Reclaim Your Health and Wellbeing

Join Buddhist ngakma, Tibetan spiritual healer, author, devotional singer, and certified Nejang instructor Lee (Mirabai) Harrington for a gentle but profound exploration into the realm of Nejang. This Tibetan self-healing yoga method has been practiced and prescribed for centuries to pacify existing medical imbalances, prevent future imbalances and disease, and increase vitality and wellbeing.  

Nejang yoga is a Tibetan self-healing practice which combines breathwork, gentle movement, and self-massage to open and invigorate the energy channels and rejuvenate the physical and mental bodies. Traditional Nejang—with roots in both Tibetan medicine and Kalachakra tantra—consists of 24 gentle yet energetic movements: a series which balances the body’s internal energies, regulates the nervous system, nourishes the internal organs, and relaxes the mind.  

The word Nejang loosely translates to “cleaning the energy sites in the body” and, for centuries, Tibetan physicians have recommended Nejang exercises to help patients recover from injury or illness, reduce stress, and restore and maintain good health. Nejang exercises help alleviate anxiety, depression, and PTSD; balance mood and hormones; improve memory, mental clarity, and quality of sleep; aid digestion; help our systems process traumas and grief; and support overall health.

 In this retreat, you will:

• Learn and practice the 24 Nejang exercises, the key points of the calm-abiding posture, Tibetan pranayamas, and basic principles of Traditional Tibetan Medicine and typology.
• Cultivate an awareness and understanding of your own unique typology and learn how to best work with your typology to ensure utmost physical and mental health and wellbeing.
• Discover the subtle body (energy body) according to TTM and how subtle-level blockages affect our physical and mental health.
• Explore a unique self-massage practice that helps to restore a protective life-force energy (called bLa).
• Engage in compassionate self-inquiry to explore your beliefs, patterns, habituations, struggles, and joys.

Whether you are a seasoned yogi or yogini looking to supplement your existing practice, a beginner looking for simple but effective ways to tend to an aging or injured body, or simply overwhelmed by stress and your own wild mind, this workshop will offer guidance, instruction, and compassionate presence.  Nejang is a very simple, accessible practice for all ages, abilities, and spiritual backgrounds.  Leave with a deepened understanding of how we can reclaim agency over our own health and wellbeing, and how we can use our own minds, bodies, and voices as healing supports.

NOTE: Lee will offer a special Tibetan mantra-healing kirtan on Wednesday evening.