Éric Baret

Teaching

Yoga in the non-dual tradition of Kashmir Shaivism as an art of listening: postures, movement and free breathing are used to feel the body without a goal, so that tensions can resolve and the body is finally felt as the breath of being. He came to this through the teaching of Jean Klein. ^{1, 2, 5}

Who it is for

For people drawn to a bodily, listening approach to non-duality. His website advises people with a psychiatric history or in psychological treatment against this practice.

Where to start

• Dialogues sur le yoga (Almora, 2024) is a pocket book of his talks on Kashmir yoga in French; Let the Moon Be Free (2018) is a book in English. Before attending a seminar, read the limits on participation on his website. ^{2, 4, 6}

Works

• Les crocodiles ne pensent pas : reflets du tantrisme cachemirien (Crocodiles Don't Think: Reflections of Kashmir Tantrism)

  Book · 1994 · Almora (current edition)

  A short book on the tantric approach of Kashmir Shaivism, which the publisher presents as inclusive and close to present-day concerns.

  Visit source page · editions-tredaniel.com ↗

• Le sacre du dragon vert : pour la joie de ne rien être (The Crowning of the Green Dragon: For the Joy of Being Nothing)

  Book · 1999 · Almora (current edition)

  A book of conversations on everyday concerns such as the body, love, suffering and death, and on meditation and yoga, in a sensory approach drawn from Kashmir tantra.

  Visit source page · mollat.com ↗

• Dialogues sur le yoga (Dialogues on Yoga)

  Book · 2024 · Almora

  Conversations on the yoga of Kashmir Shaivism, taken from his earlier book Yoga : corps de vibration, corps de silence. Posture and breath are approached without effort, as listening to what is felt.

  Visit source page · mollat.com ↗

• Let the Moon Be Free: Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

  Book · 2018 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  Conversations with him on Kashmiri tantra in an English translation by Jeanric Meller. His website lists it among his English publications.

  View library record · openlibrary.org ↗

The short summaries are ours.

In their own words

Short passages in the words of Éric Baret, each with its source. Where the quoted text is not in the language of this page, a translation follows and says whose it is.

• Il s'agit d'accorder notre instrument afin qu'il vibre en harmonie avec les courants profonds de l'existence, l'ouverture sensorielle qui en résulte s'exprimant sans limites.

  It is a matter of tuning our instrument so that it vibrates in harmony with the deep currents of existence, the sensory openness that results expressing itself without limits.

  Translation: ours

• Cette démarche, où le corps est finalement reconnu comme souffle de l'être, s'inscrit dans la ligne non-dualiste du shivaïsme tantrique cachemirien.

  This approach, in which the body is finally recognised as the breath of being, belongs to the non-dualist line of Kashmir tantric Shaivism.

  Translation: ours

• Ne rien savoir, ne rien vouloir, ne rien être sont extrême équilibre du non-moi, mais folie certaine pour la personne

  To know nothing, to want nothing, to be nothing is the extreme balance of the not-I, but certain madness for the person

  Translation: ours

• When the intuition arises that there is nothing to accomplish, that there is no hope, nothing ahead, the present moment becomes its own rich meal. I do not need anything else, I do not need tomorrow, I do not need manifestation.

• The more you notice how much you are made of conditioning, the more freedom you will feel. Whereas before, the more you wanted to be free, the more you felt conditioned. Feeling your conditioning opens you to the sensation of freedom.

• Vision brings change. There isn’t vision and change: vision is change. When I integrate that, life becomes easy.

• Sooner or later, I am mature enough to free this emotion from its cause, to no longer claim to be sad or happy because of this or that, but to savor my sadness, my rage, my fear, my joy without labeling it, without attributing it to anything. That is enough.

Documented teaching relationships

• Learned personally with Jean Klein

  Baret describes Jean Klein as a formative personal encounter; the publisher names him as a student.

  Self-reported · bhairava.info , editions-tredaniel.com

Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.

Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 13 Oct 2026.

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