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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
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Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Feng Shui Fundamentals for a Mindful, Intentional, and Supportive Home
Learn the principles of feng shui and kickstart your year with a refreshed home and outlook. In this course you will develop your understanding of the space and details of your home environment so you are nourished and supported in your daily life.
No Prerequisites
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
Pema Chödrön Live: With Prajna Studios
This January, take the leap with a special series of four live video calls with the much-loved and respected Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
The Five Remembrances: A Buddhist Practice
In this session we will explore a traditional Buddhist teaching called “Five Remembrances” - also known as the Upajjhatthana Sutra. These are a set of Buddhist teachings that are part of the daily practice of many Buddhists around the world.
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
Start Here: Uncover Peace of Mind with Shamatha-Vipashyana Meditation
This 5-week course offers a deeper dive into initial meditation instruction and is ideal for beginners or those wishing to refresh their connection with a meditation practice.
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)
Buddhism
Embracing Your Feminine and Masculine Energies: A Transformative Journey Exploring Gender, Energy, and Spiritual Growth
This 6-session course invites participants on a profound journey of self-discovery, exploring the intricate interplay between gender, energy, relationships, and spirituality through the lens of the Five Wisdoms system.
No Prerequisites
First Tuesday: 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
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.
No Prerequisites
Discourse on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings
Together we will read and explore the Buddha’s Discourse on The Eight Realizations of Great Beings. We will discuss how to incorporate the eight realizations into our every-day lives with a sense of warmth, openness and power.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Choiceless Magic: Shambhala, Drala and Contemplative Photography
This course combines in depth study of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s Shambhala teachings on “magic” with a contemplative photography exploration of the phenomenal world.
No Prerequisites
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
Mandala Principle: Being at the Centre of Your World
This course will explore the mandala principle and how to remain centered in “centerless space," referring to a state of being in which we let go of our habitual patterns and reference points. We will also explore how to work with overwhelm and suffering.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
The Buddha’s Discourse on Teachings Given to the Sick: A Mini-Retreat
During this mini-retreat, we will read and explore the Buddha’s Discourse on the Teachings to Be Given to the Sick. We will examine traditional Buddhist teachings on the six senses, six sense objects, six elements, the five aggregates, and more.
No Prerequisites
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