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.

Shamatha-Vipashyana HALF-DATUN (A)

November 6 - 20, 2021
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this two-week group retreat (half-datun), students will develop a deep familiarity with shamatha-vipashyana meditation taught by Shakyamuni Buddha. Shamatha-vipashyana meditation helps us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Shamatha-Vipashyana Datun Following the Form Taught by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

November 6 - December 5, 2021
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this month-long group retreat (datun), students will develop a deep familiarity with shamatha-vipashyana meditation taught by Shakyamuni Buddha. Shamatha-vipashyana meditation helps us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Shamatha-Vipashyana HALF-DATUN (B)

November 20 - December 5, 2021
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this two-week group retreat (half-datun), students will develop a deep familiarity with shamatha-vipashyana meditation taught by Shakyamuni Buddha. Shamatha-vipashyana meditation helps us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

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.

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.