TaraNet
September 12, 2009
Come Celebrate Global Mala and Founder's Day at Tara Mandala: Sept 19, 2009, 11am - 6pm
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The Global Mala Ritual Offering is a simultaneous world wide celebration of peace and awakening founded by Shiva Rea, who will host it at Tara Mandala this year with seven regional yoga studios and Lama Tsultrim. This year we also celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Chabg Chub Stupa, consecrated by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche in September of 1999. At 11am we will begin our outer journey with a hike around the mandala of Ekajati Peak, the hill at the center of Tara Mandala. In the afternoon we will explore the inner mandala of the five Buddha families in the temple and light the stupa with candles while circumambulating after hearing the story of the stupa and its meaning. A delicious vegetarian lunch will be served. Please preregister.
Suggested donation for the day (sliding scale): $27 - $54 - $108
Moving Through the Mandala: A Yoga Retreat - September 18 - 23
with Shiva Rea and Lama Tsultrim
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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. Our in-depth daily practices will weave movement meditations of each of the Buddha families that integrate sound, visualization, prana flow, mudra and a flowing sequence of asanas in a mandala form aimed at the elemental transformation of energy patterns.
At the heart of the mandala is the union of the primordial masculine and feminine, bliss and emptiness, wisdom and skillful means, known as yab-yum. Whether one is solo or with a partner on retreat, Lama Tsultrim will initiate the exquisite yab-yum mandala through inner consort practice within the matrix of the five Buddha families. All of one’s experience can be understood through the energies of the five Buddha families, each of which includes the transformation of the five encumbered energy patterns: anger, depression, pride, craving and jealousy into their corresponding primordial wisdom.
Yeshe Tsogyel's Vajra Songs - October 10 - 15, 2009
with Tsoknyi Rinpoche
“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.
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.