What is known as the Six Yogas is known in Tibetan as the Six Dharmas. There are two systems of these practices, one from Niguma and one from Naropa, each one passed through respective lineages and at times overlapping completely in their content. Join scholar and teacher, Pema Khandro Ph.D., in this six week journey into the history and practice of the Six Yogas.
The Six Yogas Intensive is a six week training which includes in-depth training in the most cherished esoteric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This course addresses the core issues facing a life, and presents potent methods for integrating spiritual practice into every day life. The system includes meditations for living, dreaming, and dying. It features the practice of Tummo, or Inner Fire meditation, Illusory Body practice, Dream Yoga, Clear Light Meditation, Bardo, the dying practices and Phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death.
Each practice is part of an overarching system for experiencing liminality, change, and uncertainty in states of free and total presence.
Join scholar and teacher, Pema Khandro Ph.D.,in this six week journey into the six yogas including their history, their implicit contexts, the practices, and their adaptations over the thousand years that they have been taught. Trained both as an academic and as a lineage holder of the tradition, Pema Khandro provides a rigorous and compassionate approach to the study of Buddhism.
This course includes:
Mondays 5pm-7pm PT / 8pm-10pm ET Live online classes with Pema Khandro.
Daily – Six weeks of daily Six Yogas practice at 8 am PT led by Pema Khandro’s accomplished team of practice leaders, who have been specially trained for this purpose. Practice daily within an engaged community of diverse Buddhist practitioners, both beginners and advanced.
Photo Credit: Soyolmaa Davaakuu, Dakini as Art.
Prerequisites
Completing ngondro is recommended, but not required, following the tradition of the Six Yogas as a stand alone system that was historically taught without other preliminaries. Today, the traditional pre-requisite for the Six Yogas is completion of ngondro. However, since it is difficult to get these instructions students are permitted to attend and study before completing ngondro as long as they complete ngondro before pursuing further intensive practice of this cycle outside the intensive. Graduates of ngondro from the Buddhist Studies Institute are encouraged to attend as this course offers a comprehensive introduction to Vajrayana as a way of life.
Tuition
Early Enrollment Tuition & Date: $600 by Oct 1st
General Tuition: $700
Financial Aid Considerations All course costs are set at a minimum fee already, with financial aid built into all tuition rates. Because we are a non-profit organization, the costs of all activities and overhead of our organization must be covered by the participants of the courses or donations and all courses are offered at below cost. For those who are experiencing genuine financial hardship and wish to enroll in the course, Scholarship applications are available. Applications must be received in advance. Programs are always free for monastics.
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