RETREAT

The Body of Light: Transformation through space, light, and energy

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In the Body of Light practices, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche invites us to lighten our pain identity as it manifests in our body, speech, mind, qualities, and action. The ultimate purpose of this lightening is the realization of the body of light, or rainbow body. The focus in these teachings will be on personal transformation, releasing the heaviness we carry on all levels because we don’t recognize our true nature. The more we transform each of these aspects of our being, the more our actions are able to manifest from the non-dual space, from that space and awareness.

In this Body of Light teaching, Rinpoche will conclude a 5-part series of teachings that began in Berkeley, California, by guiding us in the fifth aspect, the actions that spontaneously arise to express our innate qualities.

This weekend emphasizes self-reflection as well as practices of dzogchen teachings of the Bön tradition. There are no prerequisites needed to attend. Everyone is welcome.

Co-hosted by Ligmincha Berkeley and Serenity Ridge Retreat Center.

Live simultaneous translation into Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. More languages will be announced soon. 

Special Three-Tiered Pricing: Choose the option that best fits your circumstance

• $220
• $180
• $130

For daily schedule and to register, click on ‘Learn more and register’ below. The zoom link will be sent out 3 days prior to the online retreat. 

RETREAT

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

During this retreat Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will instruct us in the ancient practices of Tsa Lung. These practices have been used for thousands of years to open and awaken the energy centers and channels of the subtle energy body. They can enhance your physical fitness, mental well-being, and spiritual growth. By clearing uncomfortable emotions and other obscurations, they can open the space from which joy, love, compassion, and other enlightened qualities spontaneously manifest.

Schedule New York time
5th November, Friday
10.30 am -11.45 am: Teaching with Rinpoche
11.45am – 12.15: Break
12.15am – 1.15 pm: Practice with Geshe Gyatso or with a local umdze
1.15pm – 2.30pm: Break
2.30pm – 3.45pm: Teaching with Rinpoche

6th November, Saturday
10.30am – 11.45am: Teaching with Rinpoche
11.45am – 12.15: Break
12.15am – 1.15pm: Practice with Geshe Gyatso or with a local umdze
1.15pm – 2.30pm: Break
2.30pm – 3.45pm: Teaching with Rinpoche
3.45pm – 4.00pm: Short break
4.00pm – 5.00pm: Practice with Geshe Gyatso or with a local umdze

7th November, Sunday
10.30 am – 11.45 am: Teaching with Rinpoche
11.45am – 12.15am: Break
12.15am – 1.15pm: Practice with Geshe Gyatso or with a local umdze
1:15pm – 1.45pm: Break
1.45 pm – 3.00pm: Teaching and closing of retreat

Donation for the retreat:
Donation – Normal: 108 €
Donation – Discounted/1.: 80 €
Donation – Discounted/2.: 60 €

Hosted by Ligmincha Hungary

COURSE

Sleep Yoga: The Yoga of Clear Light

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

We spend one-third of our life in sleep, yet for most people sleep is a period of unconsciousness. Through the practices of the Yoga of Clear Light we can learn to be completely aware during our sleep, open, clear, resting in deep meditative presence.

This course will introduce simple techniques to enter into sleep in a healthy, balanced way and includes meditations for waking up. This is supported by breathing techniques, physical postures and guided visualizations. Through these simple practices we can transform our sleep to be one of tranquility and awareness.

Registration will open on September 21st, 2021

RETREAT

with Rob Patzig

A practice retreat on Trul Khor, the ancient Tibetan yogic practice to help free your inner energies and set you on the path to personal enlightenment

Trul Khor is an ancient Tibetan yogic practice that employs breathing, movement, visualization, and deep awareness as a path of clearing physical, mental, and energetic blockages, recognizing the nature of mind, and ultimately attaining awakening. Trul Khor also balances the subtle winds of the body and restores the balance and vitality of the elements. In this practice retreat we will focus on 16 movements from the A-Tri Trul Khor cycle as selected by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

This practice retreat is open to anyone who has previously practiced Trul Khor at a Ligmincha retreat or event. Participating in all three sessions will allow one to join Alejandro Chaoul the following week for “Tibetan Yoga for Health and Well-Being, Part 2”.

​If you live near Serenity Ridge Retreat Center​, and are fully vaccinated,​ you have the option to attend as a commuter at no additional cost. Proof of vaccination status is required. Practice will be held on the deck if the weather permits, and in the lower floor of Kunzang Khang if not. Meals are not provided.

