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