Please Note Scheduling Updates Beginning Wednesday, June 17
Tuesday Classes with Patty MacRae will begin on June 23
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Wednesdays, June 17 & Thursday, June 18
7:30-8:45 AM ET: Classical Led Asana with John Campbell
9:15-10:15 AM ET: Tibetan Yoga with John Campbell
In-Person & Online
Single Session: $25 | Day Pass: $45
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Tibet House: Vajrayoga
Vajrayoga at Tibet House is a non-denominational and non-sectarian synthesis of yogic techniques derived from the Tibetan and Indian tantric and yogic traditions.
These weekly classes are part of our ongoing Vajra Yoga School program, offering participants an opportunity to stay connected between the monthly Vajra Yoga Weekend Immersions led by renowned Buddhist scholar and teacher Robert A.F. Thurman, Vajra Yoga Director John Campbell, and guest teachers, while supporting continued learning, connection, and integration of the teachings into daily life.
Classical Led Asana (all levels)
• Guided sequences of asanas anchored to breath, gaze, and postural alignment
• Moving meditation within the framework of the 8 branches of classical yoga
• Enhanced strength, flexibility, and endurance gives rise to mental positivity and emotional resiliance
The Classical Led Asana class teaches posture/movement sequences in which breathwork is coordinated with physical alignment and mental focus. Drawing inspiration from the practice lineages of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, instructors provide modifications and adaptations for students to discover an optimally beneficial practice for vibrant health and joyful mind.
Tibetan Yoga (all levels)
• Develop awareness of subtle body energetics, familiarizing the practitioner with core components of channels, winds, and drops.
• Pranayama, including ninefold purification breath (nāḍī shodhana)
• Vajra (mantra) recitation, 7-point posture of Vairochana, and vase-breathing technique
• 4 immeasurables, channel clearing breathwork
This class is a guided exploration of energy body yoga in the trul khor practices of the Tibetan Buddhist and Bon traditions, including therapeutic Nejang (self-healing yoga). These rejuvenating and vitalizing practices coordinate mental focus, breathwork, movement, and self-massage to super-charge psycho-physical wellbeing, while laying the foundation for Tibetan “inner yoga.”
TEACHER BIOS
John Campbell has been practicing yoga and meditation for over thirty years. In 2002 he became one of the few instructors worldwide to be recognized as a Certified Teacher by the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore in southern India. He currently runs the Vajra Yoga program for Tibet House in New York City. A scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, he received a PhD in Religion from Columbia University. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and taught at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, where he co-founded the Contemplative Sciences Center. He is a translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts from the yogic and tantric traditions of India and Tibet. His publications include The Esoteric Community Tantra by Vajradhara with the Illuminating Lamp by Chandrakirti (2020), the first in a series of commentaries on the Guhyasamāja Tantra co-translated with Prof. Robert Thurman. He is a native New Yorker and lives with his wife, three children, and various cats and dogs in Newburgh, New York.
Patty MacRae (E-RYT 500) has been practicing yoga since 1998. She completed her YA 200-hour TT with Val Schneiderman at the Yoga Shala of Ridgefield, CT. After some years of teaching and founding a seasonal yoga school in Maine, Patty completed her 300-hour Vajra Yoga certification under the guidance of Michele Loew and Tenzin Robert Thurman through Tibet House US. During that time, Patty also completed 200+ hours of Yoga Nidra teacher training with Michele Loew.
While undergoing the Vajra Yoga program, Patty simultaneously completed a Master’s degree from CIHS in Integral Noetic Sciences with a concentration in Dreamwork and Anomalous Experiences. She wrote a thesis exploring the intersections of dreams, contact phenomena, and altered states of consciousness.
In addition to teaching yoga, Patty works to support private clients through transformative experiences and anomalous phenomena, offering a bridge between ancient somatic practices and modern consciousness studies through lenses including dreamwork, tarot, astrology, journaling, art, and Jungian psychology.
Patty's teaching style seeks to guide each student to their inner knowing of the multidimensionality of their existence and their authentic Self. This gnosis comes from practices that attend to the physical and subtle bodies, using asana, meditation, pranayama, mantra, visualization, and stillness. Her classes are deeply influenced by the discipline of the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition and the profound wisdom of Vajra Yoga and Tibetan Medicine.
