Classes, Workshops & Retreats
Live & Online
The Transformative Power of Tonglen
March 20th - March 23rd, 2025
Drawing on the ancient Tibetan meditation practice of tonglen, we have adapted it as a systematic and intimate 'technology' of healing that helps us to address, process, and heal the most challenging areas of the mind and the heart; and opening us to the work of compassion in the world. We have offered many tonglen workshops and supportive retreats over the last twenty-five tears. This one is our most complete and thorough-going yet, offered at the beautiful Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in
Springfield, New Hampshire, 4pm Thursday March 20 – lunch March 23
Learn more about this workshop here!
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Twenty-seven Verses on Mind Training — The Compassionate Wisdom of Je Tsongkhpapa
Online this Spring:
Thursdays at 7pm EDT, beginning April 3rd, with follow up meditations on Saturdays at 8 AM
"So sensitive an ecology is the interdependence of all, that the slightest attention and assistance to others creates moral elevation for ourselves and humanity, while the slightest indifference or neglect toward others creates moral harm for ourselves and our civilization." Je Tsongkhapa
Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419) was one of the great lights of Tibetan Buddhism, integrating the moral, the compassion, and the wisdom traditions. He was the teacher of the first Dalai Lama.
He maintained that any so-called realm of enlightenment had no meaning apart from the suffering world, because the essential function of enlightenment is compassion.
In his Twenty-seven Verses on Mind Training, translated by Lex Hixon, he makes his explicit teaching on the foundation of life and of practice warmly available to us, without jargon.
"Of all possible forms of benefit on any level, the highest is to teach this practice of love, this indomitable faith in universal goodness..."
Je Tsongkhapa
A Daily Qigong Companion
Beginning Saturday, March 8th
Beginning Saturday, March 8, we will resume an online program of Qigong instruction and practice, offering half hour periods of practice together several days a week,with occasional days set aside later on for hour long practice. We will be focusing on slow, careful, simple, and repetitive movement and standing practices that support mind/body coherence; and that emphasize intention, visualization, relaxation and surrender into the flow of energy.
The current program schedule is:
Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 8:30-9:00
and Saturday mornings 9:15-9:45
Suggested donation is $45.00 - $75.00 a month.
Regular monthly subscribers are already covered.
Taoist Qigong Meditations for Mind, Body, and Spirit
Beginning Saturday, May 3rd at 8AM
Partnering with our morning qigong classes, we will journey into the inner dimensions of Taoist Qigong practice. These meditation practices help us to be conscious and active participants in the integration of mind, body, energy, and spirit – deepening our ability for interoception, enhancing the flow and functions of life energy in the body, supporting our capacity for both physical and emotional healing, and opening to the light of the heart and the light of spirit.
We will begin each hour with a heart centered meditation – in harmony with our Thursday evening program – and proceed to explore some of the rich world of Taoist meditations: awakening and circulating healing energy in the body; nourishing the organ systems; harmonizing yin-yang and five element energies; refining awareness; cultivating emptiness and stillness; and connecting to the all-pervading inter-relational world of harmonious being.
Join us anytime.