FREE EVENT

24-Hour Full Moon Practice: Finding Refuge Within

On December 4, 2025, join us online for a 10 a.m. meditation guided by Mai-Linh Leminhbach, followed by a 24-hour session of silent contemplation alternating with periods of guided meditation. Our online gathering offers a sacred space in which we acknowledge personal pain and societal challenges while abiding within the open, clear, warmth of presence — who we truly are. Discovering this space of inner refuge is the ultimate sense of protection and supports genuine compassion to emerge to meet the challenges we face individually and collectively.

Each month the 24-hour session begins with a guided meditation at 10 a.m. New York time on the day of the full moon and continues unbroken until 10 a.m. the following day. We are supported by Ligmincha International’s global community of practitioners. Participants are welcome to enter the session at any time during the 24 hours, for at least half an hour’s practice at a time. Unlike CyberSangha® Facebook Live broadcasts, the 24-hour full moon practice takes place via Zoom. Its simple group meditation is open to anyone regardless of one’s religious or spiritual background. There is no cost to participate, but registration is required.

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Special Meditation Course: “Dissolving the Seeds of Samsara”

The Meditation Practice of the Six Lokas
taught by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche,
a renowned Dzogchen master known for bringing the profound wisdom
of the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition into the modern world.

Date & Time: Fri–Sat, December 5–6, 2025 • 10:00–17:00
Place: Dechen Institute, 1st floor, Regent House Building 2, Ratchadamri Rd., Bangkok, Thailand

This course presents the heart teachings that guide us to explore our inner worlds of emotions and afflictions across six realms, transforming them into the radiant light of wisdom, love, and compassion. Through this transformation, karmic imprints stored in the alaya consciousness—which shape our emotional patterns and lead to suffering—are naturally dissolved.

The Six Lokas practice is one of the powerful methods from the Dzogchen cycle known as “Rigdruk Rangjung” originating from the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü. This teaching has been adapted by Rinpoche to contemporary contexts, making it deeply relevant and accessible to modern practitioners.

In this course, Rinpoche will guide us in meditation and mantra recitation to transform anger into love, jealousy into flexibility, and destructive emotions into wisdom.

Suitable for all who are interested in Dzogchen teachings and the inner path of transformation.
Printed learning materials will be provided.

Early Bird Registration: until November 25, 2025
Register via email: 1000tara@gmail.com

Breath and movement, when combined with clear, focused attention, are powerful tools for bringing balance and harmony into our life. United, they strengthen our life-force and calm the mind. Releasing all effort after each movement we touch our inner stillness and silence.

Tibetan Yoga practices specifically designed to clear obstacles and blockages to clear the flow of our energy and clarity of our minds. These practices ask us to truly listen to the subtle conversations that are taking place in our mind, and to feel the ways in which they manifest in our body. Then, without analyzing or rejecting those feelings we allow them to self-liberate, leaving us feeling more spacious and clear.

This day of practice our focus will be the Nine Breaths of Purification, and the five Tsa lung (channel and wind) exercises. The Nine Breaths of Purification clears blockages related to anger, attachment and ignorance, freeing our energies for more constructive purposes. Tsa Lung exercises help us to clear disturbing emotions and energetic imbalances that prevent us from fully expressing the positive qualities of love, compassion, joy and equanimity in our lives.

Note: Lunch is not provided. Bring your own lunch or snack. Coffee and Tea will be available at all times.

* These practices are not recommended for anyone suffering from uncontrolled high blood pressure, glaucoma, or any form of dissociative disorder.

Schedule:

9:00 –9:30 a.m.             Registration/Coffee
9:30 –11:00 a.m.            Teaching & Practice
11:00 –11:30 a.m.           Break
11:30 –12:00 p.m.          Practice
12:00 –1:30 p.m.            Lunch (Bring your own bag lunch)
1:30 –3:00 p.m.              Teaching & Practice
3:00 –3:30 p.m.              Break
3:30 –4:30 p.m.              Practice

Breath and movement, when combined with clear, focused attention, are powerful tools for bringing balance and harmony into our life. United, they strengthen our life-force and calm the mind. Releasing all effort after each movement we touch our inner stillness and silence.

