Program Listings


Individual Retreat Opportunities for 2022

Flexible Dates
Dorje Denma Ling
Dorje Denma Ling is pleased to offer individual retreat opportunities for May and June, 2021.

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.

New Moon Sadhana of Mahamudra Practice

May 30 - November 23, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
You are invited to join the Dorje Denma Ling staff for the New Moon Sadhana of Mahamudra each month from May to November.

Work Weekend 2022: Not exactly a party, but it’s fun!

June 4 - 5, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
As is customary at Dorje Denma Ling, we schedule a Saturday and Sunday work gathering in the spring to help us get ready for the program season. All willing workers are welcome -- there's more than enough to do, and jobs available that will suit all talents and skills.

Chariot of Mahamudra Weekend Retreat 2022

With Richard John

June 10 - 12, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Mahamudra, the "great symbol," is among the most profound traditions of vajrayana Buddhism, but it is also extremely simple and direct. […]

Annual Nine-Day Mahamudra Retreat

With Richard John

June 10 - 19, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
This 9-day retreat will draw on the structure of Pointing Out the Dharmakaya by the ninth Karmapa, the liturgy used in the Kagyu three-year retreat. […]

Qi Gong and Tai Chi Basic Training

With Eve Rosenthal

June 24 - 26, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Join us for a weekend dedicated to the health of your body and spirit. We will practice movements for opening up and relaxing the body, cultivating the chi (life force), resting exercises, gentle movements to benefit the internal organs, and applying tai chi principles to everyday activities.  

Shamatha-Vipashyana Half-Dathün 1

With Gaylon Ferguson

June 28 - July 13, 2022
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, which helps us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Shamatha-Vipashyana Dathün

With Gaylon Ferguson

June 28 - July 27, 2022
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, which helps us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

(Online) Heaven and Earth: Contemplative Landscape Photography

With John McQuade

July 9 - September 24, 2022
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.

Shamatha-Vipashyana Half-Dathün 2

With Gaylon Ferguson

July 13 - 27, 2022
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, which helps us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Bodhichitta Weekthün

With Richard John

August 5 - 13, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
This seven-day meditation intensive will focus on the mahayana teachings of bodhichitta, known as "awakened heart"-- the mind of enlightenment. Mahayana, the "great vehicle," challenges us to outgrow self-centered preoccupations, and develop the wisdom and compassion by which we can actually make a difference in the world.[…]

Weekend Participation: Radiating the Great Eastern Sun

With John Rockwell, Eve Rosenthal and Guests

August 19 - 21, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
We are so fortunate to have encountered the Shambhala teachings in this lifetime. Given the remarkable challenges facing the world, there is no better moment to embody and radiate the Great Eastern Sun in our heart.

Radiating the Great Eastern Sun

With John Rockwell, Eve Rosenthal and Guests

August 19 - 26, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
We are so fortunate to have encountered the Shambhala teachings in this lifetime. Given the remarkable challenges facing the world, there is no better moment to embody and radiate the Great Eastern Sun in our heart.

Shambhala Meditation Weekthün 2022

With Tom Bell, Senior Teacher

August 26 - September 3, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this week of group retreat (weekthün), we will explore Shambhala Meditation, the felt personal experience of our humanity. This program will also include gentle physical activity, talks, silence, individual and group instruction and discussion. This weekthün is open to all; […]

Family Get-Away at DDL

September 2 - 4, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Join us to enjoy a weekend with your family at Dorje Denma Ling -- the perfect end to a glorious summer. It's also a great time to reconnect before the children go back to school, and you'll still have Labour Day Monday to rest. […]

Kyudo: The Way of the Bow 2022

With Sam West, 'Somo' of Kozan Kyudojo

September 9 - 11, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Join us for a weekend Kyudo Intensive. This program is open to both new and experienced Kyudo students. "Through Kyudo one can learn to live beyond hope and fear, how to be" -Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche This program will be taught by Sam West, 'Somo' of Kozan Kyudojo.

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

With Hope Martin

September 9 - 15, 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 - 15, 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.

Maitri Five Wisdoms Weekend Retreat

With Richard John and Liz Richardson

September 23 - 25, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Maitri, which means “kindness to oneself and others,” is a practice of self-acceptance, awareness, and openness to our individual ways of perceiving the world. Maitri Five Wisdoms is an interactive contemplative practice created by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, based on the traditional Buddhist principles and energies of the Five Buddha Families. […]

Vajrayogini Enriching Weekend 2022

With Mark Nowakowski and Rhea Colmar

October 7 - 9, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
Join us at Dorje Denma Ling for a truly enriching experience. Together we can increase all of our life, merit, prosperity, intellect, confidence, and wisdom of complete liberation. […]

The Heart of Recovery Retreat: Moving Towards Freedom and Joy

With Scott Perkins

October 9 - 15, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
From a Buddhist perspective, meditation provides the path that can lead us to end our emotional and mental suffering. The Heart of Recovery retreat is grounded in the view that meditation can show us how to find relief from the suffering […]

(Online) The Contemplative Art Way and The Dharma Path

With John McQuade

October 15 - November 19, 2022
Online at Dorje Denma Ling
There is a long tradition of interplay between the ways of the contemplative arts and the paths of the Buddhadharma. This is particularly evident with the Chinese/Japanese contemplative arts and the Chan/Zen Buddhadharma schools.

Chakrasamvara or Vajrayogini Practice Opportunity

Flexible Dates
Dorje Denma Ling
During the period when the Vajrakilaya Retreat is underway at Denma Ling, Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini practitioners who wish to practice in a protected retreat container are invited to join us at Dorje Denma Ling.[…]

Vajrakilaya Retreat

With Larry Mermelstein

October 22 - November 25, 2022
Dorje Denma Ling
As the wrathful form of the Buddha Vajrasattva, Vajrakilaya embodies the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas. His practice is known to be the most powerful for removing all inner and outer obstacles, especially personal obstacles that affect our Dharma practice.[…]

Mahamudra Datun 2023: Discovering the True Nature of Mind

With Elizabeth Callahan, Scott Wellenbach and Nancy Huszagh

May 19 - June 18, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
Register now and get CAD $100.00 off the program price. Offer valid until Feb 3, 2023.
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[…]