Tibetan Yoga

Principles and Practices

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A visual presentation of the origins, principles and practices of Tibetan yoga, the hidden treasure at the heart of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhist tradition

Tibetan yoga is the hidden treasure at the heart of Tibet’s Tantric Buddhist tradition: deeply embodied, life-enriching practices that reveal the full spectrum of humanity’s cognitive and existential potential. In this pioneering visual and anthropological overview, Ian Baker explains Tibetan yoga’s core principles and practices through enlightening accounts of dynamic techniques of body, breath and mind, as well as long-secret methods of sexual yoga, dream yoga and the meditative use of awareness-expanding psychoactive plant and mineral substances.
Extent: 292 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 396
Publication date: 2025-07-17
Size: 23.2 x 18.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500298664
Foreword by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Thinley Dorje • Foreword by the venerable Bhakha Tulku Pema Rigdzin Rinpoche • Introduction • I. Outer, Inner, Secret: Yoga in Indo-Tibetan tradition • II. Elemental Wisdom: Varieties of meditative experience • III. Immaculate Perception: Freeing the Imagination • IV. Enlightened Anatomy: The yoga of channels, winds, and essences • V. Flowing Wholeness: The yoga of integral movement • VI. Incandescence: The yoga of unbound fire • VII. Numinous Passion: The alchemy of desire • VIII. Noetic Light: The infinite brightness of being • IX. Dreamtime: The yoga of lucid sleep • X. Exit Strategies: The yoga of transcending death • XI. Liminality: Navigating transitional states • XII. Potent Solutions: The yoga of entheogens and elixirs • XIII. Primal Radiance: The yoga of innate perfection

Press Reviews

A rare glimpse into a world that has traditionally been kept secret in Tibet … beautifully illustrated with colour photographs of yogis, landscapes and Buddhist art
South China Morning Post




About the Author

Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan art and culture, including The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing. He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ at the Wellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by the National Geographic Society as one of the seven ‘Explorers for the Millennium’ for his groundbreaking field research in Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorges.

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