TITLE: NEJANG: TIBETAN LONGEVITY YOGA

SUBTITLE: Transformational Self-Healing Practices from Tibetan Medicine

REJUVENATE, REVITALIZE & RESTORE 

Presenter: Lee (Mirabai) Harrington

MARCH 22 – 27, 2026

Join Buddhist ngakma, Tibetan spiritual healer, author, devotional singer and certified Nejang instructor Lee (Mirabai) Harrington for a gentle but profound exploration into the realm of Nejang–Tibetan self-healing method that has been practiced and prescribed for centuries to pacify existing medical imbalances, prevent future imbalances and disease, and increase vitality and well-being. 

Whether you are a seasoned yogi/yogini looking to supplement your existing practice and deepen your understanding of the subtle body; or you are a beginner looking for simple but effective ways to tend to an ageing or injured body; or you are simply overwhelmed by stress and your own wild mind; this workshop will offer guidance, instruction, and compassionate presence. The program is also structured to allow free time to enjoy Kripalu’s many daily programs and amenities, leaving you feeling refreshed, revitalized and restored to wholeness.  

Nejang yoga (also known as Tibetan Self-Healing Yoga or Tibetan Rejuvenation Yoga) is a Tibetan self-healing practice which combines breathwork, gentle movement, and self-massage to open and invigorate the energy channels and rejuvenate the physical and mental bodies. Traditional Nejang–with roots in both Tibetan medicine and Kalachakra tantra–consists of twenty-four gentle yet energetic movements: a series which balances the body’s internal energies, regulates the nervous system, nourishes the internal organs, and relaxes the mind. The word “nejang” loosely translates as “cleaning the energy sites in the body” and, for centuries, Tibetan physicians have recommended Nejang exercises as “prescriptions” for their patients to help them recover from injury or illness, reduce stress, and restore and maintain good health. In modern times, Nejang exercises can: help alleviate anxiety, depression and PTSD; balance mood and hormones; improve memory, mental clarity and quality of sleep; aids digestion; help our system process traumas and grief; prevent incontinence, and support overall health.

Nejang is now becoming better known in the West, thanks to the wisdom and generosity of Lee’s teacher, Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, who translated and published the first Nejang texts in English in the early Aughts.  

Please note that Nejang yoga is a subtle body yoga; it is not a rigorous physical practice with long-held asanas. (But Nejang does serve as a wonderful companion to and preliminary to the more advanced Tibetan yogas and to the more commonly known hatha yogas.)  

Nejang is a very simple, accessible practice for all ages, abilities, and spiritual backgrounds.  Most of the exercises are done seated on a cushion or in a chair.  Modifications will be offered to anyone with physical limitations or disabilities.  

In this five-day retreat, you will:

– Learn and practice–in depth–the twenty-four Nejang exercises and their specific therapeutic (and spiritual) applications as taught by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang

– Learn and practice the key points of the calm-abiding posture used in Nejang and other Tibetan yogas and meditations

– Learn and practice Tibetan pranayamas, including Ninefold Purification Breathing (which purify the main channels of the energy body) and Bumpachen (vase breathing)

– Learn basic principles of TTM (Traditional Tibetan Medicine) and typology (similar to the Ayurvedic doshas)

-Learn basic Buddhist principles and how to apply them in daily life.

–Cultivate an awareness and understanding of your own unique typology and learn how to best work with your typology to ensure utmost physical and mental health and well-being.

-Gain an understanding of the subtle body (energy body) according to TTM and how subtle-level blockages affect our physical and mental health.

-Learn a unique self-massage practice that helps to restore a protective life-force energy (called bLa) 

– Cultivate the ability to recognize if/when the energy channels might be compromised and how to regulate yourself with self-massage.

– Learn how to activate the subtle energies that bring a sense of wholeness, belonging, and true authentic perfection to all aspects of your life.

-Experience deep levels of relaxation. 

– Deepen the connection and communication between your own mind , body, and spirit (energy). 

-Rediscover the great source of vitality and bliss that exists at your core essence. 

-Engage in compassionate self-inquiry to explore your beliefs, your patterns and habituations, your struggles, and your joys.

-Understand how your own mindset has an impact on your physical/mental health.  

-Access and trust your own inner wisdom and learn to truly love and accept yourself.

Participants will leave with a deepened understanding of how we can reclaim agency over our own health and well-being, and how we can use our own minds, bodies, and voices as healing supports. When we purify ourselves at subtle levels, the effects are profound. Our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world are improved. And once we are all able to express ourselves with full, unobscured authenticity, we can help the world become a more balanced and compassionate realm.  

NOTE: Lee will offer a special Tibetan mantra-healing kirtan on Wednesday evening for the Kripalu community.

https://kripalu.org/experiences/tibetan-longevity-yoga-healing-practices-tibetan-medicine