Welcome to Shambhala Online!
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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 Power to Engage: The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva - Part II
The poem entitled "The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva" provides clear insights on how to work with worldwide challenges and turn around seemingly intractable situations. Part I is not required to participate in Part II.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: The Tibetan Buddhist Path - Part II
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
No Prerequisites
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Bereavement Support Group
Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.
No Prerequisites
First Tuesday Open House: Learn to Meditate
Learn to Meditate! This is a space where beginners or people newer to meditation can receive meditation instruction, learn how a meditation practice can inform their daily lives, and connect to other meditators in a warm, inclusive environment.
No Prerequisites
Shambhala Path
The Art of Being Human: Shambhala Training Level I
Through the practice of meditation, we glimpse unconditional goodness as the ground of our existence. Opening to ourselves with gentleness and appreciation, we begin to see our potential as genuine and compassionate human beings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Exploring Foundational Buddhist Teachings
During this in-depth course on foundational Buddhist teachings, Khenpo Gawang will guide participants through his book, "Your Mind Is Your Teacher."
No Prerequisites
The Four Dignities of Investigating Whiteness & Racism: Sacred Activism Series Part III
This program offers an introductory investigation of race, whiteness, and systemic racism for meditation practitioners who identify as white, providing a foundation from which white meditators can begin the path of exploring their own social conditioning.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Three Yanas of the Great Eastern Sun
A weekend retreat with John Rockwell. The view of this two-day retreat is to understand how all three yanas of the Buddhist journey can join together.
No Prerequisites
Shambhala Path
Primordial Stroke: Opening the Heart of Ashe
This four-month course led by John Rockwell will help Shambhala practitioners deepen their understanding and experience of Ashe, or “primordial confidence."
Prerequisites apply Stroke (practice)
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Bereavement Support Group
Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.
No Prerequisites
Shambhala Path
Birth of the Warrior: Shambhala Level II
Having experienced a taste of basic goodness, we want to go forward. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask our fear. We begin to appreciate that there is no fundamental obstacle to experiencing basic goodness.
Prerequisites apply
Vajra Politics: The Political Consciousness of the Warrior
Join Dr. Julia Sagebien for a half-day, mini-practice and study retreat exploring Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on Vajra Politics.
Prerequisites apply Warrior Assembly (attendance)
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Bereavement Support Group
Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.
No Prerequisites
Before I Die: Death and Pre-Planning Basics for Buddhists
Death is a universal and spiritual process. This mini-retreat will give participants an opportunity to experience heartfelt, wise and practical advice from two experts in the field of death care.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Haiku Celebration: Introduction to the Way of Haiku
An introduction to Classic Contemplative Haiku, a short literary form that brings both the writer and the reader to a “now moment” that encompasses the entire universe.
No Prerequisites
Shambhala Online Course Series
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