Browse Schedule by Category: Retreats / Online Courses
Online Courses
Multiple Realities: Bardos & Beyond (4 Week Online Course)
Loosen the blinders, walk through veils. We launch the year with a study of the ‘bardos’ or ‘realms’ of experience.
Five Stages of Emptiness
Embark on a transformative journey through the progressive stages of emptiness in this meditation retreat. Taught by Qapel and Catherine Sensei live at Clear Sky Meditation Centre, it is a chance to go deep. For those living further afield, it is possible to do this retreat streamed at your own retreat location.
AstroDharma Community Call
Join us for an AstroDharma community Q&A call, open to those who have previously or are currently studying AstroDharma with Catherine Sensei - especially for participants of the Online Self Study AstroDharma Course, or previous AstroDharma retreatants.
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.
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.
Hamster Wheel or Heaven? The Wheel of Dependent Origination
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.
Qapel: Life and Teachings Christmas Celebration
As we come close to three months since Qapel passing, joining us for a special online party on Christmas Eve to celebrate Qapel's life and teachings, including sharings of archive photos from early days in Japan and beyond from Catherine Sensei.
Waking Up & Growing Up: Integral Buddhism
Along with the work of waking up– cultivating an enlightened state – we also need to do the work of growing up. This is Integral Buddhism – the next turning of the wheel of Dharma for it to be a vehicle fit for the 21st century. Join us for a four week online course of this exciting study.
Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn
As spiritual explorers, we want breakthrough. We want liberation, freedom, and the ability to manifest our deepest vision for this lifetime. The only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and break away from our timeworn, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline, which gives us access to breakthrough. Astrologically, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights