RETREAT

Spontaneous Creativity: Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join us for this opportunity to free yourself from creative obstacles, nurture your capacity for joyful self-expression, and make positive changes in your life.

This retreat is for anyone who seeks to usher a vision into reality — whether through creative problem solving, personal growth, or bringing creative artistry to a whole new level.

The Tibetan spiritual traditions tell us that unleashing our dynamic creative energy is a matter of recognizing and tapping into the wellspring of creativity that already exists in us.

Tenzin Rinpoche will instruct and guide simple meditation practices of body, speech and mind that can help you to:

• recognize and clear physical, energetic, and mental obstacles blocking your creative flow
• connect with and trust in your innate creative potential
• discover the inner strength and confidence that can allow your creativity to naturally blossom

Schedule: New York time
Link to your local time zone

Friday evening, December 3
6-7:30 p.m.

Saturday, December 4
11:00–12:15 a.m. Teachings
12:15–12:45 a.m. Break
12:45–1:45 p.m. Practice
1:45–3:00 p.m. Break
3:00–4:15 p.m. Teachings
4:15–4:45 p.m. Break
4:45–5:45 p.m. Practice

Sunday, December 5
11:00–12:15 a.m. Teachings
12:15–12:45 a.m. Break
12:45–1:45 p.m. Practice
1:45 pm–3:00 p.m. Break
3:00–4:30 p.m. Teachings

Co-hosted by Ligmincha South America and Serenity Ridge.

FREE EVENT

Inner Heat Practices: Tummo and Wim Hof Method

with Wim Hof, Elissa Epel, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich

Tibetan tummo is an ancient method for cultivating inner fire — the joy, bliss, and warmth of our being. We all naturally have these qualities within us, but they are often unreliably available because we have not learned to access them or to stabilize our attention in open awareness. With practice, tummo is said to produce the “inner fire of realization.”

How is this inner fire produced? Does it manifest as actual heat? What preparation is necessary to succeed with practices that produce inner heat? How rigorous are these practices? Are they safe for people of all ages? Can they be used for healing? Can they be dangerous?

These questions can also be asked about the Wim Hof Method, which also incorporates conscious breathing, yoga, and meditation. To find answers, join this live broadcast with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, who among many Tibetan practices also teaches tummo; host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich; and their guests Wim Hof and Elissa Epel. They will discuss these and other practices that generate inner heat.

Dr. Epel will share some of her ongoing research into the Wim Hof Method as well as research into psychological, social, and behavioral processes that improve the body’s ability to handle stress and slow aging.

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

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About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

About the presenters

FREE EVENT

Spaciousness as a Door to Your Inner Refuge: Entering the Nirmanakaya

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

According to the dzogchen teachings, abiding in the spaciousness of our mind can be our doorway to the refuge of the nirmanakaya — the pure movement of energy and genuine warmth that arises from the inseparable openness and awareness of our true nature. In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche helps us to enter through the door of spaciousness.

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 Mind 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.

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

RETREAT

The Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung, Part 2: Introduction to the Nature of Mind (Restricted)

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

December 26–January 1, 2022

The Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung is the centerpiece of Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s dzogchen teachings and is presented over the course of five years at Serenity Ridge’s winter retreat. A new five-year cycle began online in December 2020 with Part 1: Ngondro, taught by Choekhortshang Rinpoche and Geshe Yungdrung Gyatso. Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche this December for Part 2: Introducing the Nature of Mind. The concise and essential practice manual of the Experiential Transmission, called the Chak Tri, provides pith instructions to engage in the practice of dzogchen, the path of self-liberation.

This winter, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will guide us in exploring the true nature of mind, through teachings and meditations that create the circumstances to experience the nature of mind. This retreat will be offered in person at Serenity Ridge for a limited number of people and also on Zoom.

Prerequisite: It is essential to study and practice the chapters of the Experiential Transmission in sequence, as each chapter establishes the ground for the following chapter. Therefore, participants must have received the teachings for Part One of the Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung: The Ngöndro, before progressing to these Part Two teachings. Practitioners who have already received the ngöndro teachings from a previous cycle of the Experiential Transmission are warmly invited to attend this retreat.

If you have met the prerequiste of having received the teachings of the Ngondro from the Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung, and would like to register for this retreat, fill out the pre-registration by clicking HERE, and our registrar will be in touch with details of how to register.

Live-simultaneous translation available in German, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. More languages will be listed as they are confirmed.