All these outer things we keep looking to are impermanent and completely unreliable — Seeing how they change like autumn clouds, My heart knows I must go to the peaceful wildwoods.

Lama Michael Gregory led a weekend retreat on how  to Understand the Meditation Experiences of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Offering a clear guide on the path of recognizing and not becoming attached to  "good" and "bad" meditation experiences. Deepening your understanding of meditation you will gain insight on how to work with these experiences on the path of realization.

What Will Be Included?

• Recorded teachings, Q&A, and 
• practice sessions with Lama Michael
• Guided meditation and teaching sessions with Lama Michael
• Access to supporting written material
• Access to retreat recordings on vimeo 

Member Price: $200

Non Member Price: $400

During this transformational 10 day retreat you will learn how to dream lucidly and will deepen your understanding of the dream state and the nature of perceived reality. The ancient traditions of dream yoga and the modern scientific research, techniques, and technologies of lucid dream practice will be introduced in a powerful and practical way.

This experiential retreat will be led by Lama Michael Gregory. Lama Michael is a former Buddhist Monk and Director of Mindfulness Meditation Centers. The book that will be used in this retreat is by leading expert in Lucid Dreaming, Stephen LaBerge, Phd.

The Art and Science of Lucid Dreaming is that of awakening in a dream within a dream. Once you have cultivated the art of lucid dreaming — the exceptional, potentially liberating state of consciousness in which you know you are dreaming is awakened. That knowledge transforms the mundane world into the extraordinary, and dreams into a vehicle for the exploration of the very nature of reality.

Building upon ancient teachings, recent scientific research has developed new techniques and technology making lucid dreaming more accessible than ever before.

What will be learned in this retreat?

In this retreat, you will learn how to intentionally create your experience of reality. To utilize the power of lucidity and guide your dreams with wisdom using them for personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

Topics in this Retreat Include:

• The Science of Lucid Dreaming
• How perceived reality and the phenomenal world are considered to be ultimately "unreal" - an "illusion”
• The Buddhist philosophy of the similarity and non dual nature of the dream that is life and regular nightly dreams
• How through Dream Yoga, living may become the dream and the dream may become the living.
• Eastern and Western techniques of entering into lucid dreaming
• The importance of understanding how we project our worlds through 8th consciousness
• Mind beyond body experiences
• Mahamudra, Dzogchen and how Dream Yoga mastery assists in the complete realization of emptiness.

What Will Be Included?

• Recorded teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Lama Michael
• Guided meditation and teaching sessions with Lama Michael
• Access to supporting written material
• Access to retreat recordings on vimeo 

Member Price: $499

Non Member Price: $799

Avaiable Beginning  July 1 2023. 

Mindfulness has to be mindful of something. There are four areas of Mindfulness that have to be penetrated in order for joy to be nourished, for our suffering to be transformed and finally for insight or Vipassana to be obtained. In this weekend retreat, we will use the wisdom of the Buddha's Satipatthana Sutta.

It is essential that Buddhist practitioners know the experience and intellectual understanding of what the Buddha taught prior to attempting to master other Buddhist paths. These teachings are the sutra teachings of the path to the Sutra Mahamudra experience of enlightenment. Countless beings have attained enlightenment by dedicating themselves to these profound instructions.

Benefits of Attending:

These teachings and practices show us how the division of the four establishments will be a helpful tool to assist us in learning how to practice Mindfulness.

What will be learned in this retreat?

• Lama Michael will explain in lucid detail each of the four foundations of mindfulness.
• You will receive instructions and teachings on how to practice them with confidence
• Discover how to deeply integrate these teachings into your life and relationships and bring the spirit of awakening to all aspects of life.
• How to establish a clear path to enlightenment in this very life

What Will Be Included?

