Programs
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 M. Retreat, or returning back […]
Personal Retreat in Prajna Residence Hall
Open Dates
Tara Mandala Retreat Center
Due to COVID-19 we are not currently holding retreats in Prajña Residence Hall. Please see our retreat cabins for solitary retreat opportunities.
Feeding Your Demons® - Online Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
Open Dates
Online
Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a profoundly effective method for recognizing and transforming the deep-seated patterns, triggers, and neuroses that undermine the quality and enjoyment of our lives. Learn more about the whole program here.
Zhitro: Self-Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
The simple and accessible practice of Zhitro offers a real way for a practitioner to help the deceased. This practice also helps individuals become familiar with the visions and experiences that may occur during the 49 days following one's own passing.
Riwo Sangchö: Self-Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Anna Raithel
Open Dates
Online
A practice to heal the suffering of samsara, through the practice of boundless compassion and abundant offering. Learn the widespread and traditional practice of Riwo Sangchö – “a mountainside smoke offering.”
Wisdom Rising: Self-Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Be guided through the development of the feminine in Buddhism, and understand how each of the five Dakini’s key ‘encumbered’ emotions and wisdom qualities are within each of us. By being introduced to the mandala principle and its importance to western and eastern psychology, you will understand the fierce feminine qualities found within the five Dakini buddha families.
Chöd of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche: Self-Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Cut through fear, fixation and clinging, by nurturing not fighting, what disturbs our mind. This Chod practice is empowered through the lineage of the Tibetan Dzogchen master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
Machig Labdrön and the Nature of Mind: Self-Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Engage with the powerful teachings of the great Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, on the ‘nature of mind’ as taught by her direct emanation, Lama Tsultrim Allione. Connect to Machig’s pith instructions, the essence of her teaching.
Opening the Heart Sutra: Self-Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Engage with the concise teaching of Prajnaparamita, in this profound conversation between Shariputra and Avalokiteshvara. Through guiding participants line-by-line through the Heart Sutra, you will receive a functional overview of Mahayana philosophy and gain deeper insight into the world of this treasured text.
Audio Digital Download of Wisdom Rising Enhanced Practices
With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Open Dates
Wisdom Rising Enhanced Practices – MP3
This includes 10 guided meditations, as taught in the Wisdom Rising book, and led by Lopön Chandra Easton:
Integration with the Elements (5 meditations – one for each family)
Unblocking the Encumbered Energy (5 meditations – one for each family)
Total Audio Length = 70 min
Lama Live!
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online - Facebook and YouTube
Lama Live! is a livestream event where we can gather together as a community for meditation, prayer, and teachings from Lama Tsultrim Allione and other guest teachers on Sundays at 9am PT.
Video Digital Download of the Dakini Mandala Yoga Practice
With Shiva Rea
Open Dates
Video (MP4)
This video was filmed live at Tara Mandala and is intended as a practice support.
Audio Digital Download of The Mandala Principle
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
Lama Tsultrim Allione’s teachings on the Mandala Principle. The mandala is a template or blueprint of wholeness. It has a center and four directions. Associated with each direction is a color, an element, an obstructed pattern and a wisdom. It is a way to understand yourself and also your world.
Audio Digital Download of Wisdom Rising Essential Practices
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
This includes 7 guided meditations, as taught in the Wisdom Rising book and led by Lama Tsultrim Allione, including:
Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis Practice
Journey with the Dakini Practice
Family Regression Practices (five practices – one for each family)
Audio Digital Download of Guided Meditation of Dakini Mandala Practice
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
This is a guided meditation of the Dakini Mandala practice led by Lama Tsultrim Allione.
Audio Digital Download of Relationship and Intimacy as a Path
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches on intimate relationship as a powerful transformative tool for awakening and how relationships can, in themselves, be the path.
Audio Digital Download of Four Demons and Feeding Your Demons Meditation from Machig Labdron
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches on the Four Types of Demons as taught by the 11th Century yogini Machig Labdrön who founded the Chöd lineage in Tibet.
Audio Digital Download of The Life and Teachings of the Buddha
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
A perfect teaching for beginning and advanced students alike that includes a guided meditation practice. In this recording, Lama Tsultrim teaches on the important historical development of Buddhism and the three core principles of Buddhist training: discipline, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
Audio Digital Download of Six Moments of Opportunity for Practicing at the Time of Death
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Audio (MP3)
Lama Tsultrim Allione’s teachings on the Bardo, the intermediate stage between death and rebirth. The Bardo is an ideal time to practice and recognize our true nature.
