Shambhala Training is a series of contemplative workshops, suited for both beginning and experienced meditators. The simple and profound technique of mindfulness and awareness is the basis of a secular path of meditation, which can benefit people of any spiritual tradition. Shambhala Training is the study and practice of Shambhala warriorship, the tradition of human bravery and leadership. This path shows how to take the challenges of daily life in our modern society as opportunities for contemplative practice and social action.
This program is offered as one continuous retreat, but each level can be taken separately. Each level is a prerequisite for the next one and completion of the retreat authorizes participants to continue with the Way of Shambhala: Contentment and Joy in Everyday Life Retreat.
Level I: The Art of Being Human
with Carolyn Krusinski
Practice sitting and walking meditation and learn the basic principles of the Shambhala path of warriorship. Rediscover the good energy present in all of our experience. This basic goodness, innate to the way things are, is our own inborn, unconditional nature.
Begins Friday night and ends at lunchtime on Sunday.
Level II: Birth of the Warriorwith Carolyn Krusinski
Intensify the discipline of meditation practice, which enables us to work with the obstacles that arise as meditation practice develops. Explore how habitual ways of thinking and experiencing obscure the raw brilliance of the world we live in and our own genuineness and tenderness. Moving forward out of these habitual patterns, we learn to work with the fear that arises.
Begins Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm and ends early Tuesday evening.
Level III: Warrior in the World
with Acharya Michael Greenleaf
Bring the mindfulness and awareness of meditation practice into everyday life. Alive to our sense perceptions, we can venture into the world with a vulnerability that is fearless, gentle, and awake.
Schedule:
Level I begins Friday, February 26th, at 7:30pm, and ends at 5pm on Sunday, February 28th.
Level II begins Sunday, February 28th, at 7:30pm, and ends at 5pm on Tuesday, March 2nd.
Level III begins Tuesday March 2nd, at 7:30pm, and ends with breakfast on Friday, March 5th.
This program may be taken on its own or as part of the Mukpo Institute, a three-month residential program.
Individual levels are $275.
Program Price: $655
Please Note:
Price includes meals but not
accommodations.
It is traditional for students to offer a monetary gift to the teacher in appreciation for receiving
the teachings, and in recognition of the years of training and understanding the teacher has cultivated.
There will be an opportunity to offer a teaching gift at the program.
Scholarship and Financial Aid resources are available to make dharma accessible to
people in all circumstances. We offer different ways for overcoming financial obstacles
here.
About Acharya Michael Greenleaf, Carolyn Krusinski and Sue Gilman:
Acharya Michael Greenleaf began his dharma practice as a teenager after meeting a senior student from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's sangha in 1974. He attended the 1978 Shambhala Vajrayana seminary with Trungpa Rinpoche and has twice served as residential staff at Karmê Chöling. He is member of the core faculty charged with establishing a cycle of teaching at Karmê Chöling under the name Mukpo Institute.
Carolyn became a student of the Druk Sakyong in 1978 after meeting him in Los Angeles. She worked with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche with Ruling Your World and Turning the Mind Into An Ally programs and has taught the new curriculum. A business woman, wife and mother, Carolyn lives in the Boston area where she delights in her garden.
Sue Gilman is a senior student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and has been teaching Buddhism in Shambhala for more than a decade.
Registration is closed for this program.
