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Nestled within a serene valley in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Shambhala Mountain Center is a sanctuary and training ground for body, mind, and spirit. This Spring and Summer, we are delighted to offer retreats lead by an inspiring array of teachers to support your meditation, yoga, and contemplative art practices. Visit for a day or join us for one of our weekend retreats, meditation intensives, creative workshops, or family programs. Please enjoy this catalog of our upcoming offerings. We look forward to hosting you on the land.

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Pictured on the cover from top to bottom: Sakyong Mipham , Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Rick Hanson, Sharon Salzberg, Tsultrim Allione, B. Alan Wallace 2018 Program Highlights

Retreat Intensives

2 Week-Long Spring Meditation Retreat 16 Neurodharma | Rick Hanson Lodro Rinzler & Susan Piver 16 Summer Dathün | Shastri Calryn Aston 7 Awakened Heart | B. Alan Wallace 18 Meditation Retreat 13 Insight Meditation Retreat Jim Colosi & Janet Solyntjes David Chernikoff

Meditation and

15 and Sleep 22 Living Radical Rev. angel Kyodo williams & Lama Rod Owens 17 Open Heart Project Retreat Susan Piver 23 Compassion in Action Sharon Salzberg, Acharya Fleet Maull 19 Wisdom Rising | Lama Tsultrim Allione & Rhonda Magee 21 Rediscovering Essence Love 24 From Mindfulness to Pristine Mind Tsoknyi Rinpoche Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche

Yoga and Embodied Living

8 Wisdom of the Body 14 Trusting the Wisdom of Direct Katharine Kaufman | Hope Martin & David Rome 11 Deep Healing | Blake D. Bauer 18 Mindful Hiking | Kay Peterson

Relationships and Family

9 Relationship as a Spiritual Path 20 Family Camp | Steve Sachs, Ben Cohen Rachel Steele, Kelly Lindsey & Nicole Wolf 14 Mindful Games Family Retreat Susan Kaiser Greenland & Leslie Gossett 17 Wired for Love | Stan Tatkin & Tracey Boldeman-Tatkin

Mindfulness at Work

8 Empowering the Heart of 15 Mindfulness Retreat for Educators Healthcare | Acharya Melissa Moore, Rona Wilensky & Kristin McKeown Dr. Aaron Snyder & Leslie Booker 27 Foundations of Authentic Leadership 10 Happier at Work | Gayle Van Gils Acharya Susan Skjei & Michael Gayner & Zach Mercurio

Spring | Summer 2018 | 1 CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS

MARCH MAY Fresh Start: Yoga and Meditation for all Beings * Happier at Work: Leading from Purpose and Love De West & Brian Spielmann | Mar 2 – 4 Gayle Van Gils & Zach Mercurio | May 2 – 4 10 Open House | Mar 4 5 Women, Food, and Forgiveness: Chakrasamvara Intensive 4 The Heroine’s Journey Greg Smith | Mar 9 – 17 Marcella Friel | May 2 – 6 10 Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Deep Healing: A 5-Day Unconditional Self-Love, Janet Solyntjes | Mar 9 – 11 * Qi Gong, & Meditation Retreat Blake D. Bauer | May 4 – 9 11 Awakened Heart: Cultivating Immeasurable Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Impartiality Monarch Retreat Through Meditation Cynthia MacKay | May 5 – 13 4 B. Alan Wallace | Mar 10 – 17 7 Open House | May 6 5 Rising Strong™ Retreat for Women Touching the Moment Kathy Williams-Tolstrup | Mar 15 – 18 * Acharya Dale Asrael & Cynthia Moku | May 9 – 13 11 Week-Long Spring Meditation Retreat (Weekthün) Retreat and Renewal | May 11 – 13 6 Lodro Rinzler & Susan Piver | Mar 17 – 25 4 12th Annual Courageous Women, Fearless Living: Retreat and Renewal | Mar 23 – 25 6 A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer Spring Break Family Retreat Jemi Steele, Ann Braden & Chasse Bailey-Dorton Kate Raddock & Leslie Gossett | Mar 26 – 30 * May 15 – 20 12 Beyond Suffering: Unconditional Self Love, Taming the Wild Horse Mindfulness, Meditation & Qi Gong Retreat Jenny Bondurant, Cynthia Moku & Eric Thompson Blake D. Bauer | Mar 30 – Apr 1 * May 16 – 20 12 Meditation Unplugged | Mar 30 – Apr 1 6 The Way of the Happy Woman: Cultivating Inner Strength and Self-Love Foundations of Buddhism Sara Avant Stover | May 17 – 20 13

SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Amelia Hall | Mar 30 – Apr 1 * Insight Meditation Retreat: APRIL Grief, Joy and Awakening David Chernikoff | May 21 – 27 13 Open House | Apr 1 5 Yoga® Mindfulness Retreat Yun Retreat: The Great Retreat of Yang 4 Erica Kaufman | May 25 – 28 13 Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Wendy Friedman & Robert Reichner | Apr 3 – 13 Trusting the Wisdom of Direct Experience: Embodied Listening® The Art of Being Human: Shambhala Training I 4 Hope Martin & David Rome | May 25 – 28 14 Acharya Gaylon Ferguson | Apr 13 – 15 Meditation Unplugged | May 25 – 27 6 Empowering the Heart of Healthcare: Embodied Presence Mindful Games Family Retreat Acharya Melissa Moore, Dr. Aaron Snyder & Leslie Booker Susan Kaiser Greenland & Leslie Gossett Apr 16 – 22 8 May 31 – Jun 3 14 Wisdom of the Body: Yoga and Meditation Retreat Katharine Kaufman | Apr 19 – 22 8 Relationship As A Spiritual Path: Getting The Love You Want, Couples Workshop Ben Cohen | Apr 20 – 22 9 Mindful Living Janet Solyntjes | Apr 26 – 29 9 Boundless Playground: Creativity and the Meditative Mind Nina Rolle | Apr 27 – 29 9 Retreat and Renewal | Apr 27 – 29 6 Summer Set-Up | Apr 29 – Jun 3 *

Red indicates Shambhala Path Programs *Details about programs without page nuumbers can be found online.

2 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 JUNE AUGUST Dream and Sleep Yogas: Teachings from the Bön Women’s Yoga and Meditation Retreat Mother Katharine Kaufman | Aug 1 – 5 21 Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche | Jun 1 – 4 15 Open House | Aug 5 5 Mindfulness Retreat for Educators Rediscovering Essence Love Rona Wilensky & Kristin McKeown | Jun 2 – 6 15 Tsoknyi Rinpoche | Aug 10 – 12 21 Open House | Jun 3 5 Meditation Unplugged | Aug 10 – 12 6 Summer Dathün: Living Radical Dharma Month-Long Meditation Retreat Rev. angel Kyodo williams & Lama Rod Owens Shastri Calryn Aston | Jun 8 – Jul 8 16 Aug 10 – 13 22 Weekthün 1 | Jun 8 – 16 16 Quiet Mind, Open Heart: Half Dathün 1 | Jun 8 – 23 16 Stillness, Silence, and Spaciousness Weekthün 3 | Jun 23 – Jul 1 16 Kelly Lindsey, Marissa Knox & Brooke Binstock Aug 13 – 17 22 Half Dathün 2 | Jun 23 – Jul 8 16 Compassion in Action Neurodharma: A 10-Day Vipassana Retreat Sharon Salzberg, Acharya Fleet Maull & Rhonda Magee Rick Hanson, Peter Grossenbacher & Leslie Booker Aug 15 – 19 23 Jun 8 – 17 16 Mindful Hiking: Waking Up to the Wild Warrior Assembly Kay Peterson | Aug 17 – 19 24 Acharya John Rockwell & Shastri Janet Solyntjes Jun 19 – 30 4 Retreat and Renewal | Aug 24 – 26 6 Birth of the Warrior: Shambhala Training II

Wired for Love AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND Stan Tatkin & Tracey Boldeman-Tatkin | Jun 22 – 24 17 Acharya Dale Asrael | Aug 24 – 26 4 Open Heart Project Retreat Healing Sound Retreat Susan Piver | Jun 27 – Jul 1 17 Christine Stevens | Aug 24 – 26 24 Mindful Hiking: Opening to Change Peace Ceremony at the Great Kay Peterson | Jun 30 – Jul 3 18 Christine Stevens | Aug 25 24 Mindfulness Meditation Retreat: Fall Take-Down | Aug 26 – Sep 30 * A 7-Day, Teacher-Led, Silent Retreat Learn To Meditate Janet Solyntjes & Jim Colosi | Jun 30 – Jul 7 18 Greg Smith | Aug 31 – Sep 2 6 From Mindfulness to Pristine Mind: Journeying Into JULY Your Natural State of Mind through Meditation Open House | Jul 1 5 Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche | Aug 31 – Sep 2 24 The Art of Being Human: Shambhala Training I Acharya Dan Hessey | Jul 6 – 8 4 SEPTEMBER 3-Day Retreat and Renewal | Jul 5 – 8 6 Open House | Sep 2 5 Retreat and Renewal | Jul 6 – 8 6 Yoga Andrew Holecek | Sep 7 – 9 25 Deconstructing Yourself Michael W. Taft | Jul 11 – 15 18 Retreat and Renewal | Sep 7 – 9 6 Inside (and) Out: Living The Full Catastrophe – Denver Yoga and Meditation for Everyone Janet Solyntjes | Sep 8 25 Katharine Kaufman | Jul 12 – 15 19 The Art of Being Human: Shambhala Training I Scorpion Seal Assembly Garchen Acharya Holly Gayley | Sep 14 – 16 4 Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche | Jul 15 – 26 4 Wired for Love: A Couple’s Workshop Wisdom Rising: Journey Into the Stan Tatkin & Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin of the Empowered Feminine Sep 14 – 16 25 Lama Tsultrim Allione | Jul 27 – 29 19 Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Mindful Hiking: Weathering Life’s Storms Janet Solyntjes | Sep 21 – 23 26 Kay Peterson & Jenny Bonderant | Jul 27 – 31 20 Beyond Suffering: Unconditional Self Love, Family Camp Mindfulness, Meditation & Qi Gong Retreat Steve Sachs, Rachel Steele, Kelly Lindsey & Nicole Wolf Blake D. Bauer | Sep 28 – 30 26 Jul 28 – Aug 4 20 OCTOBER Foundations of Authentic Leadership Grey indicates Denver Program Acharya Susan Skjei & Michael Gayner | Oct 5 – 7 27 Additional information available online