Video Digital Download of Intimate Dialogue with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Lama Tsultrim Allione
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Open Dates
This conversation is a fascinating account of two women’s struggle to create a stronger position for women in the dharma and bring women’s voices more strongly into Tibetan Buddhism.
Audio Digital Download of a Three Video Collection from the Intimate Dialogue Series
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel and Krishna Das
Open Dates
This three-video compilation includes intimate conversations about living a spiritual life. The conversations were recorded in a setting with an audience that posed a variety of in-depth and important spiritual questions.
Audio Digital Download of Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis Online Symposium
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Shiva Rea
Open Dates
This recording package includes 13 sessions recorded during the Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis Online Symposium, co-hosted by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Shiva Rea.
Audio Digital Download of Messages from the Divine Wrathful Mother
With Sangye Khandro
Open Dates
Audio (MP3) + Transcript (PDF)
This talk by Sangye Khandro, from the ‘Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis’ symposium, describes the group of beings known as Mamos, and the specific messages they have for us in this time of great change.
Video Digital Download of Taking Grief onto the Path
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Video
Lama Tsultrim Allione teaches on intimate relationship as a powerful transformative tool for awakening and how relationships can, in themselves, be the path.
Zhitro Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
The simple and accessible practice of Zhitro offers a real way for a practitioner to help the deceased. This practice also helps individuals become familiar with the visions and experiences that may occur during the 49 days following one's own passing.
Riwo Sangcho Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Anna Raithel
Open Dates
Online
A practice to heal the suffering of samsara, through the practice of boundless compassion and abundant offering. Learn the widespread and traditional practice of Riwo Sangchö – “a mountainside smoke offering.”
Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Be guided through the development of the feminine in Buddhism, and understand how each of the five Dakini’s key ‘encumbered’ emotions and wisdom qualities are within each of us. By being introduced to the mandala principle and its importance to western and eastern psychology, you will understand the fierce feminine qualities found within the five Dakini buddha families.
Green Tara Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
Open Dates
Online
A great introductory course for understanding ‘deity’ practice in Buddhism. Green Tara sits with one foot in the meditative posture and one foot in the world, thus embodying active compassion and serving as a model for modern day contemplative life.
Chod of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
Open Dates
Online
Cut through fear, fixation and clinging, by nurturing not fighting, what disturbs our mind. This Chod practice is empowered through the lineage of the Tibetan Dzogchen master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
Machig Labdron and the Nature of Mind Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Engage with the powerful teachings of the great Tibetan yogini, Machig Labdrön, on the ‘nature of mind’ as taught by her direct emanation, Lama Tsultrim Allione. Connect to Machig’s pith instructions, the essence of her teaching.
Opening the Heart Sutra Self Paced Program
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
Online
Engage with the concise teaching of Prajnaparamita, in this profound conversation between Shariputra and Avalokiteshvara. Through guiding participants line-by-line through the Heart Sutra, you will receive a functional overview of Mahayana philosophy and gain deeper insight into the world of this treasured text.
Recordings of Part I Tsigdon Dzod Dzogchen Wisdom Teachings
With Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
Open Dates
Online - Zoom
For those who were unable to attend Part 1 of the Tsigdön Dzöd, “Precious Treasury of Genuine Meaning,” one of the “Seven Treasures” of Longchenpa with Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche, we are honored to share this precious opportunity for you to receive the teachings via recording and join us as we progress along this multi-part teaching […]
Oral Transmission Event
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
Open Dates
A Lung is an oral transmission of a practice, and will be offered for our Self-Paced Green Tara, Chöd, Zhitro, Riwo Sangchö courses. Anyone is welcome to receive a Lung as a blessing and connection to a certain practice. If you have already received the Lung, you are welcome to receive it again as a blessing.
