Societal Awakening: Tara Mandala Retreats and Scholarships

“The wisdom of discernment carries with it a quality of empathetic concern and caring for others and profound insight into the nature of reality.”

~ Lama Tsultrim Allione, from her book Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.

Undoing Patriarchy & Embodying Sacred Masculinity

With Lama Rod Owens • May 13 – 16

By examining our relationship to violence and domination, power, femininity, love, and sexuality we can illuminate how patriarchal expressions of self create suffering for all of us as we begin to develop a relationship to a more sacred masculinity. Open to those who identify as male and/or male bodied. We offer our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Scholarship fund as a resource for anyone with financial limitations to make it possible to attend. Read more »

Skin Out, Skin In:

Uncovering the Roots of Racism and Oppression through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
With JoAnna Hardy and Erin Treat • May 20 – 24

By connecting to how the roots of racism and oppression can arise within ourselves, we can more effectively and compassionately connect to how they arise in other people. We extend a special invitation to people of color and those across the diverse gender spectrum. We offer our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Scholarship fund as a resource for anyone with financial limitations to make it possible to attend. Read more »

Wisdom Rising Retreats

Journey into the Dakini Mandala: A Meditation and Writing Retreat

With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer and Ranjini George • May 20 – 24

We dream of the lives that we want to live, the book or poem or story that we hunger to write. But we feel stuck, lose focus, and can’t “bring it out of the ether onto the earth.” Through the Five Wisdom Dakini Mandala we will deeply experience the Dakini (the feminine expression of transformation), the wisdom of the five families that help us achieve a more evolved and empowered self, and trace the mandala on the land, in our creative energy, and in finding our authentic voice … Read more »

Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Sacred Masculine

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen and Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer • September 2 – 8

The Mandala of the Five Buddhas is for all of us who long to integrate the awakened, sacred, and wise masculine within ourselves. These are capacities that must be nurtured by all of us, regardless of our gender identity. During this retreat you will experience transformation through the power of the mandala—a universal map of inner wholeness and embodiment … Read more »