TaraNet
August 19, 2009
• One of America's Top Yoga Teachers, Shiva Rea, and Lama Tsultrim Teach Together!
• Global Mala Project: September 19th
• Tsoknyi Rinpoche Retreat: Yeshe Tsogyal's Vajra Songs - new dates
• New Interview with Lama Tsultrim from Transitions Radio
• Lama Pema Dorje Retreat: Bestowing the Glory of Deathlessness
• Opportunity to Donate for the Drubchen!
• Office Closed August 23-31
• The Legacy Circle Grows! Planned Giving to Tara Mandala
America's top Yoga Teacher Shiva Rea and Lama Tsultrim Teach Together:
Yoga and the Yab Yum Mandala
September 18-23, 2009
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Join Shiva Rea, called "one of the world's greatest yoga masters" by Vanity Fair, and Lama Tsultrim Allione, named Outstanding Woman in Buddhism for 2009, as they take you on a journey of the union of masculine and feminine through movement, sound and meditation. During this time of urgent awakening, the mandala principle within Buddhism and Tantra Yoga offers an embodied transformation of consciousness.
Shiva Rea will offer a paradigm-shifting experience of our embodiment from Tantra Yoga that takes our practice out of the grid of a yoga mat and frontal plane existence into a full-spectrum way of living, from the body mandala of consciousness. Lama Tsultrim will guide us into the deep centering process of the Mandala principle and the teachings on sexual union, and its meaning within the Buddhist tradition. We will weave movement and meditations of the five Yab-Yum (male-female) Buddha families that integrate sound, visualization, prana flow, and a flowing sequence of asanas in the mandala form aimed at elemental transformation of energy patterns.
Tara Mandala Global Mala Project: September 19th, 11am - 6pm
With the support of Shiva Rea, as well as multiple regional yoga studios, Tara Mandala is proud to host the 2009 Global Mala Project. This ritual festival will bring together hiking, meditation, yoga, dance, and chanting in a seven-hour participatory cycle open to people of all backgrounds, experience, and age, to affirm the power of unifying consciousness through sacred music, movement, breath, and intention. Set in the stunning artistic masterpiece that is Tara Mandala's new Tara temple dedicated to the sacred feminine, in the gorgeous foothills of the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado, this event is offered in conjunction with worldwide celebrations of the Global Mala project in over 50 countries. We will unite with the global yoga community from every continent, school, and approach to form a “mala around the earth” through collective practices based upon the sacred cycle of 108. We will join thousands of simultaneous planetary rituals that are raising consciousness on Fall Equinox and UN International Peace Day.
The mala is a circular symbol that transcends the individual and cultural barriers to actualize the universal heart of realization and transformation. Please join an extraordinary opportunity to be part of a human mala of the heart, bringing the Yoga, Tantra and Buddhist communities together around the world in collaborative practice for peace.
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Tsoknyi Rinpoche Retreat: Yeshe Tsogyel's Vajra Songs
DATE CHANGE: October 10-15, 2009
“Wanting nothing from outside,
taking things as they come,
know the Dakini to be your own mind.”
-Yeshe Tsogyal
For the first time ever, Tsoknyi Rinpoche will teach on Yeshe Tsogyel, the great yogini of Tibet, using her teaching songs as a vehicle to reveal the essence of Dzog Chen. Yeshe Tsogyel was a brilliant Dakini and highly realized yogini. Her songs and responses to her students' questions are filled with depth, intimacy, and poetry, and profoundly elucidate the nine vehicles and the Dzog Chen way.
New Interviews with Lama Tsultrim on Transitions Radio
Alan Hutner, of Transitions Radio, has recently posted two new interviews with Lama Tsultrim. The first is on Feeding Your Demons, while the second is primarily on the sacred feminine.
The first interview with Lama Tsultrim focuses on her best-selling book, Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom For Resolving Inner Conflict.
Listen here
The second interview is a followup conversation with a three-way discussion of the sacred feminine. Elizabeth Rose and Alan Hutner sat with Lama Tsultrim for an Interview/Conversation after participating in a weekend retreat this past June.