Tibetan Yoga practices specifically designed to clear obstacles and blockages to clear the flow of our energy and clarity of our minds. These practices ask us to truly listen to the subtle conversations that are taking place in our mind, and to feel the ways in which they manifest in our body. Then, without analyzing or rejecting those feelings we allow them to self-liberate, leaving us feeling more spacious and clear.

This day of practice will focus on a selection of the “magical” movements of tsa lung trul khor. These movements are more physically vigorous than Saturday’s practices, but directly related. They both purify body, energy and mind as well as strengthen them and enhance positive qualities. The movements we will work with are from the Zhang Zhung cycle as presented by Sharda Rinpoche.  Modifications will be provided for all levels of ability and flexibility.*

Note: Lunch is not provided. Bring your own lunch or snack. Coffee and Tea will be available at all times.

* These practices are not recommended for anyone suffering from uncontrolled high blood pressure, glaucoma, or any form of dissociative disorder.

Schedule:

9:00 –9:30 a.m.             Registration/Coffee
9:30 –11:00 a.m.            Teaching & Practice
11:00 –11:30 a.m.           Break
11:30 –12:00 p.m.          Practice
12:00 –1:30 p.m.            Lunch (Bring your own bag lunch)
1:30 –3:00 p.m.              Teaching & Practice
3:00 –3:30 p.m.              Break
3:30 –4:30 p.m.              Practice

FREE EVENT

Resting in Being: A Guided Mindfulness Meditation, Part 4

A monthly live online meditation dialogue led by Aleezé Sattar Moss

Join us for Part 4 of a series of short guided meditations led by Aleezé Sattar Moss, offered regularly each month. Open to everyone, each live session will last about 20 minutes and will be announced ahead of time, allowing participants to plan and join with ease. Aleezé will guide us in mindfulness practices in support of the inner refuge meditations we engage in each month during the 24-Hour Full Moon Practice.

The inner refuge is entered through a practice of deeply abiding in the stillness, silence, and spaciousness of being. It is an opportunity to connect with fullness and completeness in the present moment, and to discover a deep sense of protection amid life’s challenges. We warmly invite you to join this session as we cultivate centering, calm, and presence together amid the busyness of daily life.

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January 3–4 & January 10–11, 2026

Dzogchen teachings from the heart of the Bön tradition

This winter Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche, Abbot (Khenpo) of the Meditation School (Drubdra) at Triten Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, joins Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for two special weekend teachings.

The weekend of January 3–4, 2026 and the following weekend, January 10–11, 2026 are an invitation to settle the mind, open the heart, and immerse yourself in the living lineage of Bön Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, the highest teachings of the Yungdrung Bön, Nyingma and Kagyu traditions.

About the Teachings

The first weekend, January 3–4, we will turn our attention to the Invocation of Tapihritsa—a profound prayer that illuminates the qualities of open awareness. More than simply beautiful, this invocation is a direct expression of the natural state itself. It reveals the radiant qualities of our own enlightened nature while guiding us along the path and pointing to the fruit of meditation practice. Tenzin Rinpoche and Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche will teach from a commentary written by H.E. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. 

The second weekend, January 10–11, our attention turns to the First Nail of the Twenty-One Nails, Recognizing the Base-of-All. This essential teaching invites us to directly glimpse the ground of our being—the unconditioned, ever-present foundation from which all experience arises. Through guidance and practice, we’ll explore how recognizing this fundamental nature becomes the doorway to stability, clarity, and the deep freedom at the heart of dzogchen.

Whether you are experienced in Dzogchen meditation or newly exploring it, you are warmly invited to join this transformative gathering and renew your awareness for the year ahead.

New to Dzogchen teachings? Explore the free online course Starting a Meditation Practice at LigminchaLearning.com, where Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche offers foundational teachings that complement this retreat.

This retreat will be recorded. Recordings will be available for 90 days post retreat.

January 3–4 & 11–12, 2026

Schedule (New York Time)

Link to your local time zone

8:00–9:00 a.m. Teaching with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
9:30–11:00 a.m. Teaching with Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche
11:30–12:30 pm Practice with Drubdra Khenpo Rinpoche

About Drubdra Khenpo

Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche’ was born in the Hor’ region of East Tibet (Kham’), in 1968 to a Bönpo family of nomadic cattle herders. As a boy, he tended his family’s sheep and yaks, and learnt reading and writing from his grandfather. At nineteen, he entered Lungkar Monastery. During this time, Tsultrim Tenzin completed the traditional preliminary practices and studied Tibetan grammar and poetry as well as Bönpo philosophy. Tsultrim Tenzin served as umze, or chant master, for three years in the Lungkar Monastery.

