Learn these ancient and powerful Tibetan practices for accessing our most inner nature.

Yantra Yoga, or the Yoga of Movement, is an ancient system of Tibetan yoga based on the text, The Union of the Sun and the Moon, written in the 8th century by the Tibetan Dzogchen master and translator Vairochana. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche wrote a detailed commentary on the root text and began transmitting this teaching in the West in the early 1970’s.

Yantra Yoga is a fundamental method to integrate the profound essence of the Dzogchen teaching in the body, voice and mind of the practitioner. Through positions and movements combined with breathing, one’s energy is coordinated and harmonized, enhancing physical health and allowing the mind to relax and find the authentic balance that is the basis for contemplation.

This retreat focuses on Complete Breathing and the Preliminary Practices of Exhaling the Stale Air, Loosening the Joints, Purifying the Prana and the Vajra Wave. Emphasis will be on cultivating presence and awareness while developing and deepening our understanding and experience of the breath, both within the yantras (movements) and the pranayamas (breathing methods). This course is the foundation for further study and practice of Yantra Yoga. It is open to both new and experienced practitioners.

Recommended Reading: Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. Also, The Crystal and the Way of Light and Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State, both by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.

Lynn Sutherland is a senior student of Dzogchen master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, a member of the International Dzogchen Community and an authorized teacher of Yantra Yoga. She teaches Yantra Yoga in retreats and public courses throughout the United States and Mexico and worked extensively on the book Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement, authored by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu (Snow Lion). For the past twenty five years, she has also taught and practiced the Feldenkrais Method®. Lynn lives in Chicago.

Extend Your Stay. We are offering a 25% housing discount for additional nights. Come early and relax before your program starts or stay an extra day or more after this program to savor your retreat experience.

Please arrive between 2 and 5pm on Friday, May 7. Program ends with lunch at 12:30pm on Sunday, May 9. View Detailed Program Information.

From back cover of Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement

Yantra Yoga, the Buddhist parallel to the Hathayoga of the Hindu tradition, is a system of practice entailing bodily movements, breathing exercises and visualizations. Originally transmitted by the mahasiddhas of India and Oddiyana, its practice is nowadays found in all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to the Anuttaratantras, more generally known under the Tibetan term trulkhor, whose Sanskrit equivalent is yantra.

The Union of the Sun and Moon Yantra (‘Phrul ‘khor nyi zla kha sbyor), orally transmitted in Tibet in the eighth century by the great master Padmasambhava to the Tibetan translator and Dzogchen master Vairochana, can be considered the most ancient of all the systems of Yantra and its peculiarity is that it contains also numerous positions which are also found in the classic Yoga tradition.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, one of the great living masters of Dzogchen and Tantra, started transmitting this profound Yoga in the seventies, and at that time wrote this commentary which is based on the oral explanations of some Tibetan yogins and siddhas of the twentieth century. All Western practitioners will benefit from the extraordinary instructions contained in this volume.