Spring | Summer 2018 | 3 Shambhala Path Programs

Mar 9 – 17 Jun 19 – 30 Chakrasamvara Intensive Warrior Assembly Greg Smith Acharya John Rockwell & Shastri Janet Solyntjes

Mar 17 – 25 Jul 6 – 8 SPRING | SUMMER SHAMBHALA PATH PROGRAMS Week-Long Spring Meditation The Art of Being Human: Retreat (Weekthün) Shambhala Training I Lodro Rinzler & Susan Piver Acharya Dan Hessey

Apr 3 – 13 Jul 15 – 26 Yun Retreat: Scorpion Seal Assembly III, IV, V The Great Retreat of Yang and VII Garchen Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Wendy Friedman Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche & Robert Reichner Jul 28 – August 4 By invitation only Family Camp Apr 13 – 15 Steve Sachs, Rachel Steele, Kelly Lindsey The Art of Being Human: & Nicole Wolf Shambhala Training I More info on page 20. Acharya Gaylon Ferguson Aug 24 – 26 May 5 – 13 Birth of the Warrior: Monarch Retreat Shambhala Training II Cynthia MacKay | By invitation only Acharya Dale Asrael

Jun 8 – July 8 Sep 14 – 16 Summer Dathün: The Art of Being Human: Month-Long Meditation Retreat Shambhala Training I Shastri Calryn Aston Acharya Holly Gayley More info on page 16.

4 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 Visit the Great Stupa Open House A Monument to Human Kindness Join us the first Sunday of each month for our popular Open House series. Enjoy a The Great Stupa of , built in day in the beautiful Rocky Mountains and honor of the Center’s founder, Chögyam choose from a variety of free activities, Trungpa Rinpoche, stands 108 ft. tall including touring the Great Stupa of and is dedicated to world peace. It was Dharmakaya, receiving meditation constructed and continues to be worked instruction, listening to engaging dharma on by volunteers inspired to offer the world talks, or simply relaxing on this serene and a big, beautiful, reminder that our nature powerful land. as human beings is inherently good, pure, Bring a picnic or, for a $10 suggested and sane. Encountering the Stupa allows donation, join us for a delicious lunch. For one to rediscover this inherent goodness, updates on our list of Open House speakers to experience a state of simplicity and and topics, please visit our website. confidence, and to connect with a of sanity that goes back 2,500 years. The Great Tuition: FREE Stupa welcomes the general public 365 days Mar 4 | Apr 1 | May 6 | Jun 3 | Jul 1 | Aug 5 | Sep 2 a year, between the hours of 9 am and 9 pm, free of charge. Experiential teaching tours of the Stupa can be arranged for “I love coming to the groups of eight or more for $10 per person. To schedule a tour please call 888-788-7221. Stupa – it fills me with peace that lasts long after I leave.” — Liz Tuohy THE GREAT STUPA

“An inspiration for peace and happiness throughout the world, now, and in the future.” — The XIVth

Spring | Summer 2018 | 5 Relaxing Learn to Meditate Weekend Retreats Shambhala Mountain Center is a great place to learn to meditate or refresh your Discover relaxation and wakefulness in practice in a supportive environment with a pristine mountain environment. These a qualified teacher. retreats offer contemplative approaches for working with the fullness of daily modern life, bringing insight and inspiration to Learn to Meditate career, family, health, relationships, and Learn accessible and powerful meditation personal endeavors of all kinds. Spacious practice techniques to help us find peace retreat schedules include contemplative within ourselves while developing a strong practices and plenty of time to walk the and flexible mind. land, visit the Great Stupa, and follow Tuition: $150 + 2 nights the spontaneous callings of your spirit. Feb 23 – 25 | Aug 31 – Sep 2

