Online Programs
POSTPONED TO 2022 (Online) The Shape of Awake®: Meditation and the Alexander Technique
With Hope Martin
September 25 - 30, 2021
Online
Being upright is not just an arbitrary shape, it’s a perfect expression of meditation itself. In this 5 day meditation retreat, Hope Martin, a Master Teacher of the Alexander Technique, will help you establish ease, non-striving, and a friendly relationship to yourself in meditation and everyday activities.
(Online) The Dorje Dradul’s Director Talks
September 26, 2021 - February 20, 2022
Online
This seminal set of 17 talks by VCTR, recorded in 1978, known as the Shambhala Directors Training program, became the core of the Shambhala Training Graduate Programs, as well as the primer for program Directors at all levels. This course will review VCTR’s original presentation of the Shambhala path and provide a context in which to contemplate our own path.
POSTPONED TO 2022: (Online) Embodied Listening®
With Hope Martin
October 1 - 3, 2021
Online
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.
(Online) Krodhikali Weekend
With Mark Nowakowski
October 1 - 3, 2021
Dorje Denma Ling and Online
The prophecy of this terma precisely describes these current dark times of rampant disease, societal injustice and upheaval, and environmental destruction. Its compassionate practice is essential and helpful to all beings. Open to Vajrayogini practitioners who already have the lung, and for those who receive the lung in-person at the weekend.
(Online) Ways of Seeing and The Way of Nature: Contemplative Photography, Haiku and Deep Ecology
With John McQuade
October 12 - November 18, 2021
Online
This program engages the contemplative arts of Nalanda Miksang photography and haiku. Haiku is a short contemplative poetic form that contains references to Nature. Nalanda Miksang photography is based on the Dharma Art teachings of Chogyam Trungpa.[…]
(Online) Joy in Everyday Life (JIEL)
With Shastri Steve Gleich
October 18 - November 15, 2021
Online
Shastri Steve Gleich will teach on awakening the heart and cultivating a compassionate view in this Everyday Life course. Open to those who have completed Contentment in Everyday Life.
(Online) Four Foundations of Mindfulness
With Christine Heming
October 20 - November 17, 2021
Online
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Mindfulness of Body, Life, Effort and Mind - are seminal instructions on the practice of mindfulness meditation. […]
