“Wanting nothing from outside,
taking things as they come,
know the Dakini to be your own mind.”
-Yeshe Tsogyal

For the first time ever, Tsoknyi Rinpoche will teach on Yeshe Tsogyel, the great yogini of Tibet, using her teaching songs as a vehicle to reveal the essence of Dzog Chen. Yeshe Tsogyel was a brilliant Dakini and highly realized yogini. Her songs and responses to her students' questions are filled with depth, intimacy, and poetry, and profoundly elucidate the nine vehicles and the Dzog Chen way.

Change of Dates: Registration is from 2-4pm as usual on October 10th, and the retreat will begin that evening with Lama Tsultrim offering background teachings on Yeshe Tsogyal and her songs. Rinpoche will arrive on the 11th and teach two sessions, afternoon and evening, on that day. Rinpoche will teach as he regularly does the 12th - 14th, and the retreat will end with a morning teaching on the 15th and then brunch.

Price
Double: $1,065 - $730
Queen Double: $1,160 - $825
Queen Single: $1,270 - $935
Camping: $700 - $475
Suggested Dana: $120 - $240

Accommodation descriptions can be found here.

Sliding scale fees allow participants to pay according to individual means. Your payment above the low end directly benefits our scholarship fund.

Sustaining Sangha discounts range from 10%-20% based on your membership level and are calculated at registration.

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For over 15 years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching students worldwide about the innermost nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His fresh insights into the western psyche have enabled him to teach and write in a way that touches our most profound awareness, using metaphors, stories and images that point directly to our everyday experience. He is widely recognized as a brilliant meditation teacher, is the author of two books, Carefree Dignity and Fearless Simplicity, and has a keen interest in the ongoing dialogue between western research, especially neuroscience, and Buddhist practitioners and scholars. (Biographical details used with permission from the Pundarika Foundation.)