2021-11 How to Be a Bodhisattva – Six Paramitas
What does living a compassionate life look like in practice? How do we generate meaning in a way that also helps build resilient community? According to the 11th century Buddhist …
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2021-10 Listening for Liberation
From the Buddha to the Dzogchen yogis of Tibet, ancient masters have long relied on the power of the natural world to nurture peace and awaken insight. Following their example, …
2021-10 Teacher’s Retreat: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Registration restricted to NDF Teachers, NDF Mentors, and Margha Mitras who have received a link to register for the retreat. Giving and Receiving Feedback Skillfully taught by Dan Clurman, M.A. Too …
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2021-10 Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method® and Meditation
This daylong retreat combines accessible yet profound mindful meditation practices with sessions of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons, the brilliant sensory-motor approach to gently and wisely re-educating the neuro-muscular system. Alternating …
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2021-09 Natural Freedom Mind Rushen (Dzogchen)
Restricted retreat, permission required (mandatory). Guidelines for the Retreat: Lama Willa recommends committing to a full retreat, an immersion experience. She recommends turning off all your mobile devices for the …
2021-09 Songs of Milarepa: Finding the Sun of Clear Light
“In the gap between thoughts, non-conceptual wisdom continuously shines.” – Milarepa (1028-1111) In this weekend retreat, we will rediscover the world through the vision and liberative songs of Milarepa, Tibet’s most …
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2021-09 Introduction to Meditation: Why Would Anyone Watch the Mind?
Week 1 – Sep 22: Introduction – Meditation as Liberation Teaching – Meditation as Liberation Guided Meditation – Using Sound as a Support (extracted from Session 01) Week 2 – …
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2021-09 Cultivating Stable, Vivid Awareness
This five-day retreat will provide an opportunity for the deep practice of a progression of shamatha meditation practices that have been taught for centuries as an essential first stage of …
2021-08 Accessing Our Buddha Nature (Lama John + Paul Condon)
This program will explore ways of accessing and reunifying with our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with support from modern psychological science. By participating …
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2021-08 Guru and Yogini (Vajrayana)
During this four-day online retreat, we will enter the vivid, luminous world of Guru Rinpoche’s secret advice to the Yogini Yeshe Tsogyal through the teachings found in Dakini Teachings, a “revealed” …
