Vajra Therapy:
With Dr. Nida Chenagtsang and Dr. Joe Loizzo
Guided Meditations with Liz Sung
Presented by Sowa Rigpa Institute and Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science
Within the historic interchange between Buddhist and Western psychology, the most current and promising domain is the dialogue between the healing arts and sciences of the Tantras and today’s innovative embodied trauma therapies. This groundbreaking course brings together two of the world’s leading voices in the field for a shared exploration that will touch on all aspects of these convergent paths of transformational healing. The course follows the Tantric map of healing and human development and engages it at each point in dialogue with contemporary trends in psychotherapy, neuroscience and ecopsychology/ social justice.
Drs. Nida and Loizzo will begin by reviewing the foundations of self-healing and comparing both traditions’ approaches to the power of healing relationship. They will then unpack the healing arts of transformational imagery and narrative within the creation stage and move on to explore the completion stage, with its alchemical neuropsychology of transforming trauma into flourishing at all levels of mind, brain and body. Finally, our journey culminates in the Clockwork (Kalachakra) Tantric prophecy for the global future of humanity and all life on earth, from the shift towards sustainable lifestyles and universal contemplative learning to the emergence of truly equitable societies and a medicine planet. Join us for this historic meeting of two of humanity’s most powerful paths of embodied healing and transformation!
Drs. Nida and Loizzo will begin by reviewing the foundations of self-healing and comparing both traditions’ approaches to the power of healing relationship. They will then unpack the healing arts of transformational imagery and narrative within the creation stage and move on to explore the completion stage, with its alchemical neuropsychology of transforming trauma into flourishing at all levels of mind, brain and body. Finally, our journey culminates in the Clockwork (Kalachakra) Tantric prophecy for the global future of humanity and all life on earth, from the shift towards sustainable lifestyles and universal contemplative learning to the emergence of truly equitable societies and a medicine planet. Join us for this historic meeting of two of humanity’s most powerful paths of embodied healing and transformation!
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Schedule:
Topics Discussed
- Preliminaries to Transformational Work: Clearing and Seeding the Soil for Deep Change
- The Gateway of Co-Empowerment: The Yoga of Mentor-Bonding as a Transformative Alliance
- Outer Creation Stage: Revising Our Traumatic Vision and Narrative of Self and World
- Inner Creation Stage: Revising the Traumatic Felt Sense and Tone of Our Psychic Body and Reactive Nervous System
- Entering the Completion Stage: Breath-Work, Self-Massage and the Yoga of Autonomic Self-Regulation/ Sublimation (Nejang/ Tsalung/ Tummo)
- Channeling Our Native Genius/Inspired Inner Guide: The Yoga of the Healthy Narcissism/ Divine Pride/ the Illusory Body
- Embodying Our Lucid Intuition/Primordial Mind: The Yoga of Intuitive Liberation/ EmbodiedOpenness/ Quantum Translucency
- Awakening Our Dream-State Inner Guide: The Yoga of Dream Interpretation/ Lucid Dreaming/ Prophetic Vision
- Welcoming Death and Dying as the Ultimate Paths to Awakening: The Yogas of Life-Death Transition and Intergenerational Transference
- Sexuality and Sensuality as Paths to Awakening: The Yogas of Intimacy and Spiritual/ Aesthetic Communion (Karmamudra/ Mahamudra)
- Full-Bodied Eco-Psychospiritual Integration: The Great Perfection/Supreme Yoga (Dzogchen/ Atiyoga)
- The Clockwork (Kalachakra) Prophecy and the Medicine Planet: The Eco-Psycho-Social Apocalypse of Embodied Contemplative Healing and Transformation
ABOUT
Your Teachers
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Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang is a traditional Tibetan physician and lineage holder of the Yuthok Nyingthig, the unique spiritual healing tradition of Tibetan Medicine. Born in Amdo, in North Eastern Tibet, he began his early medical studies at the local Tibetan Medicine hospital and completed his medical education at the Lhasa Tibetan Medical University in 1996.
Alongside his medical education, Dr. Nida trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism, especially in the Longchen Nyingthig, Dudjom Tersar, and Yuthok Nyingthig.
A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa and Yuthok Nyingthig and his research of ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained high acclaim in the East and West.
Dr. Nida is the Founder and Medical Director of the Sowa Rigpa Institute of Tibetan Medicine.
Alongside his medical education, Dr. Nida trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism, especially in the Longchen Nyingthig, Dudjom Tersar, and Yuthok Nyingthig.
A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa and Yuthok Nyingthig and his research of ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained high acclaim in the East and West.
Dr. Nida is the Founder and Medical Director of the Sowa Rigpa Institute of Tibetan Medicine.
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Dr. Joe Loizzo
Joseph (Joe) Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices on healing, learning and development. He is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches contemplative self-healing and optimal health. He has taught the philosophy of science and religion, the scientific study of contemplative states, and the Indo-Tibetan mind and health sciences at Columbia University, where he is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies.
Dr. Loizzo is the Founder & Academic Director of Nalanda Institute.
Dr. Loizzo is the Founder & Academic Director of Nalanda Institute.
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Liz Sung
Liz Sung is a Yuthok Nyingthig practitioner through her main teacher Dr. Nida Chenagtsang with whom she also studied Tibetan yoga and Sowa Rigpa. Influenced by her Korean upbringing and cultural background of Mahayana Buddhism, Liz first began studying with her first teacher in the Gelug lineage.Raised in a family of artists and entrepreneurs, Liz has 18+ years of experience in design and branding in New York City, and in 2015 founded a meditation lifestyle brand called SAMAYA in Los Angeles.Liz is authorized by Dr. Nida to teach Tibetan yoga and certify new teachers for Sowa Rigpa Institute. She is also certified in Hatha yoga, trauma-informed yoga, and meditation.
