Videos
Please see below for Tina’s growing list of online videos.
6 Workshops Now Published on Innercraft
Tina has now published 6 video workshops on the Innercraft Platform, which have been received with glowing reviews. People are finding the quality very high, and the content phenomenal. As of June 2023, the workshops she has developed that are now on the Innercraft site include:
- What is Awakening?–Parts 1 and 2
- The Heart Practices: Bodhicitta and the Bramaviharas
- Focused Attention: Samatha Practice
- Open Monitoriing: Vipassana Practice
- Self-Transcending: Dzogchen Practice
These workshops provide instruction, overviews, and guided meditations for all of Tina’s latest teaching. The “What is Awakening?” Workshop gives an overview of how awakening is seen and understood in different traditions, as well as a short overview of the 4 categories of practice in the subsequent Workshops. The Workshop on the 4 categories of practice include a complete set of teaching for the categories discovered in neuroscience that each have different effects on the brain. When combined, the 3 foundational categories of Heart Practices, Focused Attention, and Open Monitoring provide the basis for the Self-Transcending practice of Dzogchen. The Dzogchen teachings are very hard to find, so this is a precious resource.
Tina’s next workshop, out in late 2023/early 2024, will be on Embodiment and Off-the-Cushion practice. Rarely are these topics taught, and Tina has been exploring and working with them for over 20 years now, and will share how to use them in adding the 15 hours a day off-the cushion to our 30-60 minutes a day on the cushion, greatly accelerating one’s unfoldment and integration.
To learn more about what Innercraft click the link below. Access to the platform is free for the first 2 weeks, and then on a minimal monthly membership. Luminous Mind Sangha makes very little money from the Innercraft platform, but wanted to offer this as a high-quality and accessible way to understand her teachings.
“After Awakening” Interview with Ryan Burton
Tina is interviewed by Ryan Burton of “After Awakening.” This is Tina’s best interview covering aspects of awakening. Ryan has studied with Tina for many years, so they have a lot of fun! You can watch the video here, listen to the audio interview or read the transcript on Ryan’s website. Also available on Spotify.
Guru Viking, Pandemic Edition
Tina discusses dealing with fear and panic, isolation, and sickness and dying in the times of Corona with “Guru Viking” Steve James
GuruViking Interview with Tina Rasmussen
Tina Rasmussen Ph.D, is a meditation teacher and author who is best known as being the first Western woman to master the virtuoso-level shamata meditation system of Pa Auk Sayadaw.
In this interview we learn about Tina’s life-defining quest for enlightenment which inspired her 1-year solo retreat in which her practice of Dzogchen triggered not only massive energetic phenomena but also a profound spiritual awakening.
We hear all about Tina’s training and authorisation under the notoriously rigorous Pa Auk Sayadaw, culminating in mastery of all 8 jhanas, with all ten kasinas, and much more.
We also discuss issues such as integration of awakening in professional life, romantic relationship after enlightenment, and sexual scandal among meditation teachers.
Topics Include:
0:00 – Intro
00:53 – Learning meditation at 13 years old
03:19 – Rediscovering the spiritual path after divorce
07:10 – Discovering a natural faculty for deep meditation experiences
10:31 – Straddling deep practice and high end business consulting
14:11 – Why Tina outed herself as a meditator in her professional life
18:36 – Effects of Tina’s spiritual practice on her romantic relationships, and meeting Stephen Snyder
24:10 – Rewired romantic life after enlightenment and Tibetan Tantra
29:20 – Tina’s 1 year solo retreat
40:55 – Extreme energetic experiences and DIY Tummo
44:21 – Tsoknyi Rinpoche and subtle body trauma
50:38 – The challenges of working with very popular teachers
55:33 – Finding mentors as an advanced practitioner
58:52 – Tina’s dream yoga practice and 24hr meditation
1:02:31 – Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche
1:03:24 – Tina’s Dzogchen practice
1:06:53 – Mastering shamata meditation under Pa Auk Sayadaw’s instruction
1:20:14 – Which is more difficult, shamata or awakening?
1:22:06 – The consequences of jhana mastery
1:27:14 – Scandals among spiritual teachers, levels of awakening, and personality material
1:33:21 – Defining ‘Do No Harm’ and the need for psychological understanding
1:43:20 – Working with Tina
Buddha at the Gas Pump–Rick ArcherBATGAP Interview with Tina Rasmussen
Tina Rasmussen was interviewed by “Buddha at the Gas Pump“, a site that enables people to relate and share their experiences of spiritual awakening.
Conscious TV (external video links)Interview by Renate McNay
Tina Rasmussen ‘Living The Enlightenment Drive’
Interview in Reggio Emilio, Italy
This interview provides an excellent overview of the teaching and work of Awakening Dharma, and Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder.
Practicing The Jhanas:
Traditional Concentration Meditation As Presented By The Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw