Laura Shekerjian - Trul Khor 1 and Tsa Lung

Laura Shekerjian - Trul Khor 1 and Tsa Lung
2006-10-30 – We start again with the Trul Khor course. From April 11 to 15 2007 Laura Shekerjian will lead for the second time in Poland the first part of Trul Khor. This time she will also teach Tsa Lung.
The retreat will take place in Warsaw at:
Biosfera, 80 Niepodległości street (read: Niepodleguoshtchi) entrance from Odyńca street (Odintsa).
The retreat will take place in April 11 to 15 2007.

The seminar has been divided into two separate parts. The participants can take part in one or both  components of the Trul Khor course but Trul Khor already includes Tsa Lung practices.

The Trul Khor course is the first of a cicle of four parts. In October Alex Chaoul will lead the second and third ones. For those further parts of Trul Khor a knowledge of the previous ones will be needed, but the first part can also be performed as a complete practice.

Trul Khor from 9 am to 2 pm.(teachings - 15,00 euro per day)
Tsa Lung from 4 pm to 6 pm (teachings - 10,00 euro per day)

TSA LUNG
The Tsa Lung practices are very strong methods for maintaining the mind and its awarness on respiration, leading it to different parts of the body so that the practicioner can open and develop qualities that are beneficial and supportive for his/her life and practice.
Those practices familiarise the practitioner with his/her subtle canals and five types of breathing, related to the five elements. The living breath drives the mind towards the several parts of the body (the Chakras), through simple movements of the body, opening them and tuning them up to the experiences, which support the practice of meditation.
The aim of this practice is to achieve a state of balance in our body, in our emotions and our mind.
People who practice Tsa Lung will find a softened and balanced mind, a mind which becomes more clear and stable. Emotions become also more balanced and stable. But the benefits are not limited to the mind and our subtle body.
Nowadays in the US researches are being done on the influence of Tsa Lung Trul Khor Yoga into the process of healing patients with cancer.  The National Cancer Institute allowed last year a grant of 2,4 mln dollars to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for researches in that field. One of the program consultants is Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche, and Alejandro Chaul (who will teach the second and third part in October) is leading them.

TRUL KHOR - „Magic circle”
As Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche puts it: „Trul Khor is a fantastic everyday practice, allowing in particular to develop and cope with the stress of our contemporary life in society. It has the force to blance the mind and body energy as well as helps to support meditation practice. I strongly invite everybody and recomend to partake in those retreats, to learn this practice for oneself or to become an instructor.”
Trul Khor are not only body postures. Trul Khor is a dynamic yoga, but in order to practice its movements, some preliminary exercises aimed at calming the mind, training breath and feeling the subtle canals are needed. This is a key preparation before developing the necessary movements. Only then the body moves wereas respiration stays still. This allows the body movements to carry the life breath, moving the mind to subtle places which require a deeper care, strenghtening them.
Trul Khor, or the Magic Circle of Yoga Exercices requires a more intense coordination of the body movements than in the Tsa Lung practice. The aim of Trul Khor is to guide life breath, and with it the mind, not loosing in the mean time, on the contrary strenghtening, the state of clear mind. Therefore Tsa Lung exercises are the basis for Trul Khor Yoga.
For those who search for the natural state of mind, who practice Dzogchen, Trul Khor becomes a very strong tool which enables reaching to experiences of the clear nature and stabilizing them.

Laura Shekerjian is a student of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and has studied as well with the great Bon teachers H.H. Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche and Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. She studied trul khor with Alejandro Chaoul and has taught for several years. She is a psychotherapist practicing in Berkeley, California and is adjunct faculty at JFK University, teaching Tibetan Buddhism and various classes in the counseling psychology program. She has Masters degrees in both Buddhist Studies and psychology, and is actively involved in exploring the integration of the Buddhist and Western paradigms of self-transformation
Since the Trul Khor exercises will be introduced more frequently into our practices, Tenzin Rimpoche encourages us to participate in those retreats.