Tsa Lung and The Five Warrior Syllables
Alejandro Chaoul Reich, September 27-29, 2010

The Tibetan Bon tradition is rich in practices that involve body, energy, and mind. This course will provide and in-depth experiential exploration of the body’s energetic dimension or subtle body, composed by channels, the vital breath (lung, prana or qi) that circulates through them and the subtle aspects of the mind that guide them, as we experience our embodied existence.

Led by Alejandro Chaoul, who has taught these practices for over a decade, participants will learn meditative techniques from the Mother Tantra that bring together the mind and the vital breath, supported by specific body movements called Tsa lung (“channels and vital breath” practices) working with one’s energetic centers (chakras) to provide a sense of embodied meditation.

Dharma Ocean
Crestone, Colorado
September 22nd, 2010
7-8:30pm

Engage in powerful body, speech, and mind practices from the ancient Bon Buddhist Tradition in Tibet. This is a public evening talk open to new and experienced practitioners alike. Rinpoche will be sharing insights and practices that help us connect to our inner presence through the doorway of the sacred body. His new book due out this fall explores this fascinating doorway to profound experience. 

The next phase of development of the Chamma Ling retreat center is the construction of the Community House. The purpose of the Community House is two fold: serve the support needs of small group practice retreats and serve the support needs of retreatants in “rustic” cabins.

When we provide small practice retreats for groups of 20 or less, we will need a place for all to gather for meals, as well as bath house facilities, and an office. This will provide an organizational center for people to check in, and simple sleeping quarters for the retreat coordinator.

When I first read Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s Healing with Form, Energy and Light several years ago, I was intrigued to learn that my fledgling connection to earth, water, fire and air could be made on much deeper emotional and energetic levels than I had yet explored on my own. I felt that I had uncovered a great treasure in this book and pored over it in awe and excitement. It had never occurred to me that the fifth element, the mother of the elements, is space. Of course! I felt like I had arrived home in Bon, though I knew an intellectual grasp of these ancient ideas wouldn’t be enough, and I looked forward to the day I would be able to receive the teachings and learn the elemental practices from Rinpoche himself.