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Foundations in Mind and Body Yogic Practice: The Free Void Womb of Compassion Vajra Yoga Intensive Studies with Michele Loew

September 10 - September 20

This intensive-studies program is taught in three 10-day 100 hr. Immersions, and includes online study materials and reading of texts that students will be expected to study and read in preparation and in between modules for the course.  For Yoga Alliance Certification, extra online study and weekly practice sessions with the yoga teachers will be […]

Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts

September 17-7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

East West Bookshop is a nonprofit bookstore and event center established by members of Ananda. Ananda is a worldwide family of communities, retreat centers, and meditation groups founded by Swami Kriyananda and based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi.   We offer classes in meditation, yoga postures, the art […]

The Inconceivable Liberation Ocean: The Flower Ornament Sutra Introduction

September 18-7:30 pm - October 30-9:00 pm EDT

This 12 Part Course is the First in a Series of Online Offerings by Robert Thurman exploring Thomas Cleary’s landmark translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Chapter by Chapter. Access to past streams and recordings are provided to all registered attendees. Join at anytime to begin swimming in this seminal Buddhist text with Professor Thurman and […]

A Conversation With Robert Thurman & Tricycle Editor-in-Chief James Shaheen

September 21-4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

In his new book Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life, Robert Thurman—the preeminent Tibetan Buddhist scholar, author and translator, and president of Tibet House US—guides a journey into the Buddha’s threefold curriculum of “super education” as a path to direct realization and lasting happiness. Join us September 21 at 4 p.m. […]

Devoted to Wisdom: Celebrating Buddhism & Bhakti Yoga with Krishna Das & Robert A.F. Thurman

September 30 - October 3

Join internationally-acclaimed presenters, Krishna Das and Tenzin Bob Thurman, for their first in-person appearance since the pandemic–a celebratory peak-foliage autumn retreat exploring the interplay of devotion and wisdom on the spiritual path. Drawing from their personal experiences with their gurus, their travels in India, and their devotion to ancient Indo-Tibetan spiritual teachings and practices, Krishna Das […]

Mahayana: The Great Vehicle: The Creative Art of Re-envisioning Mind and Body Through a Spirit of Enlightenment Vajra Yoga Intensive Studies with Michele Loew

December 9 - December 19

This will be an intensive immersion designed for students and teachers of Indian and Tibetan yogas wishing to take their practice and teaching to a deeper level. A principal of the approach is to move the context of the yogas into the domain of the mahasiddhas—their trans-denominational Indic spiritual sciences (adhyatmavidya–nangi rigpa). Daily practice of […]

Vajra Yoga Costa Rica Retreat: Embodying the Wisdom of Bliss with Michele Loew

January 22, 2022 - January 29, 2022

Take A Deep Spiritual Journey into Paradise with inspirational & transformational yogini Michele Loew & world renowned heart & mind expanding philosophy and meditation teacher Robert A.F. Thurman. Together they will share Vajra Yoga, deep embodied yoga practices within the context of spiritual teachings inspired by the Buddha and the inner traditions of yoga that […]

Expansion into the Perfect Stages Moving Inner Energies within the Subtle Body Intensive Studies with Michele Loew

May 19, 2022 - May 29, 2022

Join us for this totally unique yoga teacher training, exploring the philosophical and experiential interface between Hatha Yoga and Indo-Tibetan Vajra Yoga traditions in the pristine hidden mountain valley of Menla—a Medicine Buddha land. To learn more and to regsiter, please visit: www.menla.org

Journey into the Bardos of Life & Beyond Online Course with Andrew Holecek

This seven-day program is the first in a series of four retreats designed to give you a complete preparation for death. Each retreat is a stand-alone program but also develops the material from the previous retreat. This means that if you are interested in doing the entire series, you can enter any program at any […]

Vimalakīrti’s Silence: Sci-Fi Feast and Buddhaverse Infrastructure Online Course

In this online class series, Robert A.F. Thurman will guide students through a close reading of “The Noble Teaching of Vimalakīrti”. Thurman will use the classic text to introduce basic Buddhist meditation, history, philosophy, and realization with relevant digressions bringing Vimalakirti’s wisdom alive today!The Vimalakīrti Sutra records happenings in Shakyamuni Buddha’ time (6th Century BCE) […]

Mahamudra Online Course with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang & Robert Thurman

In this online teaching, Dr. Nida transmits the teachings of Mahamudra according to the Yuthog Nyingthig tradition. These teachings will include instructions on the Sutra and Tantra paths of Mahamudra, including the methods of the Four Mudras and Four Yogas. In complementary sessions, Robert Thurman will turn to the teachings of HH the Fourteenth Dalai […]

Pure Lands Online Course with Andrew Holecek

The Pure Lands are an integral aspect of Indian Mahayana, Tibetan and East Asian Buddhisms rarely taught in the West. For most of us, they represent our greatest opportunity after death. This online course explores the origins and development of the Pure Land tradition in India and Tibet and the lineage of masters that support […]

Passion without Attachment: Practicing with Embodied Emptiness Online Course

Join Dr. Rick Hanson and Bob Thurman for a fascinating dialogue and experiential practicum online. Explore personal practice in the contexts of Rick’s wonderful and practical book, “Neurodharma”, making accessible seven classical meditative practices in the context of being a neurologically guided, mind-bodied human being, and of Bob’s understanding of Indo-Tibetan “Buddhist neuroscience”, drawing from […]