RETREAT

with Alejandro Chaoul

The physical movements of Tibetan yoga offer skillful means for clearing the obstacles to openness and clarity in meditation practice

TIBETAN YOGA FOR HEALTH & WELL-BEING, PART 2 – ON ZOOM with Alejandro Chaoul-Reich

Join us November 12-14, 2021 for the second part of instruction on the ancient practice of Tibetan yoga (Trul Khor), from the Bön A-tri Dzogchen tradition. This course is the second in a series of teaching to take place over the next three years.

Prerequisite: Having attended the 2020 course,  previous Trul Khor Part 1 retreat, or online practice retreat with Rob Patzig, November 6-7, 2021.

Special invitation emails have been sent to those who attended the 2020 course. If you have attended a prior retreat on Trul Khor Part 1 with Alejandro Choul and would like to attend this retreat, please click here to fill out the request form and our registrar will be in touch with you.

Live translation in Spanish and Portuguese.

Tibetan yoga can serve as a powerful support for all spiritual practitioners, not only those with an interest in physical yogas. In the Tibetan spiritual traditions, body, speech/breath and mind are known as the three doors to enlightenment or the natural state. The contemplative physical movements of Tibetan yoga of the A-tri tradition enable us to enter all three doors through a single practice, offering a powerful, skillful means for clearing the obstacles and obscurations to openness and clarity in meditation practice.

The distinctive movements of Trul Khor arose as the result of deep meditation practice by Tibetan yogic adepts. Traditionally practiced in remote Himalayan caves and monasteries, the Trul Khor movements are now being made accessible to serious Western students. They are a powerful tool for clearing, balancing, and harmonizing the subtle aspects of one’s energetic dimension.

When the channels of the subtle energy body are clear and the winds circulating through them (prana, vital breath) flow unimpeded, the natural state of the mind – spacious, aware and with an unobstructed flow of energy – is revealed. This natural state cannot be created of destroyed; it is universal, unborn and undefiled. Trul Khor also can support meditative awareness on or off the meditation cushion, while helping to reduce drowsiness, agitation and dullness and improve physical health.

This retreat will be held online via Zoom. Future trainings may be held at Serenity Ridge Retreat Center once the center reopens.

Ale’s book Tibetan Yoga for Health & Well-Being is available through the Ligmincha bookstore.

COURSE

Tibetan Meditation: The Nature of Mind

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

This three-week interactive online workshop, offered through GlideWing, allows you to learn and practice from your own home, at your own schedule, with personal guidance from Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Its video-based teachings offer a direct introduction to the nature of mind. Rinpoche will guide you through each of the five steps of meditation in the Fivefold Teachings of Dawa Gyaltsen — an 8th century dzogchen meditation master — helping you to enter the state of pure awareness that leads to peace, joy and ultimately, to self-realization.

Dzogchen, also known as the “Great Perfection” or “Great Completion,” is considered the path of self-liberation and the highest form of teaching and practice in the Bön Buddhist tradition. For practitioners, it offers the potential for ultimate realization during a single lifetime.

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

FREE EVENT

Silence as a Door to Your Inner Refuge: Entering the Sambhogakaya

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

According to the dzogchen teachings, resting deeply in the silence of speech can be our doorway to the refuge of the sambhogakaya — the pure, infinite awareness of our true nature. In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche helps us to enter through the door of silence.

In advance of the broadcast 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.

The broadcast marks the start of the Month of the Speech in “A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind,” a free 2021 online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs. Learn More

• To join the chat, view live on Facebook — click here
• Or, view on the CyberSangha website —  click here

If the livestream doesn’t appear at the scheduled time, try refreshing the page.

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FREE EVENT

24-Hour Full Moon Practice: Finding Peace through Silence of Speech

During the full moon of November 18, 2021, join us online for a guided meditation followed by a 24-hour session of mantra recitation, contemplative silence, and further periods of guided meditation.

With its focus on silence of speech, the full moon practice marks the start of “The Month of Speech” — part of A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind, a free 2021 online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs. The 24-hour session begins with a guided meditation at 10 a.m. New York time on the day of the full moon and ends at 10 a.m. the following day. We will be supported by Ligmincha International’s global community of practitioners. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and other Ligmincha lamas will take opportunities to join participants throughout the 24 hours.

Unlike Rinpoche’s CyberSangha® Facebook Live broadcasts, the 24-hour full moon practice takes place via Zoom, in an online meeting space. There is no cost to participate, but registration is required.

Learn more and register — click here

NOTE: In the United States, daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 7, 2021, so be sure to take this one-hour difference into account when determining the time conversion for scheduled events.

To stay informed of future 24-hour full moon practice sessions, subscribe to the CyberSangha Announcements email list.

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