Teachings, Courses, & Retreats

  • $525.00 – Use code FYD2025EB in checkout to avail of Early Bird rate

Date & Time Details: March 22 - May 16, 2025. Webcasts will be at 10am MT on Fridays, March 28, April 11, May 2 & 16, 2025.

Location: Online

Contact: FYD Program Manager
fyd@taramandala.org

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Feeding Your Demons Level I Buddhist Track Kapala I Spring 2025

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

March 22 - May 16, 2025

  • Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a simple but profound five-step process that guides the practitioner to transform their demons into protective allies through a sequence of illuminating questions and visualizations. Created by Lama Tsultrim Allione, it employs principles of the Tibetan Buddhist practice Chöd, as originally articulated by the eleventh-century female Tibetan teacher, Machig Labdrön. 

This method has helped thousands of people transform and heal negative emotions, fears, illnesses, and self-defeating patterns. The work transcends spiritual constructs, serving as a meaningful tool for anybody, regardless of religious affiliation or personal philosophy.

Who is it for?

  • Individuals who wish to acquire an effective methodology to directly engage with their own habitual patterns, challenges, and obstacles for sustained transformation.
  • Mental health professionals, life coaches, substance abuse- or guidance counselors, spiritual mentors, social workers, or anyone who wishes to eventually become certified to use this method to help and empower others. (See FYD Online Certification Program for more details)
  • This course is offered in both Buddhist and Secular Tracks, and this course is the Buddhist Track. Please note that this course is s a required retreat for the Magyu Mother Lineage Program, and is equivalent to Kapala I.

Program Details

  • On-demand access to all course materials (12 hours of teachings, primarily by Lama Tsultrim Allione)
  • 4 live webcasts (and subsequent recordings) with Senior FYD Teachers Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam & Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
  • Discussion forum with teacher participation
  • You will receive all the relevant FYD forms, including the Five Steps for Solo Work; the Five Steps for Partner Work; Demon Tracking Forms; Prajñaparamita practice text, etc. (pdf downloads)

Early Bird Rate

  • 12% discounted Early Bird rate for FYD Level I is available through 21 February, 2025, using code FYD2025EB

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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 a 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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