Programs
Dharma Gates Office Hours
with Teresa Nicole, Bobby Chowa Werner and Gavrila Nikhila Abramson
Discovering Dzogchen
with Lama Pema Dragpa and Lama Laia Pema Tsultrim
Looking for a meaningful way to spend your summer? Dive into the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism with our Dzogchen immersion program for young adults (age 18 to 35). In the hermitage of Padma Samye Ling, you'll learn the art of meditation, delve into profound Buddhist philosophy, and explore the transformative teachings approaching the practice […]
Becoming Everything: A Zen Sesshin
with Soten Lynch and Shinei Monial
The water, fire, air, and earth that make up our own bodies are not separate from those that make up the larger Earth body. During this sesshin, we will begin with awareness of our own elemental bodies and practice expanding that awareness to feel ourselves as the larger Earth — and the larger Earth as […]
The Dharma of Grief: What Love Asks of Us
with Lama Rod Owens
Grief is not separate from love. Grief is one of love’s most honest expressions. To love anything deeply—a person, a place, a vision for the future, a community, even a version of ourselves—is to become vulnerable to loss. And yet many of us have never been taught how to hold that vulnerability with tenderness, wisdom, […]
Awakening Through the Body
with Corey Hess
We invite you to come get into your body and deepen your presence in this powerful retreat with Corey Hess. This is not a traditional meditation retreat, but instead a space of exploration where people can deeply investigate what is at the heart of their lived experience through stillness and movement. Together, we’ll explore how […]
The Whole Earth as the True Human Body: Exploring the Buddha Dharma in the Wilds of California
with Kerstin Deibert and Rupert Marques
“Those who love the whole world as if it were their own body can be entrusted with the world.” - Dao De Jing Elders within both indigenous societies and contemplative traditions have long sought out the refuge of the wider natural world in order to become more intimate with a larger ground of belonging. These […]
Waking Up in a Living World
with Cara Lai and Zac Ispa-Landa
This program brings together Buddhist teachings of emptiness and interdependence, awakening and liberation, embodied mindfulness, and nature-connection practices to explore what it means to be human — and to belong — in a world that is wild, uncertain, impermanent, and astonishingly alive. We will practice in nature, with nature, and as nature. Through meditation, direct […]
Listening into the Heart of the Divine Feminine
with Lama Liz Monson
This retreat explores the divine feminine as a universal energetic principle available within all of us. Regardless of gender identity, this retreat provides a special opportunity to cultivate a deepened relationship to feminine energy, to explore its definition and qualities, and to understand how these qualities emerge inside a spiritual practice. Today, we are confronted […]
The Practice of Wonderment and Interfusion
with Guo Gu
In Chan Buddhism, the practice of wonderment brilliantly unravels the entanglement of selfing and othering, separateness and alienation. It incapacitates our delusions and opens us up to the possibility of transforming routinized habits that structure our lives. The Chan practice of wonderment deepens relationships, expands imagination, and unravels our fixed ideas. It frees us from […]