Dakini's Whisper Online Class
Subtle Body Training
with the Five Elements
Starting Thursday, September 27th
Open to All
THERAPEUTIC MIND-BODY-HEART TRAINING
Restore Wholeness | Integrate Dharma Practice
Therapeutic Intervention | Trauma-Informed Training
For those who might like to try out a session first, we are offering a "drop-in" option.
OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE TO ALL LEVELS OF PHYSICAL ABILITY.
Join us in diving deeply into the wisdom and compassion embodied in this transformative practice. During turbulent times a transformation is being called from within. In order to rise into our life horizons in the midst of challenges, we seek community, tranquility, curiosity, courage, and transformation.
The DAKINI Subtle Body Training (DSBT) is deeply rooted in ancient Vajrayana teachings on the five elements and five facets of “timeless awareness”. This retreat is devoted to Therapeutic Mind-Body-Heart Training, which interweaves a set of exercises from Tibetan Wisdom Tradition, meditation, and yoga therapy.
SBT Testimonials
Restore the Wholeness
DSBT offers a unique opportunity for students to explore the dimensions of the mind-body-heart system through interdisciplinary tools aimed at healing their relationship to their wholeness.
Integrate Dharma Practice
DSBT is designed to assist practitioners (i.e. Vajrayana and Chö) in integrating Buddhism, advanced Vajrayana techniques, body-oriented disciplines, and spiritual psychology into a skillful practice to balance the body, heart, mind, and awareness, and to rediscover our personal authenticity, that is, who and what we truly are.
Therapeutic Intervention
DSBT aims to untie the knots in our energy system and open the energy flows of the body. These exercises influence our entire body from the physical to the most subtle and profound energy levels. This integrative approach employs skillful and evidence-based methods for moving toward wholeness on many levels - psychological, physical, spiritual, and interpersonal.
The Approach
is pragmatic, accessible and inclusive. We join together a body-oriented, trauma-informed, psychologically-nuanced discipline and yoga therapeutics available in the West with the Subtle Body practice and profound teachings from the ancient Buddhist Wisdom tradition. HOW these tools are provided and integrated has a significant impact on its efficacy.
This Integrative Mind-Body-Heart Training Highlights:
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Introduction to DAKINI Subtle Body Training, which incorporates Vajrayana teachings and helps to bring the view into our direct experience
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The deepening and embodiment of Dharma Practice in one’s three-dimensional body
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The return to Wholeness and Innate basic Goodness
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Accessible/Inclusive Physical and Psychological Integrative Training Alternatives
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The integration of East and West, Mind and Body, Contemplative and Active Processes
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Therapeutic Interventions to Encourage Integration and Well-being
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Embracing the Human Condition and Unfolding Potentials
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Empowerment into Ordinary Miracles
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Breaking the barrier between the inner and outer & the self and others
Instructor
Chöying Khandro, MA, Founder and Spiritual Director of Dakini’s Whisper, brings to this training her years of study and practice in Buddhist traditions, trauma-informed yoga and yoga therapy. Choying brings out the efficacy of ancient Buddhist wisdom for healing, nourishment, and empowerment in conjunction with embodied body-oriented contemplative movement practice. Chöying offers the DAKINI Subtle Body Training as a complementary or even mandatory practice for serious Vajrayana and Chö practitioners with her pragmatic approach.
The cost of a single drop-in is $20. The cost of the 5-class ticket is $95. This class is open to all levels of physical ability. However, please notify us if there is any specific physical and mental condition to be noted you may have. We look forward to welcoming you...
Please register in advance online by the form above. You will receive a Zoom Meeting invitation at least one hour before the class starts.
Testimonials
Choying Khandro teaches with great heart and great insight. She approaches the Dharma with simplicity and devotion and cuts through to the heart of the teachings in a fresh, exciting way. Her teachings on the profound path of Ganden Chod and Machig's Ear-Whispered lineage are contemporary while maintaining the rigor of their ancient origins.
M.N.
AUSTRALIA
Integrating the Subtle Body Training into my meditations has helped me to more deeply embody and feel the practices in my subtle body. This is much more than a set of exercises. The movements come from ancient traditions and include holding different meditative views while moving. Choying’s joyful way of teaching builds confidence, capability, integration, and love of practice.
N.P.
Ashland, OREGON
I was looking for this many years! The subtle body practice is a part of my Dharma Journey. And I find it here. With my Beloved Teacher. Choying, every lesson with her brings me deep spiritual insights. She gives a lot of useful practical ideas, which you can adapt to any level of Buddhist practice and physical activity... Every online meeting it is also an amazing connection with a community from all over the world. It has a family-like atmosphere, a lot of joy and support. And I just love Choying’s brilliant sense of humor!
K.P.
Moscow, RUSSIA
Choying compassionately dances the mandala of body, speech, and mind into our practice. Pointing out with wisdom grounded in experience, the essence of practice. She makes these cultural and ancient wisdom traditions relevant and available for us to embody. In my experience, her approach of combining body and mind awareness practice is unique and essential for experiencing freedom.
J.M.
Portland, OREGON
I am a trauma-focused bodywork therapist and have been pleasantly surprised to discover how closely aligned Choying's subtle body yoga techniques are with my somatic trainings. Her focus on being present with and befriending "what is" within the body while engaging in various movements has accelerated my own physical and psychological healing. Each live session is interactive, and each is recorded to provide a wonderful support for the subsequent daily practice. I highly recommend this series to anyone wishing to improve their physical and emotional health!
A.S
Chapel Hill, NOTH CAROLINA
Just fantastic to have the videos from the sessions divided into chapters with titles of them, so if you want to focus on specific practices it is very easy to find them. Terrific too if you don't have time to do a full session.
J.N.
Stockholm, SWEDEN
