The Visual Yogas in Hindu Tantrism
The visual mind is the most developed and largest part of the human brain, and making use of it is the fastest means to samadhi. In Hindu Tantra, many of the visual yogas are concealed within external tantric rituals like fire offerings and pujas. But strip away the externals, and the methods of visual yoga are both simple and profound.
This workshop provides an overview and immersion in those methods, with all necessary precautions and step by step methods to achieve pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi, using simple objects, and then yantra (geometric representations of mantra) and anthropomorphized symbolism of the various streams of manifestation represented as deities.
This workshop also demonstrates how mantra yoga, the visual yogas, and laya yoga work in synthesis in the Tantric systems.Saturday May 19th, 2007, 2-5pm, $65 for three hours
location: Shores Yoga, 9713 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores
Registration closes May 18th for this event. Seating is limited.
What to bring:
Please bring a yoga mat or blanket, a meditation cushion (or another blanket, folded) to sit on, comfortable clothes, a notebook and pen/pencil. If you wear contact lenses, please bring a lense case and saline solution so that you can take out your lenses during some of the visual exercises requiring an unblinking gaze. you may want to bring re-wetting drops if you tend to have dry eyes.