Michele Loew
Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher and practitioner of hatha and Vajrayana yogas. Since 1999, she has built community spaces dedicated to the practice of yoga and spirituality. She is the founder of The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon, well as the Vajra Yoga School of Comparative Buddhist & Indic Yoga Studies, where she teaches alongside Robert A.F. Thurman for Tibet House US.
In 2019 she began Clearlight Yoga, her school focusing on yoga nidra and the sleep and dream yoga practices of the Himalayan masters. She is known as a teacher’s teacher, and her yoga schools have been respected by students worldwide for teaching lineage-based yoga focusing on the deeper philosophical and esoteric aspects of the practice, while bringing in cutting edge modern science and kinesiology into the practice of asana, pranayama, and meditation.
She took refuge with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in 2014 at the Kalachakra Empowerment in Ladakh, India. She continues to study with him as her root guru, and is also a student of the Forty-Second Sakya Trizin, Ling Rinpoche, and of course Kalu Rinpoche.
She serves on the board of directors of Tibet House US and leads retreats and workshops internationally with an altruistic intention to serve and inspire all to discover their enlightened nature. Follow her on social media and online at www.micheleloew.com.
Books, Courses & Podcasts
The Yoga of Niguma
Immerse yourself in the extraordinarily transcendent practice of the yoga of Niguma.
The yoga of Niguma comes to us from a secret tradition passed down over hundreds of years by Buddhist yogis in Tibet. The practice originated with the eleventh-century female yogini Niguma, who mastered and transmitted a tradition of remarkable practices that culminate in physical, spiritual, and emotional wellness. In this book, His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche, a Tibetan master who holds this lineage for today’s generation, is now opening up the practice to make its extraordinary benefits accessible to the modern yogi.
The yoga of Niguma consists of twenty-five sets of yogic exercises. Some are physically challenging while others are quite subtle in nature; all are grounded in meditation on the breath. Kalu Rinpoche illuminates the practice by sharing his own personal journey with the yoga of Niguma and how the lineage came to be. He also teaches us how we can prepare the mind for this practice with meditation and how to balance our emotions. Then, Rinpoche takes us step-by-step through the twenty-five illustrated sequences of Niguma yoga. Coauthor Michele Loew, an international yoga teacher, shares supportive Hatha yoga techniques that will bolster your Niguma yoga practice.
The yoga of Niguma is a revered method that integrates body, mind, and breath. Dive in to discover for yourself a gradual, profound groundswell of subtle awakening.
Rinpoche and Michele have recorded two full-length videos that demonstrate Niguma yoga sequences and supportive hatha yoga postures and supplement the instructions in the book. To learn more and watch the videos simply purchase the book and scan the QR code on the Additional Resources page in your copy.
You may also be interested in Rinpoche’s courses from Wisdom, Niguma’s Dream Yoga and The Illusory Body and Mind.