Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra: Yoga Through the Lens of Direct Experience

£115.00

The Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra is one of the most refined texts on direct perception and awareness within the Tantric tradition.

This course offers a structured and grounded exploration of selected teachings from the text, approached through the lens of yoga.

Rather than presenting Tantra as something separate or esoteric, this course reveals how its insights directly support:

  • attention

  • breath

  • sensory awareness

  • and inner steadiness

Each session brings the teachings into lived experience - bridging śāstra and practice in a clear, applicable way.

The Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra is one of the most refined texts on direct perception and awareness within the Tantric tradition.

This course offers a structured and grounded exploration of selected teachings from the text, approached through the lens of yoga.

Rather than presenting Tantra as something separate or esoteric, this course reveals how its insights directly support:

  • attention

  • breath

  • sensory awareness

  • and inner steadiness

Each session brings the teachings into lived experience - bridging śāstra and practice in a clear, applicable way.

  • This is a 10-part course exploring key methods of attention (dhāraṇā-s) drawn from the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra.

    The course integrates:

    • traditional understanding

    • practical application

    • and guided experiential work

    It is not a theoretical study alone, nor a collection of techniques.

    It is a refinement of how we perceive, attend, and relate to experience.

  • Across the 10 sessions, you will explore:

    • How breath becomes a gateway to subtle awareness

    • The role of pauses and transitions in perception

    • How the senses can support—not distract from—practice

    • The development of stable, clear attention (dhāraṇā)

    • The natural unfolding toward meditative continuity (dhyāna)

    • The integration of awareness into daily life

    You will also be introduced to:

    • selected dhāraṇā-s from the text

    • the relationship between Tantra and classical yoga

    • the role of mantra and inner listening as supports for practice

Course Description

The Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra presents a series of precise entry points into awareness—rooted in everyday experience: breath, sound, sensation, and attention.

In this course, these teachings are approached in a way that is:

  • structured

  • clear

  • and grounded in practice

Each class builds progressively, moving from:

  • external awareness → internal refinement → integration

Rather than adding complexity, the course supports a subtle shift in how practice is approached.

Through this, yoga becomes:

  • more internal

  • more precise

  • and more directly transformative

    • Format: 10 classes

    • Duration: Approx. 2 hours per class

    • Structure of Each Class:

      • Opening centering or chant

      • Context and teaching

      • Exploration of 1–2 dhāraṇā-s

      • Guided experiential practice

      • Reflection and integration

  • This course is suitable for:

    • yoga teachers seeking a deeper understanding beyond technique

    • dedicated practitioners interested in the inner limbs of yoga

    • students of prāṇāyāma, meditation, or Yoga Sūtra study

    • those looking to refine attention and awareness in practice

    No prior study of Tantra is required.

    A willingness to observe, reflect, and engage with subtle practice is essential.

    • Clear, structured teaching rooted in traditional understanding

    • A balance of theory and direct experience

    • Practical methods that can be integrated into daily practice

    • A progressive deepening across the 10 sessions

    This is not a fast-paced or technique-heavy course.

    It is a steady unfolding of understanding through experience.

This course is an invitation to move from doing to seeing

To shift from effort toward clarity

and to understand yoga not only as practice - but as a way of perceiving.