Anatomy of Diaphragm with Ian- 45 minute

Vajra Yoga 300 Hr Full Course 11/11//2024- 4/11/2025

Vajra Yoga Asana Practice Videos- Bonus practices with Michele

Daily Nejang, Tibetan Healing Yoga Practice with Michele
Vajra Level 1
Gentle Vajra Yoga Class (70:06)
Beginning Level basic Vajra yoga class Hatha w/ Nejang mix (68:09)
Vajra Hatha all-levels Flow & Nejang finish (71:26)
Vajra Core Awakening & Cleansing Flow (65:12)
Vajra Mahasiddhas w/ Michele Explaining Vayus/ Tibetan & Hatha practice
Vajra Breath and Chakra Balancing Video- 20 minute practice
Bonus Video from Mahasiddhas, Michele teaches middle path alignment in Ashtanga Dec. 14, 2023

Pre-Course Materals

Professor Robert Thurman Vajra Yoga Introduction
Vajrayoga - An Evolution of Vajrayana Budhism in the West
What is Vajra Yoga? History and Evolution
What is Vajra Yoga? History and Context of Vajra Yoga & Buddhist Thought
What is Vajra Yoga? The Vajra Yoga Objective
What is Vajra Yoga? Impact of Buddhism & The Inner Revolution
Naljor Kleshas 9 Fold Breath
Tutorial on Classical Surya Namaskar
Daily Nejang, Tibetan Healing Yoga Practice with Michele

Welcome + Course Materials

Course Manual + Required Texts
Personal Welcome from Michele Loew
Introductory Get-to-Know-You
Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
"The Crisis and Ethical Protest of the First Millennia" PDF
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali translation by Pradeep Gokhale PDF
"Essential Tibetan Buddhism", By Robert Thurman
Vimalakirti, Translation by Robert Thurman
White Tara Sadhana

In-Person Retreat Schedule

Teacher's Retreat Session Schedule
Heart Sutra - English & Sanskrit + "Samantabhadra Conclusion"
HOMEWORK before Bob's Tuesday 10am session & Michele's sessions
Opening Session Talk w/ Bob & Michele 7:30-9pm Eastern Standard at Menla 11/11/24
Tuesday, 11/12/24 Session 7-8am EST; 10am-noon EST; 4-6pm EST; 7:30-9pm EST
Wednesday, 11/13 Sessions 7-8am EST; 10am-noon EST; 4-6pm EST; 7:30-8:30pm EST
Thursday, 11/14 Sessions 7-8am EST; 10am-noon EST; 4-6pm EST; 7:30-9pm EST
Friday, 11/15: Sessions 7-8am EST; 10am-noon EST; 4-6pm EST; 7:30-9pm EST
Saturday, 11/16: Sessions 7-8am EST; 10am-noon Bob, 3-6pm Michele; 7:30pm Michele
Sunday, 11/17: Sessions 7-8am EST; 10am-noon CLOSE

Anatomy w/ Ian LeMasters

Anatomy Introduction
Anatomy with Ian LeMasters - Lower Leg + Foot
Anatomy with Ian LeMasters - Pelvic Floor & Mula Bandha
Anatomy with Ian LeMasters - The Knees
Anatomy with Ian LeMasters - The Thighs and Hips
The Spine, Sacrum, & Pelvis
Anatomy: The Shoulders
Anatomy: The Core
Anatomy with Ian- New 4/1/23 NECK video
Anatomy with Ian- Diaphragm and Breathing

Homework for Week 1

Suggested Reading and homework

Asana Technique Videos w/ Michele

Trikonasana, Ardha Chandrasana, Virabhadrasana, Utthita Parsvakonasana
Daily Nejang Practice with Michele Loew
Paschimottanasana
Janu Sirsasana
Virasana Poses & knees, tutorial with Michele
Building to Lotus/ Vajra posture: 2 hip opening practice videos Ian & Michele
Assists Video-Down Dog, Seated forward bends sacral boot, Triangle pose, Child's pose assists

Week 1 Vajra Online w/ Bob Friday, 11/22 Session with Tenzin Bob

Tenzin's teaching 11/22/24

Week 2 Vajra online w/ Bob 11/29 11am and Michele 11/30 10am

Friday, 11/29 w/ Tenzin Bob- introducing 3 principles on the path
Yoga w/ Michele 10am-11:30am EST- 3 principles in Asana & 5 chakra opening

Week 3 Vajra Online w/ Bob 12/6 & Michele 12/7, 2024

Friday 12/6 Bob 11am Eastern
Saturday 12/7 Michele 10am Eastern (NOTE EARLY TIME 7am PST/ 10am EST)
HOMEWORK Before week 4 from Michele

Week 4 Vajra Online w/ Bob 12/13 8am PST & Michele 12/14, 2024 7am PST

Week 4 Vajra Online w/ Bob 12/13 4pm Eastern (Special Maha Mudra/ Yuthok event replay)
Michele 12/14, 2024 Asana & Mula bandha

Week 5 Vajra Online 12/27 & 28

Friday w/ Tenzin- Hatha Pradipika & Vimalakirti
Saturday w/ Bob & Michele 12/28/24 Lecture and Asana (74:24)

