Online: Ngöndro Practice Intensive

A 7-Day Retreat

Live Sessions:

October 10 - 16, 2026
Morning Talk & Practice: 9:15 a.m - 12:30 p.m. EST
Afternoon Talk & Practice: 2:30 p.m. EST - 6:30 p.m. EST

Register at Shambhala.org

With great devotion, comes great practice.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Join us for a week-long Ngöndro practice intensive and connect with the energy and power of our Vajrayana heritage. We welcome individuals practicing Ngöndro in any lineage of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – Kagyu, Nyingma, and/or Shambhala Ngöndros.

Through our practice together, we will be connecting with the living wisdom and lineage energy of the Vidyadhara and the thousand years of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions he represented. Ngöndro is a powerful conduit to over fifty generations of mahasiddhas and our connection to the greater Vajra sangha of living masters today.

Drawing from the Vajrayana teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and other Tibetan Buddhist masters, this retreat will explore important topics and questions that arise throughout the Ngöndro process:

How do I understand the guru and the guru principle?
How do I connect to the energy of devotion? How do I connect with a teacher when they may be physically distant, deceased, or when devotion may not always naturally arise?
What does it mean to discover the guru not only as a person, but to also recognize the world and the situations of our own lives as sacred and profound teachers?
How do I work with the qualities of surrender, egolessness, and bodhicitta within my practice?
What am I actually doing when I practice visualization and formless meditation?

This retreat is an opportunity to deepen one’s Ngöndro practice, to engage in the traditional accumulations of wisdom and merit, and to connect with tantrikas from all branches of the Vidyadhara’s spiritual lineage. It is also a rare opportunity to practice with one of Trungpa Rinpoche’s closest students, the Dorje Loppon, Lodro Dorje, whose deep devotion to the Vidyadhara and the lineage continues to inspire and empower new generations of practitioners today.

Personal meditation interviews are available upon request. Please contact our retreat coordinator: dylanmkhanal@gmail.com

This retreat is taking place in-person at Karme Chöling Retreat Center in Vermont and is being offered as a hybrid retreat so participants can also listen to talks and practice together online.

For the Online retreat:

Register at Shambhala.org

Pricing

Tuition: $349.00
This is the price of the program, it does not include housing options or material fees.

Policies

Payment Policies:
Please read the payment policy before proceeding with registration.

Financial Aid:
Karmê Chöling offers full-time student discounts, scholarships and other financial aid.

Program Credit:
If using existing program credit to pay for a program, you must pre-register for this program at least two weeks prior to the program start date by calling the front desk (802-633-2384 x3000). Program credit may not be used to pay for housing or practice materials and may not be used on or after arrival day.

Instructors

Dorje Loppon, Lodro Dorje

Dorje Löppön Lodrö Dorje was head of the Office of Three Yana Studies from 1976 through 1990, which facilitated the meditation practice and study of the three yanas for Vajradhatu (now Shambhala). He was designated Dorje Loppon in 1985, with reference to his responsibility for working with Vajrayana students. Lodro continues to support practitioners of the Kagyü and Nyingma traditions and promotes the Vajrayana and Shambhala practices as mutually enhancing.

Adrienne Chang

Adrienne Chang has studied in the tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche for over fifteen years, helping co-lead Shambhala and Buddhist meditation retreats and study courses in Europe, North America, and online. Adrienne is currently a member of the Milinda program, a ten-year, inter-sangha, shedra-styled Buddhist teacher training program under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, which brings her to Asia for three-months of intensive study and practice each year. Adrienne has been teaching and publishing in the fields of Buddhist philosophy and history, as well as of gerontology, meditation, and aging and spirituality. She currently splits her time between her home in Luxembourg and Limoges, France, near Dechen Choling, Shambhala International’s land center in Europe.