Teachings of Milarepa: A 6 Day Spiritual Retreat with Ani Lodro

Ani Lodro’s 6 Day Spiritual Retreat: Yoga, Meditation, Hot Springs, Satsang

Ani Lodro Palmo—best-selling author, spiritual teacher, and Abbess of Vajra Vidya Monastery—warmly invites you to a six-day retreat devoted to restoration, upliftment , and relaxation through Yoga exercise practice, meditation, sharing circles, and inspirational teachings of ancient Tibetan Buddhism. Our last day together will be spent at Hooper Hot Springs, soaking and integrating our spiritual support time together.

This retreat includes guided meditation, silent sitting, vegetarian healthy meals, sharing circles, yoga classes, practical teachings, and contemplations designed to support your next steps toward awakening, peace, and genuine self-love.

We will be including teachings from the life of Milarepa– the celebrated Tibetan Yogi, whose life teachings are a profound invitation to renew hope, courage, and confidence for the path in our modern day challenges. His words, teachings and life are a living demonstration that freedom is possible even amid immense hardship and his journey speaks directly to modern minds that can feel tangled in confusion, discouragement, distraction, and self-doubt.

Rather than treating our difficulties as obstacles, this retreat shows how challenges can become the very conditions for transformation and liberation.

Please email Ani Lodro at VajraVidyaCrestone@gmail.com if you are a sangha member and want to apply your sangha member discount.

Teachings from The Life of Milarepa — A Path of Courage, Transformation and Freedom

This six-day retreat includes teachings of Jetsün Milarepa, one of Tibet’s most beloved yogis and a cornerstone of the Kagyu lineage.

Milarepa’s story is a profound opportunity for us as spiritual practitioners to renew our hope, courage, and confidence in the path. He is a living demonstration that freedom is possible—even amid incredible hardship and cultural challenges, speaking to our modern circumstances and minds that can feel tangled in confusion, discouragement, distraction, and self-doubt.

Milarepa’s life shows that our challenges do not have to be obstacles; they can become the conditions that offer transformation and liberation. During this retreat we will explore key passages from Milarepa’s biography, and turning points of his life, and integrate the teachings through meditation and practice. We will also draw from Milarepa’s songs of realization—direct, and luminous expressions of awakened mind—teachings which are intimate instructions.

All are welcome. There are no prerequisites for  either retreat. For those interested in reading Milarepa’s biography, “The Life  of Milarepa” by Tsangnyon Heruka is recommended. The Songs of Milarepa have  also been published separately by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche and Choygam Trungpa which include  commentary from these two profound teachers of the Kagyu lineage.

6 Day Retreat Schedule

This 6 day 5 night retreat begins with dinner at 5pm on Thursday, March 19th, and completes with lunch on March 24th.  Our four full days together will follow the schedule below, which includes a daily morning Yoga session and an afternoon meditation session lead by Linda Stuart. Click here to find more information about Linda Stuart.

6:45 – 7:20 Yoga and stretching with Linda Stuart

7:45 – 8:45 Breakfast and Clean up

9:00 – 10:00 Morning Tibetan Chants and Meditation

10:30 – Noon Morning Session Teachings with Ani Lodro

Noon – 2:00 Lunch and clean up

2:15 – 3:15  Group Circle Sharing with Ani Lodro or Linda Stuart

3:30 – 4:15 Meditation with Linda Stuart

4:30 – 5:30 Afternoon Session Q&A with Ani Lodro

5:30 – 7:00 Dinner and clean up

Evening – Free time to meditate in Shrine room or other practice