Retreat and Renewal The Art of Being Human: Meditation (with instruction), yoga, a guided Shambhala Training I hike with our land steward, and evening This immersive meditation workshop helps activities. Great for friends, couples, or us open to ourselves with gentleness and individuals. Massage available. appreciation and begin to see our potential Tuition: $100 + 2 nights or $125 + 3 nights as genuine compassionate human beings. Mar 23 – 25 | Apr 27 – 29 | May 11 – 13 | Jul 5 – 8 Recommended for new and experienced Jul 6 – 8 | Aug 24 – 26 | Sep 7 – 9 meditators, as well as those looking to SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS enrich their existing spiritual path. Meditation Unplugged Tuition: $150 + 2 nights Put your electronics aside and reconnect to Apr 13 – 15 | Jul 6 – 8 | Sep 14 – 16 your body and mind while immersed in the natural world. Getaways: Tuition: $100 + 2 nights

Mar 30 – Apr 1 | May 25 – 27 | Aug 10 – 12 Self-Guided Retreats Hike along eight miles of wilderness trails, visit the Great Stupa, meditate in one of our many meditation halls, spend time relax- ing, journaling, reading, or practicing yoga. Our mountain retreat center offers vastness, stillness and gentle support that will allow you to unwind, relax, and reconnect to life’s inherent rhythms. Tuition: $0 + 25% off lodging and meals

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6 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 AWAKENED HEART Spring | Summer 2018 | 7 Spring | Summer 2018 Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific progressive scholar, Dynamic lecturer, Alan B. West, Buddhism in the Tibetan writers and translators of to integrate Buddhist ways continually seeks innovative PhD, Wallace, the study science to advance Western contemplative practices with Tibetan fourteen years to training as a devoted Wallace of the mind. the Dalai Lama and is the author H. ordained by H. Buddhist monk, Wisdom Publications including Stilling the of many titles published by Attention Mind and The Revolution. Tuition: $400 + 7 nights Tuition: His Holiness the Dalai Lama has often commented that the essence of spiritual His Holiness the Dalai Lama has often will teach Wallace Alan B. In this meditation retreat, a good heart. cultivating is practice namely Immeasurables,” “Four of the a sequence of for the cultivation While many teachings and impartiality. empathetic joy, compassion, loving-kindness, solitary to spend more time in quiet, on fill us with a longing to the active world of living with others. bring us back to life, these practices meditation, offered in this the practices religious beliefs, Regardless of whether we hold to any experience retreat can be of benefit to everyone seeking to explore their own capacity to unconditional love and compassion. Through Meditation Through Alan Wallace B. Publications Wisdom Mountain Center and Co-hosted by Shambhala Compassion, Joy and Impartiality Joy Compassion, Cultivating Immeasurable Loving-Kindness, Loving-Kindness, Immeasurable Cultivating March 10 – 17 March Heart: Awakened April 16 – 22 April 19 – 22 Empowering the Heart Wisdom of the Body: of Healthcare: Yoga and Meditation Retreat

Embodied Presence Katharine Kaufman Acharya Melissa Moore, Dr. Aaron Snyder You’ve experienced joy and health, pain and & Leslie Booker loss. You’ve tested your physical limits, and have Have you ever felt overcome by the pressures recovered from surgeries. You’ve traveled, shared of your work as a caregiver, or lost heart for the insights, and cared for others. Now it’s time to profession you simultaneously feel called to do? attend to your body as it is today. You are not alone. In the U.S., 46% of physicians In this retreat, you are invited to practice with a and 33% nurses have symptoms of burnout. fresh perspective that acknowledges your mind Embodied Presence is designed to help healthcare and body’s wisdom. Starting from the ground and professionals increase awareness of their emotional building to heart centering postures, we will learn state through proven meditative practices, train the Four Ways of Being With Body. Through a variety in compassion as a sustainable way of being, and of sequences – both restorative and flowing – we’ll renew and strengthen the heartfelt inspiration that support sitting, walking, standing, and lying led them to be of service in the first place. With this meditation postures. We’ll gain strength and coax unique, holistic training approach and sophisticated, flexibility. secular meditation methodology, you’ll discover life changing practices and resources to help you deal Emerge from the weekend with a new lens on your with emotional intensity and stress. unique , and rich understanding of how to practice Yoga and Meditation safely and wisely Tuition: $600 Physicians / $400 Nurses and Other Care Professionals + 6 nights whether practicing alone or in a group.

