Programs
Set-up Week: Work, Rest & Community
Peaceful Body, Peaceful Mind: Qigong Levels 1 and 2
with Donna MacKenzie
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.…]
Limitless Gate Taoism: Qigong Level 3 Review Session
with Donna MacKenzie
For Limitless Gate Taoism Qigong Level III graduates: a workshop to review the postures and techniques of breath regulation for specific health needs, such as improving knee and hip mobility, flexibility of tendons and ligaments, aligning the spine, stimulating bone marrow growth, and strengthening qi stored in the internal organs.
Mahamudra and Trekchö Retreat
with Richard John
This 9-day retreat is for vajrayana practitioners who know there is no time to waste, and that recognizing the nature of mind is of the utmost importance. this retreat we will practice both the investigations and pointing out of essence mahamudra, and profound pith instructions from masters of trekchö, its dzogchen equivalent. […]
Vajrayogini Magnetizing Fire Offering
with Mark Nowakowski
A special fire offering practice for magnetizing all good things to Dorje Denma Ling and all beings everywhere.
The Shape of Awake®: Meditation and the Alexander Technique
with Hope Martin
Discover how to be fully present and at ease in your body. This will transform your practice and your life! This experiential retreat offers a safe, supportive and caring environment to learn about and befriend yourself, and to deepen your meditation practice. Learning to be more embodied, to let go of excessive tension and allow your nervous system to settle, provides a powerful foundation for navigating the challenges of this time of uncertainty and change..
The Shape of Awake®: Weekend Only Registration
with Hope Martin
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.
[Hybrid] A Spiritual Approach to Healing Retreat
with Alain Beauregard
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.
[Online]: A Spiritual Approach to Healing
with Alain Beauregard
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.
Raising Windhorse: Riding the Energy of Life
with Joseph Litven
This four-day retreat will focus on actually using the turmoil in our lives to rediscover the natural energy that is always present. The penetrating power of windhorse practice, as well as mindfulness-awareness meditation, will be the foundation to reconnect with inherent healthiness.
(Online) Heaven and Earth: Contemplative Landscape Photography
with John McQuade
A Month of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Dathün 2024
with Valerie Lorig and Leandra Ziegler
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. […]
Two Weeks of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Half-Dathün
with Valerie Lorig
Retreat is a potent way to deepen in the practice of meditation. In this two-week group retreat (half-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 1
with Valerie Lorig
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. […]
A Week of Meditation: Shamatha-Vipashyana Weekthun 2
with Valerie Lorig
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 2024
with Sam West, 'Somo' of Kozan Kyudojo
Join us for a 3-day weekend of 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.
Walking the Path of Recovery: Buddhism & the 12 Steps
with Margaret Jones Callahan and Brian Callahan
Awakening the Heart of Compassion: The Lojong Teachings of Longchenpa
with Gaylon Ferguson
In this five-day retreat we will engage in mind training contemplations and meditation in the tradition taught by the great Vajra Master, Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa).