Yantra Yoga, or the Yoga of movement, is a Yoga of the Tibetan tradition which is transmitted since 8th century, when great teacher Vairochana edited instructions into the text. This direct, unbroken oral lineage of Yantra Yoga is called Nyida Khajor, or The Union of Sun and Moon.

This lineage can be traced back through the Nepalese Mahasiddha Humkara, who transmitted Yantra Yoga teachings to Guru Padmasambhava. Later Guru Padmasambhava gave them to Vairocana, one of his main disciples.

Humkara was a cowherd who noticed a master meditating in the forest and wondered why he should have to work, when the master apparently did nothing. He asked the master to teach him how to live without eating or feeling the cold in winter. The master refused to give him teaching because it was about something much more important. But finally Humkara was accepted and eventually became a great Mahasiddha himself.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu received this transmission primarily from his uncle Ogyen Tenzin, a master who achieved the rainbow body (dissolving his body into light at death), and started to teach Yantra Yoga in the West more than 40 years ago. There are some other systems of Tibetan Yantra exist, but they still remain secret, and this lineage is the only system currently being taught openly in the West.

The practice of Yantra Yoga rebalances physical energy and helps to relax the body, speech and mind, by means of physical exercises, breathing techniques and mental concentration.

Yantra Yoga has something in common with Hatha Yoga or Ashtanga Vinyasa. However, Yantra Yoga is a Buddhist practice, and its goal is not simply exercise, relaxation or health. Yantra Yoga works with the body, energy and mind (connected with prana, channels and chakras) in order to achieve real knowledge, the understanding of our original primordial state.