Melissa Moore, PhD is an Acharya in the Shambhala Tuition: $250 + 3 nights tradition. She co-founded, and is a head teacher in, Katharine Kaufman is a priest ordained in the Soto SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS The Karuna Training, a two-year professional training lineage and teaches meditation, writing workshops, program in contemplative psychology now offered in yoga, and contemplative dance in Boulder, Colorado and 7 countries. at Shambhala Mountain Center. She taught for many Aaron Jay Snyder, MD is the founding director of Present years at The Yoga Workshop and Studio Be in Boulder. Moment Project, Inc. and personal physician to Sakyong Katharine is an adjunct professor at University. Mipham Rinpoche. He is a family physician, geriatrician, She holds MFAs in Performance/Choreography and medical ethicist, and long-time meditation teacher. Writing/Poetics.

Leslie Booker brings her heart, wisdom, and compassion to the intersection of social justice, yoga, and mindfulness. She offers lectures, workshops, and retreats across the country for front line Changemakers, and those in direct service.

8 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 April 20 – 22 April 26 – 29 April 27 – 29 Relationship Mindful Living: Boundless as a Spiritual Path: Teachings and Practices Playground: Getting the Love from Mindfulness- Creativity and the You Want Based Stress Reduction Meditative Mind (MBSR) Ben Cohen Nina Rolle Janet Solyntjes Every great wisdom tradition We are all creative – whether teaches the importance of love Inspired by the work of that is expressed through the and compassion. But how do Jon Kabat-Zinn, this 4-day arts, how we get dressed in we practice this in our daily retreat offers an in-depth the morning, or how we pack lives, especially in our intimate look at mindfulness tools for lunches. During this retreat, relationships? We will draw on engaging the demands of we will examine the connection the Buddhist teachings of Thich our lives and for deepening between the meditative mind Nhat Hanh and the works of our inquiry into fundamental and the creative process. Through Harville Hendrix, PhD, to develop health and wholeness. the practices of meditation and our skills in deep listening and Through sitting, walking, contemplation, we connect to loving speech. In this experiential and body scan meditation the present moment, giving us couples workshop, you will be practices, , and access to the vast playground guided through processes to extended periods of silence, of our inherent creativity. Fresh help you understand your core we will return to our lives inspirations come from a settled conflicts and how to transform better equipped to manage mind and an open heart. Learn them into opportunities for stress and to confidently how to open your senses, delight AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND connection, healing, and growth. integrate mindfulness into in curiosity and play within If you wish to have greater daily life. the practices to experience the intimacy and connection in your Recommended for both richness that is always available relationship, this promises to be a newcomers and people to us. rewarding weekend. with prior experience in No experience is necessary. Tuition: $300 + 2 nights mindfulness disciplines. Tuition: $150 + 2 nights Ben Cohen, PhD has been in Tuition: $350 + 3 nights Nina Rolle is a voiceover artist, private practice in Boulder for Janet Solyntjes, MA is a senior cabaret performer, and avid thrower over 25 years, and has led over teacher in the Shambhala of holiday dinner parties. She was 90 “Getting the Love You Want” Buddhist tradition, and leads first introduced to Shambhala Couples Workshops. Former meditation classes and retreats meditation in 1989 at the Naropa Co-Dean of the Faculty of Imago for Naropa University, The Institute, and her practice path Relationships International, and Center for Mindfulness, and and artistic career path have been a former adjunct faculty at The The Engaged Mindfulness intertwined ever since. In addition Naropa University, he is a “student” Institute. A practitioner of to Shambhala Training, Nina teaches of Thich Nhat Hanh, and integrates mind-body disciplines since Dharma Art for the Chapman Eastern and Western approaches in 1977, she completed a University program at SMC. his psychotherapy practice. professional training in MBSR with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli and an MBSR Teacher Development Intensive at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Janet is co-founder of the Boulder-based Center for Courageous Living, committed to promoting the inherent goodness of individuals and groups by uncovering their basic health and well-being.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 9 May 2 – 4 May 2 – 6 Happier at Work: Women, Food, and Forgiveness: Leading from Purpose and Love The Heroine’s Journey

Gayle Van Gils & Zach Mercurio Marcella Friel Do you want a more inspired organization? Would you describe your relationship to food When people are happy at work, they do better as challenging? Does the task of healing your work. Through this immersive experience, relationship with food seem overwhelming? You discover the researched-backed practices that are not alone – the journey begins with forgiveness will allow you to cultivate personal joy at work and supportive community. Join Mindful Eating and build a happier workplace. You will leave coach Marcella Friel in this warm and welcoming with the transformative tools of self-awareness 5-day retreat for women, where she will guide and inner purpose which will allow you to you step-by-step through the Heroine’s Journey of manage stress, increase focus, expand empathy, unconditional forgiveness and liberation. Through and better serve those around you. In addition, meditation, journaling, discussion, ritual, and a you will learn how to use these tools to take simple stress-relief tool called EFT (Emotional strategic action to improve effectiveness and Freedom Techniques), you will embark on the path engagement in your work and organization. of forgiveness and gratitude. Register with a team of 4 or more and receive Tuition: $250 + 4 nights 25% off tuition. Having cooked and taught in meditation retreat centers Tuition: $399 + 2 nights across North America, Marcella Friel now runs Tapping with Marcella, a food and body image coaching practice Gayle Van Gils is a senior teacher in the Shambhala that supports health-conscious women in forgiving and lineage, author, and leadership consultant. With loving themselves, their food and their figures. an MBA from UCLA, Gayle combines her practice and business background through her company

SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Transform Your Culture. Gayle is a certified teacher of the Search Inside Yourself program developed at Google.