At the age of twenty-five, he went to Menri’s Monastery in Central Tibet to study with Pönlob Kalzang Nyima’ from whom he received teachings on Denö Dzö’ authored by Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche’ (1859-1935) and the A-Thril’ Bönpo Dzogchen manual. At this time he also gained the experiential understanding of Great Perfection.

In 1993, Tsultrim Tenzin made the arduous journey to Triten Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, to study intensively with his root Master, Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, under whose guidance he deepened his knowledge of Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen. He also learnt astrology, traditional Tibetan medicine, and Sanskrit. While studying, Tsultrim Tenzin served as the monastery’s chant master for six years, and as gekhöz (disciplinarian) for three years. After completing the 14-year study programme, he passed the Geshe examination in 2001 and received his degree.

In 2002, Geshe Tsultrim Tenzin was appointed by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche as Drubdra Khenpo – Abbot of the Meditation School – in Triten Norbutse Monastery. Since then he has been teaching Dzogchen in the meditation school there as well as giving instructions on Sutra, Tantra, Dzogchen, astrology and mandala and painting in the monastic dialectic school.

Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche sometimes travels to Tibet, China, Japan, Europe and England to teach Dzogchen, Tantra and tsalung.

In many cultures the primordial female energy is seen as the origin of existence and the source of all positive qualities. As such, Sherap Chamma, Mother of Wisdom and Love, is the source of wisdom, and her medicine is love and compassion. The teachings of Sherap Chamma comprise one of the most important tantric cycles of the ancient Bön tradition.

In this retreat, participants will learn a beautiful and simple meditation practice enabling each to directly connect with the divine feminine energy. Within the support of the group, an environment is created to promote profound healing of physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual dimensions of life. With visualization, the sound of mantra, and deep contemplation, participants can make a personal connection to this sacred form of the universal mother, Sherap Chamma, and are guided through this connection to innate wisdom and the love and compassion that naturally radiate from that wisdom.

Those experienced in meditation as well as those who are beginning are warmly welcomed.

Schedule (New York Time)

Thursday 2/12/26
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Check-in
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Opening Teaching

Friday 2/13/26-Saturday 2/14/26
7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Practice
8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m.–9:15 a.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Break
1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Practice
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Practice
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Dinner
6:45 p.m.– 7:30 p.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
7:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m Practice

Sunday 2/15/26
7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Practice
8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m.–9:-15 a.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Conclusion
1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Lunch

Whether you are seeking simple tools to ease stress, wishing for self-discovery, or feeling drawn to the authentic spiritual path of Bӧn, Calm Abiding offers a gentle and accessible place to begin. This foundational practice—known as calm abiding—helps you steady your mind, cultivate clarity, and reconnect with your natural sense of balance.

Through calm abiding meditation, we learn to catch your wandering thoughts and develop greater focus and stability. Instead of being carried away by a restless mind, we discover how to guide it with ease. In this clarity, we begin to recognize the difference between the mind’s busy movement and its deeper, essential nature.

Calm Abiding: The Medicine of Tranquility is offered to welcome beginning, continuing, and senior students of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, as well as anyone—young or old—who is completely new to meditation or to the Bӧn tradition of Tibet. This retreat is a warm and supportive entry point for all.

I encourage people to attend the Calm Abiding retreat because the intensity of focus developed by this specific practice is very beneficial. Many traditions emphasize this. The only way to deeply understand profound teachings such as Dzogchen is to have a good experience of Calm Abiding. Without developing tranquility, there is no real experience of the nature of mind or sitting properly. To sit well, Calm Abiding is fundamental!
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Schedule February 12-15, 2026

Thursday 2/12/26
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Check-in
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Opening Teaching

Friday 2/13/26-Saturday 2/14/26
7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Practice
8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m.–9:15 a.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Practice
12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Break
1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Practice
4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Practice
6:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m. Dinner
6:45 p.m.– 7:30 p.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
7:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m Practice

Sunday 2/15/26
7:00 a.m.–8:00 a.m. Practice
8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m.–9:-15 a.m. Meal Clean-up or Break
9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Practice
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Conclusion
1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Lunch

JOIN THE YOGA COURSE
with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Awakening to the Authentic Self: A Journey through Movement, Breath, and Awareness

Dates: February 20–24, 2026
Location: Pharping, Kathmandu, Nepal

About the Retreat

This retreat is rooted in the ancient yogic practices of Tsa Lung, drawn from the Mother Tantra.
Each day will introduce one of the five elemental Tsa Lung exercises, corresponding to the five elements — earth, water, fire, air, and space — and the five energy centers of the body.

