Programs

We warmly invite you to join us for a Medicine Buddha & Mahamudra Retreat with Khenpo Lobzang Wednesday, September 2 to Monday, September 7 Note: September 2 and September 7 are travel days for those lodging at Vajra Vidya. We will have 4 full days of retreat with Khenpo Lobzang from September 3–6. September 2–7, […]

Discover Our Interconnectedness We come to realize that the cells within the individual body contain the illumined life as the silent primordial ground. It arises as light and expresses itself as form. This intimate embodiment of the cells is a knowing within, quietly alive. It is not something you reach for, it is already here. […]

I am delighted to offer my fourth silent seven-night retreat at the beautiful Tibetan Buddhist Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado. This immersion offers a profound opportunity to deepen your spiritual practice within a loving, embodied, and well-supported container. This retreat will be held in a small, intimate, non-sectarian setting, allowing for depth, presence, […]

An Integral Zen Healing Retreat – Where Silence and Healing Converge 7 day 6 night Zen Healing retreat, Doshin Roshi and Shikyo Jiryu Vegetarian meals, location is high altitude, about a four hour drive from Denver and one hour from Alamosa airport. Single room occupancy with shared bathrooms, workshop size limited. A combination of silent […]

Seeing through the solidity of thoughts and emotions This meditation retreat takes place in Crestone, Colorado and holds a dedicated space for a deep and introspective immersion into life below the surface and into a mind-body significantly more subtle than form. When thoughts and emotions lose their solidity, there is no more mental labyrinth to […]

White Tara practice is traditionally associated with long life, healing, and the removal of obstacles. Through this practice, we connect with White Tara’s blessings to help purify obscurations, pacify obstacles, and support a long and meaningful life. From a Buddhist perspective, a long and precious human life gives us more time and favorable conditions to […]

The Living Current Discovering the Nourishing Refuge of Presence and the Open Heart You were never meant to carry this life alone. There is a current moving beneath the surface of everything, a living intelligence that wants to flow through you, not around you. Life is offering us an invitation to become a vessel: open, embodied, […]

Chöd is a profound Vajrayana practice for cutting through ego-clinging, fear, and attachment. Through this practice, we learn to work directly with the obstacles and patterns that keep us bound in suffering, transforming them into the path of wisdom and compassion. Chöd is especially associated with Machig Labdrön, the great 11th–12th century Tibetan yogini who […]