Zach Mercurio is an author, speaker and consultant. He is the founder and author of PurposeSpeaks.com, the popular blog on purposeful leadership, a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and a researcher.

10 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 May 4 – 9 May 9 – 13 Deep Healing: Touching the Moment: A 5-day Unconditional Self-Love, Indelible Presence Qi Gong, and Meditation Retreat Acharya Dale Asrael & Cynthia Moku Blake D. Bauer Uniquely blending meditation, contemplative arts, Join international bestselling author sensory awareness practices, and , we Blake D. Bauer for 5 days of deep healing will practice in a rich environment to shed habitual and life-changing self-care. Explore why patterns and rediscover the world with fresh suffering, depression, and disease are caused perception. As we investigate the four elements of by years of hiding your true emotions, denying our inner and outer worlds, we will open ourselves your life purpose, and living in fear. Engage in to the fullness of life. Using meditation practices, daily meditation practice and Qi Gong healing periods of silence, dharma talks, discussion, and exercises designed to unlock the stuck energy, daily contemplative brush-and-ink practice led by blood, and emotion that is keeping you unhappy artist Cynthia Moku, we will touch the Indelible or sick. The purpose of this gathering is to Presence of our everyday moments. support your body, heart, and mind to open fully Tuition: $205 + 4 nights and to release whatever is limiting your health, Acharya Dale Asrael was appointed Dean of Meditation happiness, and peace. You will finally learn how Instructors for Shambhala International by Sakyong to love and value yourself in practical ways that Mipham, Rinpoche. She studies qigong with, and has lead to deep self-worth, self-acceptance, self- been authorized to teach by, Daoist lineage-holder respect, and self-confidence. This retreat Eva Wong. Dale is an Associate Professor at Naropa will empower you to think and love in healthy University. AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND ways that support you to be well and to enjoy Cynthia Moku is an accomplished artist in Japanese your life. brushwork and Buddhist Scroll painting. A student Tuition: $400 + 5 nights of Kyabje , she continues her meditation Blake D. Bauer is an internationally recognized training with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Cynthia author, counselor, Qi Gong master, and alternative is the founder of Naropa University’s Visual Art medicine practitioner. His pioneering work and best- Degree Program. selling book, You Were Not Born To Suffer, focuses on unconditional self-love as the key to self-healing, fulfilling your life’s purpose, and spiritual awakening. Bringing together what he’s found to be the most effective spiritual practices and holistic approaches to well-being, Blake’s work has successfully guided thousands of people around the world to greater health and freedom in mind and body.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 11 May 15 – 20 May 16 – 20 12th Annual Courageous Women, Taming the Wild Horse: Fearless Living: Riding the Energy of Emotions

A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer Jenny Bondurant, Cynthia Moku & Eric Thompson Jemi Steele, Ann Braden & Chasse Bailey-Dorton Intense emotions such as anger, jealousy, and fear Cancer is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this can either trap us in struggles or open us to the retreat, we learn how to navigate this potentially direct experience of awakening. This retreat presents confusing, treacherous, and heartbreaking terrain. techniques to expose core belief structures that Our extraordinary team of experts will share their perpetuate emotional confusion, meditation practices wisdom in integrative medicine, Tibetan Buddhist that foster clarity and insight, and daily Hatha healing, meditation, yoga, art, ritual, and community Yoga classes. Revealing that even the most painful building, providing a multi-dimensional roadmap for emotions offer us an opportunity to develop genuine a transformative journey. When gently and skillfully compassion, these practices also give us a glimpse embraced, facing our mortality or that of someone of the pure energy that is the essence of emotion. we love can be a vehicle for profound healing and Tuition: $205 + 4 nights awakening – physically, mentally, emotionally, and Jenny Bondurant has been a dharma teacher for 30 spiritually. Integrating body, mind, heart, and soul, years, both in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, and in we will discover ways to meet the totality of this the tradition of Anam Thubten. She is an adjunct faculty experience directly and courageously. Whether you member in the Contemplative Psychology Department at have a current or past diagnosis or are the caregiver Naropa University. or loved one of a woman on the cancer journey, join Eric Thompson has been teaching Qi Gong at meditation us and receive the tools you need to transform the retreats for the past 6 years. He has been practicing way you relate to the challenges you face. meditation for over 20 years and holds a master’s in Tuition: $375 + 5 nights from Naropa University. SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Jemi Steele began meditating in the 70’s, has lived in See bio for Cynthia on page 11. Nepal, and completed a traditional 3-year Buddhist retreat. She received an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language, and has been an elementary teacher for 20 years. She is also a cancer survivor.

