Schedule
Friday, May 31, 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Session 1: Tachen Parameti
Session 2: Lung Transmission Session 3: Practice Session |
These sessions build upon each other.
Participation in the practice session requires attendance to whole day.
Participation in the practice session requires attendance to whole day.
Sunday, June 2, 2019
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8:15 am - 10:15 am
11:00 am - 1:00 pm 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm 4:30 pm |
Shadow Yoga with Scott Blossom
Feeding Your Demons talk and practice with Chandra Healing Chod with Lama Karma and Drolkar Participant Potluck Party, all attendants welcome |
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Red Brick Center for the Arts
110 E. Hallam, Aspen, CO 81611 N. Garmish St entrance |
$35 per session $80 per day $170 for the weekend
Early Registration Discount Scholarships available Within the Buddhist tradition none are turned away |
classes descriptions
Introduction and guided meditation
Friday, May 31, 2019 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
All teachers will be introduced including Lama Karma, Drolkar, Chandra, and Scott.
A guided meditation will be lead by Lama Karma preparing participants for the weekend's teachings. Through chanting and instruments, energy will be transmitted to clear each participant and to enable greater receptivity to information, concepts, and practices of the weekend.
All teachers will be introduced including Lama Karma, Drolkar, Chandra, and Scott.
A guided meditation will be lead by Lama Karma preparing participants for the weekend's teachings. Through chanting and instruments, energy will be transmitted to clear each participant and to enable greater receptivity to information, concepts, and practices of the weekend.
Beautiful traditional teaching of mind training, and practice in cluding all traditional Tibetan steps. Blessings, Energy transmissions.
Tachen Paramita Talk
Saturday, June 1, 2019 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
session 1 of 3 with Lama Karma
In this talk, Lama Karma will present information vital to living a happy life. To become a Buddha, a Bodhisattva has to practice Paramita, the six perfections: generosity (dana paramita), morality (shila-paramita), patience (kshanti-paramita), enthusiastic perseverance/energy (virya-paramita), concentration/meditation (dhyana-paramita), and wisdom (prajna-paramira). For more details on paramita, one may read this.
session 1 of 3 with Lama Karma
In this talk, Lama Karma will present information vital to living a happy life. To become a Buddha, a Bodhisattva has to practice Paramita, the six perfections: generosity (dana paramita), morality (shila-paramita), patience (kshanti-paramita), enthusiastic perseverance/energy (virya-paramita), concentration/meditation (dhyana-paramita), and wisdom (prajna-paramira). For more details on paramita, one may read this.
Lung Transmission
Saturday, June 1, 2019 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
session 2 of 3 with Lama Karma
A lung (pronounced loong) is the oral transmission of a text, mantra, or practice by an authorized holder. Lama Karma will be explaining lung and will also be preparing participants for the practice session following this talk.
session 2 of 3 with Lama Karma
A lung (pronounced loong) is the oral transmission of a text, mantra, or practice by an authorized holder. Lama Karma will be explaining lung and will also be preparing participants for the practice session following this talk.
practice session
Saturday, June 1, 2019 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
session 3 of 3 with Lama Karma
Through a guided meditation, participants will be applying all that has been taught and transmitted in the previous sessions. If you have not attended session 1 and session 2 and believe you have been properly trained for this practice session, please email [email protected] before May 31st so your request may be properly presented to the Lama and for a response to be given to you.
session 3 of 3 with Lama Karma
Through a guided meditation, participants will be applying all that has been taught and transmitted in the previous sessions. If you have not attended session 1 and session 2 and believe you have been properly trained for this practice session, please email [email protected] before May 31st so your request may be properly presented to the Lama and for a response to be given to you.
