RETREAT

Who Am I?—Online Via Zoom

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In this six-day retreat, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach from his poem “Who am I?”, a dzogchen poem about freedom and self-liberation, to discover how we can let go of our imagined identity. We will connect to our limitless potential that will allow us to manifest everything we really are.

Rinpoche will guide us through unique exercises that he has developed to enable us to access deep sources within ourselves and to transcend the deeper layers of our personality on a journey to self-realization, to our own enlightened qualities.

The retreat will be translated from English into German.

Read the poem “Who am I?”. PDF download in: English | Chinese | Dutch | French | German | Hindi | Hungarian | Italian | Korean | Nepali | Polish | Portuguese | Russian | Slovak | Spanish | Tibetan | Turkish

Schedule: Start: Monday 18.30 h, end Sunday 12.30 h Central European time (for schedule see schedule above). To find the time in your area: www.worldtimebuddy.com

Cost: Regular price: 350 EUR, discount 1: 250 EUR, discount 2: 150 EUR, scholarship *: 75 EUR (* only after prior contact and approval)

Organized by Ligmincha Germany

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: A lineage holder of the Bön Buddhist tradition, Rinpoche is renowned for his engaging teaching style, his ability to make profound teachings highly relevant and practical, and for bringing Western students to clear, direct understanding through personal experience.

RETREAT

Tummo: Teachings on Inner Heat & Bliss

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a renowned meditation master and author of multiple books on spirituality. Rinpoche has been teaching in many countries of Europe, Asia, and both Americas for thirty years. During this year’s summer retreat, he will deliver the teachings about inner heat and bliss (tib. Tummo). The teachings and meditation allow us to connect to our own heart. Thanks to these teachings we discover space, openness, and an unlimited source of possibilities within ourselves. By connecting to our own essence, the nature of mind, we can transform our life into being more joyful and valuable.Practicing meditation in our daily life enriches our relations with other people, helps us adopt a more creative approach to our work, and teaches us how to make wiser and more compassionate use of our own life.

Translation: teachings in English, with translation into different languages.

Hosted by Ligmincha Poland.

FREE EVENT

Moving with Awareness: Unlocking Your Potential through Contemplative Movement

A live online discussion with Laura Schmalzl, Ph.D., Marieke van Vugt, Ph.D., Geshe Tenzin Wangyal and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Ph.D.

When coupled with awareness, physical movement can serve as an entryway to the joyful spontaneity of our true nature. In a live online conversation, Doctors Laura Schmalzl and Marieke van Vugt discuss with Tibetan meditation master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche how yoga, contemplative dance, and other forms of meditative movement can unlock the potential for healing in ourselves and others. Hosted by Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, the CyberSangha broadcast is part of “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.

About the Presenters

August Weekend Service Retreat

Serenity Ridge is listening to our local community. We hear the desire to re-open the Center to support Three Doors practitioners in their retreats.

To open we need your help! The center has been closed since April of 2020. There is much to be done, including setting up the kitchen, cleaning interior spaces, washing windows, gardening and grounds work. Therefore, Serenity Ridge, in the spirit of service as practice and community building, is offering monthly, 1 to 3-day weekend service and practice retreats. Each weekend service retreat will offer room and board, all but one meal (including a catered dinner on Saturday), opportunities to practice together and  time for socializing. These retreat weekends will have a maximum of 15 overnight guests. At this time Serenity Ridge requires that overnight guests are vaccinated. Masks and social distancing are required if you have not been vaccinated. Temperature checks will be done at check in. Anyone with a temperature will not be allowed to participate.

The following is a tentative daily schedule for these retreats:

Friday
9 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Arrival, check-in and room assignments
10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Service
12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch provided by Serenity Ridge
1 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Group Practice
2 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Service
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Break
5 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Alternative arrival and check in
5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Potluck Dinner (Everyone attending the retreat brings something to share. Sign-up form will be created.)
7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Movie

Saturday
7 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Light cold breakfast provided by Serenity Ridge.
8 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Group Practice
9 a.m.–9:30 a.m Alternative arrival and check in
9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Service
12 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch provided by Serenity Ridge
1 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Group Practice
1:45 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Service
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Break
5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Catered Dinner
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Campfire, music celebration (bring an instrument)

Sunday
7 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Light cold breakfast provided by Serenity Ridge.
8 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Group Practice
9 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Service
12 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch provided by Serenity Ridge
1 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Checkout

FREE EVENT

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

During the full moon of  August 21, 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 meditation guided by Alejandro Chaoul-Reich 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

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

RETREAT

Guidance for Living and Dying

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Commentary on the Bardo Teachings

The word “bardo” means “in between” in Tibetan, including the time between life and death, and the time between death and rebirth.

During this retreat, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will offer guidance on living and dying. Rinpoche will lead participants in exploring the transition between life in death, including preparation for dying, the process of dying, practices related with the bardo, how to prepare for one’s own death, and how to help others who are dying.

In the process of dying, one of the most challenging things and what makes transition difficult, is attachment. A key issue is that things always change and we are always in transition. Rinpoche will guide participants in discovering the changeless self within all of our changing experiences—the stillness, silence and spaciousness beyond the body, speech and mind.

The retreat is open to people at all levels of spiritual practice, and welcomes those with life-threatening illnesses, caregivers, hospice professionals and all who wish to develop and deepen their relationship to life and to death.

Hosted by Ligmincha Finland.

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.

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.

Learn more and view introductory video