Teachings, Courses, & Retreats

  • $2,410.00 – FYD Level II & Certification Level - Buddhist Track ($40 Application fee has been applied)

Date & Time Details: Starts with Feeding Your Demons Level II - Buddhist Track (Kapala II) on 17 August, 2024 Webcasts will be on Saturdays at 10am MT on 31 August, 21 September, 5 & 19 October, 2024

Location: Online

Contact: FYD Program Manager
fyd@taramandala.org

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Feeding Your Demons® Level II Buddhist Track & Certification Level

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen

August 17, 2024 - March 1, 2025

Key Features

  • Developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione, Feeding Your Demons®  is a profoundly effective method for recognizing and transforming the deep-seated patterns, triggers, and neuroses that undermine the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
  • Become fully certified to use this method in a therapeutic setting with clients.
  • Taught by Lama Tsultrim Allione with Senior Teachers Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen.
  • 7 Live Webcasts over the entire program, with small discussion groups and an onsite Capstone Retreat in the final Certification Level.
  • Click here for a detailed course description with all the options explained.
  • FYD Level II is offered in both Buddhist and Secular Tracks, and this is the Buddhist Track.

What Will I Learn?

  • Learn the psychological foundations of Feeding Your Demons® (FYD).
  • Learn how to work with family demons.
  • Understand the interconnectedness of your emotional patterns, and how a single pattern can impact multiple areas of your life. 
  • Understand the anatomy of the FYD Process.
  • Acquire powerful and uniquely flexible tools to help relieve the suffering of others as a therapist, coach, or facilitator.
  • Learn how to work with challenges arising in facilitation.
  • Establish a regular, transformational meditation practice that integrates seamlessly with your established life and work.

Who can attend?

  • Individuals who have completed FYD Level I (Buddhist Track) or Kapala Training Level I who are on a path to become a Certified FYD Facilitator.
  • The Buddhist Track corresponds to Kapala Training Level II and is a required retreat for the Magyu Mother Lineage Program.
  • All participants have to fulfill these prerequisites:
    • Completion of Feeding Your Demons® Level I (Buddhist Track) or Kapala Training Level I 
    • 20 Solo Demon Feedings
    • 5 Partner Demon Feedings
    • 80 sessions (not hours) of Prajnaparamita meditation 
    • Plant a Tree
  • Prerequisites have to be fulfilled at the start date of FYD Level II. You will receive information on how to submit them upon registration.
  • It is highly recommended that you complete more than the required number of Partner Demon Feedings, as these will count towards your prerequisites for Certification Level.

Program Details

  • On-demand access to all course materials (12 hours of teachings, primarily by Lama Tsultrim Allione)
  • 7 live webcasts (and subsequent recordings) with Senior FYD Teachers Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam & Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
  • Discussion forum with teacher participation
  • You will receive additional FYD forms, including the Extended Ally and Extended Ally with a Journey forms (pdf downloads).
  • For the Buddhist Track, pdf downloads of the following texts: 
    • Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother practice
    • Cutting the Four Demons Loose Into Space practice
    • Supplication to the Great Mother practice
    • Taking and Waking practice
    • Excerpts from ‘The Grand Poem of Aryadeva the Brahmin”

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Teachers

Lama Tsultrim Allione
Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Lama Tsultrim is the founder of Tara Mandala, a 700-acre retreat center with the three-story temple and library  dedicated to the divine…
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Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam has studied Tibetan Buddhism since the mid 1990’s, was authorized to teach by Lama Tsultrim Allione in 2006. She received the title of Magyu Lopön, lead teacher of Magyu: The Mother Lineage at Tara Mandala from Lama Tsultrim in 2016, and Dorje Lopön, Vajra Teacher,…
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Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen is a teacher and a long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been teaching various practices and retreats in Lama Tsultrim’s lineage in the US and abroad since 2006, offering a blend of incisive insight and genuine compassion. He co-leads the Boulder Tara Mandala Sangha with Lopön…
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