Program Listings


Winter Retreat Opportunities for the 2021/22 Season

Flexible Dates
Dorje Denma Ling
Dorje Denma Ling is pleased to offer retreat opportunities in Gyatso lodge.

(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.

(Online) Heart of Recovery

With Scott Perkins

January 8 - February 5, 2022
Online
Grounded in meditation, the Buddhist teachings provide a practical means to support our recovery from addictions and compulsive behaviours. These teachings, along with the practice of mindfulness meditation, can strengthen our ability to notice and let go of thoughts and impulses that lead us to suffering, discontent, and harmful actions.

(Online) Deep Resonance: Haiku, Dharma Art and Deep Ecology

With John McQuade

January 15 - February 12, 2022
Online at Dorje Denma Ling
Haiku is a short “poetic” form that expresses the occasion of the “now moment”: a frog jumps in. Currently much haiku is practiced as a literary form that makes a “sketch” of one’s experience. Contemplative haiku explores the play of surface and depth: form/emptiness, conditioned/unconditioned, manifestation/Space, ways/Dao…the deep resonance that informs the meaning of our life.

Being Tara: Transcending Fear through Song and Dance 2022

With Kristine McCutcheon

May 27 - 29, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Tara is a Buddhist female deity of compassion. Meditating on Tara helps practitioners overcome their fears and anxieties and relate to ones world more fully. Although she arises in many colours, her most popular energies manifest as peaceful White Tara, who brings healing, long life and tranquillity; and the dynamic Green Tara, who overcomes obstacles, and protects from fears.

Cutting through with Ashe: A Weekend of Stroke Practice

June 24 - 26, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
This is an opportunity to refresh and deepen the practice of the stroke of Ashe, and reconnect with the principles and manifestation of warriorship.

Qi Gong and Tai Chi Basic Training

July 29 - 31, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
The ancient Chinese practices of tai chi and qi gong combine slow, deliberate movements, meditation, and breathing exercises. Both tai chi and qi gong are martial arts that can help your circulation, balance, and alignment.

Three Yanas of the Great Eastern Sun

With John Rockwell

August 19 - September 2, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
The view of this two week retreat is to join all three yanas of our journey together, on the spot. We will practise formless mahamudra shamatha-vipashyana as our main practice, enriched by compassion practices such as tonglen, and a session of the Sadhana of Mahamudra daily. (Qualifies as a half-dathun in the Way of Shambhala curriculum.)

(Online) The Shape of Awake®: Meditation and the Alexander Technique

With Hope Martin

September 9 - 16, 2022
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.

The Shape of Awake®: Meditation and the Alexander Technique

With Hope Martin

September 9 - 16, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
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) Embodied Listening®

With Hope Martin

September 16 - 18, 2022
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.

Embodied Listening®

With Hope Martin

September 16 - 18, 2022
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.