Kado Ikebana
Kado Ikebana
22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY, USA
May 22 - 30, 2025
About this Retreat
Your Guides
In 1974, Marcia Shibata became a student of the Buddhist Way and Kado Way with Chogyum Trungpa. She went to Asia to study the discipline as it had survived to date in Japan in 1980 and remained there until 1985. She endeavored to understand and teach how Kado Ikebana practice could be a portal to innate wisdom mind through the diligent practice of forms, meditation practice, and studying of the laws of nature through the Buddhist/Taoist view and by observing and studying nature directly.
MS Shibata has taught Ikebana supported by meditation practice from 1985 to the present day both in the US and Europe. In 2003, she was given permission to open a fresh school of Ikebana in which the laws of Dharma are revealed through the consecration and blessings of the son of Chogyum Trungpa, Jamgon Trinley Mipham. Since this time the School has flourished, recently settling in Prague, CZ Republic as its first official physical location.
Details of this retreat
What is Kado Ikebana ?
Kado is a Way of life. The practice can open us to innate universal wisdom that is inherent in all sentient beings. By being in touch with our wisdom, we can experience life with less confusion, stress and anxiety. Life could be opened to accurate solutions as challenges arise in never-ending change.
Kado developed in China approximately 2300 years ago and developed as a practice to teach and understand “The Tao,” The Way. It was understood by the ancients that all living beings have innate wisdom thereby using wood and flower material from nature, inner wisdom could be pointed out and experienced directly.
Over time, the practice could open the mind-heart of students to realize that all sentient beings contain inner wisdom that is interdependent on the movement of the larger and smaller cosmos; that individual entities separating and struggling against each other is not natural or sane.
As Kado unveils that human are not separate from nature rather just another manifestation of it we realize we do not and cannot dominate nature but are a small part of the larger cosmos and subject to all-natural law. Kado Ikebana is a contemplative, meditative art practice that connects us with universal wisdom. It can reveal our true nature and/or the misconceptions we have of “self” and of “other”.
Through deep understanding and loyal practice of meditation and Kado Ikebana it is possible to become peace. By being peace itself, we can heal major imbalances, both mental and physical created in ourself, towards others, in nature and help restore balance, sanity, and goodness on our planet.
Kado is a Way of life. The practice can open us to innate universal wisdom that is inherent in all sentient beings. By being in touch with our wisdom, we can experience life with less confusion, stress and anxiety. Life could be opened to accurate solutions as challenges arise in never-ending change.
Kado developed in China approximately 2300 years ago and developed as a practice to teach and understand “The Tao,” The Way. It was understood by the ancients that all living beings have innate wisdom thereby using wood and flower material from nature, inner wisdom could be pointed out and experienced directly.
Over time, the practice could open the mind-heart of students to realize that all sentient beings contain inner wisdom that is interdependent on the movement of the larger and smaller cosmos; that individual entities separating and struggling against each other is not natural or sane.
As Kado unveils that human are not separate from nature rather just another manifestation of it we realize we do not and cannot dominate nature but are a small part of the larger cosmos and subject to all-natural law. Kado Ikebana is a contemplative, meditative art practice that connects us with universal wisdom. It can reveal our true nature and/or the misconceptions we have of “self” and of “other”.
Through deep understanding and loyal practice of meditation and Kado Ikebana it is possible to become peace. By being peace itself, we can heal major imbalances, both mental and physical created in ourself, towards others, in nature and help restore balance, sanity, and goodness on our planet.
Getting Here
Sky Lake Shambhala, 22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY, USA
Accommodation
Dorm Room - $110 per night
Roommates will be assigned.
No Lodging - Commuter
Shared Room - $130 per night
Roommate will be assigned.
Shrine Room Floor
Single room - $160 per night
A room with either one queen or one twin bed and private bathroom to yourself.
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