Browse Schedule by Category: Retreats / Online Courses
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Walking the Eightfold Noble Path
Join us for this important four week online course on foundational dharma teachings The Eightfold Noble path is ennobling Buddhist wisdom on how to walk the talk of freedom and spaciousness, applicable now as 2500 years ago.
Breathing Retreat 2024
Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei for a life changing ten day breathing meditation retreat. Breathing practice is suitable whether you are a newbie or seasoned meditator, or have always wanted to do a vipassana or longer retreat. Benefit from the in-person guidance of an accomplished meditation teacher and a balanced meditative approach of the four classical meditation postures.
Razor’s Edge: The Dance of Absolute & Relative Truths
This weekend course is a precious opportunity to study with meditation master and Namgyal lineage teacher Qapel (Achariya Doug Duncan). He will share fundamental Buddhist teachings on the nature of absolute and relative truths, and how we can best dance between, within and amidst the two.
Movement of the Mandala Tarot Retreat
The Movement of the Mandala is a powerful embodied retreat on the Tarot's archetypes, inspired by the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche's teachings. The retreat was first offered by the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche 50 years ago at the Dharma Centre of Canada in 1974, of which Qapel attended as a new student. A master of both Eastern and Western mystical tradition, Rinpoche's innovative course will be offered by Qapel and Catherine Sensei for the first and last time in Qapel's lifetime.
Interdependent Origination: Paṭiccasamuppāda
Would you like to look more closely at what makes you 'you' - how phenomena and perception arise? Then join us for a weekend of study of the wheel of dependent origination - a a powerful map for understanding consciousness. This is a foundational philosophical doctrine shared by all schools of Buddhism. Recommended for students of all levels.
The Power of Sangha & Group Guru
Sangha are the people working alongside you to wake up. We can use each other to pull ourselves out of the mires of suffering. This four week course will be a modern approach to sangha and group guru, during which we will look at the interplay between the collective, the individual and liberation.