The Science and Art of Tantric Healing
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD
How Tantric Science and Practice Work to Heal and Transform Our Bodies, Minds, Spirits, and World.
At Jewel Heart we have been blessed to have direct personal access to the exceedingly rare and powerful contemplative science and practice of the Tibetan Tantras, thanks to the exceptional kindness of our late teacher, Gelek Rimpoche. As part of that uncommon good fortune, we are all aware of the extraordinary potential of Tantric practice for empowering ordinary humans like us to gain full awakening in as little as one fleeting lifetime. Yet the Nalanda tradition of Tantric depth-psychology and embodied healing preserved in Tibet also offers the more immediate, worldly benefits of enabling us to heal and transform the traumatic way of being we inherit—individually and collectively—as heirs to the human condition.
In this online course, Buddhist psychiatrist-scholar Dr. Joe Loizzo shares the fruits of his lifelong journey unpacking, translating and transplanting the healing science and practice of the Vajrayana tradition into the soil of contemporary life, by grafting it together with Western psychotherapy, neuroscience and social psychology. The three evening classes approach the three key phases of the Tantric path—preliminaries, creation and completion—in light of the Yuthog tradition of Tibetan psychiatry and the contemporary psychologies of intersubjective self-transcendence, narrative self-creation and embodied integration. The closing daylong retreat will put the healing insights and skills explored in the classes into practice, through shared reflection, guided meditation and embodied breath-work and movement. The aim is to help dharma practitioners understand and deepen the healing power of their contemplative practice, whether Sutric or Tantric.