Tseyang Osel is a Buddhist yogini who has spent most of her twenties in solitary retreat in remote mountain areas. Recorded in Tang Valley, Bhutan.

Tseyang tells the story of her childhood, the beginning of the inspiration to become a yogini, and her attraction to solitary retreat.

Tseyang details the practicalities as well as the dangers of spending months in the remote mountains, and the unique challenges of being a female practitioner in today’s world.

Tseyang also discusses her love of Vajrayogini practice, the effect of kye-rim naljor on the subtle body channels, themes of devotion and attachment, and gives her heart advice to those who wish to practice well.

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Topics include:

00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Tseyang’s childhood and upbringing
04:25 - The desire to become a mountain practitioner
06:35 - Searching for female inspirations
12:07 - Solitary retreats and attraction to remote mountain areas
16:05 - Special qualities of mountain retreats
20:25 - Food and provisions on remote retreats
23:28 - Challenges and dangers in the mountains
29:07 - Five elements practice as sustenance
30:43 - Nomad encounters
32:30 - Vajrayogini practice
36:51 -Generation stage and the subtle body
39:33 - Tendrel and devotion
41:34 - Skill in practice
42:37 - Being a female practitioner
44:40 - Long hair and attachment
51:59 - Wearing religious robes
53:51 - Advice to male and female practitioners
59:51 - Tseyang’s upcoming mountain retreat
01:01:20 - What inspires Tseyang’s practice

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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James