Program Listings


In-House Retreats

Flexible Dates
Dorje Denma Ling
Dorje Denma Ling offers space for individual and small group retreats during the program season, as accommodations allow. In 2025, the season runs from May 1 to December 15.

Set-up Week: Work, Rest & Community

April 18 - 27, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Bring your energy to Dorje Denma Ling for a week, weekend, or day of work and practice to wake up DDL for the 2025 season! Staff and community join together in the spring to prepare for the upcoming season. All willing workers are welcome -- there's more than enough to do, your talents and skills are needed. We host volunteers for free, feed them well-- and they receive Program Credit!

[Online]: The Six Realms: Exploring Emotional Patterns and How to Get Unstuck

with Rhea Colmar, Pamela Bothwell and Daniel Nguyen

April 24 - June 5, 2025
Online at Dorje Denma Ling
Explore the Six Realms as emotional landscapes that shape our daily experience. Through meditation, inquiry and discussion, this online program offers practical tools to recognize habitual patterns and gently shift them, fostering more freedom, clarity and compassion in everyday life.

Free Information Session: A Spiritual Approach to Healing

with Alain Beauregard

April 29, 2025
Online
According to some spiritual traditions, serious illnesses like cancer can be a wakeup call. When we look at some of the deeper aspects of our being – such as spirituality, and decide to radically change the way we have been living so far, it may be possible to heal our entire being.

Vajrayogini Magnetizing Fire Offering

with Dorothée Rosen and Patty Livingston

May 1 - 4, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
A special fire offering practice for magnetizing all good things to Dorje Denma Ling and all beings everywhere.

Spring Renewal Retreat: Exploring Eco-Embodiment as Path to Belonging & Resilience

with Josée-Ann Cloutier

May 9 - 11, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Participants are invited to learn and experience a guided thermal cycle-- immersions of hot and cold for all levels of practice, along with community sauna, cleansing plant and tree rituals, and elemental connection, all supporting integration and community as practice. We will enjoy wholesome, healthy meals, explore a nearby waterfall, and honour the pure water of the land by taking it in.

Walking the Path of Recovery: Buddhism & the 12 Steps

with Margaret Jones Callahan and Brian Callahan

May 13 - 18, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
One's Dharma path and recovery path complement each other and work together to support and deepen sobriety. Buddhism and the 12 Steps each offer a template or method for personal, spiritual journey. Previous experience with meditation is not necessary, nor is experience with the 12 Step recovery method. Mindfulness practices and contemplations will be supported with meditation instruction, discussion, mindfulness-based journaling and art, contemplation.

Peaceful Body, Peaceful Mind: Qigong Levels 1/2

with Donna MacKenzie

May 23 - 25, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Apr 22, 2025.
When body is relaxed and peaceful, energy will flow. When mind is still, it will embrace qi and strengthen the body. In the Chinese arts of health and longevity, qigong simultaneously cultivates a peaceful body and a peaceful mind.…]

Qigong 3 – The Gourd and Cauldron: Chinese Medicine and Qigong

with Donna MacKenzie

May 25 - 27, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Apr 24, 2025.
Chinese Medicine and Qigong enjoy a long history of relationship, mutually influencing each other in their approach to health and longevity. The Gourd is the symbol of Chinese medicine, and the cauldron is the symbol of the Taoist arts of health and longevity…]

Mahamudra and Trekchö Retreat

with Richard John

May 30 - June 8, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
KNOWING WHAT HAS BEEN POINTED OUT... This 9-day retreat is for vajrayana practitioners who know there is no time to waste, and that recognizing the nature of mind is of the utmost importance. This retreat we will practice both the investigations and pointing out of essence mahamudra, and profound pith instructions from masters of trekchö, its dzogchen equivalent. […]

Unconditional Beauty – When Heart, Mind, and Eye Meet

with Tejumo Ogouma

June 13 - 15, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging - can convey emotions, tell a story, or spark a sense of wonder. Join Tejumo Ogouma to discover and delve into the magic of Ikebana and what makes it a compelling art form. In the beautiful natural surroundings of Dorje Denma Ling, we will explore the intersection of meditation practice and creativity. […]

The Shape of Awake®: Weekend

with Hope Martin

June 20 - 22, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
In this weekend workshop, Hope Martin, a master teacher of the Alexander Technique, will help you discover ease and non-striving in meditation and other activities. Her hands-on work makes subtle adjustments to the head, neck and back to help you access an effortless, balanced posture - both light and grounded.

The Shape of Awake®: Meditation and the Alexander Technique

with Hope Martin

June 20 - 26, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Discover how to be fully present and at ease in your body. This will transform your practice and your life! This experiential retreat offers a safe, supportive and caring environment to learn about and befriend yourself, and to deepen your meditation practice. Learning to be more embodied, to let go of excessive tension and allow your nervous system to settle, provides a powerful foundation for navigating the challenges of this time of uncertainty and change..

Joyful Heart, Spacious Mind: Singing the Songs of Milarepa and Machig

with Robyn Traill

June 27 - 29, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the program price. Offer valid until May 12, 2025.
Explore the brilliance of the  spontaneous utterances from the men and women who traversed the Buddhist yogic path in India and Tibet. Experience the mix of open meditation, music, movement, outdoors, and other connections  to the dance of energy that continually expresses itself in life.

