How to liberate yourself of bad habits

The Five Big Emotions, Mindfulness and Mudrā

This winter 2027 session begins, in fact, at the end of november 2026. It consist of seven classes (14 hours — Seven 2-hour sessions) where participants will learn simple techniques with this aim

The aim is not to eliminate emotion. It is to learn how to feel, identify, understand and work with emotion without immediately becoming driven by it.

The method

Using hatha (Raja and Tantra lineage) yoga and Meditation practice, participants will learn how to experience Equanimity

From mindfulness →to→ introspection →to→ equanimity

We use mudra practices as a symbolic and sacred hand gesture intended to induce a psychological attitude, energetic effect and spiritual experience, and emphasizes approaching the practice respectfully.

Where does this workshop comes from

Inspired by Erika M. Hunter's "Five emotions" provide the framework and Bouddhist nun Chönyi Taylor "Practical guide to liberate ourselves from bad habits" provides us three central tools.

  • Mad — Anger
  • Scared — Fear
  • Glad — Joy/Gladness
  • Sad — Sorrow
  • Ashamed — Shame

Interesting links

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    • This workshop is based mainly on Bouddhist Nun Chönyi Taylor. See his book on archive.org
Tantrism Meets Modern Psychology: Emotions Are Not Enemies, But Guides

This training explores meditation as a tool for healing by bringing together three complementary approaches: the five major emotions described by Erika M. Hunter, the Buddhist approach to compulsive patterns and emotional suffering developed by Chönyi Taylor, and an embodied practice of mudrā inspired by tantric yoga.

Rather than treating anger, fear, joy, sadness and shame as problems to eliminate, we learn to recognize them as signals. Each emotion carries information about our needs, attachments, boundaries, losses and aspirations. Meditation creates a space between emotion and reaction; mudrā gives that space a physical and symbolic form.

The practice follows a simple principle:

Feel → Breathe → Name → Investigate → Choose.

Through breath awareness, meditation, introspection and mudrā, participants learn to observe emotional patterns without immediately acting upon them. The objective is not emotional suppression, nor the pursuit of constant calm. It is the cultivation of discernment: the ability to remain present with an emotion long enough to understand what it is communicating.

In this context, Tantra is approached as an embodied contemplative tradition in which the body, breath, gesture, attention and intention participate together in transformation. Mudrās therefore become anchors of awareness rather than mechanical techniques promising predetermined results.

An emotion deserves to be heard.
It does not necessarily have to be obeyed.

The Five Emotional Gateways

Anger — Mad

What boundary, value or need is asking to be recognized?

Fear — Scared

What am I trying to protect, and what is actually happening now?

Joy — Glad

Can I fully receive pleasure without demanding that it remain?

Sadness — Sad

What am I being invited to acknowledge, grieve or release?

Shame — Ashamed

Can I distinguish between something I have done and the totality of who I am?

The training progressively transforms the familiar sequence:

Trigger → Emotion → Impulse → Reaction
into:
Trigger → Emotion → Breath → Awareness → Discernment → Choice.

Meditation then becomes less an escape from emotion than a way of entering into a more intelligent relationship with it.

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