Join me for retreat at Menla in the Catskills

RESTORING OUR VITAL ESSENCE & RECLAIMING THE SOUL: Healing Ourselves with Body, Voice and Mind with the Spiritual Healing Methods of Sowa Rigpa

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In stressful times such as these--with so much upheaval, trauma, and loss--our energy can get depleted. In Tibetan medicine, we’d say that our vital energy, our soul energy and/or our very essence can get weakened through these traumas and chronic stresses. If you’d like to learn some simple but profound self-healing methods from the Sowa RIgpa tradition, please join me at @menlaretreat March 27 - 30 for our special retreat: RESTORING OUR VITAL ESSENCE & RECLAIMING THE SOUL: Healing Ourselves With Body, Voice and Mind With The Spiritual Healing Methods of Sowa Rigpa.

We’ll explore and practice some rare yogic methods from Tibetan medical traditions, including meditations and Nejang longevity yoga and #vajrayoga, and in the evenings we will sing healing mantras from the Tibetan medical “mantra-pharmacy.” Our primary focus will be on experiencing bLa therapy--a form of simple self-massage that has parallels to a “soul-retrieval” in that this method calls back any bLa energy lost in traumas. When we are able to hook back our bLa, we can restore our life force; our vital essence. We can become ourselves again. We can become whole.
And it is essential to be as whole and authentic as we can possibly be in this new version of the world. We need to make sure our energy bodies and our boundaries remain impenetrable. We need to be able to connect with the absolute truths, so that we are not susceptible to manipulation. And we need to continue to connect with--and heal--our ancestral lineages. The time is now.

In the evenings, we will sing healing mantras together and visualize streams of healing energy while we chant.

There will be plenty of time for journaling, rest, hikes, steams, soaks, and rare Tibetan therapies (including Kunye massage) at our famous Tibetan wellness center: Dewa Spa.

We’ll also work with the elements of nature to help restore balance within our internal elements. We’ll be surrounded by sacred mountains, old growth trees, pure waters, and open starry skies.

From the view of Sowa Rigpa, we really can use our own bodies, minds, and voices to help heal ourselves (and others). So please join us. We all need to be restored to our true, vital selves.

A limited number of scholarships are available (thanks to the generosity of Tibet House US - NYC) but definitely apply early, as those are first come/first served.

These are gentle practices, open to all ages and physical abilities. If you're fed-up, tired, cranky, despairing, freaked out, panicked, overwhelmed, grief-stricken, pissed off at corporate destruction, worried, and/or all of the above, please join us at Menla. Menla is a very fabulous retreat center in the Catskill mountains of New York. The energy there is very healing and pure. The land, long considered sacred by the original nations, is blessed by mountains, old growth forests, clear mountain streams, lush gardens, starry skies, etc. And it was blessed by HH the Dalai Lama himself.

The land alone will help heal you, and the water is like nectar, and the air is pure, and the sky is clear and in the spring the entire earth will be waking from her long winter slumber, ready to burst forth into joy again.

Our aspiration is that participants will leave the retreat feeling restored, rejuvenated, rebalanced, and revitalized.

Visit Menla.org to view the deluxe accommadations, and the simple ones.

And, if you are local and want to join us for one evening event, we are opening up the kirtan Saturday 3/29 to the public.

So if you're freaking out as budgets get cut and services get eliminated and books get banned and words get removed from the common lexicon, and billionaires dance on the graves of justice, remember your chitta. Remember your own good heart. You're freaking out because you care about the world. And if you feel the need to chant a lot of mani mantras, join me in a few weeks at @menlaretreat for this retreat and/or a special kirtan. We'll join our good hearts together and become the answer to each other's prayers.

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