Chasse Bailey-Dorton, MD, MSPH completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and trained at the Benson-Henry Mind-Body Institute and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Currently, she serves as Chief of Integrative Oncology at the Levine Cancer Institute. She is the mother of 3 children, married, and is a 16-year cancer survivor.

Ann Braden, CYT, E-RYT500 holds certifications in yoga therapy from Loyola Marymount University, Yoga of the Heart and the yoga4cancer program. Her teaching style invites students to relax and connect with their inner healing resources. She is a 5-year cancer survivor.

12 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 May 17 – 20 May 21 – 27 May 25 – 28 The Way of the Insight Lila Yoga® Happy Woman: Meditation Retreat: Mindfulness Retreat Cultivating Inner Grief, Joy Erica Kaufman Strength and Self-Love and Awakening Discover the power of Sara Avant Stover David Chernikoff compassionate awareness by bringing mindfulness into your Calling all women who do The primary focus of this daily life. During this nourishing too much! This self-care retreat will be the practice retreat, we will embrace our retreat puts us back into of sitting and walking vulnerabilities and allow them alignment with the seasons, meditation in Noble Silence. to safely guide us into expansive starting with the flowering There will be dharma talks, ease. By practicing the art of and growth of spring. As meditation instruction, and open attention, Mindfulness Lila women, we are far more small group interviews with Yoga provides a complete holistic deeply tied to the seasons the teacher. In addition, we’ll approach to a healthy, balanced than most of us realize. This do some interactive exercises, body and mind. Through the retreat will show us how guided meditations, and ancient Indian practices of to access and rejuvenate mindful movement practices (yogic postures), simply, through our own inner (qigong) that are designed (yogic breathing), chanting, cycles. Based on Sara Avant to deepen our understanding satsang gathering, meditation, Stover’s best-selling books, of the powerful role of grief and quiet-present time, we are this program teaches powerful and joy in the process of able to open to our greatest women’s yoga, meditation, spiritual awakening. AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND awareness and learn the keys and lifestyle practices. Let go Please note: In lieu of tuition to joy, patience, peace, and of old, debilitating baggage and in accordance with the eternal wisdom. and embrace your greatest traditional Buddhist practice source of power: your of dāna, you will be invited Tuition: $300 + 3 nights to support the teacher feminine essence. Come rest, Yogacharya Erica Kaufman is and the assistant teacher the founder of Lila Yoga® and rejuvenate, and revitalize! with a financial the owner of Lila Yoga Studios. Tuition: $250 + 3 nights of your choice at the end of the retreat. Her teaching expertise and Sara Avant Stover is a yoga and sophisticated gutsy openness Tuition: $0 + 6 nights meditation teacher, best-selling awarded her ’s Karma author of The Way of the Happy David Chernikoff has been a Credit and features in publications Woman, and The Book of SHE, student of meditation since such as The Times of India. As a and an inspirational leader to 1971. He has been teaching mentor to yoga teachers, aspirants, tens of thousands of women Insight Meditation since 1988 and community members alike, worldwide. The creator of The and now teaches workshops Erica tours the USA, Europe, Israel, SHE School and the Women’s and retreats throughout the U.S. and India teaching seminars on Lila Yoga Teacher Training, Sara has David taught meditation and Yoga® and Contact Improvisation. been featured in Yoga Journal, psychology at Naropa University Huffington Post, and on ABC, for many years and currently has NBC, and CBS. a private practice as a spiritual counselor and life coach in Boulder, Colorado.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 13 May 25 – 28 May 31 – June 3 Trusting the Wisdom Mindful Games Family Retreat

of Direct Experience: Susan Kaiser Greenland & Leslie Gossett Embodied Listening® Slow down, breathe in the mountain air, and have Hope Martin & David Rome fun with the whole family at this one of a kind Mindful Games retreat. Separately and together, Our bodies hold our lives. They hold wisdom and parents and kids will learn fun, brief, original, and energy for living and growing. They also hold effective mindfulness activities that build lasting our obstacles: anxiety, painful emotions, and psychological strengths while offering moments constricting habitual patterns. The more we are of calm and humor even when stress and strong able to make loving contact with these places emotions in your household run high. Mindful and live deeply from within our bodies, the more Games strengthen and support how families our stuck places transform, allowing for a more connect to and communicate with one another authentic, joyous, and fruitful life. while helping parents and kids alike develop During this retreat, we will draw on three greater mind-body awareness, compassionate life contemplative practices that cultivate insight, skills, and manage stress. compassion, and confidence: Mindfulness Please see website for family pricing. Meditation to relax mental holding patterns; Alexander Technique to release physical Susan Kaiser Greenland is an internationally recognized holding patterns; and Mindful Focusing to leader in teaching mindfulness and meditation to access deeper feelings held in the body. This children, teens, parents, and professionals. She is author of The Mindful Child and Mindful Games. workshop is highly experiential and includes periods of meditation, exploration of the felt Leslie Gossett is the Director of Family and Children’s sense, gentle hands-on bodywork, sharing Programming for Northern Shambhala and together, and humor. founder of Be You Yoga and Mindfulness for Families and Children. She has worked with children for over 19 years. SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Tuition: $300 + 3 nights

