential understanding of the body.
🔥 About the course
Peter will provide practical instructions to establish a daily Tummo yoga practice in this intensive eight-week course. Classes begin on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. All sessions are recorded and posted to the learning platform. The instructions are for practitioners who want to cultivate open-hearted awareness and an attitude of unconditional embodiment. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
🤗 Working with emotion
Tummo supports the practice of owning our disturbance and healing the apparent split of the divided self. Tummo offers an opportunity to examine the origins of emotional unrest and apply healthful interventions that can breed confidence that our distress is workable. The confluence of posture, breath retention, and visualization is an arena where we can challenge habitual ways of framing our experience.
📖 Course of study
The course offers eight weeks of 60-minute live Zoom sessions and printed content + exercises (yantra) via pre-recorded videos. We learn by teaching one another, and cohort participants will have opportunities to connect. The class does not require cultural or religious affiliation with Tibetan traditions. Being a human being with curiosity and grit is the only requirement.
Benefits of Inner Heat Yoga
Inner fire meditation promotes engagement with unconditional embodiment, clarity, and open-hearted awareness.
The Unexcelled Method
Tummo encourages us to participate wholeheartedly in the vivid appearance of our experience. Inner fire meditation dismantles the habit of taking appearances as having an objective and essential nature.
Health Benefits
Stress Inoculation & Nervous System Dexterity
The Death Process
Meet The Guest Teachers
Kelly Boys
Kelly will teach Yoga Nidra (NSDR) instructions for participants. Tummo can be a little jarring for the nervous system at the outset, so I want to ensure everyone has the tools to rest appropriately.
Kelly has co-designed and delivered mindfulness and resilience programs at the UN, Google, and San Quentin State Prison. She specializes in mindfulness-based yoga nidra meditation, and her voice can be found on the Oura Ring, Mindfulness.com, and Simple Habit.
Michael Taft
Michael Taft will outline the Tantric view of open mind and unconditional kindness. Michael's gentle approach will complement the energetic style Tummo demands.
From Zen temples in Japan to yogi caves in India, Michael has been meditating for over thirty-five years and has extensive experience in Buddhist and Hindu Tantric practices. Michael is the co-founder of the groundbreaking Alembic Center in Berkeley. Michael lives with his family in the Bay Area.
