RETREAT

Spontaneous Creativity

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Rinpoche will be teaching his book, Spontaneous Creativity. The English version of this book was published a few years ago. Now the Dutch translation is available. In the book, Rinpoche offers accessible methods so that our natural, positive qualities can blossom spontaneously and our connection with everything around us can take shape in a positive way.

The seminar is open to anyone who wants to learn to live from openness and clarity.

Lecture: Friday evening, 17 September from 20.00 – 21.30

Teachings: Saturday, September 18, and Sunday, September 19 from 10.00. – 17.00

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche teaches in English; Translations will be made into Dutch.

RETREAT

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Chamma Ling, Colorado is pleased to announce a new, three-year retreat cycle with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Rinpoche will present the complete 15-part cycle of teachings from the A-Tri Dzogchen. The first retreat will be held virtually, via Zoom, from September 24—26, 2021, with the second and third parts in 2022 and 2023. We hope that in future years the teachings will be given at Chamma Ling, and we will continue to also offer them via Zoom.

The A-Tri teachings present simple, clear, and direct instructions for integrating spiritual practice through the three doors of body, speech, and mind. Unique to the A-Tri Dzogchen teachings is a beautifully articulated step-by-step program, taking the practitioner from ordinary to awakened mind–the natural state–one of primordial purity and spontaneous presence.

In this year’s retreat, Rinpoche will focus on practices to purify and awaken awareness of the nature of mind through the body. In year two the emphasis will be on speech; and the third year will emphasize the mind itself as a vehicle for recognition. These teachings are suitable for beginning and experienced students alike. They fully complement the study of the Zhang Zhung Nyam Gyü (the Experiential Transmission of Zhang Zhung) dzogchen cycle of teachings taught every winter by Tenzin Rinpoche at Serenity Ridge.

It is Tenzin Rinpoche’s sincere wish that through the intensive study and practice opportunity offered during this retreat, each student will find their unique entrance to a life that is more physically healthy, energetically vital, and spiritually fulfilling.

Simultaneous live translation will be offered in German, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

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

• $190
• $150
• $100

For daily schedule and to register, click on ‘Learn more and register’ below.

This online retreat is co-hosted by Chamma Ling Colorado and Serenity Ridge Retreat Center

Living in Joy, Dying in Peace

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Death is a natural process. It is not the end, but the beginning of new life.
—Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

What if you were told you had one year to live? How would this change your perspective on life, on yourself, on your priorities?

At the moment of death, we let go of everything—our possessions, our loved ones, our body, our identity. Resistance to letting go at this moment—or in any moment of change in life—leads to suffering. As we accept the truth of impermanence, we can open to each moment as it is. We can experience awakening. We do not have to wait until our last moment to awaken. We can awaken here, now.

Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche as he invites us to reflect on impermanence, our sense of identity, and our hidden attachments. As we explore and deepen our personal relationship to impermanence and death, we can discover the key to living joyfully.

Through teachings and guided meditations, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will help us to:
• Realize the importance of resolving conflicts now with our friends, family members, and others
• Recognize death as a doorway to opening the heart and achieving self-realization
• Cultivate an intimate connection with an internal source of refuge that serves us as other supports fall away
• Explore our individual relationship to death as well as our desire and commitment to serve others in the dying process
• Learn how to promote a more peaceful and uplifting dying process and assist a dying loved one physically, emotionally, and spiritually through prayer and mantra

We can receive much support from each other as we engage in the process of reflection and meditation. Please join us for this special opportunity.

Live simultaneous translation into Spanish, Portuguese and other languages.

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

• $330
• $270
• $190

For daily schedule and to register, click on ‘Learn more and register’ below.

RETREAT

Serenity Ridge Dialogues: Body, Breath & Mind

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will be joined by  His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Sakya, Dr. B. Alan Wallace, and leading scientists, physicians and practitioners for this FREE, LIVE ONLINE SUMMIT from October 23-24

When we bring our attention to our body, our breath and our mind, what happens and why? How does our relationship to sensations, thoughts and perceptions change through meditation and other energetic practices? Can science and medicine inform what and how we engage with these ancient traditions? At the Serenity Ridge Dialogues online summit this October, you’ll explore this question and much more.

• Sessions bring leading edge presenters into multi-disciplinary conversation with peers.
• Guided practices of body, breath and mind between each dialogue.
• Informal opportunities for discussion and conversation.

If you missed last year’s program, to watch the summit: Click here

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 Spanish, Portuguese. 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’ belo

PRACTICE 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 you have the option to attend as a commuter at no additional cost. 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.

Registration opening soon.

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 11-14, 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, or online practice retreat with Rob Patzig, November 6-7, 2021.

Live translation languages to be announced.

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-tr 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.

All students are warmly encouraged to learn these movements and benefit from practicing them. For those interested in deepening their practice of Tibetan yoga, this retreat will serve as the first in a series for Trul Khor training based on the Bön A-tri Dzogchen tradition. An intermediate training program will be offered over the following two years, followed by an advanced training for two more years.

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.

Registration opening soon.

FREE EVENT

24-Hour Full Moon Practice: Finding Peace through Spaciousness of the Mind

During the full moon of September 20, 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 spaciousness of the mind, the full moon practice marks the start of “The Month of the Mind” — 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 Marcy Vaughn 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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FREE EVENT

Stillness as a Door to Your Inner Refuge: Entering the Dharmakaya

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

According to the dzogchen teachings, the simple act of resting in the stillness of our body can serve as a doorway to the refuge of the dharmakaya: the pure, unbounded spaciousness of our true nature. In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche helps us to enter through the door of stillness.

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

• View live on Facebook to join the chat — 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

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.

