Tuitioned Program and Accompanying Library of Tantrik / Esoteric Yoga and Qigong

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Students may access one program at a time, show Tao their knowledge/competancy with the information, and then access another program, with full support from Tao via Q&A year-round, and monthly online group practices of simple Tapas and sadhana (mantra, breathwork, meditation, etc).

The point of the tuition system is not spiritual materialism or acquisition of programs, but rather encouraging realization via initiation, experiential understanding, competency, and fruit of each principle and practice.

Library of Programs:

From the Tantric Inner Circle (2003-2006)

Tantric Inner Circle Practice Sessions 1-12 “Mastering your mind, body, and the elements through Tantric Hatha Yoga and Sukshma Vyayam” The Full Table of Contents: Video Chapters and Audio Tracks

p1 – Healthy Breathing, Bone Strength, Dynamic Rooting, and Total Relaxation
p2 – Secrets of subtle energy awareness and cultivation & The Tantric Five Tibetans:
Tantric Five Tibetans: The real secrets of the Tibetan rites of rejuvenation – unpublished in any book!
Skull Shining and Secrets of Breath Meditation
p3 – Raw Power and Subtle Strength: Secrets of Hindu Vyayam & Hard Qi gong
p4 – Using cosmic energy: Secrets of self-purification in standing postures
p5 – Breath Control and Your Mind: Secrets of Shambavi Mudra
p6 – Secret Powers of the Earth: Developing Muladhara Chakra
p7 – Fluidity and Sexual Energy – Secrets of Creativity and Dynamism: Developing Swadisthana Chakra
p8 – Metabolism, Drive, Willpower, “Gut” Intuition, and the Inner Fire Basics of Transmutation: Developing Manipura Chakra
p9 – Compassion and Freedom: The Air Element: Developing Anahata Chakra
p10 – Akasha as Time and Space: Concept, Karma, and Communication: Developing Vishudda Chakra
p11 – Ajna, Non-Duality & the Non-Conceptual Mind: Developing your Ajna Chakra
p12 – The Universal Sublime: Divinity, Awe, & Splendor: Opening Sahashrara
b1The T.I.C. All-Member Bonus Video: Pranic Spiraling, Pranic Compression, and Your Kundalini – A Method of internal balance and union

Tantric Inner Circle Gold Bonus Videos 1-12
Original Brochure | Full Table of Contents: Chapter Headings

g1 – Earth, Water, & Fire: Secrets of Esoteric Anatomy 1
g2 – Air and Ether: Secrets of Esoteric Anatomy 2
g3 – The Third Eye, The Absolute, & Transfiguration of the Beloved: Secrets of Esoteric Anatomy 3
g4 – The Ritual Lovemaking Postures/ Secret Teachings of Chakra Puja: Secrets of Esoteric Anatomy 4
g5 – The Big Secrets of Tantra: Transfiguration, Identification, Consecration, Dedication, Transmutation, and Sublimation: Secrets of Esoteric Anatomy 5
g6 – Secrets of Mudra and Bandha: Transmutation, Sublimation, Circulation: Secrets of Esoteric Anatomy 6
g7 – Foundations of Prana, Shabda, and Kriya: Breath, Primordial Sound, & Action of Consciousness for health, sexual union, and self-realization
g8 – Lovemaking as Kriya Yoga — for health, subtle awareness and realization
Sexual Fitness, Part One — External sexual fitness, with practical applications
g9 – QiGong Energetic and Spiritual Healing
1) Empowering Yourself through qigong as a vessel for the healing energy of the earth and cosmos; 2) The Power of Self, Partner, and Distant Healing 3) How to bless in secret…
g10 – Building, Offering, & Dissolving the Tantric Mandala – Manipulating Energy in Erogenous Massage – Special Guest Appearance by Dr Glenn J Morris, PhD, ScD
g11, discs a, b, c – Qi Packing in the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbit for health, energy cultivation, and martial development
g12 – Martial QiGong Principles for Self-Protection and Health

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…

Foundation Practices of Tantric Yoga 2:

