Tara Mandala Online Programs

Tara Mandala offers online programming via live and pre-recorded curriculum that give you the opportunity to access dharma teachings, engage in guided practice, experience personal retreat and hands-on learning, while connecting with other participants through easy-to-use online platforms and an engaged community network. When needed, the program description and schedule will inform you in advance if and when a specific online session must be attended live if a direct transmission (Tib. lung) may be given. Access to recordings of all sessions will be available for additional viewing for one year.

Feeding Your Demons® – Online Program

With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Pieter Oosthuizen

Open Dates

Online

Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a profoundly effective method for recognizing and transforming the deep-seated patterns, triggers, and neuroses that undermine the quality and enjoyment of our lives. Learn more about the whole program here.

Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level III – ONLINE

With Pieter Oosthuizen

April 19 - 23, 2023

Online - Zoom

In Kapala Training Level III we will go further into Machig Labdrön’s lineage, learning specific new practices and deepening our understanding of the roots and branches of her lineage tree. Please note, this retreat is restricted to those who meet the requirements from Kapala I&II / FYD Buddhist Track Levels…

Dentog Chigma Chod Daylong Practice Intensive – Online

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Pieter Oosthuizen

April 29, 2023

Online - Zoom

A Tara Mandala Daylong Practice Intensive - ONLINE The profound practice of Dentog Chigma, Liberation on One Seat, is “at the absolute core of Machig’s lineage” according to Lama Tsultrim. It combines the melodic and rhythmic aspects of traditional Chöd with the visualization and mantra recitation of Tibetan Buddhist deity…

Unwinding the Body, Breath, and Mind into Presence: Anatomy of Meditation — ONLINE

With Arturo Peal and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

May 6 - 7, 2023

Online - Zoom

Finding ease in your practice and enlivening your subtle body Join us for a weekend of fun and relaxation as we guide you through therapeutic experiences that will help you find ease, comfort, and joy in your meditation practice. Often we avoid meditation due to physical limitations or discomfort, and…

Honoring Mothers in the Refuge of Practice and Sangha — ONLINE

With Gena McCarthy RN, MFT

May 13, 2023

As mothers, aunties, grandmothers, caretakers and meditators, we are the core of our families and communities. This workshop is designed to offer a place of rest and transformation within the embrace of our practice and community. By taking time to care for ourselves and witness the gifts we are offering,…

Taming the Mind: Introduction to Calm Abiding Meditation — ONLINE

With Tulku Ösel Dorje

May 20 - 21, 2023

Online - Zoom

On a daily basis, our minds run wild and fall victim to afflictive emotions like suffering, depression, laziness, and distractions. At the heart of the Buddhist path, training the mind is essential. The practice of Shamatha (Calm Abiding) meditation puts special emphasis on developing one-pointed concentration as a means for…

Heart Essence of Profound Meaning: A Chöd Study Intensive — ONLINE

With Lama Sarah Harding

May 27 - June 17, 2023

Online - Zoom

The Heart Essence of Profound Meaning is the root of most of the later instructions on Severance (Chöd), the enactment of the perfection of wisdom. In this Study Intensive, we will delve into these teachings from an important Severance tradition. The root verses and an extensive auto-commentary were written by…

Sutrayana – Walking the Path to Genuine Happiness – ONLINE

With Polly Ryan, MA, MFT

June 1 - 7, 2023

Online - Zoom

Join us as we follow the path the Buddha walked to enhanced wisdom, inner peace, and joy in this foundational and immersive 7-day online program with Tara Mandala Authorized Teacher, Polly Ryan.

Saga Dawa Düchen – Special Global Sangha Practice Day – ONLINE

With Tulku Ösel Dorje

June 4, 2023

Online

Join the Tara Mandala Global Sangha for a sangha-wide practice honoring one of the four sacred days in Tibetan Buddhism. This virtual global practice is open to all, and if this practice is new to you, you are welcome to join and receive the blessings of this practice.

CNNR Chöd Daylong Practice Intensive – ONLINE

With Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.

