RETREAT

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this course, Rinpoche will give another part of the Tummo teachings (practices of inner heat and bliss).

The teachings and meditation help us to connect with our own heart. Through these teachings we discover within ourselves space, openness and an unlimited source of possibilities. By connecting with our own essence, the nature of the mind, we can transform our lives to be more joyful and valuable.

Practicing meditation in our daily lives enriches our relationships with other people, helps us approach our work in a more creative way, and teaches us how to use our lives in a more wise and compassionate way.

Translation: The course will be in English with translation into Polish and other languages.

RETREAT

Connecting to the Healing Power of the Sacred Elements

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

According to the ancient Tibetan spiritual traditions, our planet is alive and sacred. The five natural elements—earth, water, fire, air and space—can be considered fundamental aspects of a living universe. All of our experiences, from the sensations of the physical body, to the emotions, to the most fleeting of thoughts, are said to be composed entirely of these five elements in interaction.

During this weekend, we will learn how to connect to the outer sacred elements and spirits of the elements in our environment, the inner sacred dimension of elements through the energy in our body, and the innermost sacred dimension of the elements—awareness itself.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will guide us in connecting with the elements in their different manifestations, to support environmental, physical, emotional and spiritual healing and to nourish and restore health and vitality.

This retreat is a hybrid event. You can join online via Zoom, or in-person. Teaching will be in English with Hungarian translation.  Further languages will also be available on Zoom, information to be updated soon!

RETREAT—OPENING YOUR HEART TO THE WORLD

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder of The Three Doors, September 10–11 for a very special weekend retreat on Zoom. The 3 Doors is an international organization that offers meditation programs with opportunities to meditate in community and integrate meditation into your everyday life for the benefit of self and others. Everyone is welcome!

Rinpoche will guide participants to connect with the inner refuge of an open heart of wisdom and compassion during two full days of teaching. Practices will be guided by 3 Doors senior teachers Marcy Vaughn, Gabriel Rocco, Alejandro Chaoul and Raven Lee.

Within each one of us is a heart of compassion, our natural response in the presence of suffering. But often we are overwhelmed, saddened or burdened by the suffering we perceive in the world around us, and we may shut down or turn away. If we acknowledge how the pain of others touches us and are supported to open in the presence of our pain, from the openness itself we touch the source within, a source of compassion, and can respond to others in a beneficial way.

This retreat provides a unique opportunity to experience the 3 Doors practices as presented by the founder of the organization himself. In addition, opportunities will be provided for participants to deepen and reflect on their experiences through sharing and discussion in small groups.

Audio recordings of teachings and guided practices will be available for streaming and download shortly after the completion of the program.

Spanish, German, French and Hungarian translations available.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will continue teaching on the A-Tri cycle of pith dzogchen teachings. The A-Tri cycle is a unique step-by-step system to introduce and deepen one’s realization through the path of dzogchen. This will be a hybrid event, with teachings taking place in Crestone, Colorado and also shared online live via Zoom. Those who were not able to attend Part 1 of this cycle will have access to video recordings of the Part 1 teachings in 2021 and review them prior to this retreat after paying the registration fee.

For more detailed information see our full description page.  Registration is now open for the on-site teachings through the link at the bottom of this page. See the other event icon to register for the Zoom online version of this retreat.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will continue teaching on the A-Tri cycle of pith dzogchen teachings. The A-Tri cycle is a unique step-by-step system to introduce and deepen one’s realization through the path of dzogchen. This will be a hybrid event, with teachings taking place in Crestone, Colorado and also shared online live via Zoom. Those who were not able to attend Part 1 of this cycle will have access to video recordings of the Part 1 teachings in 2021 and review them prior to this retreat after paying the registration fee.

For more detailed information see our full description page.  Registration is now open for the online Zoom teachings at the bottom of this page. See the other icon to register for the face to face retreat in Crestone.

Fall Retreat: The Five Elements & Serenity Ridge Dialogues with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join us for five very special days with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and special guests.

Our planet is as alive as it is sacred. The five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space are not just natural resources, but are fundamental aspects of a living universe. The elements exist not only at a gross, physical level, but in many increasingly subtle forms, with distinct qualities and effects. In fact, every experience one can have, from the sensations of one’s physical body, to emotions, to the most fleeting of thoughts, is composed of the interaction of these five elements. Come learn, connect and experience their power for yourself!

