Program Listings


The Shape of Awake®: Weekend Only Registration

With Hope Martin

June 23 - 25, 2023
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.

The Shape of Awake®: Meditation and the Alexander Technique

With Hope Martin

June 23 - July 1, 2023
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.

Shambhala Meditation Weekthün 2023

With Tom Bell, Senior Teacher

June 24 - July 2, 2023
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. […]

Mahamudra Werma Retreat

With Richard John

July 14 - 21, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
Please join us at Dorje Denma Ling for a special opportunity to enjoy Werma practice together. Although many are familiar with the Werma Sadhana as an expression of lungta and enlightened society, in essence it is also a manifestation of the subtle wisdom of mahamudra and dzogchen. We will explore this wisdom in depth with guidance from great lineage masters.

(Online) Heaven and Earth: Contemplative Landscape Photography

With John McQuade

July 16 - October 8, 2023
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.

Peaceful Body, Peaceful Mind: Qigong Levels 1 and 2

With Donna MacKenzie

July 21 - 23, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
When body is relaxed and peaceful, energy will flow. When mind is still, it will embrace qi and strengthen the body. In the Chinese arts of health and longevity, qigong simultaneously cultivates a peaceful body and a peaceful mind.…]

Kagyu Ngöndro Intensive

With Martin Evans and Juanita Evans

July 26 - August 6, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
This is a rare opportunity for those engaged in the preliminary practices to enjoy the support and companionship of fellow sangha and share their practice the way our root gurus have heartily encouraged us to do.[…]

Shambhala Sun Camp

August 5 - 12, 2023
Shambhala Sun Camp is an outdoor, sleep-away summer camp for children ages 10-16. Since 1984, campers have been returning time and again to experience nature, themselves, and a community where people take care of one another.

30th Anniversary Celebration

August 6, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
You are cordially invited to join us at Dorje Denma Ling to celebrate our 30th Anniversary. Details and registration will be coming soon.

A Week of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Weekthun 1

With John Rockwell and Matilda Perks

August 19 - 27, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this week-long group retreat (weekthün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Two Weeks of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Half-Dathün

With John Rockwell and Matilda Perks

August 19 - September 3, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this month-long group retreat (dathün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

A Month of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Dathün

With John Rockwell and Matilda Perks

August 19 - September 17, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this month-long group retreat (dathün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

A Week of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Weekthun 2

With John Rockwell and Matilda Perks

August 26 - September 3, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this week-long group retreat (weekthün), students will develop a deep familiarity with Shamatha-Vipashyana meditation, which can help us to make friends with ourselves and our circumstances, and re-discover our fundamental awake nature. […]

Kyudo: The Way of the Bow 2023

With Sam West, 'Somo' of Kozan Kyudojo

September 8 - 10, 2023
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) Warriorship, Basic Goodness and Dharma Art

With John McQuade

September 10 - October 15, 2023
Online at Dorje Denma Ling
This course includes some of these teachings, and will give emphasis to the connection between Shambhala and Dharma Art. We will explore Shambhala teachings such as basic goodness, the Shambhala dot-in-space, the flash of perception, looking and seeing, fields of perception, authentic presence and drala. We will contemplate and express these teachings in photographic imagery.

Vajrayogini Four Karmas Fire Offering 2023

With Brian Callahan

September 23 - October 3, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
The Vajrayogini Four Karmas Fire Offering is an advanced Vajrayana retreat open to practitioners who have completed the Vajrayogini Amending-the-Mantra Fire Offering.

Vajrayogini Amending the Mantra Fire Offering

With Mark Nowakowski

October 19 - 29, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
A fire offering to correct any mistakes that we have made during the mantra recitation of sadhana practice, so that we are more open to receiving ultimate siddhi.

Vajrakilaya Amending the Mantra Fire Offering

With Larry Mermelstein

November 9 - 19, 2023
Dorje Denma Ling
A fire offering to correct any mistakes that we have made during the mantra recitation of sadhana practice, so that we are more open to receiving ultimate siddhi.