100-Day Ngondro Practice Intensive
100-Day Ngondro Practice Intensive
January 1 - April 12, 2026
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Greg is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and the director of YDL. For over a decade he has been sharing his wisdom and guidance through leading meditation groups, retreats, and online and in-person classes. His dedication to helping others is evident in his commitment to supporting and inspiring fellow practitioners in their own spiritual journey, as well as his ability to present the ancient traditions in a way that is accessible and relevant to modern life.
Greg has practiced and studied the Dharma extensively under the guidance of his root teacher, Younge Khachab Rinpoche since 2004. Greg has received many teachings and transmissions from Rinpoche, and completed various group and personal retreats, including regularly attending the annual ten day summer Dzogchen retreat. He has diligently served Rinpoche in many roles, including transcribing teachings, editing texts, translating many of the sadhanas and practices currently in use by the YDL Sangha, as well as serving as the director of YDL for over ten years. His more formal Buddhist education includes traditional Buddhist shedra studies. Greg has also received teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Tharchin, and Kusum Lingpa among others.
Greg currently makes his home in Seattle, Washington and is committed to supporting and inspiring other practitioners who have dedicated their lives to waking up and living a life of compassion, generosity and kindness. You can follow Greg's writing on his website lifes.work.
Details of this retreat
A Sangha-Led Commitment to Practice
For more than ten years, our sangha has begun the year with a shared commitment: one hundred days of ngöndro practice, grounded in lineage, guided by continuity, and supported by community.
This year, we are deepening that commitment by placing the emphasis where it belongs. On supporting one another in actual practice.
The purpose of this intensive is simple and demanding. To establish steady, daily engagement with the foundational practices of the path, and to do so together, with clarity, accountability, and care.
Alongside daily practice, we will study selected sections of The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche. Our focus will be practical and experiential: how to do the practices correctly, why these practices matter, and how they function as the ground for the Vajrayana path as it has been presented by Rinpoche. Questions are welcome and expected. This is a living inquiry, not a passive study.
This intensive is for practitioners who are committed to practicing the path as it has been transmitted by Rinpoche. It is equally open to newer students who are ready to begin a genuine path with guidance and structure, and to experienced practitioners who are actively practicing and willing to contribute their insight and presence.
Participants commit to daily practice at home, at their own pace, within the shared container of the sangha. We will gather weekly on Sundays at 6pm CT via Zoom for group practice, discussion, reflection, and senior-student–led Dharma talks. These sessions are designed to support continuity, address obstacles as they arise, and keep the practice grounded and alive.
This is a practice-first intensive. The aim is not accumulation for its own sake, but the gradual gathering of merit and wisdom through consistency, sincerity, and shared effort.
If you are ready to begin the year by placing practice at the center of your life, we invite you to join us.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Younge Ngondro text (transmission to be given on December 31 to new students before start of intensive)
Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche
For more than ten years, our sangha has begun the year with a shared commitment: one hundred days of ngöndro practice, grounded in lineage, guided by continuity, and supported by community.
This year, we are deepening that commitment by placing the emphasis where it belongs. On supporting one another in actual practice.
The purpose of this intensive is simple and demanding. To establish steady, daily engagement with the foundational practices of the path, and to do so together, with clarity, accountability, and care.
Alongside daily practice, we will study selected sections of The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche. Our focus will be practical and experiential: how to do the practices correctly, why these practices matter, and how they function as the ground for the Vajrayana path as it has been presented by Rinpoche. Questions are welcome and expected. This is a living inquiry, not a passive study.
This intensive is for practitioners who are committed to practicing the path as it has been transmitted by Rinpoche. It is equally open to newer students who are ready to begin a genuine path with guidance and structure, and to experienced practitioners who are actively practicing and willing to contribute their insight and presence.
Participants commit to daily practice at home, at their own pace, within the shared container of the sangha. We will gather weekly on Sundays at 6pm CT via Zoom for group practice, discussion, reflection, and senior-student–led Dharma talks. These sessions are designed to support continuity, address obstacles as they arise, and keep the practice grounded and alive.
This is a practice-first intensive. The aim is not accumulation for its own sake, but the gradual gathering of merit and wisdom through consistency, sincerity, and shared effort.
If you are ready to begin the year by placing practice at the center of your life, we invite you to join us.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Younge Ngondro text (transmission to be given on December 31 to new students before start of intensive)
Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche
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