Maurice Daubard

Tummo

Based on Tibetan Yoga techniques, TUMMO is an original teaching
of adaptation to cold and snow for the reconstitution
of man’s natural defences.

This discipline, practised by Maurice DAUBARD since 1956,
allows us to push back the limits of adaptation to the cold.
Toumo actually means warmth
When we expose ourselves to the cold,
it is to cultivate the warmth that is within us.

TOUMO in Tibetan GTUM-MO and TAPAS

YOGA OF INNER FIRE / Blazing, all-consuming power

The aim of this yoga is above all spiritual and tends towards the production of a psychic state of unity and plenitude in which all the forces and aptitudes that lie dormant within us are fused and raised to their highest efficiency. Irresistible inner ardour that melts all contrasts. The fire of spiritual integration that melts all the contrasts born of individualisation is thus what the Tibetan word GTUM-MO means in its deepest sense and what constitutes one of the most important subjects of meditation.

TAPAS as GTUM-MO is what snatches man from the sleep of earthly satisfaction, from the rut of everyday existence. It is the heat of the psychic seizure that lights the flame of inspiration, enthusiasm and spiritualisation, from which is born what, seen from the outside, appears as renunciation, abandonment of the world or asceticism.

TAPAS therefore means infinitely more than asceticism or mortification, which the Buddha rightly rejected in favour of that joyful state, of freedom born of contemplative knowledge, with regard to the things of the world….

TAPAS here is the creative principle, exerting itself on the material as well as the spiritual.

It is said in the RGVEDA:
” FROM THE FLAMBOYING TAPAS NAKE ORDER AND TRUTH “.
On the spiritual plane, it is that force which lifts us beyond the ” become “, which breaks through the boundaries of our narrow individuality and self-created world, melting and transforming all that has form and figure.

TAPAS can be both creative and liberating, lies at the root of both ” KAMA CHANDA ” (desire for love) and ” DHARMA CHANDA ” (striving towards truth, towards the realisation of DHARMA).

To arrive at the yoga of inner fire (GTUM-MO) the meditator will also have to purify his mind in a state of intimate surrender, regulate his breath, spiritualise his consciousness through nantric words, direct his attention to Manipura, all on a luminous red aura… (like Aranachala!).
Not to mention the impact of the 10-step visualisation with regard to SUSHUMNA linking the lunar and solar currents in the subtle Ida and Pingala channels in the spine.
(Lama ANAGARIKA GOVINDA)

TAPAS TUMMO is not just a ” metaphor ” but the expression of a real experience of a psycho-physical process in which all the properties of fire are present with their elemental effects and their subtly material effects: Heat – Warming – Combustion – Purification – Fusion – Exaltation – Strengthening – Penetration – Illumination – Transfiguration.

INNER FIRE YOGA
This is the way to untie the knots of our own being
(Yogi MILAREPA / The Tibetan Saint)

The word TUMMO means heat, but it is not used in everyday language to refer to warmth. It is a technical term in Tibetan mystical vocabulary. TUMMO is also the subtle fire that warms the generative fluid and raises latent energy, providing it with intellectual and spiritual delights.

According to the Kespas masters who dress in cotton, the TUMMO exercise should never be practised inside a house, or in a conglomeration of dwellings, as the air is vitiated by various pollutions and other occult forms, this thwarts the efforts of the disciple and can harm him at all levels.

The techniques of TUMMO cannot be taught by books or other information acquired by hearsay, in which case they cannot lead to any results. They must be taught by a master of TUMMO who himself has long personal and pedagogical experience. (TIBET) and emphasised by all Tibetans and all Lamas. This means (for example) that one cannot improvise oneself as a Toumo teacher just because one has received teaching, even worthy of the name, through a few courses only.

During the winter courses in Italy:

MAURICE DAUBARD

Voluntary exposure to cold and Tummo
Sand marathon
Ice immersion
Mountain biking in the Himalayas
High-flying diving
Tummo
Yoga Asanas
Tibet September 2006
Tummo in Pirolin January 2007
Expedition to Finland March 2007