“Freeing energy with non-ordinary sensation” is a 10 minute video about the Vajrayana system Dzogchen Long-dé. Long-dé centers the experience of sensations in vivid, open awareness. The video includes a discussion of how practices from different yanas (Buddhist systems) understand the physical sensations of “energy” differently.
Long-dé includes unusual movements that produce these sensations. I teach them to the Evolving Ground community, online and in person. I guide participants through a series of movement forms and standing meditations, explaining what we’re doing as we do it: the function of the practices and how they fit into the overall framework.
If this sounds intriguing, you can book a spot.
This video excerpts my teaching from a regular online monthly gathering, eG Practices, for Evolving Ground members.
Here is a glossary for the Tibetan terminology in the video:
- Tantra
- Buddhist systems that transform energy from unpleasant and counterproductive forms into enjoyable and useful ones, through recognizing the inseparability of their empty and patterned aspects.
- Dzogchen
- Recognizing liberated awareness in every phenomenon as it arises. Dzogchen is less reliant on specific methods than tantra, and conceptually simpler.
- tsa lung
- A broad term for the “energy” experienced in bodily sensations. “Tsa” literally means “channels” through which energy is considered to flow. “Lung” is literally “wind”; it’s the flowing energy itself.
- central channel
- In tantra, the main energetic conduit, which runs through the center of the body from the crown of the head along the length of the spine and through the perineum.
- tummo
- A tantric tsa lung practice that generates intense sensations with raised body temperature.
- long-dé
- The branch of Dzogchen emphasizing non-conceptual experience of energy in the vast open space of awareness.
- namkhor
- A series of physical exercises that induce the long-dé experience. Literally translated, “the sky cycle”; the Sky Realm Series.