This retreat brings something entirely new to Serenity Ridge. In the mornings, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach on the Five Elements, with a special emphasis on the cleansing and healing power of the five tsa lung exercises and the Nine Breaths of Purification. He will be joined and supported by Geshe YongDong Losar, from Vancouver Island, Canada. In the afternoon they will be joined by researchers and healthcare practitioners of both Easern and Western medicine. Collectively they will present research, knowledge and their own experiences regarding how connecting to the elements, to the breath, awareness and the body can help us to connect more fully to the joy of life, to heal injury and trauma, and to be more present to each moment.

Our special guests include:

Geshe YongDong Losar is the youngest monk ever awarded the Geshe degree at Nangzhig Bon Monastery. Following his graduation in the spring of 1992, Geshe YongDong escaped Tibet. In India he studied at both Menri and Sera Monasteries. In the fall of 1999, Geshe YongDong moved to British Columbia, Canada. Living on Vancouver Island, he founded Sherab Chamma Ling, the first Tibetan Bon Buddhist Center in Canada. He is the Resident Spiritual Director and continues to teach regularly at his center today.

Menpa Phuntsok Wangmo is director of the Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine. Menpa Wangmo organized and instructed the first full-length, traditional Tibetan Medicine training program offered in the Western World. Menpa Wangmo teaches Tibetan Medicine programs around the world.

Lonny Jarrett is recognized worldwide as a leading practitioner, author, scholar and teacher of East Asian medicine. Lonny has been practicing Acupuncture and Herbology in Stockbridge, Massachusetts since 1986. He holds Master’s Degrees in Neurobiology (University of Michigan) and Acupuncture (Traditional Acupuncture Institute) and  studied Contemporary Pulse Diagnosis with Dr. Leon Hammer for 10 years.

Sat-Bir Singh Khalsa is a researcher in the field of body mind medicine, specializing in yoga therapy. Originally from Toronto, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where he also began his practice of Kundalini Yoga under the tutelage of Yogi Bhajan.

FREE EVENT

The Five Wisdoms of Tibet, Part 5

with Menri Shedrup Khenpo, Geshe Nyima Dhondup Rinpoche, Others and co-host Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

A live online conversation with esteemed teachers of six spiritual traditions of Tibet. Conversation is in Tibetan language; simultaneous interpretation into English and multiple other languages may be available (to be announced).

The major Buddhist traditions of Tibet have distinctly different teachings and rituals, yet they also share many commonalities, among them the jewel-like teachings of the Five Wisdoms. In Part 5 of an ongoing series of live online broadcasts, prominent teachers from six Tibetan spiritual traditions come together to discuss their shared and unique perspectives of the wisdom of equanimity.

Joining the conversation are Menri Shedrup Khenpo Geshe Nyima Dhondup Rinpoche (Bön), Khenpo Pema Tashi (Nyingma), Khenchen Tsultrim Nyima (Kagyu), Khenpo Dakpa Senge (Sakya), Yangten Rinpoche (Gelug), and Khenpo Lhakyab (Jonang). Hosted by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal and Khenpo Gyurmey Dorgee.

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FREE EVENT

Cross-Cultural Parenting, Part 1: Helping Children to Thrive When Traditions Collide

with Tsering D. Watermeyer, Tenzin Thosam, and host Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

A live online discussion with Tsering D. Watermeyer, Tenzin Thosam, and host Geshe Tenzin Wangyal. Conversation is in Tibetan language; simultaneous interpretation into English and multiple other languages may be available (to be announced).

When raising children in a country that is foreign to you, not them, how do you help them to thrive without sacrificing your own, cherished cultural heritage and values? Our three panelists, all Tibetan immigrants to North America, discuss common parenting challenges of immigrants and their suggestions for building healthy, happy families. Part 1 in an ongoing series.

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༢༠༢༢ ཟླ་བ། ༨ ཚེས། ༢༧ རེས་གཟའ་སྤེན་པ། ནིའུ་ཡོག་གི་སྔ་དྲོའི་དུས་ཚོད། ༡༡
བོད་ཀྱི་རིག་གཞུང་དང་མི་འདྲ་བའི་ཁོར་ཡུག་ནང་དུ་བྱིས་པ་འཚོ་སྐྱོང་བྱ་ཐབས།

ཚན་པ་དང་པོ།
བོད་ཀྱི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་དང་མི་མཐུན་པ་བྱུང་བའི་སྐབས་སུ་བྱིས་པའི་འཚར་ལོངས་ལེགས་པར་ཡོང་བའི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྐོར།

གཙོ་སྐྱོང་པ།
དགེ་བཤེས་བསྟན་འཛིན་དབང་རྒྱལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
བགྲོ་གླེང་པ།
ཚེ་རིང་ཝ་ཐེ་མའེ་ཨེར་ལགས་དང་། བསྟན་འཛིན་ཐོས་བསམ་ལགས།
བགྲོ་གླེང་དེ་བོད་སྐད་ནང་ནས་གནང་རྒྱུ་རེད།

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FREE EVENT

Realizing Your Full Potential: Ripening the Conditions of the Body

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche offers a teaching and guides a meditation to mark the start of the Month of the Body — part of his free yearlong program “Bring Body, Speech & Mind to Life.” Open to all.

