This is the third volume in the Kum Nye series, following Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga and The Joy of Being.

These movements, postures and dance sequences are invigorating rather than soothing, designed to energize the body and to wake up consciousness. Related to the Tibetan tradition of ritual meditative dance, the practices are dynamic and expressive: they emphasize the transformative power of yoga, helping us make meaningful changes in our energy levels, patience, tolerance, and physical and mental flexibility.

Kum Nye is the art of making friends with all experience: practicing these gestures we become familiar with the body's subtle flows of energy. Through movement, energy expresses meaning and liberates the mind.

Step- by-step color photographs of the 75 exercises complement the accessible text.

Kum Nye Dancing: Introducing the Mind to the Treasures the Body Offers, Tarthang Tulku, Dharma Publishing, Paperback, 221 pp, $25.00

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche is a traditionally trained teacher and author in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in 1935 in eastern Tibet, Rinpoche studied with many of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. After leaving Tibet, Tarthang Tulku taught from 1962 to 1968 at Sanskrit University in Varanasi, India, where he also established one of the first printing presses to print sacred Tibetan texts. The first lama of the Nyingma lineage to establish residence in the United States, Rinpoche established a mandala of organizations to actualize his long-range vision of preserving the ancient teachings of the Buddha and transmitting them to the modern world. He is the author of over two dozen books, including two previous volumes on Kum Nye (Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga and The Joy of Being), as well as Gesture of Balance; Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality; Skillful Means; Revelations of Mind, and Caring.