Longing to Awaken: Buddhist Devotion in Tibetan Poetry and Song - Christina Monson Memorial Lecture Series
With Holly Gayley and Dominique Townsend
September 28, 2024
Online - Zoom
རང་སེམས་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་མཐོང་བར། ། བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཟེར་ན་ཡང༌། ། བཅོས་མ་གཞན་གྱི་ལད་མོ་ཙམ། ། དད་པ་དེས་ཀྱང་རྐྱེན་མི་ཐུབ། ། Without seeing one’s own mind as Buddha, even if you say “my guru is a buddha,” such devotion will not withstand difficulties. It’s just a contrived imitation of others. —Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé What is devotion in a Buddhist context? Devotion is more than the first […]
The Genius of Spontaneity
With Vanessa Kubota
October 26, 2024
Online - Zoom
Tara Mandala is honored to welcome Vanessa Kubota for a special talk on the Genius of Spontaneity, a talk in our Christina Monson Memorial Lecture Series. This talk will be offered via the Zoom platform. It will take place on October 26, 2024 from 10:00am-12:00pm MDT. This event will be recorded and all registered participants […]
TEST program (for troubleshooting and systems testing)
December 24 - 28, 2024
Online - Zoom
Hello! This is a test page. Adjust, break, and bend the laws of time and space as necessary. Get some coffee, you may be here for a while! CURRENT TEST ACTIVE- Extra display fields for scholarship pathway on sidebar 4.15.24 (v. 3)
New Year's Ritual: Letting Go and Setting Intentions
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
January 1, 2025
yana – Zoom
Join us January 1 for a New Year’s Ritual with Lama Tsultrim Allione, hosted live by the Tara Mandala Network. Together, we will pause. Instead of pushing forward, we will take a moment to release what is no longer serving us and set our intentions for the New Year from a place of clarity.
Dzinpa Rangdrol Ngondro
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Lopön Beth Lee-Herbert and Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton
January 16 - 19, 2025
Online - Zoom
The Dzinpa Rangdröl Ngöndro (foundational practices) of the Yangsang Khandro Tug Tig (Exceedingly Secret Heart Essence of the Dakini) cycle is the gateway for entering the profound lineage of the Dzinpa Rangdröl cycle. Since the time of Guru Rinpoche, the practice of Ngöndro has been completed by all of the great yogis and yoginis, many […]
CNNR Chod Daylong Practice Intensive
With Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer, M.S.
January 25, 2025
Online - Zoom
Have you been practicing Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (CNNR) Chöd and are encountering some challenges? Devoted Chöd practitioner Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer will offer a special opportunity for seasoned and brand new Chöd practitioners to receive support in their practice, ask questions, and receive advice with helpful tips and reinforcement. In the words of a prior […]
Journey into the Union of Sacred Feminine and Masculine
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Lopön Ellen Booth Church, Chögé Bridget Bailey and Chögé Lisa Erickson
January 31 - March 1, 2025
Online - Zoom
“In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the pinnacle spiritual experience is described as the union of the feminine, symbolizing wisdom, with the masculine, symbolizing skillful means.” ~ Lama Tsultrim Allione Venture into the Yab Yum Mandala to explore divine union beyond gender identifications, experiencing and integrating the feminine and masculine we each hold within ourselves. The […]
Feeding Your Demons Level II Buddhist Track Kapala II
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
February 22 - May 2, 2025
Online
Deepen your training and knowledge of Feeding Your Demons® in Feeding Your Demons® Level II. Learn how to work more extensively with your allies, trace your demons in your body, and map family demons and allies. (Please note: prerequisites required)
Feeding Your Demons Level II Secular Track
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
March 1 - May 2, 2025
Online
Deepen your training and knowledge of Feeding Your Demons® in Online Level II. Learn how to work more extensively with your allies, trace your demons in your body, and map family demons and allies. (Please note: prerequisites required)
Feeding Your Demons Level I Buddhist Track Kapala I
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
March 22 - May 16, 2025
Online
In Feeding Your Demons® Level I, you will learn this potent, life-changing method, creating meaningful transformation in a world that is ripe for profound healing.
Feeding Your Demons Level I Secular Track
With Lama Tsultrim Allione, Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
March 22 - May 16, 2025
Online
In Feeding Your Demons® Level I, you will learn this potent, life-changing method, creating meaningful transformation in a world that is ripe for profound healing.
Dzogchen: The Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point
With Lama Tsultrim Allione
August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock on Cortes Island, British Columbia
The Three Statements were the final teaching of Garab Dorje, after he passed away and when he appeared in the rainbow body to his close disciple Manjusrimitra. We all have an awakened presence within us that can never be stained or tainted, but it can be hidden, like clouds covering the sun. Therefore, it needs […]