Shadow Yoga
Sunday, June 2, 2019 8:15 am - 10:15 am
Shadow yoga, founded by zhander remete, is a hatha yoga system that utilizes rhythmic breathing, bandhas (energetic locks) and the system of marma (vital junctions) to free the peripheral body of its energetic obstructions and to ignite our inner fire for healing and meditation. Shadow yoga consists of circular and spiraling movements, warrior stances, and sun salutation forms that prepare students to safely and effectively practice the more advanced limbs of hatha yoga
The name Shadow Yoga deals with the intricate manifestations of the shadow and their significance both inside and outside the human organism and is derived from the 6th chapter of the ancient tantrika treatise ‘The Shiva-Svarodaya’ (the birth of the breath of life revealed by the god Shiva). All fixed forms should be designed to develop the practice of freestyle. Freestyle is a necessary step in the cultivation of longevity and enlightenment. Standing, Pumping, Sitting, Weighing, Lying (face-down, face-up, on sides), Forwards, Sideways (lateral), Backwards, Inversion, Spiral, Turning, Twisting. These twelve kinds of positions and movements have been adapted from the range of human activities including martial arts, dance and crafts of life, and from the plant and animal kingdoms. The appropriate combination of these activities with suitable rhythm and positioning brings about the unfolding of the inner powers hidden in the individual.
Please bring a mat and water and wear comfy clothes. All are welcome; no prior experience is necessary.
Shadow yoga, founded by zhander remete, is a hatha yoga system that utilizes rhythmic breathing, bandhas (energetic locks) and the system of marma (vital junctions) to free the peripheral body of its energetic obstructions and to ignite our inner fire for healing and meditation. Shadow yoga consists of circular and spiraling movements, warrior stances, and sun salutation forms that prepare students to safely and effectively practice the more advanced limbs of hatha yoga
The name Shadow Yoga deals with the intricate manifestations of the shadow and their significance both inside and outside the human organism and is derived from the 6th chapter of the ancient tantrika treatise ‘The Shiva-Svarodaya’ (the birth of the breath of life revealed by the god Shiva). All fixed forms should be designed to develop the practice of freestyle. Freestyle is a necessary step in the cultivation of longevity and enlightenment. Standing, Pumping, Sitting, Weighing, Lying (face-down, face-up, on sides), Forwards, Sideways (lateral), Backwards, Inversion, Spiral, Turning, Twisting. These twelve kinds of positions and movements have been adapted from the range of human activities including martial arts, dance and crafts of life, and from the plant and animal kingdoms. The appropriate combination of these activities with suitable rhythm and positioning brings about the unfolding of the inner powers hidden in the individual.
Please bring a mat and water and wear comfy clothes. All are welcome; no prior experience is necessary.
Feeding your demons
Sunday, June 2, 2019 11 am - 1 pm
Resolve your own inner conflicts, clear obstacles, and create a support system to propel you in life using the energy to make a better life for yourself. At an advanced level this practice can be used to benefit the world and others and to support your professional practice in supporting your clients. As a secular translation of a Chod practice, feeding your demons is a pathway for healing professionals and corporate leaders to expand and improve their professional lives. Once learned it is a great tool to use quickly in your daily life and is applicable to all religious and non religious backgrounds.
Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman’s practice to the West for the first time with Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione – one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chödrön – bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today’s Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the clearly articulated five-step practice outlined in Feeding Your Demons, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace.
Resolve your own inner conflicts, clear obstacles, and create a support system to propel you in life using the energy to make a better life for yourself. At an advanced level this practice can be used to benefit the world and others and to support your professional practice in supporting your clients. As a secular translation of a Chod practice, feeding your demons is a pathway for healing professionals and corporate leaders to expand and improve their professional lives. Once learned it is a great tool to use quickly in your daily life and is applicable to all religious and non religious backgrounds.
Tsultrim Allione brings an eleventh-century Tibetan woman’s practice to the West for the first time with Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict, an accessible and effective approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. Allione – one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chödrön – bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today’s Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the clearly articulated five-step practice outlined in Feeding Your Demons, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace.
Healing Chod
Sunday, June 2, 2019 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Guided healing meditation transmitted while lying in savasana to altering your consciousness. It is given in Tibetan with drums and other instruments. Bring a mat, a blanket, wear comfortable clothes, and water.
Healing Chöd is a passive a healing process. “Chöd” means “to cut,” “to release,” or “to go beyond” in Tibetan. So what might this sacred ceremony help to release? Anything from illness to suffering to karmic obstacles to spiritual growth. “The main purpose is to overcome the root cause of all destructive emotions,” says Lama Migmar Tseten, a Tibetan spiritual master.
Before the ceremony began, participants will be instructed to lie down and just be receptive. That’s it. No understanding required. No thinking needed. No meditation necessary. One may remain awake or allow sleep. Drums, bells, horns, and chanted from 50 pages of ancient liturgy will be used. The sounds and mantras pacify discord. The chants carry the power and blessings of loving-kindness from Buddha, the Enlightened One.
Purportedly, barren women who’ve participated in the Chöd have later conceived; some claimed to have been cured of cancer. Others have had visions. Some have describe some painful family dynamics that had shifted for the better in the mere 24 hours since our workshop had begun. Results will vary. The monkey mind may race from one random thought to the next during the sessions. One may worry, "Am I not receiving the healing? " But there’s no right way to experience the Chöd. “Everyone receives it differently,” notes Lama Migmar. The point is just to relax and be open to the experience.
Guided healing meditation transmitted while lying in savasana to altering your consciousness. It is given in Tibetan with drums and other instruments. Bring a mat, a blanket, wear comfortable clothes, and water.
Healing Chöd is a passive a healing process. “Chöd” means “to cut,” “to release,” or “to go beyond” in Tibetan. So what might this sacred ceremony help to release? Anything from illness to suffering to karmic obstacles to spiritual growth. “The main purpose is to overcome the root cause of all destructive emotions,” says Lama Migmar Tseten, a Tibetan spiritual master.
Before the ceremony began, participants will be instructed to lie down and just be receptive. That’s it. No understanding required. No thinking needed. No meditation necessary. One may remain awake or allow sleep. Drums, bells, horns, and chanted from 50 pages of ancient liturgy will be used. The sounds and mantras pacify discord. The chants carry the power and blessings of loving-kindness from Buddha, the Enlightened One.
Purportedly, barren women who’ve participated in the Chöd have later conceived; some claimed to have been cured of cancer. Others have had visions. Some have describe some painful family dynamics that had shifted for the better in the mere 24 hours since our workshop had begun. Results will vary. The monkey mind may race from one random thought to the next during the sessions. One may worry, "Am I not receiving the healing? " But there’s no right way to experience the Chöd. “Everyone receives it differently,” notes Lama Migmar. The point is just to relax and be open to the experience.
Participant Potluck Party
Sunday, June 2, 2019 4:30 pm
Let your hair down and have some fun. Mingle with the teachers. All who attend any and all of the sessions are welcome to participate in a potluck party with the teachers. Along with bringing a dish to share, all are welcome to share a song, play an instrument, read a poem.
Let your hair down and have some fun. Mingle with the teachers. All who attend any and all of the sessions are welcome to participate in a potluck party with the teachers. Along with bringing a dish to share, all are welcome to share a song, play an instrument, read a poem.
Teachers
Venerable retreat master (Drubpön) Lama Karma was born in eastern Bhutan and joined the Long-Nying Chöling Monastery at a young age. His root teacher was Lama Naljorpa, the great yogi of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, from whom he received numerous vows, empowerments, instructions and oral transmissions, including the Chöd Rinchen Trengwa and the Chöd practice of Laughter of the Dakinis from the Longchen Nyingtik Tradition. A heart student of Terton Pedgyal Lingpa Rinpoche, he served as the scribe for the entirety of Pedgyal Lingpa’s Kusum Gongdü treasure cycle. Drubpön Lama Karma studied with other great teachers, including H.H. Dodrupchen Rinpoche, H.H. Penor Rinpoche, H.H. Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, H.H Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche, H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, and the 16th and 17th Karmapas. He has spent over 16 years in strict meditation retreats. Drubpön is renowned as a genuine retreat master throughout Bhutan and has been one of the most important Bhutanese lamas to disseminate the teachings and maintain the tradition of Terton Pedgyal Lingpa.