“Body” refers here not only to our physical body and the tangible world around us, but also to our individual sense of identity as a human being. The teachings, discussions, and practices explored during the Month of the Body help us to connect to the door of the body, clearing obstacles to health and well-being through movement and stillness. Resting our awareness in the stillness of the body opens the door to the clear, open, unchanging experience of our true nature and awakens clear, positive action.

In advance of his teaching, Rinpoche encourages creating a bit of space for meditation in your house — in a quiet, peaceful location where you can feel some sense of warmth and connection to yourself. You might provide a comfortable cushion to sit on, and a candle or stick of incense. A supportive outer space can support your inner space during meditation.

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Related activities, Month of the Body, September 8 – October 7:

• Friday, September 9, 2022, 10 a.m. New York time: 24-Hour Full Moon Practice, “Through Stillness, Awaken Clear, Positive Action.”
  Registration opens after August 12
• NEW! Begins Thursday, September 15, 2022: “Allowing Clear, Positive Action to Arise,” a free, month-long interactive online course. Four Thursdays at 1 p.m. New York time with Anja Benesch, via Zoom. Class size is limited. Includes weekly small-group sessions. Learn more & register now

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Registration Open, 2022 – Ongoing

In this self-guided course, which is available to take at any time, Khandro Tsering Wangmo Khymsar shares everything you need to know to raise lungta (windhorse) prayer flags. Included in her series of videos is a discussion of lungta (luck, prosperity and positive energy), what it is, how to maintain it and how it can be lost. Tsering-la teaches about the symbols and meaning of lungta prayer flags, when they should be raised, and when not to raise them. Participants will learn how to use prayer flags to lift their own energy, spirit and general well-being, or do so on behalf of others.

The course includes audio files of Geshe Denma Gyaltsen singing all of the mantras and prayers for this ritual, which you can download and use for yourself. PDF files of the prayers, sacred images, lists of needed ingredients and more also are included.

This is the first Ligmincha Learning course to teach a traditional Tibetan Bonpo skill or ritual. Now in development is a course with Lama Kalsang Nyima that will teach how to construct a Yeshe Walmo namkha. Namkhas are a traditional form of art made with strings and sticks used to represent one’s yidam deity.

COURSE

Healing From The Source: Meditation As Medicine For Body And Mind

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Without the light and warmth of the sun, trees and flowering plants will fail to flourish.
Without awareness and warmth toward your body, you, too, will fail to flourish.”.
—Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

It’s human nature to keep picking at our own physical, emotional and mental wounds. Whether we’re sick in a hospital bed or have just woken up on the wrong side of the bed, we tend to self-criticize and punish ourselves for our bad feelings. We scratch at our itches, curse at our arthritis, tug at our anger and blame our anxiety on others. We busy our minds to avoid depression. Disturbing emotions can even make us sick, or sicker.

The three precious pills serve as the foundation of the main practice. Their healing effects come from resting deeply in the space that opens, then gradually bringing awareness to your emotional or physical discomfort. In that unconditional openness, the pain or discomfort naturally dissolves.

This three-week online workshop, with personal support and guidance from Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, focuses on cultivating loving-kindness as a means for preventing and healing both physical and emotional pain. Based on ancient teachings of dzogchen from the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition, the workshop helps one discover the “great healer within.” The core teachings of dzogchen introduce us to the nature of mind, to our own inner refuge, the true source of healing.

Website: GlideWing (https://www.glidewing.com/twr/healing_from_the_source_home.html)

COURSE

Transforming Our Emotions Through the Six Lokas

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

This meditation course will give you a thorough introduction to the Six Lokas practices of the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition.

At one time or another each of us suffer strong emotions that throw us off balance, cause us to act in ways that we later regret, and make us lose touch with our true nature. Centuries ago the masters of the Bön lineage developed the meditations of the Six Lokas specifically to remedy this situation, to help us live our lives in a balanced and relaxed way.

The meditations focus on the root causes of our suffering: anger, desire, greed, ignorance, jealousy, pride and laziness. Through each meditation we examine our habitual patterns so that we may recognize them, then invoke the enlightened energy of the Buddhas to purify and transform us so that we and all other beings might not continue to suffer in this way. The practices have a deep healing and transformative power, and are traditionally practiced at length as a preliminary to dzogchen contemplation.

