Meditation in Yogic & Tantric Traditions II: A Practicum

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This course is a continuation of Meditation in Yogic and Tantric Traditions: a Practicum. This course will continue to guide students through a comprehensive curriculum of meditative practice as formulated in Patanjali's Yogasutra, tantra and hatha yoga. While continuing to utilize Patanjali's yogic system as a foundation for the practicum, this curriculum will further explore working with the breath and subtle body as illuminated in hatha yoga and tantra, while making space for the spontaneous unfolding of meditative awareness and the cultivation of self-mastery. This core curriculum will serve as staging for more fruitional modes of meditation. Teachings on meditative praxis will be supplemented by a study of the ways of seeing and knowing advanced by the source traditions, i.e., the dynamism of their fundamental views as well as their articulations of the purpose and goal of meditation. Prerequisite: REL-617E.