Join Tibetan Buddhist teacher and interfaith chaplain Lama Tsering Yodsampa to learn traditional Buddhist healing practices to help us reclaim the power of ritual within healing. By reclaiming this power, we gain access to the boundless field of blessings that is our original nature, and then become medicine for our world.

The Medicine Buddha empowerment is a healing practice treasured by many in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition that we can practice for ourselves, or for someone we care about who is ill. Lama Tsering weaves the ancient teachings related to the Medicine Buddha together with cutting-edge relational-cultural neuroscience that describes why these practices work so effectively.

Review the history of Buddhist healing, do some simple Medicine Buddha practices together, and learn how to:

• Develop unshakable serenity, mindfulness, and compassion
• Use ritual to bring spiritual healing to illness and other life-changing events

Experience the power of these paths directly through experiential exercises and rituals, which include the Medicine Buddha and White Tara practices, as well as vipassana and shamatha meditation. Gain an understanding of how Buddhist healing practices have catalyzed the contemplative sciences and somatic experiencing movements. These practices help you overcome inner and outer obstacles, and gain insight into your healing journey.

Recommended Reading:

• Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: The Diamond Healing by Terry Clifford
• Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body by Daniel Coleman & Richard J. Davidson

SUNDAY

4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Check In (Rooms available after 5:00 p.m.)

MONDAY

8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m.
Commuter check-in (if not checked-in the previous evening)

9:00 a.m.–Noon

• Introductions
• Overview of Buddhist healing and neuroscience
• Introduction to Medicine Buddha Meditation Practice

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

• Meditation practice and working with conflicting emotions
• Transformation of afflictions into inner growth and allies

TUESDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon

• Meditation of four immeasurable thoughts: Love, Compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity
• Introduction to the White Tara meditation and practice

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Tara Meditation practice and deepening it through discussions.

WEDNESDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon

• Approaching the path of Bodhisattva
• Generating the enlightenment motivation of aspiration and cultivating practical applications, uniting wisdom and compassion.

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Walking Meditation and reflection in the nature by the lake side or in the woods ( if the weather allows)

• Medicine Buddha: Bodhisattva Vows

THURSDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Medicine Buddha Meditation practice and sharing experiences and insights.

2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Reflection, insights and benefits experienced through the practice of Medicine Buddha and White Tara meditation.

FRIDAY

9:00 a.m.–Noon
Integration of mindfulness, Mahayana, Vajrayana buddhist philosophy and healing methods in ones daily life. Dedication of the practices for peace, health, harmony within humans, animals and the planet earth.

1:00 p.m.
Check Out

The above schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the faculty.