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Karmê Chöling is host to Mukpo Institute, a three-month path of practice, study, and community. The program focuses on putting your practice and study into action every day as you engage... Continue reading
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.
September 26 - 27
ONLINE: Awakened Heart: Level 4 of the Heart of Warriorship *
with Timothy Quigley
In this pivotal program, we allow our hearts to be touched without closing down, and from this place, we learn that our inner experience and our outer experience are not so different after all.
October 17 - 18
(Online) Teachings on the Heart Sutra
with Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche
Khenpo Gawang Rinpoche will be teaching and giving commentary on the Heart Sutra. It is the most distilled essence of a group of Mahayana sutras concerned with Prajnaparamita; wisdom (prajna) that "reaches the other shore"(paramita).
October 24 - 25
(Online) Mudra Space Awareness: Gesture Practice for Intense Times
with Dr. Craig Warren Smith, Senior Teacher Suzann Duquette and Greg Heffron
Ever wonder about Mudra? Need more Mudra practice? Join this unique mind-body discipline of intensification postures and sensory awareness exercises for these intense times.
October 31 - November 1
(ONLINE) Open Sky: Level 5 of the Heart of Warriorship *
with Acharya Dan Hessey
In this culminating program, we learn that communicating with the world gently and fearlessly, our awareness sharpens. We find the open clear sky of mind, a delightful source of wisdom and uplifted energy.
December 12 - 13
(Online) Dakini Wisdom: Revealing the Feminine in Tibetan Buddhism
with Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown
Through an exploration of feminine principle, symbolized by the dakini, the sky-dancing goddess of Tibetan Buddhism, we may access our own vast wisdom beyond gender--and yet discover new meaning in our embodied, passionate lives as women and men.
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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 was started by students of the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala. They have been making and selling quality cushions and benches for practitioners of meditation since... Continue reading