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Shambhala Online offers live and recorded courses with teachers from across the Shambhala community, and with other Buddhist teachers and health and well-being experts from around the world.
Our online courses feature high-quality, recorded presentations by some of the best teachers of meditation and Buddhism in the world, as well as an online community of meditators, and facilitation by experienced course leaders.
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Featured Upcoming Courses
Our course participation guidelines
Buddhism
The Noble Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts: Exploring the Buddha’s Teachings on Leading a Wholesome and Full Life
Explore what it means to live a wholesome and full life in today’s world through the lens of the Buddha’s teachings on the Eightfold Path and the Five Precepts.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
End of Year Practices: Year of the Wood Dragon
These sessions are every day from February 17 - February 26 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern. These special events take place during the end of year practice period before Shambhala Day, which is on February 28.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Shambhala Day 2025 Live Broadcast: Year of the Wood Snake
During this year’s live broadcast, Centres, Groups, and members around the world will gather to celebrate community, practice together, share Shambhala culture, and see greetings from Shambhala sangha throughout our worldwide community.
No Prerequisites
Living Within the Sadhana of Mahamudra: A One Day Retreat
During this four hour gathering, we will begin our day with sitting meditation to ground ourselves, then chant the sadhana together. Afterward, there will be a talk with time for questions and answers, followed by small and whole group discussions.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Sacred Path: The Four Dignities–Meek and Perky
Deepen your meditation practice, continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship and invite the joyful energies of Meek and Perky more deeply into your life during this weekend retreat!
Prerequisites apply Drala (attendance)
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Waking Up in Free-Fall: Bringing the Buddhist Practices of a Bodhisattva to the Bardos of Everyday Life
In this course, consisting of four live sessions, we will explore how the Buddhist teachings on the bardo can be a guide to keeping our hearts open when life seems to fall apart.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
2025 Continuing Education for Meditation Instructors: The Obstacles and Antidotes to Shamatha-Vipashyana
This talk is designed as continuing education for already authorized Meditation Instructors, it also is ideal for Groups and Centers to include within a mentoring program.
Prerequisites apply Meditation Instructor (mi)
Advanced Study
Sacred Path: The Four Dignities–Outrageous and Inscrutable
Continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship and invite the unconventional and visionary perspective of the outrageous warrior combined with the skill of spontaneous inscrutability to create benefit for others on a large scale.
Prerequisites apply Perky (attendance)
Advanced Study
Sacred Path: Golden Key
Golden Key explores a Shambhala text that works with our relationship to the material world and our sense perceptions, teaching the practice of enriching presence and the ability to access the inner wealth within oneself and the natural world.
Prerequisites apply Outrageous and Inscrutable (attendance)
Advanced Study
Deepening the Warrior Principles and Practices of Ashe
This course aims to refresh, develop, and deepen the practical application of the three Shambhala root texts by focusing on the practices of Ashe Lungta, Ashe Stroke, Drala, and Enriching Presence.
Prerequisites apply Warrior Assembly (attendance)
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
The Art of Being Human: Shambhala Training Level I
This weekend retreat is ideal for anyone seeking to learn the practice of meditation, develop a regular meditation practice, and cultivate a healthy and loving relationship with themselves.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Exploring the Landscape of the Vajrayana
This seven-week course offers a thorough overview of Tibetan Buddhism and will explore the history and view of Tibetan Buddhism. It will also encompass an overview of the unique practices that characterize Vajrayana Buddhism.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Birth of the Warrior: Shambhala Training Level II
Birth of the Warrior: Training Level II builds on the presentation of basic goodness in Shambhala Level I, and explores how habitual ways of thinking, known as “cocoon” in Shambhala, obscure the raw brilliance of ourselves and the world we live in.
Prerequisites apply Level I (attendance)
Advanced Study
Gathering Drala and Werma: A One-Day Werma Retreat
This one-day mini-retreat is an opportunity for the global Shambhala sangha of Werma practitioners to refresh their relationship to Shambhala culture and our unique lineage of teachings through the practice of the Werma Sadhana.
Prerequisites apply Werma (Lung) (practice)
Shambhala Path
Warrior In The World: Shambhala Training Level III
We will extend our meditation practice to build upon the mindfulness-awareness techniques learned in Shambhala Training Levels I and II, and explore techniques for how to engage in the world with fearlessness and gentleness.
Prerequisites apply Level II: Birth of the Warrior (attendance)
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