Retreats
No one with a sincere desire to attend will be turned away from registration due to lack of funds. We have staff and workstudy positions, as well as scholarships available.
Vajrayogini Dathun
| Event Date | 02-28-2025 |
| Event End Date | 03-28-2025 |
| Individual Price | $3,000.00 |
Knowing the Key Point for Resolving the Nature of Mind
March 15-17, 2024
In Shamatha/Vipashyana practice we resolve the ture nature of mind which is beyond habitual reference point by developing one pointedness in our meditation practice.
"One pointedness meansx recognizing the nature of mind;
divided into the lesser, medium, and greater stages:
One sees the alternation of bliss and luminosity,
One masters resting in samadhi,
And experience continuously appears as luminosity."
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye
We will be working with the 9th Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje's Mahamudra Manual "Elliminating the Darkness of Ignorance" along with Khenpo Tsultrim Gamptso's instructions on Path Mahamudra and Trungpa Rinpoche's pith instructions.
| Event Date | 03-14-2025 |
| Event End Date | 03-16-2025 |
| Individual Price | 195.00 |
Kagyu Ngondro and the Preliminary Transmission of Trungpa Rinpoche's Surmang Kagyu Lineage
There are no prerequisites for this retreat
We will be working with the 9th Karmapa's formulation of the ngondro or preliminary practices that we use in the Surmang Kagyu lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
The preliminary practices are foundational in terms of creating the right conditions for us to recognize the nature of mind and to train from that key understanding. It is often said that the preliminaries are as profound as the main practice and we have found that to be true.
Cost: $195.00
Includes room and board.
| Event Date | 04-18-2025 |
| Event End Date | 04-20-2025 |
| Individual Price | $195.00 |
The Inner Yoga of Shamatha/Vipashyana Practice
This weekend we focus on the inner yoga of the 7 point posture of vairocana and why it is important to work on this yogic pose. We will look at the teachings on the avadhuti channel and centralizing the disparate energies through one pointed training.
"The teachings of the meditative posture of Vairocana are a method for developing single-minded concentration for the development and completing stages of annuttarayoga tantra, and effortless non-conceptual experience of bliss and clarity. Therefore beginners should rely on this essential point about the bodily posture....According to the tantra teachings, mind and the energy winds upon which it rides are inseparable. If the energy-winds "prana" are proplerly channelled, the mind will be focused; but when they run wild then thoughts do likewise."Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa
$195.00 includes room and board
| Event Date | 05-02-2025 |
| Event End Date | 05-04-2025 |
| Individual Price | $195.00 |