Upcoming Magyu Retreats
All retreats take place at Tara Mandala Retreat Center in Colorado unless otherwise noted. All Magyu retreats are open to those not in the Magyu Program as long as necessary preliminaries have been completed.
Green Tara Retreat
With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
April 23 - 27, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
In this retreat you will learn to embody Green Tara, the female Buddha of compassion, who provides protection from fears and obstacles. New in 2020 - This is a Pay-It-Forward Retreat!
Chöd: From Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
With Karla Jackson-Brewer
May 28 - June 1, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Chöd is a unique blend of the Tibetan Shamanic traditions and the Buddhist tradition of compassion and emptiness. This centuries-old practice is sung, and is accompanied by the use of a traditional Chöd drum and bell. Healing comes when fear, fixation, and self-clinging are cut through, when we nurture and…
Vajrayana: Sacred World
With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
June 6 - 12, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This retreat offers a historical and philosophical overview of the Vajrayana and explores the lives and teachings of some of the great Tantric practitioners and mahasiddhas, such as Naropa, Tilopa, Lakshminkara, Saraha, Niguma, Kukkuripa, among others.
Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level II
With Magyu Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Pieter Oosthuizen
June 16 - 21, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This retreat consists of a deepening of the Prajña Paramita practice, an introduction to Jamgön Kongtrül’s text “Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother,” and Machig Labdrön’s method for cutting through discursive thoughts with sound.
Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level I
With Karla Jackson-Brewer and Polly Ryan, MA, MFT
June 25 - 30, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Inspired by the ancient practice of Chöd, Feeding Your Demons® is a five-step process created by Lama Tsultrim Allione that allows us to offer compassion and understanding to our own inner demons rather than engaging in battle and struggling with them.
Buddhahood Without Meditation: Longchen Nyingthig P’howa
With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
August 20 - 24, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The ability to transfer consciousness into an exalted state at the moment of death allows us to live without the fear of dying. Through P’howa, death becomes an opportunity for liberation instead of a mere severance from what we have known and loved in life.
Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Sacred Masculine
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Pieter Oosthuizen and Karla Jackson-Brewer
September 2 - 8, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Experience transformation through the power of the mandala—a universal map of inner and outer balance, wholeness, and practical awakening. This training offers a journey into the Mandala of the Five Buddhas developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione to bring emotional transformation into alignment with the spiritual path.
Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level IV
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
September 14 - 19, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
In Kapala Training Level IV, you will receive Machig’s Ultimate Meaning from Lama Tsultrim, as well as the Crystal and the Rainbow Rays Movement Practice.
Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level III
With Pieter Oosthuizen
September 14 - 19, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
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.
Zhitro: The Six Moments of Opportunity and Practice for the Deceased
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Debra Quayle
September 26 - 28, 2020
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Zhitro is a simple and accessible practice that provides us with a way to help the deceased, and helps us to become familiar with the visions and experiences we may experience following our own passing.