This five-week evening course looks at how contentment is often hard to find. Much of the time we search for contentment in things, achievements or relationships. With meditation practice, we relax with ourselves and appreciate simple human experiences.
Garuda-Dragon: the dignities of fruition on the Sacred Path.
Level I is the first in the 5-part Shambhala Level Training program, and a prerequisite for other Level trainings.
You have a warrior’s heart that can face life’s challenges with gentleness, confidence, and humor. Please join us for this introduction to the Shambhala teachings to begin to discover and express these qualities in your daily life.
This is a two day course covering Level I & Level II of the Shambhala Level Training part of the Way of Shambhala path curriculum.
This one day training is part of the Shambhala Level Training series.
Join us for the fourth class in the Everyday Life series
An exploration of genuine contentment, the foundational views of the Buddhist Hinayana teachings, and meditation in action for daily life.
When we open up to our full experience we start to recognize our habitual patterns and also begin to discover fearlessness. We can actually free ourselves from the patterns that constrain the brilliant, compassionate, mindful warrior within.
Open to all, this is part of a series of three weekend trainings designed as continuing education for already authorized Meditation Instructors, as well as meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors.
Weekend 2 of a 3 weekend series is open to both current Meditation Instructors, and those exploring this path. It's a time to refresh past training, or learn what is involved in becoming an MI. Participate online, or join our local group at the center.
Continuing Shambhala Training in a weekly format.
This introductory program includes meditation instruction, talks, periods of meditation practice, and discussion. Everyone welcome.
In this program, limited to Shambhala Training Level III graduates, we learn to allow our hearts to open so that we can communicate fully with the world.
This three-day retreat, hosted by the Victoria Shambhala Centre, is open to all new and senior practitioners who wish to establish or deepen their meditation practice.
This is the 2nd course in the Shambhala Training series. 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.
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Meditation practice allows us to notice how we sometimes create a cocoon of habits to hide from or ignore our fears. Through meditation, we can begin to make friends with those fears and habits and cut through their ability to control us.
Programme de la Voie sacrée du Guerrier. "La force vitale que nous appelons le cheval de vent est l’énergie sans limite de la bonté fondamentale (...) Nous entrons en contact avec cette force de vie grâce à la pratique de la méditation".
How do we leave the cocoon of our fear?
Having experienced a taste of basic goodness in Level 1, we want to go forward. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habit.
Taking the gentleness, fearlessness and clarity of meditation practice into our daily lives. 4 Saturday mornings, online via Zoom
Der Pfad des Tigers. - Mit sanfter Achtsamkeit durch den Alltag gehen.
Please join us for this special offering culminating the Sacred Path.
Register here if you would like to join this group meditation retreat for the first week only. Open to all.
Join us for a two-week group meditation retreat of mindfulness-awareness practice in the serenity of our magnificent natural surroundings. All experience levels are welcome. This program satisfies Shambhala levels 1-3, and/or a half-dathun.
Einführungsseminar in die Shambhala-Vision der innewohnenden, grundlegenden Gutheit unserer Existenz - offen für alle
"Wir verstehen hier unter Meditation etwas sehr Grundlegendes und Einfaches, das an keine bestimmte Kultur gebunden ist: auf dem Boden sitzen eine gute Haltung einnehmen und ein Gefühl für unserer Platz in der Welt entwickeln." Trungpa Rinpoche
Taking the gentleness, fearlessness and clarity of meditation practice into our daily lives. Prerequisites: Level IV
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship.
Communicating with the world gently and fearlessly, our awareness is sharpened and we find the open clear sky of mind—a delightful source of wisdom and uplifted energy. We learn to trust our nature enough to let go into the present moment.
Open Sky: Shambhala Training Level V builds on the presentation of basic goodness in Shambhala Level I, the teachings on “cocoon” in Shambhala Level II, the exploration of fearlessness in Level III, and our deeper connection to inquisitiveness and openne
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Register here if you would like to join this group meditation retreat for the second week only. Meditation experience required.
Communicating with the world gently and fearlessly, our awareness is sharpened and we find the open clear sky of mind. We learn to trust our nature enough to let go into the present moment. Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level IV.Layth Matthews has been
As we trust further in basic goodness and dare to experience the sharp edge of reality, we move forward with gentleness, increased awareness, and inquisitiveness about the world as it is. In this way we can extend ourselves to others fully with kindness.
Wenn wir es wagen, uns einfach so sein zu lassen wie wir sind, gewinnen wir allmählich Vertrauen, uns auch allen andern und der Welt zu öffnen.
Bringing the mindfulness and awareness of meditation practice into everyday life, alive to our sense perceptions, we can venture into the world with a vulnerability that is fearless, gentle, and awake.
When we communicate with the world gently and fearlessly, our awareness is sharpened. We find the delightful source of wisdom and uplifted energy of the open, clear sky of mind.
Open to all, this is part of a series of three weekend trainings designed as continuing education for already authorized Meditation Instructors, as well as meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors.
Communicating with the world gently and fearlessly, our awareness is sharpened and we find the open clear sky of mind—a delightful source of wisdom and uplifted energy. We trust our nature enough to let go into the present moment.
For current and aspiring meditation instructors and teachers within the Shambhala Europe mandala seeking authorization. Please inquire with your local Shambhala Practice and Education directorship or Dechen Chöling Programs to confirm your eligibility.
As our awareness expands we communicate with our world both gently and fearlessly. We find the clear open sky of mind, a vast source of freedom and uplifted energy. Can we trust our nature enough to let go into the present moment?
This is a Shambhala retreat for Warrior Assembly Graduates and Werma practitioners. Its central focus will be the commentary by the Dorje Dradul for the text received at Warrior Assembly.
Continuing Shambhala Training in a weekly format.
In this fifth and final level of the Heart of Warriorship training, we will learn to inhabit the gentleness, openness, and precision of our true nature so that the present moment can unfold around us in all its vivid brilliance.
