Teachings, Courses, & Retreats

Feeding Your Demons Workshop Leader Training

Date & Time Details: Online Course: February 7, 8 & 27, April 7, May 2 & 3, 2026

Location: Online

Contact: FYD Program Coordinator
fyd@taramandala.org

Feeding Your Demons Workshop Leader Training

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

February 7 - May 3, 2026

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

Thank you for your interest in joining us for our ongoing trainings in Feeding Your Demons®.

We are offering an online training for those interested in leading secular Workshops in Feeding Your Demons®, starting on February 7, 2026.

The online program is an experiential training that highlights key components of teaching Feeding Your Demons®, including: core content to be covered; how to structure a talk or workshop; setting up partner work; introducing the Hydra map and Extended Ally process; addressing particular challenges and questions that arise in teaching; establishing your seat as a Workshop Leader. You will deepen your study of the background of Feeding Your Demons®, and become familiar with research on the efficacy of the process. You’ll plan and offer a short FYD workshop on your own between training sessions, supported by fellow participants and your teachers. The format of the training is two online weekend retreats, a 2-hour talk; small group discussions; webcasts and assignments in-between.

Prerequisites for Workshop Leader Training:

  • Have completed the Feeding Your Demons Group Facilitator Training.

Upon successful completion of this training, you will be authorized to introduce and teach Feeding Your Demons® in public talks and 2-day workshops.  You will not be authorized to teach the Prajnaparamita practice, or any of the FYD Online Levels or Kapala Training.

Date & Time Details: Online Course: February 7, 8 & 27, April 7, May 2 & 3, 2026

Location: Online

Contact: FYD Program Coordinator
fyd@taramandala.org

About the Teachers

Lama Tsultrim Allione
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 a three-story temple and library dedicated to the divine…
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam Dorje Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam has studied Tibetan Buddhism since the mid 1990’s, and 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…
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen is a Senior Teacher in Lama Tsultrim Allione’s lineage, Director of The Feeding Your Demons Institute, and co-author of Skymind: The Radical Path of Open Awareness. His journey arcs from the wild edges of apartheid-era Johannesburg to the heart of contemplative practice. As a boy, he roamed the…
Lopön Barbara Staemmler
Lopön Barbara Staemmler Lopön Barbara Staemmler studied medicine and specialized in psychotherapy. For over thirty years, she has worked as a Gestalt therapist and supervisor in private practice, and has also led Gestalt therapy training programs. In addition, she has completed further training in psychoanalytic therapy, music therapy, and bodywork.  She began meditating…