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!

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.

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

with Donna MacKenzie

May 25 - 27, 2025
Dorje Denma Ling
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…]

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.