Introduction and Orientation
Class 1: Timing and Breath Ratios in the Complete Breath
Class 2: Breath timing for energy and relaxation| reverse breathing and nabhi bandha
Class 3: Alimentation and Nourishment: timing and sadhana
Class 4: alimentation & nourishment: sleep cycles, adaptogens, and listening to (feeling with) your body
Class 5: Opening the Subtle Body: Adding kumbakha
Class 6: Opening the Subtle Body: kumbhaka with subtle energy awareness and emotional amplification
Class 7: Nyasa in movement…
Class 8: Nyasa with thought forms, in movement
Class 9: Seats of Meditation: abiding in the internal seat while breathing to and from it
Class 10: breathing subtle energy and emotional content to and from the seats of consciousness
Class 11: Training the Breath and Body Together 2
Class 12: Training the body and breath together 2, con’t
Class 13: Purifying Actions – Bhasti
Class 14: Purifying Actions – Vaman Dhauti/Kunjal Kriya
Class 15: The Visual Yogas 2- Shambhavi Mudra in 3-D
Class 16: 3-D Shambhavi Mudra, continued – feeling and projecting
Class 17: Gestures, Seals, and Inner Attitudes: Dhyan Mudra
Class 18: Secret Smile in Dhyan Mudra, with correct and incorrect application of the seven points of the posture
Class 19: The Yogas of Sound: AUM – correct pronunciation and practice
Class 20: Yogas of Sound: AUM with 3-D Shambhavi Mudra
Class 21: Nada Yoga part 2: Inner Sound Yoga
Class 22: Inner Sound Yoga with 3-D Shambavi Mudra
Class 23: Integrating sexual energy cultivation/circulation into garuda squats, kapalabhati, uddiyana bandha
Class 24: Integrating sexual/sensual energy with 3-D Shambhavi Mudra
Class 25: Summary

Foundation Practices of Tantric Yoga 3

Introduction and Orientation
Class 1: Space and Time together in the Complete Breath
Class 2: Interiorization of each of the 5 senses in the complete breath
Class 3: Sensory Input as Nutrition and Alimentation | Internal Situational Awareness | The Three Gunas
Class 4: The daily life of a tantric – balancing sensory nutrition, awareness, the gunas and the doshas
Class 5: Charana and the map of the subtle body…
Class 6: Adding chakra/nadi awareness and internal attitude /mudra into charana
Class 7: Nyasa with the chakras and their sanskrit names
Class 8: Nyasa with the Chakras – combining and integrating visualization with sensory perception
Class 9: The chakras as seats of meditation within Suryanamaskar
Class 10: Chakras as Seats of Meditation, adding Secret Smile and chakra attitudes/awarenesses in Suryanamaskar
Class 11: Breath and Body Together: drishti, uddiyana, and vajroli/sahajoli in Suryanamaskar
Class 12: adding subtle breathing & Secret Smile to drishti, uddiyana, sahajoli/vajroli in Suryanamaskar
Class 13: Shat Karma (six purifying actions): Nauli, Shivambu, Danta Dhauti, Vastra Dhauti
Class 14: Shat Karma: Varisara Dhauti/Lagoo Shank Prak Shalana
Class 15: Shambavi Mudra on Empty Space
Class 16: Abiding in Tranquility
Class 17: Yoni Mudra
Class 18: Shanmukhi Mudra (also known as Yoni Mudra)
Class 19: Yogas of Sound: Yoni Mudra with AUM
Class 20: Yogas of Sound: Nyasa with AUM
Class 21: Yogas of Sound: the inner dance
Class 22: Yogas of Sound: Laya Yoga with AUM, naad yoga with inner sound, naad yoga with outer sound
Class 23: Sexual Yogas – reverberation/echo breathing and the undulation of sound and pleasure
Class 24: The Sexual Yogas – Culminating Technique
Class 25: Summary Session

Intermediate Practices of Tantric Yoga 1

0: Welcome/Orientation (the present post) (Thursday)
1: Kriyas for Earth Element/ Prithvi Tattwa (Tuesday)
2: Asana Practice for Earth Element/ Prithvi Tattwa (Thursday)
3: Kriya Practice for Water Element
4: Asana Practice for Water Element
5: Kriya Practice for Fire Element
6: Asana Practice for Fire Element
7: Kriya Practice for Air Element
8: Asana Practice for Air Element
9: Kriya Practice for Ether/Void Element
10: Asana Practice for Ether/Void Element
11: Balancing, Stacking, Assembling, and Purifying the Tattwas
12: Balancing, Stacking, Assembling, and Purifying the Tattwas 2
13: Adding Tattwa Yantra gazing to the Thursday Tattwa Practices
14: Adding tattwa yantras to Balancing, Stacking, Assembling & Purifying the Elements
15: Adding Tattwa Bija Mantra Laya to the Thursday Tattwa Practices
16: Adding Tattwa Bija and Yantra laya to Balancing, Stacking, Assembling & Purifying the Elements
17: Ojas and Physical Culture 1 – Cultivation and Breath
18: Ojas and Physical Culture 2 – with Shambhavi Mudra and Secret Smile
19: Ojas and Sexual Energy 1 – Self Massage and Physical Cultivation
20: Ojas and Sexual Energy 2 – Polarization of Internal Energies
21: Ojas and Sublimation 1 – Mudra and Bandha revisited
22: Ojas and Sublimation 2 – Sahajoli Mudra in Tantric Hatha Yoga
23: Laya Yoga – Absorption in Presence and Polarity
24: Laya Yoga – adding layers
25: Summary

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.

