A Contemporary Approach to Tummo, Dzogchen, and Healing.
In this experiential course, you'll learn how to integrate Tummo breathwork with the nondual view of Dzogchen to catalyze deep healing, unwavering presence, and unconditional kindness. You'll learn to safely engage with intense sensations, emotions, and bliss states while remaining grounded in the experience of immediate, open, non-interpretive awareness.
Taught in a modern, pragmatic style without being tied to specific cultural traditions, this course will guide you through a progressive series of practices that work with the breath, the subtle body, and always-available open awareness. Whether you're entirely new to these practices or a seasoned practitioner, this course will help you integrate these profound methods into daily life, supporting more presence, authenticity, and compassion in your relationships, work, and sense of purpose in the world.
Course Details
Classes begin on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. This experiential eight-week course offers weekly 60-minute live Zoom sessions, printed materials, and pre-recorded practice tutorials.
All sessions and study materials are recorded and posted to the learning platform.
When you engage with the Embodied Awareness course, you become part of a community of people who are also seeking practical ways to clarify what matters most and address any obstacles to living with greater freedom, embodiment, and kindness. Throughout the course, we will explore and provide guidance on various challenges that participants may face, such as:
Difficulty integrating breakthrough experiences from retreats back into daily life.
Struggling to balance the desire for self-improvement with the need for self-acceptance.
Breathwork to moderate persistent stress and overstimulation from daily activities.
Feeling that meditation or therapy are not achieving the desired outcomes or benefits.
Wanting to confront personal identity issues and embrace a more complex understanding of the self.
Learning to relate to anxious feelings with unconditional kindness.
Design an impactful meditation practice that is meaningful and sustainable.
Past traumas resurfacing during meditation, making emotional regulation more challenging.
Absence of effective restorative methods to downregulate the nervous system.
TRADITIONAL RESOURCES
This course will incorporate Dzogchen instructions from Vima Ladrup and the Tsa Lung method associated with Vajrayogini practices. Bruce Tift, with his 40-year background in Vajrayana Buddhism and marriage and family therapy, will offer insights into integrating Buddhist practice with therapeutic approaches.
In this course, we will train to be present with immediate, embodied, sensation-level experience, aiming to cultivate more frequent moments of open-heartedness and presence. We are fortunate to have Jonny Miller join us, who will share methods to promote healthy nervous system response and recovery.
Meet The Guest Teachers
Stress Inoculation & Nervous System Dexterity
Embodied immediacy bolsters our innate ability to endure existential intensity without dissociating into a habitual reactive response.
Working with Vulnerable Feelings
When challenging emotions arise, we can choose to bring our attention to an immediate, embodied, sensation-level relationship with those feelings. Sensations offer no interpretation, commentary, or story. In brief moments of Dzogchen practice, we can simply be present with what we might call vulnerability, allowing ourselves to fully inhabit the raw, unfiltered experience of being alive.
Health Benefits
This course aims to equip participants with methods that support digestive fire, enhanced immunity, creative power, fortified libido, and feeling of lightness and well-being.
The Unexcelled Method
Tummo encourages us to participate wholeheartedly in the vivid appearance of our experience. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
Join Us For Awakening Embodied Presence
The instruction is structured for practitioners who want a daily practice that supports open-hearted awareness and unconditional embodiment.