Dr. Ale Chaoul
Discover the magic of ancient Bon Buddhist Tibetan yoga practices for spiritual growth, health, and well-being through Ale’s courses and books
october, 2024
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Tibetan Yoga PT. 1 | Wisdom Online Course Ongoing course- registration open
Discover the “magical movements” (trul khor) of Tibetan yoga in this groundbreaking new course taught by Dr. Alejandro Chaoul. Be guided through each yogic posture and movement, while learning how
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Discover the “magical movements” (trul khor) of Tibetan yoga in this groundbreaking new course taught by Dr. Alejandro Chaoul. Be guided through each yogic posture and movement, while learning how to use your breath and physical body to serve the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of genuine well-being.
What You’ll Learn:
The history of Tibetan yoga in the Bon tradition
The essential practices of trul khor or “magical movements,” the physical postures and movements of Tibetan yoga
How trul khor relates to the profound view and practice of Dzogchen
How the subtle body relates to meditation, and our experience of reality
Breathing techniques to help us cultivate calmness and peace
How to keep whatever meditation we practice fresh and inspired
Sacred and priceless techniques to benefit our spiritual life, and bring lasting wellness into our daily life
Year Around Event (2020)
12julAll DayTibetan Yoga Pt. 2 | Wisdom Online Course Ongoing course- registration open
Unite your body, breath, and mind for a powerful healing journey. While many have embraced yoga for its physical benefits, the ancient and secretive practices of Tibetan yoga offer a
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Unite your body, breath, and mind for a powerful healing journey. While many have embraced yoga for its physical benefits, the ancient and secretive practices of Tibetan yoga offer a unique path to alignment and inner peace.
In my new 2-part course series with Wisdom Academy, I will guide you through the sacred movements and postures of Tibetan yoga. These teachings will deepen your sense of embodiment, enhance your meditative practices, and bring greater clarity and confidence to your daily life.
Tibetan yoga is a transformative practice that helps you return to a deep meditative state after distractions and awakens the mind from drowsiness. Join me and discover the profound benefits that these ancient practices can bring to your life.
July 12 (Friday)
Cutting Fear and Attachment: The Practice of Chöd Including a pilgrimage to Triten Norbutse Monastery October 9-14, 2024 Kathmandu, Nepal Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in
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Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in Nepal! For the first time in 25 years, Rinpoche returns to offer a retreat in Kathmandu, a city steeped in many ancient spiritual traditions and cultures, including Yungdrung Bön. This retreat will include 5 days of teachings on the practice of chöd and a pilgrimage to the great Bön monastery, Triten Norbutse.
Chöd is a skillful method for transforming the fear, aversion and attachment that obscure our true nature, and with it the qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity that exist in all sentient beings. These afflictions give rise to illness, depression, anxiety, addiction, self-recrimination and become our “demons”, driving us toward suffering after suffering. When we nurture the sources of our pain with compassion, we discover the empty nature of our inner enemies and transform them into wisdom. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach us to meet our challenging emotions and experiences, not with anger and judgment, but with a warm embrace, and reconnect to the natural state: open, awake, and fearless.
The retreat will present the chöd text composed by the famous Bönpo dzogchen master Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche, who attained the rainbow body in 1934 at the age of 75. Traditionally, parts of the text are sung by the practitioner and accompanied by the chöd drum and bell. Tenzin Rinpoche will emphasize the core understanding of the principles and practice.
Along with his wonderful sense of humor, Rinpoche has a gift for making ancient wisdom accessible and relevant today. This retreat is open to everyone and has no prerequisites.
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october 9 (Wednesday) – 14 (Monday)
19octAll Day20Inner Refuge and Tibetan Yoga of the 5 Elements Retreat | Toulouse, France
This two-day retreat invites you to explore or deepen Tibetan meditation and yoga of the 5 elements, a series of ancient
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This two-day retreat invites you to explore or deepen Tibetan meditation and yoga of the 5 elements, a series of ancient meditative and yogic practices from the Bön Buddhist tradition.
They bring balance and harmony to our physical body, our energy, our emotions and our mind. By helping us clear the physical, emotional and conceptual obstacles of our daily life, they invite us to rediscover the space of our sometimes forgotten or neglected inner being.
Yogic practices are frequently performed at the beginning of a session so that the meditation can be deeper and more stable, enabling us to discover or reconnect with the open, clear and warm space of our being, our inner refuge, the source of joy and all qualities, what we really are.
This retreat is guided by Alejandro Chaoul, a senior teacher in Dzogchen meditation and Tibetan yogas of the Bön tradition. After being trained by some of the greatest Tibetan masters of our time, Alejandro became one of the senior teachers of Ligmincha International and the 3 Doors, two organizations founded by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. He has been teaching in North America, South America and Europe for over thirty years.
october 19 (Saturday) – 20 (Sunday)
Toulouse, France
Alejandro “Ale” Chaoul is a PhD, a scholar, researcher, author, teacher, and educator, with a PhD from Rice University focusing on Tibetan mind-body practices and applications in contemporary health environments. For over twenty years, Ale has researched and taught mind-body techniques to help relieve stress and support wellbeing throughout the community, including at MD Anderson’s Integrative Medicine Program and other educational, health care, and nonprofit organizations. He teaches in English and in Spanish.
He 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.
Ale teaches through Ligmincha the organization of his teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. He is the author of over 20 articles and three books, including Tibetan Yoga for Health & Wellbeing. Learn more about Ale’s books and courses.
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Dr. Ale Chaoul is a scholar, researcher, author, teacher, and educator, with a PhD from Rice University focusing on Tibetan mind-body practices and applications in contemporary health environments.