The United States

RETREAT

Dream Yoga & Sleep Yoga — Online Via Zoom

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join us for our annual summer retreat!

Dream Yoga:  June 20 – 26, 2021
Sleep Yoga:  June 27 – July 3, 2021

Dream Yoga and Sleep Yoga are profound teachings from the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition to support the realization of one’s true nature.

All are welcome to join us for this special two-week summer retreat, to be held online on Zoom, beginning June 20 and ending July 3, 2021. Register for Week 1 on Dream Yoga, Week 2 on Sleep Yoga or for both weeks. A discounted rate is available if you register for both weeks.

Rinpoche will be offering transmission (lung) for both Dream and Sleep Yoga; Dream Yoga transmission will be given during the Dream Yoga weeklong retreat, and Sleep Yoga transmission will be given during the Sleep Yoga weeklong retreat.

These retreats are sponsored by Serenity Ridge Retreat Center and supported by Ligmincha International.

Live simultaneous translation in French, Hungarian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, German and Portuguese.  Additional languages will be announced as they are added. Please note that the last practice session of the day won’t be translated into French. Thank you for your understanding. Veuillez noter que la dernière session de pratique quotidienne ne sera pas traduite en français (de 21h45 à 22h45). Merci de votre compréhension.

DREAM YOGA
June 20–26, 2021

We spend a full third of our lives asleep! In addition to the restorative benefits of a good night’s sleep, Tibetan yogis have practiced dream yoga for centuries to turn these hours into a time for spiritual awakening. Unlike psychological or “lucid dreaming” approaches that have become popular in the West, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is enlightenment: to recognize the nature of mind that pervades all experience—whether dreaming or awake—and supports the emergence of wisdom and compassion.

This weeklong retreat is designed for all levels of students, from beginners to experienced lucid dreamers. During this retreat, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, will explore the relationship between dreaming and waking states, and between dream and the bardo states after death. We will learn how to prepare for sleep, the types of dreams that can arise, and how to bring lucidity into our dreams. The benefits of this recognition can transform every aspect of our waking life, opening us to infinite creative possibilities available in every moment.

For the second week of Ligmincha’s annual two-week summer retreat, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach on Sleep Yoga, a highly complementary practice. If you wish to register for both weeks, please follow this link for a discounted price.

SLEEP YOGA
June 27–July 3, 2021

How many nights do we toss and turn restlessly, with thoughts spinning, emotions stirred, arising the next day tired or even exhausted? During this weeklong retreat, we will learn to access the deep stillness and restfulness that a good night’s sleep promises, and open ourselves to the recognition of our own clear light of awareness.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach and guide us in the sleep yoga practice from the Mother Tantra, one of the most important body of tantric teachings in the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition. A powerful tool for awakening, sleep yoga brings us to a deep state of rest for personal healing and transformation. Ultimately, sleep yoga opens the door to the luminous, open awareness that is the true nature of the mind. This is more than a practice of the night. It helps us to integrate all moments—waking, sleeping, meditation and even death—with the clear light of awareness.

This retreat is open to new as well as experienced meditation practitioners and is designed to both enrich our spiritual practice and support our daily lives.

Recommended reading: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Schedule (New York time)
To check the time in your area: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com

Sunday
10–11:15 a.m.: Teaching
11:15–11:45 a.m.: Break
11:45–12:45 p.m.: Practice
12:45–2 p.m.: Break
2–3:15 p.m.: Teaching
3:15–3:45 p.m.: Break
3:45–4:45 p.m.: Practice

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
8:30–9:30 a.m.: Practice
9:30–10 a.m.: Break
10–11:15 a.m.: Teaching
11:15–11:45 a.m.: Break
11:45–12:45 p.m.: Practice
12:45–2 p.m.: Break
2–3:15 p.m.: Teaching
3:15–3:45 p.m.: Break
3:45–4:45 p.m.: Practice

Wednesday & Saturday
8:30–9:30 a.m.: Practice
9:30–10 a.m.: Break
10–11:15 a.m.: Teaching
11:15–11:45 a.m.: Break
11:45–12:45 p.m.: Practice

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: A lineage holder of the Bön Buddhist tradition and author of The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, 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. He will be teaching from the text of the Mother Tantra, one of the most important tantric body of teachings in the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition.

July 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

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.

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: The exact schedule will be announced. The retreat will take place daily between 6 a.m.–4 p.m. New York time. 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.

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