Social Sadhanas:

Laya in the Central Bindu of the Dharmodaya: Naad and Deity Mantra/Yantra Laya in the Heartspace – July 2019 TYPG Social Sadhana
Ten Minute Sensory Absorption -August 2019 Social Sadhana – plus Customized Daily Live Practices from Previous Curriculae
Creating a Loving Energetic Boundary, and Balanced Giving & Receiving – September 2019 TYPG Social Sadhana
Avishkara, Mantra Japa, and Laya with TriDevi: October 2019 Social Sadhana
Adding Mantra and Deity Yoga to Tsa-Lung Trul Khor and Bumpa-Chen – November 2019 TYPG Social Sadhana (Deluxe)
September 2020 TYPG: Uddiyana and Nauli Revisited and Elaborated (Sep and Oct, 2020, Deluxe)

Tantric Hatha, Kriya, and Laya Yogas, Vyayama and Suksma Vyayama

Secrets of Abdominal Isolation: Uddiyana Bandha and Nauli Kriya (step-by-step exercises) | 21 days of guided preliminary practice | 21 days of guided physical practice | 21 days of spiritual practice using nauli with visualization and kinesthetization
September and October 2020 uddiyana and nauli revisited and elaborated/
Bliss and Ecstasy in Tantric Hatha Yoga (40 days of practice videos)
Rejuvenating and Balancing Sexual Energy and Vitality using Simple Applied Physical Culture
Tantric Secrets of Prenatal Hatha Yoga(useful for both women and men for increased fertility, fluidity, groundedness, relaxation, and groundedness, as well as easier labor and birthing)
Vyayam as Yoga Breath-Coordinated exercise as yoga of breath, mind, body
Yogic Physical Culture, Simple, powerful exercises movement and breath as they pertain to mental and energetic states, physical vitality, and libido, creativity, and spiritual connection

Qigong and Internal Alchemy:

Sensei Niikura’s Ki Breathing, Basic Four Exercises and Variations
Extraordinary Vessel Qigong
Extraordinary Vessel Master-Couple Point Self-Cultivation
Shamanic 8 Forces Alchemical QigongQigong movements for the eight trigrams of the Bagua, in early heaven and later heaven arrangements for internal alchemy…

Sadhanas and Ceremonies

Planetary Mantra Remedies & Sadhanas
Clearing Heavy Energy from the Body: Solar/Lunar Bija Clearing Pranayama
Mantras for Clearing Heavy Energy: Vajrapani and Mahamaya Samputs
Three-Part Prosperity & Generosity Practice (also aligns you with the natural world)

Teachings on Sexual Yoga:

Siva Lata Mudra: A Simple Sexual Yoga
Kriya yoga versions of Vajroli, Sahajoli, and Swing Mantras
Maithuna: Solo Preliminaries & Foundation Practices

Practices for Dates and Times:

Taoist & Wu Practices for Winter Solstice
Practices to Inaugurate the Calendar New Year

Deity Yoga and Inner Tantric Yoga

The Great Bliss , a recently translated rare 8th Century Indian Vajrayana Practice Text emphasizing karmamudra practice (see chapters 10 and 11 in this huge .pdf ebook)(the book, by Karma Kagyu lama John Houseman, also teaches completion stage practices)
Ganapatya Deity Yoga Sadhana to initiate, widen, and unobstruct the internal channels and subtle winds of the body, and create a strong foundation of awareness and blissful, spacious energy…
Tantric transformation of negative emotions via Deity Yoga
Tantric transformations of “negative” emotions – part 2 – introductory “completion stage” practices of the nadis, vayus, chakras…
Nadi/Vayu/Chakra Yogas and Pranayama for Candali practices
Candali progressive practices
Guru Yoga Sadhana using the UpaGuru (inner guru principle) rather than a human guru – Empowerment and sadhana using mantra, visualization, and proprioceptive awareness
Ganapati-Ganesha-Vignesha Frontal Generation Mantra Siddhi Sadhana with Transmission
Using Generation Stage Mandala Practices in Yogic and Tantric Application (March 24, 2019)
Ganesha’s Mandala and Ganas, part one: Svananda Dama, the four gates, eight Parshada guardians, 2 protective shaktis, and 3 consort/companion shaktis (January 20, 2019, Deluxe)
Ganesha’s Mandala and Ganas, part 2: The Sea of Sugar Cane Juice, the Island of Mind-Gems, the Garden of Ideas, the Wish-Fulfilling Idea Trees, the Thrones, The Bhramarambika guards, the Vahana Steed (March 3, 2019)
Ganesha Chaturthi practice of the Abode of Bliss (September 2, 2019, Deluxe)
Using Deity Yoga and Mandala Practices in Yogic and Tantric Application
Orthodox and Mystical Approaches to Initiation in the Yogini Tantras
An Introduction to Yogini and Dakini Deity Practices in Tantric Yoga (November 2019, Deluxe)

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