June 17, 2023

Online - Zoom

A Tara Mandala Daylong Practice Intensive - ONLINE Have you been practicing Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (CNNR) Chöd and are encountering some challenges? Devoted Chöd practitioner and Authorized Teacher Karla Jackson-Brewer will offer a special opportunity for seasoned and brand new Chöd practitioners to receive support in their practice, ask…

Minding the Gap: Inner Exploration of the Six Bardos — ONLINE

With Robin Gayle

July 15 - 16, 2023

Online - Zoom

The bardo state has been characterized by various dharma teachers as a gap, an interval, a crossing, a transition, and an in-between-ness. Due to impermanence, small and large gaps take place constantly in life, recognized and non-recognized. The past is gone, the future has not yet arrived, and in this…

Ösel Nyingtig Cycle: Yeshe Tsogyal Sadhana – ONLINE

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Ösel Dorje

August 5 - 9, 2023

Online - Zoom

In this retreat we will continue to go deeper into the dakini world of Yeshe Tsogyal. The auspicious interdependence that was set in motion in last year's The Excellent Path of Great Bliss of the Dakini Ngöndro is brought to fruition in this practice. This Sadhana or Means for Accomplishing…

Ösel Nyingtig Cycle: Special Instructions of the Exceedingly Secret Tröma – Part 1 – ONLINE

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Ösel Dorje

August 7 - 10, 2023

Online - Zoom

As it says in the root text, "Even If you were to actually meet me, Padmasambhava you would not receive a greater instruction than this. Whoever encounters this will realize the great bliss space free of transition.” Tara Mandala invites you to join us as we continue to progress on…

The Wakeful Body: Yoga and Meditation as an Integrated Path – ONLINE

With Lama Willa Blythe Baker

September 6 - October 11, 2023

Online - Zoom

Tara Mandala Online is pleased to invite you for weekly program over a series of six weeks with Lama Willa Blythe Baker. Many of us have a complicated relationship to the body. In its vulnerability to aging and illness, we tend to think of our body in ordinary or even…

Writing Your Spiritual Care Directive – A Buddhist Plan for the Time of Dying (ONLINE)

With Rhonda LoPresti

September 19 - November 7, 2023

Online - Zoom

This 8-week online course and interactive group study will be presented from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, inviting a unique conversation and exploration in planning and training as a practitioner for the time of dying. Using a 10-part comprehensive template, called a Spiritual Care Directive, we will start with creating a…

One Ground, Two Paths, Two Results: A Buddhist Meditation, Yoga, and Shadow Work Retreat — ONLINE

With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

September 23 - 24, 2023

Online - Zoom

The path of remembrance leads to the result of nirvana, the experience of wholeness that is liberation and freedom. The path of forgetting leads to the result of samsara, the experience of dissatisfaction and suffering. Whether we experience nirvana or samsara depends on our own minds, they are not two…

The Empowered Feminine — Online Workshop

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Catherine Bell

September 28, 2023

Online - Zoom

We invite you to join us for an interactive workshop with Catherine Bell and Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam Catherine Bell has been in Boardrooms for the last two and half decades – often feeling like a complete misfit and often not fully claiming her seat at the table. She has…

Zhitro Daylong Practice Intensive – ONLINE

With Polly Ryan, MA, MFT

September 30, 2023

Online - Zoom

A Tara Mandala Daylong Practice Intensive – Online We invite you to join us for a day of community and deep practice as we connect with the simple and accessible practice of Zhitro. In our society we often lack practices specifically designed to help someone who has died as they…

The Great Wisdom Mother, Prajñaparamita: A Transmission and Teaching on the Nature of Mind Practice — ONLINE

With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

October 7 - 8, 2023

Online - Zoom

Prajñāpāramitā, the “perfection of wisdom,” is one of the key philosophies and practices of the Mahāyāna teachings of Buddhism. Prajñāpāramitā, is also revered as the female embodiment of wisdom (Skt. prajñā), the Great Mother, Yum Chenmo in Tibetan. She is luminous clarity ceaselessly radiating as compassion to all beings. Ultimately,…

Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine — ONLINE

With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton

October 12 - November 30, 2023

Online - Zoom

We invite you to join us for a 7-week journey through the Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis. Students will be guided through the development of the feminine in Buddhism, the mandala principle, introduced to the fierce feminine of the dakinis (female deities in Tibetan Buddhism, embodying profound wisdom and…

Green Tara – ONLINE

With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam

October 19 - 22, 2023

Online - Zoom

All are welcome! Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam invites you to join her online in a 4-day virtual retreat where students will receive the transmission, teachings, and learn the practice to connect with the luminous compassion of Green Tara in our innate, awakened heart. Green Tara sits with one foot in…