Week 6 Vajra Online January 1-5, 2025

Recording of Michele's New Year's Day class (87:29)
Friday w/ Tenzin 1/3/25 Vimalakirti Sutta
Saturday w/ Michele 1/4/25 (Introducing the Buddha Families & a few Niguma)

Week 7 Vajra Online January 10-11, 2025

Friday w/ Tenzin 1/10/25-Vimalakirti
Saturday w/ Michele 7am PST 1/11/25-lower chakras/ opposing patterns/ bandha/ core-good talk at end

End Of Winter Semester Assignment

Wisdom Is Bliss
4 Noble Truths/ Wisdom is Bliss & Ashtanga 8 fold path- assignment
Talk & Practice On Drishti w/ Michele- Buddha & Patanjali

SPRING SEMESTER

WEEK 1: Bob 1/17/25. On Wisdom is Bliss, 8 stages of dissolution, and beginning tantra
Saturday 1/18/25 w/ Michele 11am PST (special class time/ Yoga nidra & 9 Jnanas

Spring Week 2: 1/24 & 1/25

Friday 1/24/25: (w/ Michele) White Tara sadhana slow, and a little on balance poses & rLung disorders
Saturday, 1/25/25: 7-9am PST (Bob on Clearlight, and then Michele gets advice from the sangha:) (21:22)
Michele teaching the Kena Upanishad (71:01)

Spring Week 3: 1/31 & 2/1, 2025

Friday, 1/31 Vajra with Bob- 2025 Teaching Hatha Pradipika/ subtle body (73:10)
Saturday 2/1 vajra with Michele- Beginning Twists & H. Pradipika
Michele from 12/2023 Asana technique within Ashtanga primary to Triang Mukkha...
Intro to Shantidev 1/28/23- Beautiful Clearlight Meditation & Shantideva teaching
Shantideva: "The Way of the Bodhisattva" : Chapter 1
What does it mean to Take Refuge?
Shantideva: Chapter 2 - Going for Refuge
Shantideva: Chapter 9 - Wisdom; Opening to non-dual experience; Relative & Absolute truth
Shantideva: Chapter 9 - Epistemology; cognizing vs. re-cognizing experience; Buddhahood
Shantideva: Chapter 9 - The yogini reality & meaning of "Yoga"
Shantideva: Chapter 9 - Reasoning & referring to “things”
Shantideva: Chapter 9 - Conceptuality and Using Dualism

Spring Week 4: 2/2/25 & 2/8/25

Tenzin 2/7/25- B. Gita 11th chapter, Book of Dead s
Vajra w/ Michele 10am Eastern 2/8/25. Start Bhagavad Gita & finishing twists
Shantideva: Chapter 6: Patience of Forgiveness, non-retaliation; “even if they kill us, we will die happy”
Shantideva: Chapter 6: Patience - becoming invulnerable to hatred; using pain positively
Shantideva: Chapter 6: Patience - reality awareness - Looking into “What caused this injury?”
Homework

Spring Week 5: 4/14/25 & 4/15/25

Tenzin 4/14/25 11am Eastern-Gita & Hatha Pradipika & Guhyasamaja
Saturday, February 15th Michele Nidra Sessions-videos up
Sunday, February 16th: Nidra Sessions
Tuesday, February 18th. Nidra w/ Michele (Buddha's 2 arrows)
Make Up Asana class: Viloma Pranayama, Vajra opening, 90 minute Asana Flow w/ Michele 1/14/24 (88:20)
Bonus-Tenzin 1/19/24 Introducing Bhagavad Gita & Chapter 6
Bhagavad Gita : Introduction to the Text w/ Richard and Mary
Bhagavad Gita : Sankhya, Ignorance, Lust & Anger
Bhagavad Gita : Noticing your Irritation with the Text

Spring Week 6 2/21/25 & 2/22/25

Tenzin Friday, 2/21/25. Hatha Pradipika & Patanjali Yoga Sutras
Michele Saturday, 2/22/25. 7am PST- Gita & Hips
Friday 1/13/23: Lecture w/ Tenzin Tibetan Book of Dead root verses
Bonus Video from Mahasiddhas, Michele teaches middle path alignment Thursday, Dec. 14 recording

Spring Week 7: 2/28 & 3/2 (Michele will teach on Sunday)

Tenzin Friday 2/28
Michele Sunday 3/2 Hips
VINYASA HIPS FLOW 1/7/24 90 MINUTE ASANA CLASS W/ MICHELE WITH OPENING ON KLESHAS (91:30)
Livestream 1/12/24 Tenzin of Jnanas & Tibetan Book of Dead

Spring Week 8: 3/7 & 3/8, 2025 Tenzin & Michele

Tenzin Friday 3/7, 2025. 11am Eastern (128:11)
Michele 3/8, 2025 (Nidra School) 2 sessions, including Dream Yoga Intro
Community showing of Ram Dass Film 9pm Eastern
Bonus Study Lecture: 12/12/22 Session w/ Tenzin Patanjali Y. Sutras on Samadhi-comparing to Buddha's 8 fold

