Body, Breath & Mind

About this event

Body, Breath & Mind: Tibetan Yogic Movement and Mahamudra Meditation

with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, Matteo Pistono, and Liz Sung November 14 & 15, 2026

Saturday 10 - 6 Sunday 10 - 1

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ONLINE LIVESTREAM

Join Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, Liz Sung, and Matteo Pistono for a weekend of teaching on Mahamudra meditation, dynamic Tibetan yogic movement, and Buddhist breathing practices. Drawing on Tibetan medical and yogic traditions, the workshop combines teaching with guided practice to explore how posture and breath influence your energy body, emotional patterns, and attention.

Mahamudra invites you to rest in the natural openness and clarity of awareness amid the movement of thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Through direct experience, you’ll discover how working with the body through yoga and conscious breath can support emotional balance and deepen meditation.

Open to practitioners of all levels and backgrounds, this workshop will give you practical tools and greater confidence to meet life’s demands, the self-trust to care deeply for yourself and others, and the awareness to explore the nature of your own mind.

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SCHEDULE

Saturday:

10am - 1pm: Session One 1 - 3pm: Lunch (Vegetarian lunch included for in-person participants) 3 - 6pm: Session Two

Sunday:

10am - 1pm: Session Three

1 - 2:30pm Lunch (Vegetarian lunch included for in-person participants)

This is a non-residential workshop, however limited accommodations are available. Please write to info@purelandfarms.com to inquire.

Online livestream is hosted by the Sowa Rigpa Institute and includes one year access to video recordings

IN PERSON REGISTRATION

ONLINE LIVESTREAM

DR. NIDA CHENAGTSANG

Dr. Nida Chenagtsang is a traditional Tibetan physician, author, and lineage holder of the Yuthok Nyingthig, the spiritual heart of Tibetan medicine. He is dedicated to preserving and transmitting the traditions of Tibet’s healing science and Vajrayana Buddhism internationally.

Born in northeastern Tibet, Dr. Nida trained at Lhasa Tibetan Medical University and spent extended periods in meditation retreat. He founded the Sowa Rigpa Institute and teachers Tibetan medicine, Buddhist meditation, and yoga worldwide. Known for his clear and accessible teaching style, Dr. Nida emphasizes direct experience as the foundation of study and practice.

MATTEO PISTONO

Matteo Pistono is an author, scholar, and teacher of pranayama and meditation whose work draws on 30 years of study and practice in Hatha Yoga and Buddhist traditions. He earned an MA in Indian Philosophy from SOAS, University of London, and spent nearly a decade in Nepal and Tibet, immersed in study, retreat, and practice with Buddhist teachers.

His books include Breathe How You Want to Feel, Meditation: Coming to Know Your Mind , and In the Shadow of the Buddha . Combining philosophy and contemplative practice with contemporary breathing science, Matteo teaches breath as a means of cultivating health and deepening meditative insight. He writes and edits at Sky Press and is co-author of the forthcoming Everything Is Medicine: Tibetan Wisdom for Healing and Enlightenment (2027), with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang and Robert Thurman.

LIZ SUNG

Liz Sung is a Yuthok Nyingthig practitioner under the guidance of her root teacher Dr. Nida Chenagtsang. Influenced by her Korean heritage and Mahayana Buddhist cultural roots, Liz began to study the dharma under her first teacher in the Gelug lineage.

As Yoga Director for the Sowa Rigpa Institute, she develops the Sowa Rigpa Yoga curriculum and programs, integrating Tibetan Medicine with Tibetan yoga, and teaches internationally. She is certified as a Sowa Rigpa Practitioner, in Hatha yoga, trauma-informed yoga, meditation, and brings a decade of embodied movement training.

Liz is also the founder of SAMAYA, a meditation lifestyle brand exploring the meeting of ancient wisdom and contemporary living. She also co-creates Tanaduk Garden with Dr. Nida, an initiative devoted to preserving and sharing the living wisdom and holistic approach of Tibetan medicine.