This program will provide the full scope of Mudra. An extraordinary gathering of Mudra teachers will present intensive physical training, sensory exercises, meditations, talks and discussions. It is a qualifying program for Mudra advanced training to be held at Karme Choling in May of 2020. Continue»

Shambhala Mountain Center, CO

Winter Dathun

With Acharya Michael Greenleaf

December 13, 2019 – January 12, 2020

Please join us in the pristine stillness of winter in the Rocky Mountains for a week or month of meditation. The support of a group retreat, surrounded by natural beauty and far from the clamor of our busy lives, is an important way to deepen in the practice of meditation. It provides the ideal conditions to settle the mind and open the heart. Continue »

Chicago Shambhala Center

Exploring the Sadhana of Mahamudra

October 26 – 27, 2019
The Sadhana of Mahamudra is an important text written by the founder of Shambhala, the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche while on a pivotal retreat in Bhutan in 1968. It is a short liturgical practice that expresses the essential teachings of the Buddhist traditions the Vidyadhara inherited. He wrote this sadhana in a sacred cave in Bhutan at a turning point in his presentation of the Buddhist teachings in the West and so it holds a special place in Trungpa Rinpoche’s transmission of the dharma in North America. The societal and individual challenges it lays out are as relevant today as when the sadhana was first received in 1968. Continue »

Milwaukee Shambhala Center

Learn to Work with Strong Emotions

with Grace Jessen

September 14th, 2019

Modern psychology tells us that repressing our emotions is not healthy. External events can be dramatic and frightening.

Our inner lives can seem chaotic. The Buddha observed “sickness, old age, death” as truths of human existence. So then

what? Can we learn to acknowlege and work directly with suffering? Join us in exploring how this can be done. Continue »

Minneapolis Shambhala Center

The Art of Being Human

September 13 – 15, 2019

Through the practice of meditation, we glimpse unconditional goodness as the ground of our existence. Opening to ourselves with gentleness and appreciation, we begin to see our potential as genuine and compassionate human beings. No prerequisites or previous meditation experience is required. Continue »