Registration is now open

COURSE

Treasures of Bön: History, Lineage & Practices

with Geshe Denma Gyaltsen and John Jackson

Bön counts itself among the oldest spiritual traditions in the world. With origins steeped in an oral, shamanic tradition and yet deeply rooted in teachings of the buddha Tonpa Shenrap, the buddha who preceded Shakyamuni Buddha. Bön offers practices for the challenges we face in our lives, and a complete path to enlightenment..

Ligmincha International is pleased to share our online course designed for anyone who would like to learn more about, or deepen their existing knowledge about this ancient, profound tradition. This course is ideal for beginners who have recently connected with Bön teachings, and want to know more about where it comes from and the many varied forms of practice in the tradition. It is also well suited for practitioners who have learned several practices and would like to know how all the practices fit together into a beautiful and complete system of philosophies and meditations.

We use a new format for this course, in which Geshe Denma Gyaltsen, our resident lama of Ligmincha Texas, and John Jackson, mentor for many of our courses and frequent international teacher, enter into deep conversations around the essential masters and teachings of our tradition. Each topical conversation is followed by a guided meditation, led by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche or Geshe Denma Gyaltsen , which illustrate and demonstrate the themes discussed.

John Jackson will be the mentor for this course.

Registration is now open.

COURSE

Tibetan Dream Yoga

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

It is said that the practice of dream yoga deepens our awareness during all our experience: the dreams of the night; the dream-like experience of the day; and the bardo experiences after death. Indeed, the practice of dream yoga is a powerful tool of awakening, used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions. Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of mind or enlightenment itself.

In this four-week workshop, students will explore and practice the ancient Bön Buddhist teachings of Tibetan dream yoga. The workshop provides detailed instruction for dream yoga practice, with discussion of the relationships between dreaming and waking and between dreaming and death. Rinpoche also will provide instructions for foundational practices done during the day and for the uses and methods of lucid dreaming.

Website: GlideWing (https://www.glidewing.com/twr/dreamyoga_home.html)

COURSE

The Three Heart Mantras

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

 The Three Heart Mantras are used in many different meditations in the Bön tradition and play a major role in the ngöndro practices. They are said to be the essence of enlightenment in sound and energy, and as we sing or chant the mantras our awareness is transformed to be in union with the Buddhas. They are used for purification, protection and as primary practices toward self-realization.

It is said that creating these mantras in any form brings merit and purification, so they are commonly found carved into stones, printed on prayer flags where they spread their benefits through the winds, and even drawn with gold ink and kept on shrines as an object of reverence and meditation. Their blessings are said to be endless. Also within this course Tenzin Rinpoche explains the essence of the Guru Yoga, Refuge and Bodhicitta practices, making this an excellent introduction to the tradition.

Lourdes Hinojosa will be the mentor for this course.

Registration opening soon.

COURSE

The Five Elements: Healing with Form, Energy and Light

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this course Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche explores how the five elements from the Tibetan Bön tradition relates to our daily experiences, emotions and relationships. Rinpoche guides meditations for each of the elements, designed to help clear our obstacles and bring balance to our lives.

The course is structured into six parts of one week each:

• Overview of the Five Elements
• The Earth Element
• The Water Element
• The Fire Element
• The Air Element
• The Space Element

Each section of the course includes a video of Rinpoche’s teaching, Rinpoche leading a guided meditation, readings from his book Healing with Form, Energy and Light, and assignments for journal writing, discussion, formal and informal practice.

The course is designed so that you may integrate study and practice into your everyday routine, learning at your own pace, yet enjoying the support of classmates and the course mentor.

John Jackson will be the mentor for this course.

Registration opening soon

COURSE

Sherap Chamma: Mother of Wisdom and Love

with Marcy Vaughn

Ligmincha Learning is pleased to announce that we will be offering our course introducing the practices of Sherap Chamma, Mother of Wisdom and Love, taught by Marcy Vaughn.

In many cultures the primordial female energy is seen as the origin of existence and the source of all positive qualities. As such, Sherap Chamma is the source of wisdom, and her medicine is love and compassion. The teachings of Sherap Chamma comprise one of the most important tantric cycles of the ancient Bön tradition.

Join Marcy Vaughn in this special course to learn a beautiful and simple meditation practice that will enable you to connect directly with the divine feminine energy. With visualization, the sound of mantra, and deep contemplation, participants can make a personal connection to this sacred form of the universal mother, Sherap Chamma, and are guided through this connection to innate wisdom and the love and compassion that naturally radiate from that wisdom.

Those experienced in meditation as well as those who are beginning are warmly welcomed.