Tibetan Yoga

Name: Tibetan Yoga
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Principles and Practices

By Ian A Baker

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Tibetan Yoga by Ian A. Baker explores the profound spiritual and physical tradition at the core of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. The book introduces key principles and a range of practices including meditation, breath and body techniques, sexual yoga, dream yoga, lucid dreaming, and the use of psychoactive substances within a yogic context.

Baker combines contemporary scientific insights with traditional contemplative and humanitarian perspectives to offer a unique and thorough introduction to Tibetan yoga. The volume is richly illustrated with ethnographic photography, Himalayan art, and historical instructional imagery, many of which are previously unpublished.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in advanced yoga traditions, Tibetan Buddhism, spiritual practice, and ethnographic insight. It will appeal to those seeking an in-depth understanding of the physical and energetic potentials within the Tibetan tantric yogic path.

A visual presentation of the origins, principles and practices of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition.

A visual presentation of the origins, principles and practices of Tibetan yoga

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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, visualisations, 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500519264

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 396 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 1140g

Pages: 292

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About the Author

Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan art and culture, including The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing. He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ at the Wellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by the National Geographic Society as one of the seven ‘Explorers for the Millennium’ for his groundbreaking field research in Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorges.

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