Shambhala
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Shambhala Organizations
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![The Fearless Garuda: Emptiness and Absolute Bodhicitta Part 3]()
Oct 23 - Nov 20, 2019 (29 days)This course is the third of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings. The power of the Mahayana comes from its clarity regarding the true nature of reality. This clarity is described as penetrating insight (prajna) that sees that the world is actually different from what we habitually think it is. Instead of assuming that beings, objects and systems are solid, truly existing… -
Shambhala Teachers
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![Cameron Wenaus]()
Cameron WenausCameron Wenaus
Your guide![Birth of the Warrior – Shambhala Training Level 2]()
Jan 17 - 19, 2020 (3 days)This program as been postponed till January 17,18, 19, 2020 Having experienced a taste of Basic Goodness, we want to go forward. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask our fear. We begin to appreciate that there is no fundamental obstacle to experiencing Basic Goodness. This second course in the Way of Shambhala training is open to all those… -
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Gabriela Córdova NovionGabriela Córdova Novion
Your guide![La Meditacíon en la Vida Cotidiana/Meditation In Everyday Life]()
Nov 8 - 10, 2019 (3 days) See 1 more dateEsta serie de cursos profundizan nuestra entendimiento de las enseñanzas de Shambhala y de la práctica de la meditacíon. Tanto con sesiones de meditacíon, con grupos de discusión, con pláticas como con otras actividades, uno puede encontrar esa sincronicidad de cuerpo y mente que permite revelarnos nuestra estabilidad, claridad y fortaleza mental innatas. La Senda del Entrenamiento Shambhala…-
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![Acharya Martin (Marty) Janowitz]()
Acharya Martin (Marty) JanowitzAcharya Martin (Marty) Janowitz
Your guide![From Sacred Outlook to Sacred Activism]()
Dec 14 - 19, 2019 (6 days) See 2 more datesThis is a time when uncertainty, menace, and perhaps defenselessness are vivid sensations in our world, affecting us, others, and our environment near and far. These are not abstract threats. They provoke all manner of seductive projections and emotional reactions – fear, anger, pain, and resentment among them. What can we do as practitioners to be a force for peace, safety and compassion? What…-
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Feb 29 - Mar 7, 2020 (8 days)
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![Exploring the Buddhist Path – a non residential week long retreat]()
Nov 24 - 30, 2019 (7 days)The Buddhist path is a systematic and accessible method for waking up to our true nature. Join us for a week of meditation and contemplation as we delve into this authentic, practical wisdom tradition. This retreat is open to everyone. Included are tea and coffee, fruit and muffins in the morning and a simple vegetarian lunch. -
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Scott PerkinsScott Perkins
Your guide![The Heart of Recovery Retreat: Moving Towards Freedom and Joy]()
May 23 - 31, 2020 (9 days)“The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.” — Pema Chödrön Grounded in meditation, the Buddhist teachings provide a practical means to support our recovery from addictions and compulsive behaviours, as well as help us release the clinging to thoughts and impulses that lead us to suffering, discontent, and harmful… -
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Tom Bell, Senior TeacherTom Bell, Senior Teacher
Your guide![Shambhala Meditation Weekthün 2020]()
Oct 17 - 25, 2020 (9 days)“Shambhala meditation is synchronizing with our own genuineness; it is the act of being. Through this process we discover reality with three gestures – feeling, being, and touching… the mind progressively develops strength and trust in basic goodness, finally reaching full saturation with its own understanding and experience. When we have a strong mind, no matter what thoughts occur,… -
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Swami Sivananda
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![Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown]()
Acharya Judith Simmer-BrownAcharya Judith Simmer-Brown
Your guide![Cultivating the Compassion Instinct]()
Nov 8 - 10, 2019 (3 days)The new science of compassion has found that human beings have a fundamental instinct for kindness, but have developed habits of harshness toward themselves and others. How can this compassion instinct be cultivated? The ancient traditions of Buddhism and Shambhala have found powerful ways of awakening this instinct through practices that build from self-compassion to resilient compassion for… -
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Acharya Richard John.Acharya Richard John.
Your guide![Chariot of Mahamudra Weekend Retreat]()
Jun 5 - 7, 2020 (3 days)This weekend retreat is open to all practitioners—newer students and tantrikas—who wish to deepen their meditation practice. Mahamudra, the “great symbol,” is among the most profound traditions of vajrayana Buddhism, but it is also extremely simple and direct. This retreat will be a pre-vajryana introduction. We will deepen the practices of shamatha and vipashyana meditation to… -
![Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown]()
Acharya Judith Simmer-BrownAcharya Judith Simmer-Brown
Your guide![Limitless Ayatanas: Scorpion Seal and Werma Practice Intensive]()
Mar 17 - 24, 2020 (8 days)Discovering the Sacredness of Sense Perceptions through the Werma Sadhana In some religious traditions, sense perceptions are regarded as problematic, because they arouse worldly desires. However, in the Shambhala tradition, which is a secular tradition rather than a religious one, sense perceptions are regarded as sacred. They are regarded as basically good. They are a natural gift, a… -
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Shastri Sandra LadleyShastri Sandra Ladley
Your guide![Women’s Wisdom Weekthun]()
Jan 25 - Feb 1, 2020 (8 days)We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. * * * Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. ~~Ani Pema Chodron This retreat is for women to come together in a beautiful setting surrounded by lush gardens to experience deep meditation practice, sacred community and creative expression. We will have the opportunity… -
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Acharya Eric SpiegelAcharya Eric Spiegel
Your guide![Vajra Sangha Assembly]()
Dec 13 - 15, 2019 (3 days)In the tradition of Vajra Assemblies during the life of the Vidyadhara, this weekend retreat will include talks, discussion and practice. The topic will be determined by the Acharya but will include room for all of our questions and explorations. Practitioners of all Shambhala / Vajradhatu vajrayana practice levels are welcome. -
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Sophie LégerSophie Léger
Your guide![Qi Gong Levels 4 & 5]()
Mar 11 - 15, 2020 (5 days)Students will be introduced to traditional Outer and Inner Qigong from two systems: the Pre-celestial Limitless Gate School (Xiantianwujimen) and the Yiquan School. This is through the lineage handed down by Dr. Eva Wong. Xiantianwujimen was founded in the Song dynasty (circa 10th to 12th centuries) by Daoist sage Chen Xiyi, who is recognized as “the father of qigong.” Eva Wong is the…
