July 4 - August 28, 2012

Ligmincha Institute is offering seven-week online course Introduction to the Five Elements: Healing with Form, Energy and Light. This course is based upon newly produced videos of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche exploring how each of the five elements relates to our daily experiences, emotions, and relationships. Rinpoche guides meditations for each of the elements, designed to help clear our obstacles and bring balance to our lives. Each section of the course includes a video of Rinpoche’s teaching, Rinpoche leading a guided meditation, readings from Healing with Form, Energy and Light, and assignments for journal writing, discussion, formal and informal practice. The course is designed so that you may integrate study and practice into your everyday routine, learning at your own pace, yet enjoying the support of classmates, the course mentor, and Tenzin Rinpoche.

The Pith Realizations of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü Masters

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The Culmination of the Series

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, September 27-30, 2012

This year Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will lead us on a third remarkable journey into Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü (Oral Transmission from Zhang Zhung), the oldest and most important Dzogchen text in the Bon-Buddhist tradition. These poetic pith teachings point out the subtlest of all realizations.

All of the masters who are described in this text achieved the rainbow body, signifying the highest level of realization. As each of the masters approached the end of his life, his disciple would ask for him to relate a brief biography and the essence of his lifetime of practice and realization. During this retreat, Rinpoche will guide us into the teachings of another set of masters. With words as a launching point, each master is introduced in a way that allows the practitioner to experience the master’s realization on all levels of being. This retreat is open to all and supplemental materials from last year’s teaching are available.

The Magical Movements of the Tibetan Yoga from the Bon Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü

Tradition
Alejandro Chaoul Reich, October 1-3, 2012

Beginners and experienced students alike are invited to this distinctive Tibetan practice of yoga known as Trul Khor or ‘magical movements’, that incorporates breath and awareness with physical movement.

As Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche asserts, “this practice is a wonderful support for all spiritual practitioners, not just for those with an interest in physical yogas.” By harmonizing the vital breath and guiding its flow through the physical and energetic dimensions, Trul khor can clear long- held blocks in the practitioner's body, energy, and mind, supporting the spontaneous arising of awareness during formal meditation and in everyday life.

with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Friday evening, September 29

Learn the fundamentals of Tibetan calligraphy in a workshop with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Rinpoche will demonstrate how to make the seed syllables and the beginning elements of technique in this 90 minute workshop on Friday evening at the retreat in Crestone. Materials provided. $45 per person. Enrollment is limited.