Enhancing Your Life-Force with Breath:
Bringing Rainbows into Your Life
with Alejandro Chaoul
July 22-23, 2023
Enhancing Your Life-force with Breath: Bringing Rainbows into Your Life
The ancient Tibetan Bön spiritual tradition is rooted in its connection to the five elements, and the wisdom breath that supports our life-force.
In this weekend, we will explore the life-force breath that can retrieve and reconnect us with the power of the five elements.
Alejandro will Instruct us in:
- Securing a Boundary, a practice that helps us build an energetic support and trust more the boundless support of our inner space.
- The Nine Breathings of Purification, to clear our anger, attachment and confusion and reconnect to the core space of our central channel.
- The Life-force Tsa Lung practice and its connections to the retrieval of the elements into the space of our mind-heart.
- How to stay connected to what we cultivate in these meditations into the space of our True Source of Healing—following Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s book.
Join us!
Schedule – Saturday and Sunday CDT
Session 1 10:00-11:15 am
Break 11:15-12:30 am
Session 2 11:30 am- 12:30 pm
Meal Break 12:30-2:00 pm
Session 3 2:00 -3:30 pm
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Retreat teachings and practices will be taught in English.
Live translation will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Russian..
All recordings will be made available to registered participants.
ZOOM REGISTRATION:
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Zoom Registration
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Handouts will not be provided on site. You must print out the handouts before hand from the link to the Google Drive folder that will be provided after successful registration, and bring your handouts with you.
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In Person Registration $75
In Person Registration $100
In Person Registration $125
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Joyful Practice of Ancient Bön Teachings for Living Well
Founding Director – Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute
Adjunct Faculty – Integrative Medicine Program Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation & Integrative Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adjunct Faculty – McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics McGovern Medical School, UT Health
Instructor – Rice University Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, aster of Liberal Studies program
Instructor – University of Maryland, Baltimore, Masters in Integrative Medicine
Dr. Chaoul is the Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston, bringing a new approach for helping healthcare professionals flourish by reducing stress and burnout, and improving health, resilience and nourish the human spirit.
He holds a PhD in Tibetan religions from Rice University, and has studied in the Tibetan tradition since 1989, and for almost 30 years with Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, completing the 7-year training at Ligmincha Institute in 2000, and also training in Triten Norbutse monastery in Nepal and Menri monastery in India.
Alejandro is a Senior Teacher of The 3 Doors, an international organization founded by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche with the goal of transforming lives through meditation, and since 1995, he has been teaching meditation classes and Tibetan Yoga (Tsa Lung & Trul Khor) workshops nationally and internationally under the auspices of Ligmincha International.
In 1999 he began teaching these techniques at the Integrative Medicine Program of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, where he holds an adjunct faculty position and for the last twenty years has conducted research on the effect of these practices in people with cancer and their caregivers. He is also an adjunct faculty member at The University of Texas’ McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, where he teaches medical students in the areas of spirituality, complementary and integrative medicine, and end-of-life care. In addition he is an Instructor at Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Master of Liberal Studies program and an at The University of Maryland, Baltimore, Masters in Integrative Medicine.
In addition, he is an advisor to The Rothko Chapel and past board member of The Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University, and founding member of Compassionate Houston. His research and publications focus on mind-body practices in integrative care, examining how these practices can reduce chronic stress, anxiety and sleep disorders and improve quality of life. He is the author of Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition (SnowLion, 2009), Tibetan Yoga for Health and Wellbeing (Hay House, 2018), and Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath & Mind (Wisdom Publications, 2021). He has published in the area of religion and medicine, medical anthropology and the interface of spirituality and healing. Dr. Chaoul has been recognized as a Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute.