Awake in Daily Life with Claire Villarreal

Mondays January 10 – 31 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to start meditating… for years now… then this course is for you! With your new set of tools to bring mindfulness to daily life – whether you ever sit on a cushion or not! – you’ll be ready to kick 2022 off right.

Dzogchen Cycles: Dakini Element Practice

Friday, February 11 through Sunday February 13

In their most refined expressions, the five elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space are nothing other than the five primordial wisdoms. In the Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, these elements are female wisdom beings known as Dakini. Meet these elemental dakinis and invite them to help recognize your own innate nature, support your emotional life, restore balance, and recognize your own innate nature!

Life and Times of Adzom Drukpa with Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche

Two Saturdays March 12 and 19, 9:00 am to 11:00 am CST

Adzom Drukpa is well known for his brilliant teaching of Dzogchen but for many of us his life remains a mystery. Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche will share central episodes of Adzom Drukpa’s life. Come join us for stories and more that are an open avenue to this lineage, and to the development of Heart Essence, Vast Expanse in the 20th century in Tibet.

The Mind of Right Now- with Lama Tenzin Samphel 

Tentative March 25 – 27, 2022

Resting in the mind of right now is core to Dzogchen practice. How do we find our way there? The famous short practice texts of Mipham Rinpoche explore resting, movement, and awareness ever present in our own minds, practices which gently carry us straight into the mind of right now. Lama Tenzin Samphel is beloved for his friendly, clear sharing of profound Dzogchen instructions. Join him for a weekend exploring the depth and nature of our own minds with these profound practices.