Tibetan Yoga

Tibetan Yoga looks at the origins, principles and practices of the yoga at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition. It treats yoga as both a spiritual and a physical path toward a wider experience of the body, its energy and its mind. Ian A. Baker introduces the ideas step by step, from meditation, visualization and work with breath and body to less familiar areas such as sexual yoga, dream yoga and practices using psychoactive plants or minerals. The aim of these techniques is to move beyond the human self and suffering toward Buddhist enlightenment.

Why You Should Read?

• Discover how meditations, visualizations and practices for the breath and body are introduced one stage at a time.
• Explore lesser-known parts of the tradition, including sexual yoga, lucid dreaming through dream yoga, and practices that use psychoactive substances.
• Understand these practices through contemporary scientific research, set beside contemplative and humanitarian traditions that the author draws on.
• Enjoy ethnographic photography, works of Himalayan art and illustrations from historical instruction books that accompany the teaching.