Tsa Lung Class: Tibetan Breathing and Yoga Exercises (Part 1 of 2)
Dates: Oct. 11, 25; Nov. 1, 15, 29; Dec. 6 Time: Saturdays kl. 9-12
Instructor: Zabrina Leung (a certified teacher, certified by Drubpon Kunsang) who has been practicing Tsa Lung with Drubpon Kunsang since 2008.
Venue: Ratnashri Meditation Center, Friggavägen 11, Lidingö (Telephone: 08-7655878)
Prerequisite: All participants have already taken refuge in the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha). You can do so by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche (
https://garchen.net/refuge-from-afar/) Beginners are welcome. You do as much as you feel comfortable doing. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.
Required Texts: Order two booklets from
https://drikung.ch/shop-english/ (select book 1 and 2)
Fee: 1 000 kr OR 200 kr for each of the first two classes in advance, then pay the rest if you continue.
Registration: Email to
aW5mbyB8IHJhdG5hc2hyaSAhIHNl by Oct. 9; and deposit fee to Plusgiro: 1287806-2 or pay on site.
Tsa Lung is an important method in the Drikung Kagyu lineage to harmonize the body and the mind. Through this practice, we balance the three humors (wind, bile, and phlegm), elements, channels, energy centers (chakras), winds and vital essences. Tsa Lung is a natural Tibetan healing system to prevent the three basic disorders and the four hundred and four disease types. It consists of stress management and calming exercises. Yogi Milarepa said, “Tsa Lung is the best self-healing exercise, both physically and mentally.” Tsa are the subtle channels found in the physical body of every human being, while Lung means the wind that flows in them. So Tsa Lung is a technique consisting of various yoga and breathing exercises that work with both the body and the breath (and with its retention known as vase-breath) together with visualization, meditation, and mantra recitation. There are many practices that develop our body and unlock energy in the chakras, but they do not go as deep as Tsa Lung. Just physical movements are not enough; to reach the subtle places in our body, we have to apply special techniques in combination with the breath and its retention. It is very advantageous to combine meditation with Tsa Lung practice since meditation can help us to transform our mind, to change our negative habitual pattern, to awake our innate love and compassion, relieve mental anxiety and stress. For Dharma practitioners, Tsa Lung is most effective when it is done within the framework of Lord Jigten Sumgön’s Fivefold Path of Mahamudra. That is, the cultivation of bodhicitta, yidam practice (Vajrayogini), guru yoga, mahamudra and dedication. In this way, not only can Tsa Lung improve health, we can at the same time accumulate merits and wisdom as well as making progress on the Dharma path and benefit all sentient beings.
The part 1 course will emphasize the foundation of Tsa Lung both on the theoretic background to the exercises and on experiencing the exercises. There will be six meetings for the course and the following topics will be covered:
1. Nine breathings and vase breathing exercises;
2. Opening chakras downward and upward, and wind breaking exercises;
3. Seven harmonizing exercises;
4. Exercises that balance the three humors.
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