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About Shambhala
Shambhala is a global community with over 200 meditation and retreat centers around the world. As one of it’s four largest rural retreat centers, Karmê Chöling brings together people of all ages and from all walks of life who are interested in exploring our minds, transforming our experience, and awakening our potential for enlightened society.
We offer a path of meditation practice and contemplative arts oriented towards modern life. Our communities around the world cultivate kindness, bravery, and genuine dialogue. Our vision is to inspire compassionate, sustainable, and just human societies.
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others to work on ourselves.
~ Pema Chödrön
Dathüns and Weekthuns
Dathüns and weekthüns are in-depth retreats and a powerful introduction to and deepening of mindfulness-awareness meditation. They are offered multiple times throughout the year as one-week, two-week or month-long group retreats.
During these programs, the practice of mindfulness goes beyond sitting on a meditation cushion; every aspect of daily life becomes part of the mindful discipline of rediscovering the present moment and our own hearts and minds.
April 3 - 5
Sadhana of Mahamudra Community Weekend
with Rupa Acharya Suzann Duquette
The Sadhana of Mahamudra, written by the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, brings together the devotion mahamudra of the Kagyu and the crazy wisdom ati of the Nyingma. As such, it provides a powerful touchstone for understanding our vajrayana heritage.
April 4
Parinirvana Day
Please join us for this annual all-day celebration of Parinirvana Day, the anniversary of the passing of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the founder of Shambhala.
April 28 - May 3
Lineage as the Heart of Ritual - Invoking Drala through Harmony in Voice & Movement *
with Rupa Acharya Suzann Duquette, Walker Blaine, Andrea Doukas and Timothy Quigley
A five-day retreat offering advanced training in lhasangs and feast practices for Shambhala Ritual Academy Werma Sadhana practitioners. We will practice, deepen, study shrine room iconography, and share the power of ritual in community.
May 1 - 3
Lineage As the Heart of Ritual: All-Sangha Weekend *
Shambhala ritual practitioners at all levels are invited to gather for hands-on training and study in leading chants, voice, drumming, and shrines, with study in shrine room iconography. Come deepen in the power and practices of Shambhala ritual.
May 1 - 10
9-Day Mahamudra Retreat *
with Acharya Richard John
Mahamudra, the "great seal," is among the most profound streams of teaching and practice of Vajrayana Buddhism. It is extremely simple and direct, focused on recognizing and gaining confidence in the nature of mind through direct experience.
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Meditation
The following will guide you through the basic technique of meditation and how to prepare a place to practice at home. You will also find additional resources and a listing... Continue reading
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Samadhi Cushions
Samadhi Cushions and Store was started by students of the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala. They have been making and selling quality cushions for practitioners of meditation since 1975. Their cushions... Continue reading