Khandro Tsering Drolkar was born in Bumthang, Bhutan in 1963. In 1984 she began an eleven year retreat under the guidance of her consort Lama Naljorpa at the Phurpaling Retreat Center in Tashiyangtse. During Lama Naljorpa’s lifelong retreat there, she received many teachings and experiential trainings directly from him. She was the Chöd practice chant master at the retreat center, and Lama Naljorpa took great pride in her ability to lead the practice. She assisted Lama Naljorpa in instructing practitioners in the Chöd melodies and rhythms. Whenever there was Chöd practice, she would lead it.
From Lama Naljorpa she received many different Chöd lineages over the course of nine years. She also trained in the practices of working with the subtle channels, energies, and essences, learning the practice of inner fire and the associated yogic exercises.
After Lama Naljorpa passed away in 1994, Khandro Drölkar moved to Pema Yangdzong Retreat Center in Paro, Bhutan to study and practice with Drubpön Lama Karma, who later became her partner. The Pema Yangdzong Retreat Center is a center founded by the late treasure discoverer Padgyal Lingpa, who was one of the root teachers of both Lama Naljorpa and Lama Karma. Khandro Drolkar continues to lead and teach Chöd practice all around the world. Her deep devotion to Chöd practice, the beautiful melodies and rhythms, along with the teachings of Prajnaparamita and Machig Labdrön is continuously inspiring for all that study with her.
From Lama Naljorpa she received many different Chöd lineages over the course of nine years. She also trained in the practices of working with the subtle channels, energies, and essences, learning the practice of inner fire and the associated yogic exercises.
After Lama Naljorpa passed away in 1994, Khandro Drölkar moved to Pema Yangdzong Retreat Center in Paro, Bhutan to study and practice with Drubpön Lama Karma, who later became her partner. The Pema Yangdzong Retreat Center is a center founded by the late treasure discoverer Padgyal Lingpa, who was one of the root teachers of both Lama Naljorpa and Lama Karma. Khandro Drolkar continues to lead and teach Chöd practice all around the world. Her deep devotion to Chöd practice, the beautiful melodies and rhythms, along with the teachings of Prajnaparamita and Machig Labdrön is continuously inspiring for all that study with her.
Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton, Buddhist teacher and translator, studied Buddhism and Tibetan language at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives in Dharamsala, India, founded by H.H. Dalai Lama. She later received her degree from UCSB’s religious studies department at which time she co-translated Sublime Dharma, A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published by Vimala Publishing, 2012. From the very beginning of her Buddhist studies, Dorje Lopön Chandra recognized the profound need to bring forth the voice of the sacred feminine in Buddhist theory and practice. Due to this, in 1999 during her first pregnancy, she met and then later began to study with Lama Tsultrim Allione, pioneering female Buddhist teacher, national best selling author, and founder of Tara Mandala Retreat Center. Dorje Lopön Chandra is the Assistant Spiritual Director and Lead Authorized Teacher at Tara Mandala Retreat Center.
Scott Blossom is a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner, Shadow Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic Consultant. He has been studying yoga since 1989 and teaching since 1997. His primary teachers are Zhander Remete, founder of Shadow Yoga, and Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and scholar. In 2011 he founded DoctorBlossom.com, a site dedicated to Ayurvedic education, nutrition and treatments.
about the organization tara mandala
The OrganizationTara Mandala is a vibrant international Buddhist Community with groups around the world. It was established in 1993 by Lama Tsultrim Allione and her late husband, David Petit, to foster the development of innate wisdom for the benefit of all beings.
The heart of the community is the 700-acre retreat center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, home to the deepest mineral hot springs in the world. We offer a complete path of meditation practice, study, and deep retreat in the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism. Tara Mandala is guided by Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Women of Wisdom, Feeding Your Demons, and Wisdom Rising. Lama Tsultrim has studied Tibetan Buddhism under traditional teachers for more than 45 years.
The heart of the community is the 700-acre retreat center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, home to the deepest mineral hot springs in the world. We offer a complete path of meditation practice, study, and deep retreat in the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism. Tara Mandala is guided by Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Women of Wisdom, Feeding Your Demons, and Wisdom Rising. Lama Tsultrim has studied Tibetan Buddhism under traditional teachers for more than 45 years.