Listen here
The interview is also transcribed and edited and will appear in print, in two parts, in the next issues of Santa Fe One Heart Magazine.
Bestowing the Glory of Deathlessness, with Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche
October 16-22, 2009
Join Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche for a relaxing retreat on the longevity yoga practice called the Chime Palter. This practice combines a meditation on White Tara with a gentle physical training practice that relies on Padampa Sangye. Rinpoche became aware that Buddhists who adopt a meditative lifestyle can become weak, stiff, and unhealthy from prolonged sitting, and often turn to yoga practices from outside our tradition for help. For this reason he prayed that he could develop an outer yoga, suitable for all levels of practitioners, based on the knowledge he has gained from a lifetime of engagement with the secret advanced yogic disciplines of the Nyingma tradition. Based on this aspiration, he composed a concise and easy practice that will not only help with stiffness, but also increase longevity and improve one’s meditation if practiced with regularly. The benefits also include reduced sickness, increased clarity, and purification of hindrances and obscurations. At Lama Tsultrim’s request, Rinpoche will also be teaching on a short White Tara sadhana by HH Dudjom Rinpoche.
Opportunity to Donate for the Drubchen!
We would like to thank all of those who have offered donations for the Drubchen in order to make a connection and increase the merit of the event. Thus far, over $10,000 has been donated! Please consider adding your energy to this most auspicious event.
Tara Mandala will be hosting its first Drubchen in the new Tara temple at the end of this month. Drubchen, Tibetan for “great accomplishment,” is an intensive group ceremonial practice that includes sadhana practice, mantra recitation with visualization, daily feast offerings (tsog), and Lama dancing. Drubchen is an extremely swift and profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom, and for purifying the emotional afflictions and concepts that obscure mind’s essential nature and its qualities of compassion and wisdom. According to Mipham Rinpoche, one Drubchen carries the merit and blessings of seven years of solitary retreat.
Tara Mandala is excited and blessed to be initiating the first in what will be a series of annual Drubchens. This year we will hold the White Dakini Drubchen, from Do Khyentse's Dzinpa Rangdröl, a practice combining Yeshe Tsogyel, Machig Lapdrön and Mandarava, and the other four Dakinis. A total of twelve lamas and over 150 participants will create the mandala for this transformational event from August 23-31. As well as four sessions a day, the mantra chain will be held continuously throughout the day and night for the entire nine days, and Chöd, Troma and Tsog will be practiced daily, during which time no one leaves the land. The energetic container is held tightly to preserve the blessings of the practice.
You can read more about the Drubchen and donation categories, or donate securely online here.
The Tara Mandala office will close for the week of the Drubchen, and we will not be answering the phone, or available via email, from August 24-31. Emergency voicemail will be checked daily, and our main greeting will instruct callers on how to leave an emergency message.
The Legacy Circle Grows! Planned Giving!
We are deeply grateful to all who are able and willing to include Tara Mandala in their planned giving. We would like to acknowledge an Anonymous donor and Fran Anderson who have recently joined the Legacy Circle and made a commitment to supporting Tara Mandala. As you look to the future, knowing that impermanence happens, please consider including Tara Mandala in your will and estate planning. Through a planned gift, you can practice generosity beyond your lifetime and provide support to Tara Mandala for generations to come. For more information on how to join the Legacy Circle, or if you have already named Tara Mandala in your estate planning, contact Cady Holtkamp at cady@taramandala.org or by phone at (970) 731-3711 x110.
Symbols of membership include:
- A listing as a Legacy Circle member in annual Program Guide and on our website. We would like to publish your name, as it encourages others to provide similar support, or you may remain anonymous.
- Invitations to special events.
It is surprisingly easy to make a lasting gift to Tara Mandala. We have a form with sample bequest language which you can get from Cady. Just include Tara Mandala as a beneficiary:
- In your will or living trust.
- In your retirement plan or bank account.
- In your life insurance policy.