These practices are designed to:

• Release energy blockages
• Awaken subtle awareness
• Open the doorway to the five pure dimensions of consciousness, known as the Five Wisdoms

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

One of the most respected and beloved teachers of the Bön Buddhist tradition, the ancient spiritual tradition of Tibet.
Renowned for his clarity, warmth, and practical teaching style, Rinpoche has dedicated his life to making the wisdom of Bön accessible to the modern world.

For more information please contact:  repa.retreat@gmail.com

Tibetan Dream Yoga with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

March 9–13, 2026

We sleep one-third of our lifetime, an average of 20 to 25 years. Dream yoga is a practice that spans every moment, waking and sleeping. It is a powerful tool of awakening used for hundreds of years by the great masters of the Tibetan traditions.

Foundational practices in dream yoga change the practitioner’s relationship to all experiences, develop conscious awareness, and often lead to lucidity in dreams. Unlike in the Western psychological approach to dreams, the ultimate goal of Tibetan dream yoga is the recognition of the nature of the mind or enlightenment itself.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will discuss the relationships between dream and waking, and dream and death. He will show how the causes of dreams are related to the six chakras, and how we can heal blocks in the chakras. He will teach the “four preparations” for sleep and the uses and methods of lucid dreaming.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is one of very few masters of the Tibetan Bön Dzogchen tradition living in the West. He founded Ligmincha International, and is known for his ability to make Tibetan practices easily accessible to all students. Rinpoche is the author of nine books, including Wonders of the Natural Mind and The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep.

Rest, Nourish, Realize and Renew:
Transforming Life and Health through Nature, Movement, Breath, and Meditation

Through stillness, silence and awareness, make genuine contact with the sky of your being. Your recognition of this inner spaciousness is the inner sun that shines. The internal warmth allows the flowering of infinite positive qualities in your life. – Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

As spring awakens, the world comes alive—longer days, fresh growth, returning birds, and gentle rains that nurture new life. By connecting with these natural rhythms, we support our own wellbeing. This retreat is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and bring awareness, renewal, and transformation into everyday life.

Over three days, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and guests will share ancient methods, supported by modern research and scientific findings, to realize our inner source of well being and grow beyond often unconscious self-defined limits to engage with our lives in creative, inspired and fun ways. We will discover ways to release stress, decrease anxiety, enhance energy, support health through mindful eating, deepen inner peacefulness, and reconnect to ourselves and the world around us. Be empowered to make healthier choices that support your wellness on every level! 

Our days will include

• Sunrise meditation (weather permitting)
• Tibetan Yoga (for all levels of mobility)
• Meditation instruction appropriate for beginners and experienced meditators 
• Connecting to the elements of nature through:
  • Forest bathing and nature walks on our 100 acres of forest, 
  • River and stream access 
  • Sky gazing 
  • Evening bonfires  
• Time for journaling and reflection 
• Delicious, healthy, plant based meals 
• Guided relaxation 
• Ancient Tibetan treatment for better sleep and relaxation
• Intermittent fasting (optional) 
• Cold plunges (optional) 
• Other modalities of self-care (optional, and additional charge) 

Introduction

Welcome to a profound journey of transformation. Over three years, under the guidance of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, we invite you to explore the living power of the Five Elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space—and to rediscover the deep harmony that connects us to the natural world and to our own true essence. This training will teach you how to bring the healing and balancing power of the elements not only into your own life, but also into your relationships with others and the natural world.

Successful completion of the full three-year certification program will give you the tools and skills to share: 

• How to recognize elemental imbalances in one’s body, emotions and nature 
• Tools for restoring balance to the elements and the physical world through:
  • Offerings
  • Mudras (sacred hand gestures)
  • Mantras
• Simple, powerful ways to retrieve elemental essences by being and resting in nature 
• Finding our own inner refuge through connecting to sacred stillness, silence and spaciousness
• Retrieving lost or damaged life force and elemental energies by connecting with one’s inner refuge
• The Nine Breaths of Purification 
• The five External Tsa Lung Exercises. 