About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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

COURSE

Transforming Our Emotions Through the Six Lokas

with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

This meditation course will give you a thorough introduction to the Six Lokas practices of the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition.

At one time or another each of us suffer strong emotions that throw us off balance, cause us to act in ways that we later regret, and make us lose touch with our true nature. Centuries ago the masters of the Bön lineage developed the meditations of the Six Lokas specifically to remedy this situation, to help us live our lives in a balanced and relaxed way.

The meditations focus on the root causes of our suffering: anger, desire, greed, ignorance, jealousy, pride and laziness. Through each meditation we examine our habitual patterns so that we may recognize them, then invoke the enlightened energy of the Buddhas to purify and transform us so that we and all other beings might not continue to suffer in this way. The practices have a deep healing and transformative power, and are traditionally practiced at length as a preliminary to dzogchen contemplation.

COURSE

Treasures of Bön: History, Lineage & Practice

with Geshe Denma Gyaltsen and John Jackson

Bön counts itself among the oldest spiritual traditions in the world. With origins steeped in an oral, shamanic tradition and yet deeply rooted in teachings of the buddha Tonpa Shenrap, the buddha who preceded Shakyamuni Buddha. This course is designed for anyone who would like to learn more about, or deepen their existing knowledge of, the ancient, profound tradition of Tibetan Bön Buddhism.

Geshe Denma Gyaltsen, resident lama for Ligmincha Texas, and John Jackson, mentor for many Ligmincha Learning courses and international teacher, enter into deep conversations around essential masters and teachings of the Bön tradition. The conversation is followed by a guided meditation led by either Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche or Geshe Denma.

The course is divided into five parts:

• History and Lineage
• The Causal Vehicle
• The Path of Sutra
• The Path of Tantra
• The Path of Dzogchen

COURSE

Meditation, Breath and Movement: External, Internal and Secret Tsa Lung 

with Alejandro Chaoul-Reich

Location: ligminchalearning.com

Tsa lung is a series of ancient yogic practices that brings balance and harmony to our physical body, energy and mind. The term tsa lung can be translated as the energy-winds (Tibetan: lung, Skt. prana, Chinese, qi) in the Channels, for these practices are designed to open the subtle channels, guiding the healthy flow of the energy-winds so that we can enjoy good health and reconnect with more calmness to a quiet, peaceful mind. These exercises are easy to perform and are suitable for everyone.

There are three levels of tsa lung practice: external, internal and secret. External tsa lung works primarily on the physical level, using simple movements and breath exercises to balance the energies within our body. Internal tsa lung works more at the level of breath and subtle energy, bringing our attention to opening the five chakras and the central channel. Secret tsa lung uses subtle visualizations within the chakras and central channel to bring harmony to the mind, so that we can rest in our inner refuge, nature of mind. All of the tsa lung exercises integrate and balance the five elements within: earth, water, fire, wind and space.

These practices are drawn from the Bön Mother Tantra (Tibetan: Ma Gyud) the highest tantra in our tradition. They are a beautiful complement to any meditation practice, and particularly to dzogchen. They are frequently performed at the beginning of a session so that meditation is deeper and more stable. External tsa lung is commonly performed in all Ligmincha centers and groups.

Sign up for the Ligmincha Learning Meditation Breath and Movement.

COURSE

Who Am I? A Journey to Self-Realization

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

“I–Who Am I?
I am no one.
I can be anyone.”
– Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The primary journey of every spiritual path is to reclaim what has been lost: the truth of who we really are. Once we come to a deep recognition that our true nature is spontaneous perfection, there is no more need to search for insights or solutions, no more need to strive. According to the dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Bon and Buddhism, this simple recognition is the way to ultimate liberation, to our own Great Perfection.

This two-week online workshop is based on a poem Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche wrote during moments of self-reflection on retreat. It essentializes the deep personal work he does as a teacher, father, husband, friend and spiritual being. Each session of the workshop will guide you through his poem, line by line, in your own journey of self-discovery.

“This poem has supported me in incredible ways, and I hope it will help all of you in the same way,” Rinpoche says. “At any moment when you feel challenged, threatened, lost, or sad, that’s a simple sign that you have lost connection with who you are. I wrote this poem as a support for remembering, and reconnecting.”

Throughout every stage of life, from childhood through adulthood and old age, we have a different sense of identity, a strong mental image of who we are. Each of these identities causes us pain, because it is only a mental projection based on ignorance, anger and attachment. In the workshop, Rinpoche encourages you to make note of your current sense of identity and work with it in the guided meditations and throughout your day. For it is only by discovering who you are not that you can connect deeply with the beauty and infinite potential of who you are.

The online workshop features personal guidance and support from Rinpoche as you work with the practices, instruction via Internet-based video and an easy-to-use course site. There are no set class times, and instructional videos remain available throughout the workshop.

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

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)

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 15th, 2021

COURSE

The Three Heart Mantras

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

 The Three Heart Mantras are used in many different meditations in the Bön tradition and play a major role in the ngöndro practices. They are said to be the essence of enlightenment in sound and energy, and as we sing or chant the mantras our awareness is transformed to be in union with the Buddhas. They are used for purification, protection and as primary practices toward self-realization.

It is said that creating these mantras in any form brings merit and purification, so they are commonly found carved into stones, printed on prayer flags where they spread their benefits through the winds, and even drawn with gold ink and kept on shrines as an object of reverence and meditation. Their blessings are said to be endless. Also within this course Tenzin Rinpoche explains the essence of the Guru Yoga, Refuge and Bodhicitta practices, making this an excellent introduction to the tradition.

Registration will open October 5th, 2021