Retreat Cabins
Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The beauty of nature, quietness, and solitude supported me so much in letting the vajra mind shine through. Having time for my practice with no outer worldly pressure helped me to deeply relax into my meditation, creating space. I’m deeply grateful for this precious time on Tara’s Land! -Vera…
Personal Retreat in Prajna Residence Hall
Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
We are happy to announce that the Prajña Residence Hall will be open for personal retreats during the above dates pending availability around group retreats.
Gateway: Completes’ Retreat (By Invitation Only – Completes)
July 22 - 27, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This retreat is required for all Complete Transmission (“Completes”) participants who have met their samaya requirements for the Trekchö practice. These are closed teachings and are only open to those who are part of the “Completes” cohort.
Gateway: White Dakini Sadhana (By Invitation Only – Tigers)
With Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert M.A., L.M.H.C.
July 23 - 27, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This retreat is for those in the Gateway Program who have completed the Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro. These are closed teachings and only open to those who are part of the Gateway Program Foundation (Tigers).
White Dakini Drubchen, including Teaching Days, July 30 – August 10
With Drubpön Lama Karma, Lama Tsultrim Allione and Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert M.A., L.M.H.C.
July 30 - August 10, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The annual Drubchen (Great Accomplishment Ceremony) of the White Dakini practice from Do Khyentse’s Dzinpa Rangdröl (Self-Liberation from Fixation) treasure cycle will be performed at Tara Mandala. This lineage comes directly from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche to Lama Tsultrim Allione.
White Dakini Drubchen only, August 1 – 10
With Drubpön Lama Karma and Lama Tsultrim Allione
August 1 - 10, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The annual Drubchen (Great Accomplishment Ceremony) of the White Dakini practice from Do Khyentse’s Dzinpa Rangdröl (Self-Liberation from Fixation) treasure cycle will be performed at Tara Mandala. This lineage comes directly from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche to Lama Tsultrim Allione.
Gateway: Outer Rushen (By Invitation Only – Garudas)
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
August 13 - 18, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
This retreat is required for all Complete Transmission (Garuda) participants who have completed their samaya for the Tsalung practices. These are closed teachings only open to those who are part of the Garuda Complete Transmission Program.
Special Retreat: Garland of Jewels — Advanced Teachings
With Drubpön Lama Karma
August 24 - 29, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
In response to a special request from Lama Tsultrim Allione, during this unique retreat, Drubpön Lama Karma will provide teachings on supplementary texts to the Garland of Jewels (Rinchen Trengwa) chöd tradition.
Feeding Your Demons Workshop
With Paula van Lammeren
August 24 - 25, 2019
Zutphen, Netherlands
The workshop provides a thorough grounding in this remarkable method for transforming and befriending negative emotions, fears, illness and self defeating patterns; and introduces the radical notion that to heal and transform ourselves we must ‘feed’ not fight our demons.
Somatic Enlightenment: Awakening through the Four Kāyas
With Lama Willa Miller
August 24 - 29, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
The practices of Tantra have long recognized the power of the body to catalyze the fruits of awakening. As the Hevajra Tantra states, “Great wisdom lives in the body.” If we bring attention to the body, great wisdom reveals itself to us, like a hidden lotus blooming in the night.
Wisdom Rising Workshop
With Rianne van Rijsewijk
August 30 - 31, 2019
Zutphen, The Netherlands
This workshop is based on Lama Tsultrim Allione´s new book: Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine. Through the Dakini Mandala, a universal template of wholeness, each of the five dakinis, embodiments of the fierce feminine, transforms an emotional encumbrance into wisdom.
Open House and Intro to Meditation | August
August 31, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Tara Mandala is open to the public several times each year. You are welcome to join us for a guided tour of our beautiful Retreat Center and Tara Temple and an introduction to Buddhist meditation.
Relationship as Sacred Practice
With Nadine Keller, MA and Andrew Keller
September 6 - 9, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Awakened in our bodies and relationships, we can access our highest creative potential. In this gathering we will explore how our relationships can be of service to a world that honors life as sacred.
Lojong – Seven Point Mind Training Retreat
With Drubpön Lama Karma
September 13 - 16, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Mind Training, or Lojong, is a practical and inspiring teaching that transforms the mind afflicted by destructive emotions. Mind Training is at the heart of all practices of Tibetan Buddhism.
Dakini’s Whisper: Subtle Body Training
With Chöying Khandro, M.A.
September 13 - 16, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Dive deeply into the wisdom and compassion embodied in this transformative practice.This retreat is devoted to Therapeutic Mind-Body-Heart Training, which interweaves a set of exercises from Tibetan Wisdom Tradition, meditation and Yoga Therapy.
P’howa: Transference of Consciousness Retreat
With Drubpön Lama Karma and Rhonda LoPresti
September 19 - 23, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
In this retreat, Drubpön Lama Karma will offer teachings and instructions on the extraordinary Vajrayana method of transference of consciousness at the moment of death. The skillful means of the P’howa practice allows us to direct our consciousness out of our body and into the exalted state of the enlightened…
Journey into the Dakini Mandala: A Meditation and Writing Retreat
With Karla Jackson-Brewer and Ranjini George
September 19 - 22, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
In the introduction of Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (Simon & Schuster, May 2018), Lama Tsultrim Allione narrates the beginnings of Tara Mandala, a 700-acre Buddhist retreat center in Southwest Colorado. She recounts a conversation with Grandmother Bertha Grove, a respected elder of the Ute…
Open House and Intro to Meditation | September
September 21 - 28, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Tara Mandala is open to the public several times each year. You are welcome to join us for a guided tour of our beautiful Retreat Center and Tara Temple and an introduction to Buddhist meditation.
Khandro Kejang Chöd
With Drubpön Lama Karma
September 26 - October 1, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Chöd literally means "cutting", and is a powerful, dramatic practice of cutting through ego-clinging and delusion by visualizing the offering up of one's body to all beings and karmic debtors. It is a powerful method to sever all self-grasping and to usher one into the realization of emptiness.
Feeding your Demons Weekend Workshop
With Gudrun Binder
October 18 - 20, 2019
Wien, Austria
We tend to fight our demons, but the harder we fight them, the stronger they become. In this weekend you will learn the five steps of Feeding your Demons and will in future have a possibility to meet your demons and to liberate them step by step.
Winter Solstice Celebration With the Tara Mandala Community
December 21 - 22, 2019
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Come celebrate the Winter Solstice 2019 with the Tara Mandala community. Let's join together to center ourselves and begin the holidays by quieting our minds, settling in our bodies, and opening our hearts to the great mystery of the turning of the sun and the darkest night.