• Recorded teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Lama Michael
• Guided meditation and teaching sessions with Lama Michael
• Access to supporting written material
• Access to retreat recordings on vimeo 

Member Price: $100

Non Member Price: $200

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Who really is Chenrezig? This deity with white body and four, sometimes a thousand arms? Who is this deity for whom the Tibetans have such reverence and devotion to and whose meditation is now practiced by many Westerners? Join Lama Philip to answer these questions in a deep and compassionate embodied retreat of Chenrezig practice. 

This luminous deity, soft and compassionate, who, from the far heavens, keeps a constant watch over the fate of beings, as most Tibetans believe. Is it a simple symbolic image as Westerners sometimes think? Or is it another reality, deeper and richer?

You will learn the answers to these questions, as well as receiving the Lung Initiation, and learn how to practice the Tibetan Creation and Completion practice. You will also learn the prayers that allow us to enter a new way of seeing the world filled with compassion, kindness and the wisdom of the dharma

What Will Be Included?

• Recorded teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Lama Michael
• Guided meditation and teaching sessions with Lama Michael
• Access to supporting written material
• Access to retreat recordings on vimeo 

Member Price: $100

Non Member Price: $200

The Six Yogas of Naropa Retreat with Lama Michael will offer in depth and rare teachings and meditations on the collection of tantric Buddhist completion stage practices drawn from the Buddhist tantras. They are intended to lead to Buddhahood in an accelerated manner.  

The Six Yogas or correctly the Six Dharmas of Nāropa, are a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices compiled by the Indian mahasiddhas Tilopa and Nāropa and passed on to the Tibetan translator-yogi Marpa Lotsawa. This course offers the rare and precious opportunity to discover compassionate and blissful awakening through the embodies practices of Tibetan Yoga.

Topics Include:

• Tummo, Inner Fire.
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• Gyulü: The Yoga of the Illusory Body
• Milam: The Yoga of the Dream State
• Bardo: The Yoga of the Intermediate State
• Phowa: The Yoga of the Transference of Consciousness at the time of death
• An introduction to the six physical yogic exercises of Tsalung Trulkhor will also be offered.

These practices traditionally require tantric initiation and personal instruction through working with a tantric guru as well as various preliminary practices.

Please send Lama Michael and share your empowerments and meditation background in relationship to this retreat.

What Will Be Included?

• Recorded teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Lama Michael
• Guided meditation and teaching sessions with Lama Michael
• Access to supporting written material
• Access to retreat recordings on vimeo 

Member Price: $599

Non Member Price: $899

The heart of Mahamudra and Dzogchen practice lineages are profound methods for recognizing the nature of mind. Lama Michael will offer both accessible commentary and experiential meditations opening the door to Karma Chagme's classic text that integrates two of the great meditation systems of India and Tibet: Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

This weekend retreat will begin with the spirit of awakening (Bodhicitta) and the essential instructions on recognizing the nature of mind.

These retreat instructions and contemplations are drawn from The Essential Instructions of the Compassionate One on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Lama Michael will explain in lucid detail the advanced meditation practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen as well as their similarities and differences, including advice on how to safely perform some of the more advanced Great Perfection practices.

Benefits of Attending:

This retreat represents the rare and in depth Pointing Out instructions on the nature of mind.

These teachings and practices are deeply transformative to the attendee and offer a direct and immediate experience of your true nature and also offer means to grow and stabilize this recognition.

What will be learned in this retreat?

• Lama Michael will explain in lucid detail the advanced meditation practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen as well as their similarities and differences, including advice on how to safely perform some of the more advanced Great Perfection practices.
• You will receive vivid pointing out instructions and teachings on how to practice them with confidence
• Essential meditations on recognizing the nature of mind from both the Mahamudra and Dzogchen approaches
• Discover how to deeply integrate these teachings into your life and relationships and bring the spirit of awakening to all aspects of life.
• How to establish a clear path to enlightenment in this very life

What Will Be Included?

• Recorded teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Lama Michael
• Guided meditation and teaching sessions with Lama Michael
• Access to supporting written material
• Access to retreat recordings on vimeo 

Member Price: $100

Non Member Price: $200