The United States

FREE EVENT

Beyond the Pain Body: How to Know It, How to Heal It

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Our true self is an open, vibrant state of clear awareness. But whenever negative emotions are triggered in us, we tend to dissociate from who we truly are and to take on a ‘pain body,’ or pain-related identity. In a live Internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche explains how to know when our pain body is active; how to connect with it; and ultimately, how to transcend it.

• 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.

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.

This broadcast is part of “A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind,” a free 2021 online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs —  click here to learn more

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FREE EVENT

24-Hour Full Moon Practice: Finding Peace through Stillness of the Body

During the full moon of April 26, 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 stillness of the body, the full moon practice marks the start of “The Month of the Body” — 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

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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

Free Event

Celebration of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s 60th Birthday

On May 5, 2021, at 11:00 am New York time, we will honor Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche on the occasion of his 60th birthday! During this event we will join together to sing his Long Life Prayer and recite long life mantras for him. Also during this event we will be offering to Rinpoche all of the long life mantras that are being recited and dedicated for Rinpoche.

Register in advance for this birthday celebration which takes place via Zoom, an online meeting space: Click here to register.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

If you are reciting mantras for Rinpoche’s long life and wish to contribute them, please add them to this form: Click here to add mantra accumulations.

You can enter your mantras all at once, or at the end of each practice.

There is no cost to participate, but registration is required.

FREE EVENT

How the Body Awakens: From Physical Relaxation to Embodied Awareness

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, Cyndi Lee and Jeffery Dusek

How do yoga and other mind-body practices awaken us on a physical level, as well as mentally and spiritually? In the fourth of a series of 2021 Science & Spirituality Dialogs, yoga teacher Cyndi Lee, researcher Jeff Dusek, and Tibetan meditation master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche join host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich in discussing the relaxation response and other physiological benefits of embodied meditation techniques. The dialog is part of a free yearlong online program related to body, speech and mind.

• To join the chat, view live on Facebook — click here
• Or, view on the CyberSangha website —  click here
• Learn more about the presenters and access translations —  click here

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

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RETREAT

THE DOOR TO THE TREASURE
How to Access the Source of All Qualities

Online retreat with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach over three days on his poem “Who Am I?” and on essential points from the ‘9th Nail’ (part of the ‘21 Nails’), a Dzogchen text from the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu cycle.

With his usual skillful approach and warmheartedness, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will offer teachings and practices (guided meditations) to help us let go of our limited ideas of who we think we are so we can access our infinite potential and thus be more able to manifest who we really are in order to benefit others. This teaching will help us access the deepest aspects of ourselves and journey towards the realization of our true self and the full expression of the enlightened qualities that lie within us, for the benefit of all.

This retreat is open to everyone. The teaching will be in English, with simultaneous translation in French only.

The treasure of the sky, the perfect source-of-all,
Becomes obscured through the successive layering of stains.
If there is no portal, it will not be seen.
Opening the door to the treasure reveals the source of the treasure.

Excerpt from the 9th Nail (from the ‘21 Nails’)

Schedule (New York time)
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• 8:30–9:30 a.m.: Guided practice (local instructor)
• 10–11:30 a.m.: Teaching by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
• 12–1:00 p.m.: Guided practice (local instructor)
• 2–3:30 p.m.: Teaching by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The ‘21 Nails’ is one of the most profound secret teachings in the Bön tradition from the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu, an oral tradition uninterrupted to this day. It presents the most essential aspects of the dzogchen practice in 21 points.

Hosted by Ligmincha France & Swiss Romande

Photography by ©Jacqueline Homany

RETREAT

Dream Yoga & Sleep Yoga — Online Via Zoom

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Join us for our annual summer retreat!

Registration will open soon. 

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.

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

Live simultaneous translation to be confirmed: Additional languages will be announced as they are added.

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)
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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.