The Five Wisdoms: Navigating the Energies of Your Life

with Irini Rockwell

June 27 - 30, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
We all have our own style and our own particular nature. We can’t avoid it. The enlightened expression of yourself is in accord with your inherent nature.  — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Join us to Explore the Yogic Practice of the Five Wisdom Energies The Five Wisdom Energies—also known as the Five Buddha Families—shape how we experience the world, how we relate to others, and how we express our inherent nature. They are presence, clarity, richness, passion, and activity with an infinity of combinations making us all a unique blend. When they manifest as wisdom, they bring brilliance, intelligence, and effectiveness.…

[Online]: A Spiritual Approach to Healing

with Alain Beauregard

July 11 - 16, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Book now for the retreat and get $50 off. Early Bird Discount valid until May 24, 2025.
According to some spiritual traditions, serious illnesses like cancer can be a wakeup call. When we look at some of the deeper aspects of our being – such as spirituality, and decide to radically change the way we have been living so far, it may be possible to heal our entire being.

[Hybrid] A Spiritual Approach to Healing Retreat

with Alain Beauregard

July 11 - 16, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Book now for the retreat and get $100 off. Early Bird Discount valid until May 24, 2025.
According to some spiritual traditions, serious illnesses like cancer can be a wakeup call. When we look at some of the deeper aspects of our being – such as spirituality, and decide to radically change the way we have been living so far, it may be possible to heal our entire being.

Radical Awakening: A Residential Retreat on the Sharp Vajra of Awareness Tantra

with Anam Thubten Rinpoche

July 22 - 27, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Join Anam Thubten Rinpoche for an immersive 5-day retreat inspired by his book, The Voice of the Primordial Buddha. Step away from daily distractions to engage in meditation, reflection, and teachings that nurture inner stillness and clarity. Open to all levels of experience, this retreat offers a supportive space for spiritual growth and self-discovery.

[Online] Heaven and Earth: Contemplative Landscape Photography

with John McQuade

July 27 - September 21, 2025
Online at Dorje Denma Ling
This contemplative photography Landscape course explores landscapes from an Eastern contemplative art orientation rather than the traditional Western scenic approach. The contemplative landscape way gives emphasis to visual forms, space and a sensibility of stillness rather than the conventional landscape formats of dramatic effect.

Two Weeks of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Half-Dathün

with June Crow

August 1 - 16, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $100.00 off the tuition price. Discount valid until Apr 28, 2025.
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this two-week group retreat (half-dathün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

A Week of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Weekthun 1

with June Crow

August 1 - 9, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the tuition price. Discount valid until Apr 28, 2025.
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this week-long group retreat (weekthün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

A Month of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Dathün

with June Crow

August 1 - 30, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this month-long group retreat (dathün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

A Week of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Weekthun 2

with June Crow

August 9 - 17, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the tuition price. Discount valid until Apr 29, 2025.
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this week-long group retreat (weekthün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Embodied Listening®

with Hope Martin

September 5 - 7, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Embodied Listening® offers a way to move through blockages, challenges and uncertainty by tuning into your most reliable source for guidance — the wisdom of your body.

Mahamudra Retreat 2025: Discovering the Nature of Mind

with Nancy Huszagh, Andy Karr and Scott Wellenbach

September 12 - October 3, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $100.00 off the program price. Offer valid until May 27, 2025.
When mind is without reference point, that is mahàmudrà. When you are accustomed to and familiar with this, unsurpassable awakening is attained. - Tilopa; Mahàmudrà: The Ocean of Definitive Meaning[…]

Diamond Sky Dancer – Vajrayogini Retreat

with Rhea Colmar and Mark Nowakowski

October 3 - 12, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $100.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Sep 2, 2025.
Practice and study your sadhana in the circle of the sky, surrounded by earth, water, fire, and all the elements. Rhea and Mark will lead practice, and point out some things they have learned along the way. We will practice four sessions a day, with an open conversation at lunch.

The Kalapa Conference: Terma, Transmissions and Command

October 17 - 26, 2025
Register now and get CAD $100.00 off the program price. Offer valid until May 27, 2025.
  An Immersive Retreat of Kalapa Warriors Dedicated to: Revisiting the Kingdom of Shambhala teachings of the Dorje Dradul, Practicing together as a sangha of subjects, and Contemplating how these teachings can guide us in preserving human dignity during times of global strife. Retreat Overview In-person: Morning practices (Werma, Stroke, and Lungta), afternoon presentations, and evening performances. Online: Afternoon sessions and performances, with encouragement for local centers to host simultaneous in-person gatherings for practice and contemplation. Pre-requisites: Kalapa Assembly, Rigden Abhisheka, or KOS transmission. Pre-gathering Study: Participants are encouraged to review: Cycle of the Black Ashe by Robin Kornman (Nalanda…

The Three Pillars of Self-Care: An Enhanced Qigong Retreat (Level 1-2) with Taoist Meditation & Lifestyle Practices

with Donna MacKenzie

October 26 - 31, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Sep 10, 2025.
When body is relaxed and peaceful, energy will flow. When mind is still, it will embrace qi and strengthen the body. In the Chinese arts of health and longevity, qigong simultaneously cultivates a peaceful body and a peaceful mind.…]

Qigong 3 – The Gourd and Cauldron: Chinese Medicine and Qigong

with Donna MacKenzie

November 1 - 3, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Sep 16, 2025.
Chinese Medicine and Qigong enjoy a long history of relationship, mutually influencing each other in their approach to health and longevity. The Gourd is the symbol of Chinese medicine, and the cauldron is the symbol of the Taoist arts of health and longevity…]

Finding Refuge in the Mandala of the Five Wisdoms

with Susan Lorraine

November 20 - 23, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $50.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Aug 21, 2025.
Like a beam of light passing through a prism, our true nature expresses itself as a magical display of colours, emotions, qualities and wisdoms. The mandala is a symbol, an archetype, inviting us to return to the wholeness within separation, and the wisdom within confusion. It invites us into healing, playfulness and joy. Please join us for a feast of practice and community, as we deepen our shared understanding and experience of refuge.