Teachings, Courses, & Retreats

  • $575.00 – FYD Online Level II - Secular Track
  • $675.00 – FYD Online Level II - Buddhist Track

Date & Time Details: Buddhist Track: July 24 - October 1, 2022 Secular Track: July 31 - October 1, 2022

Location: Online

Contact: FYD Program Coordinator
fyd@taramandala.org

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Feeding Your Demons® Level II – Online Program

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

July 24 - October 1, 2022

Deepen your training and knowledge of Feeding Your Demons® in Online Level II. Learn how to work more extensively with your allies, trace your demons in your body, and map family demons and allies.

Buddhist Track participants will also dive deeper into the practice lineage of Machig Labdrön with an introduction to Jamgön Kongtrül’s text “Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother,” and Machig Labdrön’s method for cutting through discursive thoughts. 

Who can attend?

  • Individuals who have completed FYD Online Level I or Kapala Training Level I and want to deepen their personal understanding of the work, or those who are on a path to become a Certified FYD Facilitator.
  • The Buddhist Track corresponds to Kapala Training Level II and is a required retreat for the Magyu Mother Lineage Program.
  • All participants have to fulfill these prerequisites:
    • Secular Track
      • Completion of Feeding Your Demons® Level I (Buddhist or Secular Track) or Kapala Training Level I
      • 50 Solo Demon Feedings
      • 15 Partner Demon Feedings
      • Plant a Tree
      • 15-60 min 5 days per week of mindfulness meditation recommended
    • Buddhist Track
      • Completion of Feeding Your Demons® Level I (Buddhist Track) or Kapala Training Level I 
      • 50 Solo Demon Feedings
      • 15 Partner Demon Feedings
      • 80 hours of Prajnaparamita meditation
      • Plant a Tree
    • Prerequisites have to be fulfilled at the start date of the retreat. You will receive information on how to submit them upon registration.

Program Details

  • Choice between a Secular and Buddhist Track
  • On-demand access to all course materials (12 hours of teachings, primarily by Lama Tsultrim Allione)
  • 4 live webcasts (and subsequent recordings) with Senior FYD Teachers Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam & Pieter Oosthuizen
  • You will receive additional FYD forms, including the Extended Ally and Extended Ally with a Journey forms (pdf downloads).
  • For the Buddhist Track, pdf downloads of the following texts: 
    • Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother practice
    • Cutting the Four Demons Loose Into Space practice
    • Supplication to the Great Mother practice
    • Taking and Waking practice
    • Excerpts from ‘The Grand Poem of Aryadeva the Brahmin’

To register for the Buddhist Track click here.
To register for the Secular Track click here.
For more detailed information click here.

Teachers

Lama Tsultrim Allione
Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Lama Tsultrim is the founder of Tara Mandala, a 700-acre retreat center with the three-story temple and library  dedicated to the divine…
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Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam has studied Tibetan Buddhism since the mid 1990’s, was authorized to teach by Lama Tsultrim Allione in 2006. She received the title of Magyu Lopön, lead teacher of Magyu: The Mother Lineage at Tara Mandala from Lama Tsultrim in 2016, and Dorje Lopön, Vajra Teacher,…
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Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen is a teacher and a long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been teaching various practices and retreats in Lama Tsultrim’s lineage in the US and abroad since 2006, offering a blend of incisive insight and genuine compassion. He co-leads the Boulder Tara Mandala Sangha with Lopön…
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