Tantric Yoga Practitioner Group Video Library

A streaming multimedia library of video classes, lectures, and guided practices in Tantric Yoga (Hatha, Kriya, Laya, Raja, Mantra/Yantra/Tantra), with included live group Zoom Q&A/coaching with Tao each month, and the addition of new materials as Tao presents them. This program is available by application and interview. US$101 for the first month, then US$54/monthly thereafter for continuing access; scholarships available by economic and cultural circumstance.

Apply here,
and register here.
If you’ve recently been accepted to Tao’s KAP classes, there is no need to re-apply; you may register at will.

Tantric Yoga and Alchemical Qigong Practitioner Group Video Library includes all the following, plus the monthy group Zoom call for coaching and Q&A on your materials, with new materials added as Tao presents them:

The U.T. College of Tantric Yogas Curriculum: Foundation Practices of Tantric Yoga, Trimester I

Introduction and Orientation
Class 1: The Complete Breath
Class 2: Breathing Subtle Energy / 4 factors that inhibit the physical breath
Class 3: the act of conscious eating/drinking
Class 4: food effects on the body and mind
Class 5: opening the body-consciousness, part 1: physical charana
Class 6: opening the subtle body-consciousness – subtle charana
Class 7: Sanctifying the Body, part 1: Nyasa
Class 8: Sanctifying the Body, part 2: Nyasa
Class 9: Seats of Meditation, part 1: exploration of alignment
Class 10: Seats of Meditation: finding the seat
Class 11: Training the Breath and Body Together
Class 12: Training the body and breath together, con’t
Class 13: Purifying Actions – Overview, Kapalabhati with Uddiyana, Tratak
Class 14: Purifying Actions con’t: Neti and the 9 Clearing Breaths
Class 15: The Visual Yogas: eye exercises, shambavi mudra
Class 16: The Visual Yogas: The five directional gazes
Class 17: Gestures, Seals, and Inner Attitudes: bodily mudras
Class 18: Gestures, Seals, and Inner Attitudes – the Secret Smile
Class 19: Yogas of Sound: internal sound – spoken vowels
Class 20: Yogas of Sound – vocalized vowels as nyasa, bindu visarga (“mnnng”)
Class 21 – Yogas of Sound: using external music
Class 22- Yogas of Sound – Nyasa as auditory laya (absorption)
Class 23 – Cultivating Sexual Energy as an Internal Experience
Class 24 – Circulating Sexual Energy
Summary Session: Foundations Trimester 1

Success Stories and Testimonials for Foundation Practices Trimester 1, above…

Long-Form Video Presentations on Principle, Method, and Context:

Theory, Context, History, and Definitions – 2017-04-06
Samadhi – 2017-06-04
Introduction to Mahamudra – 2017-05-21
Teaching on Principles of Mantra Japa and Mantra Laya 2017-08-20
Power, Gender, Sex, Sovereignty and Economy in Historical Tantra through Modern Times – 2017-08-21
Sexual Yoga – 2017-07-30
On Integrated Tantric Hatha Yoga Practice – 2017-10-23
On Asana and Energetics in Tantric Hatha Yoga – 2017-09-16
Using ShatKriya / ShatKarma to map subtle experience – 2017-06-11
Basic Metaphysics of Prayer – 2018-02-04
Introduction to Qigong & comparisons with Pranavidya within Tantric Yogas – 2018-04-29
Introduction to Avishkara, Guru Yoga, and Deity Yoga Practices / Generation Stage Practices – 2018-12-28
Kama Sutra vs Sexual Yoga/Maithuna/Sambhoga Yoga — and their union – 2019-02-03
January 2021: Historical look at intersections between charismatic spirituality, alternative health, and politics in mass movements involving millenarian prophecy and conspiratorial spirituality also, self clearing practice with vajrapani mantra samputs… 2021-01
Maithuna and Sambhoga Yoga: Secrets of Tantra Seminar – December, 2001

Short Practicum:

Easy-to-implement Micropractices

Pranayama Microteachings
Fundamental Techniques
A simple treasury of Mantra (audio and text)
Introductory Qigong Practices and Concepts
Some Simpler Sexual Yogas

Progressive Sadhanas

These are practices that layer or build over weeks or months:

8 Charana and Zhan Zhuang
8 Charana, Suryanamaskar, and Uddiyana Bandha
Mantra Laya: Laya Yoga Practice with Seed Sound (Bija Mantram)
Deity Yoga through Visual and Mantra Laya
Localized Laya in Individual Chakras within Asana with Rhythmic Breathing
8 Charana, SuryaNamaskar, Uddiyana Bandha Social Sadhana
Mantra Laya Social Sadhana: Laya Yoga Practice with Seed Sound (Bija Mantram)
Deity Yoga through Visual and Mantra Laya
Localized Laya in Individual Chakras within Asana with Rhythmic Breathing – Social Sadhana
Laya in the Central Bindu of the Dharmodaya: Naad and Deity Mantra/Yantra Laya in the Heartspace
Ten Minute Sensory Absorption – plus Customized Daily Live Practices from Previous Curriculae
Creating a Loving Energetic Boundary, and Balanced Giving & Receiving
Avishkara, Mantra Japa, and Laya with TriDevi
The Sadhana of a Thousand Breaths, 1:2:1:2 Kumbhak variation
Body and Breath – Core Set 1
Practices to assist with Covid-19 stress (month 1)
Practices to assist with Covid-19 stress (month 2)
Kriya and Vyayam sets, mantras for the retrograde planets
Kriya, Vyayam, Sukshma Vyayam, and Asana practices (month 1)
Kriya, Vyayam, Sukshma Vyayam, and Asana practices (month 2)
Marma and spinal suspension in Asana Practice
Simple Short practices for harmonization that can be stretched and deepened into profound longer non-dual meditative practices
Simple external offerings to harmonize relationships with local consciousnesses, ancestral / geneological interactions, and more
Breath Synchronized Mantra Laya, plus Dual Cultivation and Sexual Yogas
3 Simple Sexual Yogas that do not require a trained partner
Cultivating the Extraordinary Vessels using Acupressure and Breath
Polyvagal Trauma Resets
MahaGanapati Moola Mantra, Vagal Resets with Mantra
Laya (absorption) in planetary seed mantras (shakti bijas)
Ganapati Mantra/Yantra Yoga and Puja
Intentionality and Freedom in daily and spiritual activities, from moment to moment.