The Three-Year Training Program

Year One: Reconnecting with the Physical Elements
In the first year, we focus on the physical qualities of each element—their roles in the environment, in our bodies, how they support one another, and how they can grow unbalanced. Through prayers, mantra, meditation, mudras, and offerings, we will learn to connect intimately with the living world, restoring harmony not only externally but within ourselves.

These practices will also be applied inwardly, to your own body: retrieving lost essences, restoring balance, and nurturing physical health. This first year is very hands-on, encouraging you to pay close attention to your body with love and care—exploring diet, sleep, movement, and breathing practices as ways to connect to the natural world. You will learn to enhance your physical relationship with each element and to feel grounded in your body in a deeply practical, embodied way.

Year Two: Deepening Your Relationship with the Living Elements*
The second year invites us to experience the elements as living, sacred beings—elemental goddesses whose wisdom and power can heal deep places of suffering and injury in us and in the world. Through visualization, transformation, mantra, and breath, we will learn to retrieve lost qualities, reclaim energy, personal power, and reconnect with spirit.

This year also emphasizes the subtle influence of the elements on mental and emotional landscapes. We will explore how thoughts and feelings are shaped by these energies, and how to restore balance, clarity, and emotional freedom, cultivating harmony within ourselves and in our interactions with the world.

Year Three: Awakening the Wisdom of the Elements Within
In the final year, Rinpoche will guide us toward understanding the wisdom of the five elements as pure, innate energies that can be accessed through the practice of inner refuge. Drawn from the ancient Tibetan practice of soul retrieval, we will discover ways to connect to the true source of healing and wellness that exists within us all.

From deep within our own spirit we will bring healing to every level of the elements in ourselves, and learn to nourish and renew them in relationships, community, and the world around us. This is a journey of awakening our natural ability to restore balance, vitality, and joy, both within and beyond ourselves.

This 3-year training program invites you to come home to yourself—body, mind, and spirit—and carry that healing presence into the world. As you restore balance within, you become a source of transformation for all around you.

This three-year training includes:

• Three in-person retreats at Serenity Ridge Center: 

• • • April 14–19, 2026 | April 20–25, 2027 | April 4–9, 2028

• Seven online teaching sessions with Rinpoche each year (Dates to be announced).

• • Seven guided practice / discussion sessions each year with guides personally selected by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche 
  • Journal assignments to track realizations and personal growth as you work with the elements. 

• Small group practice sessions to deepen your experience and integration

• Printed and electronic support materials

• Downloadable online video and audio recordings
• Registration in LigminchaLearning.com courses included as part of this program: Meditation Breath & Movement, Five Elements, and The True Source of Healing, dates to be announced
• A written and practice-oriented examination at the conclusion of the third year. 

This structure ensures a rich, immersive experience—combining in-depth teachings, guided practice, reflection, and personal integration—so you can fully embody the wisdom of the Five Elements.

Students completing the program will receive a certificate of completion and may share the practices of year one and three with others. 

Attendance Requirements

• Attendance at the three in-person trainings at Serenity Ridge are required to receive a certificate of authorization.
• The live practice and teaching sessions on zoom may be viewed live or via recordings, but live attendance is strongly encouraged.

Certification

Students successfully completing the full program and examination will receive a certificate of completion and may share the practices of year one and three with others.

Costs

• The fee for the training program is as follows:
  • Year 1, April 2026: $2,185
  • Year 2, April 2027: $2,185
  • Year 3, April 2028: $2,185
  • Additional fee for accommodations. 
  • Payment plans are available

• Not included in the fee: 
  • Travel to Serenity Ridge
  • Fee for accommodations at Serenity Ridge
  • Required reading: Healing with Form, Energy and Light and The True Source of Healing, Awakening the Sacred Body

* The practices of year two are specifically intended to deepen the practice of the student, and are not included in any authorization granted by this program. Students who receive a certificate of completion may share the practices in their community as service work, workshops, retreats and special events, not within Ligmincha (which requires additional authorization). Authorization does not extend to teaching others to teach these practices.