Spring Week 9: Michele 10am Eastern Saturday 3/15/25. (No livestream with Tenzin) but please watch the following videos as you can

Michele SUNDAY 3/16/25 (Short Pranayama class)
Flower Ornament, Bodhicitta, Noble Truths, Eight-Fold Path and 4 Immeasurables w/ Tenzin
Shunyata Karuna Garbham "Meditation on Self and Others" w/ Tenzin
"Bodhicitta Meditation on the Conception of the Spirit of Enlightenment" w/ Tenzin

Breathing Practices-Hatha Pradipika Pranayama

Kriya & Nadis Shodhana Pranayama with Michele
Pranayama with Michele & Russ
Anatomy of Diaphragm with Ian- 45 minute

Spring Week 10:

Hatha Vinyasa Flow (Thomas Requested)
Intro to Tantra : Theravada is Tantra; HHDL : Sutra before Tantra
Intro to Tantra : Guided meditation on the Mahayana Path
Intro to Tantra : Tantra and Mahayana
Intro to Tantra : Tantra as Co-creation
Intro to Tantra : The 3 Yanas or Buddhist schools of thought

Spring Week 11: Meditation, Shamata & Vipassana

Saturday 3/22 7am: Optional Practice Teaching Session with Vajra student community
Vipassana vs Shamata Meditation
The Four Keys
Access Concentration : 4 Contemplative States & Joyful Renunciation
Access Concentration : Immeasurable Love & Quantum Physics
Shamata : About the Meditation
Vipassana : Critical Wisdom vs Subtle Dullness
Shamata Meditation Preparations : Purification Breath
Shamata Meditation Preparations : Refuge Field
Shamata Meditation : Introduction
Shamata Meditation : Additional Preparations
Shamata Meditation : Visualizing a living Buddha in front of you

WEEK 11 Part 2 on Buddha's Mahasatipatthana Sutta

Mahasatipatthana Sutta - Introduction & Breathing Meditation
Mahasatipatthana Sutta : Breathing + Counting Meditation
Mahasatipatthana Sutta : Walking, Body Deglamourization, Sensations, Mind Objects, Vipassana vs. Not-Thinking
Mahasatipatthana Sutta : Cessation of the Craving - Integration of Sutta and Tantra
Mahasatipatthana Sutta - Mind Contact: What is Agreeable and Pleasurable
Mahasatipatthana Sutta - Mind Contact: What is Agreeable and Pleasurable Continued
Mahasatipatthana Sutta - Meditation on 5 Aggregates and 12 media
Mahasatipatthana Sutta - Contemplating Body as Body
Mahasatipatthana Sutta - Walking, Moving, Eating
Mahasatipatthana Sutta: Controlling Lust and Desire & Offensive Body Scan
Intro to Tantra : Theravada is Tantra; HHDL : Sutra before Tantra

Week 12: Videos Only- Required before retreat

Saturday Practice w/ Michele Loew intro to 6 yogas, TsaLung Trulkhor, 5 Yantras/8 preliminaries
Intro to Tantra : Awakening / Enlightenment Buddha’s Enlightenment [Esoteric & Exoteric Versions] Mandala & Deities Importance of Shamatha / Vipassana / Bodhisatva vows in Tantra
Intro to Tantra : Deity Yoga in Tantra; Guhyasamaja Mandala
Intro to Tantra : Guhyasamaja Tantra The Esoteric Commentary Tantra Reading
Subtle Body: Subtle Body and Subtle Mind
Subtle Body : Asana to connect to your subtle body; wisdom as a prerequisite
Subtle Body : Subtle Body and the Individual Vehicle
Creation and Perfection Stages: Revelation of superficial reality
Creation and Perfection Stages: The Clearlight Stage; the Magic Body
Creation and Perfection Stages: Communion
Creation and Perfection Stages: Coming to terms with ‚Communion‘
Creation and Perfection Stages: Time and Communion - retroactively enjoying being here and at the same time inhabiting what is actually the case
Creation and Perfection Stages: Creation Stage, Creative Meditation
Creation and Perfection Stages : Jump into the Perfection Stage? Taking Back Projections and Your Murky Interior
Creation and Perfection Stages: definitive meaning vs. interpretable meaning in creation and perfection stages
Creation and Perfection Stages: the breath as the mantra; mandala and evolutionary triumphs

Closing Retreat

Opening Session: Monday, March 31st 7:30-9pm Eastern (1:24)
Tuesday, April 1st: 10-noon, 3:30-6pm; 7:30-9pm
Shantideva : Bhusuku's graduation lecture at Nalanda University
Wednesday, April 2nd: 10-noon, 3:30-6pm: 7:30-9pm
Thursday, April 3rd: 10-noon, 3:30-6pm; 7:30-9pm
Friday, April 4th: 10-noon; 3:30-6pm; 7:30-9pm
Saturday, April 5th: 10-noon; 3:30-6pm; 7:30-9pm
Sunday, April 6th: 7am-8am Eastern w/ Michele & 10-noon w/ Bob

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