Welcome to the Shambhala Online live course calendar! Please browse our upcoming offerings below.
New courses are added regularly. Please join our mailing list for updates. If you’re looking for our recorded courses, please see our recorded course library.
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Monthly 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: 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
The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners Book Group
Explore the profundity and power of The Tibetan Book of Dead in this guided, book-group experience that makes these timeless teachings accessible to all.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Sacred Path: Drala
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Prerequisites apply Windhorse (attendance)
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
Making Friends with Death and Dying: Monthly 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
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
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
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Exploring Ancestral Lineage to Deepen the Spiritual Path
This course will help you embrace both the wounds and strengths that have been handed to you from your ancestors and the collectives of which you are a part in order to fully appreciate and experience the basic goodness underlying them.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Fear and Fearlessness: Navigating Life & Loss
During this online session, we will explore Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on “Fear and Fearlessness” from the timeless classic, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior.
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)
The Buddha’s Discourse on Putting an End to Anger: A Sutra Practice and Study Session
This session will focus on the Buddha’s meditation advice on how to work with anger, aggression, violence, conflict, and how to practice goodwill, compassion, patience, and peace.
No Prerequisites
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
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)
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Writing Your Dharma: A Creative Community for Spiritual Writers
In this six-week workshop, we will learn how to share our spiritual paths in writing: how to write with authenticity and vulnerability, how to say what we mean, and how to support others and be supported in the act of creation.
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 Way of Flowers: Exploring Ikebana as a Mindfulness Practice
Join us as we explore ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, as a contemplative dharma art exploration to enrich your meditation practice and experience mindfulness in everyday life.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
The Five Wisdoms of Tantric Buddhism
Explore the Five Wisdoms of Tantric Buddhism that each of us holds within us. Each wisdom–mental clarity, resourcefulness, emotional intelligence, effective action, and spaciousness–unveils a unique facet of human consciousness and experience.
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
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.
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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