What is Yantra Yoga?
Yantra Yoga or the Yoga of Movement, is one of the oldest recorded systems of Yoga that exists in the world.
It is a system of Yoga that has come to us through Tibet, a land full of a vast and rich traditional Buddhist knowledge and wisdom.
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu has written an extensive commentary on the root teachings by Vairocana from the 8th century, Nyida Khajor,
the Union of Sun and Moon Yantra, based on his personal training and knowledge of Yantra Yoga received from his uncle and various
teachers in Tibet. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu began teaching Yantra Yoga in the beginning of the 70’s in Italy.
For the first time in the West, this marvelous and complete text called A Stainless Mirror of Jewels is being published by Snow Lion Publications and will be available at your local bookstore and on line at:
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This uninterrupted lineage of Yantra Yoga is a fundamental method to integrate the profound
essence of the Dzogchen Teaching in the three doors (body, voice and mind) of the
practitioner. Through positions and movements combined with breathing, one's energy is
coordinated and harmonized so as to let the mind relax and find its authentic balance, which
is the basis for contemplation.
In Yantra Yoga there are many positions similar to Hatha Yoga, but the way to assume them
differs. In Yantra Yoga a sequence of seven phases of movements connected to seven
breathings is used. In particular, in the central phase of the movement the position helps
create specific retentions of the breath that work at a subtler and deeper level. For this reason
it is not only the main position but the entire movement that is important.
