Program Calendar
Vajrayana Training Intensive
Led by Reggie Ray: Dharma Ocean tantrikas and sadhakas gather annually in the summer for this program to practice together and enjoy the deep nourishment of the Vajrasangha. Reggie joins the sangha each year to deliver a new cycle of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s Vajra Dharma as it is unfolding in the Dharma Ocean lineage.
Find out more »MI Bodhisattva Training
Led by Caroline Pfohl: Acting as a Meditation Instructor is the essence of the bodhisattva way of life. It is much more than guidance in learning meditation. It involves mentorship, direct transmission of the dharma, and support with all aspects of the path. Above all else, it requires unconditional love.
Find out more »True Perception: Vajrayana Practice of the Arts
Led by Caroline Pfohl: As artists and vajrayana practitioners we are vessels of the sign lineage. When we return to our empty and open nature, artistic disciplines become gateways for the manifestation of the sacred world. Daily vajrayana practice, experiential exercises, talks and discussion, as well as collective and individual creative practice will comprise our time together.
Find out more »VTI Children’s Program
Led by Leyna Roget Brabant: For families attending VTI, this program is for children (ages 2-10) to engage in yoga poses, music, songs, props and storytelling, and more as their parents or guardians attend meditations and talks.
Find out more »Awakening the Body: The Way of Somatic Meditation
Led by Reggie Ray: In this online immersion, Reggie leads us in exploring the view and practice of somatic meditation and how it reveals the joy, altruism, and creativity that reside at the core of our being. Designed for beginning and advanced students alike, the training focuses on a series of powerful somatic meditation practices drawn from Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism and spiritual Taoism.
Find out more »Sutrayana Study and Practice Intensive — Part Two: Mahayana
Led by Neil McKinlay: The Sutrayana Practice and Study Intensive offers practitioners an opportunity to deepen their understanding and experience of the teachings of Reggie Ray and his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, as embodied in the Dharma Ocean lineage. This is the second part of a two-part course led by Dharma Ocean Senior Teacher Neil McKinlay.
Find out more »Meditating with the Body®
Led by Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT Created for meditators of all levels, this in-depth training focuses on a series of powerful body-based awareness practices drawn from Tibetan Yoga, with two residential retreats bridged by a five month, at-home curriculum.
Find out more »Profound Treasury Retreat with Judy Lief
Led by Judy Lief: This retreat is based studying Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on the three stages of the Tibetan Buddhist path (Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana) with a focus on his three-volume work: “The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma”. It will be an opportunity to explore these teachings within a similar context to that in which they were originally given: 3-month residential training programs called Vajradhatu Seminaries.
Find out more »Winter Meditation Intensive
This month-long meditation retreat is a powerful practice for engaging the journey of meditation more deeply and for transforming our everyday experience by sowing the seeds of awareness. Come for weekly segments or for the full month.
Find out more »Sutrayana Study and Practice Intensive — Part One: Hinayana
Led by Neil McKinlay: Dharma Ocean’s Sutrayana Study and Practice Intensive is an online offering where practitioners can deepen their understanding and experience of the lineage embodied by Reggie Ray and his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This is the first part of a two-part course.
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