Hope Martin has taught the Alexander Technique for 30 years, trains Alexander teachers at the American Center for the Alexander Technique and operates Hope Martin Studio in City. She is a meditation instructor and a Focusing trainer.

David Rome is the developer of Mindful Focusing and author of Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity. Previously, David served as private secretary for Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche for many years.

14 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 June 1 – 4 June 2 – 6 Dream and Sleep Yogas: Mindfulness Retreat for Educators Teachings from the Bön Mother Tantra Rona Wilensky & Kristin McKeown

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Take time to cultivate your capacity for attention, emotional balance, and compassion in and out of We sleep one-third of our lifetime, an average of the classroom. Designed to support you in bringing twenty to twenty-five years. Centuries ago, Tibetan a mindful presence to your personal life and developed spiritual practices that use dream professional work in schools, this retreat includes and sleep as a spiritual path. Tenzin Wangyal daily periods of silent meditation practice, one full Rinpoche will teach us about the relationships day of silence, mindful movement, solitary reflection, between dream and waking, and guide us in the time in the natural world, and opportunities to share clear-light sleep practices of the Mother Tantra, perspectives and experiences with other educators. one of the most important cycles of teachings in This program is not focused on bringing mindfulness the Tibetan Bön Buddhist tradition. Dream Yoga is practices to students. a practice that spans every moment, waking and sleeping and Sleep Yoga helps us to integrate all Mindfulness for educators is part of a global moments – waking, sleeping, meditation, and even movement to bring research-based practices and death – with the clear light of awareness. Through mindsets to individuals and organizations interested these practices, we are able to open the door to the in transformation. luminous, open awareness that is the true nature of Tuition: $300 + 4 nights the mind. Rona Wilensky is Director of Mindfulness Programs and Tuition: $195 + 3 nights

a senior faculty member for SMART in Education. She AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founding director of has served on the Leadership Council of the Initiative Ligmincha International. In his more than 25 years of on Contemplative Teaching and Learning at Garrison living and teaching in the West, Rinpoche has become Institute. Rona served as founding principal of New Vista renowned for his ability to convey the ancient wisdom High School in Boulder, CO from 1992 – 2009. of Bön Buddhism in a way that is highly relevant to Kristin McKeown is a teacher advocate and personal Western students. Rinpoche is the author of 10 books coach. As the founder of Teaching Balance, Kristin including The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. integrates her experience as a meditation teacher with her 22 years in public education to offer mindfulness- based strategies for wellness and self-care.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 15 June 8 – July 8 June 8 – 17 Summer Dathün: Neurodharma: Month-Long Meditation Retreat A 10-Day Vipassana Retreat

Shastri Calryn Aston Rick Hanson Dathün, Tibetan for “moon session,” is an Modern brain science is beginning to shed light intensive group meditation retreat for new and on the underlying neuropsychological implications experienced meditators interested in deepening of deep experiences on present moment awareness their mindfulness-awareness. Composed of four – integrated wholeness of mind and the sense week-long segments, this month-long retreat allows of interdependent connection with nature and participants to attend 1, 2, 3, or 4 full weeks. In physical reality. this immersive experience, mindfulness practice Join New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson, goes beyond the meditation hall, with every aspect PhD and discover how to use new findings in brain of daily life becoming a practice of wakefulness science to relax the contracted sense of self, and to and an opportunity to make better friends with rest increasingly in resilient well-being at the front ourselves and our world. Practices include: sitting edge of now. meditation, walking meditation, daily chants, silence, contemplative silent meals, and light chores This 10-day silent Vipassana style retreat will include supporting the retreat. meditation, insightful Buddhist teachings, and Tuition: $0 + 8, 15, or 30 nights guided practices based on a progression of brain- savvy perspectives. Shastri Calryn Aston has been a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche since 1997. She has been active in Tuition: $450 + 9 nights training Shambhala Guides across the Front Range since Rick Hanson, PhD is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the 2007. She serves as a senior teacher in Boulder and Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New other Front Range centers and also teaches mindfulness York Times best-selling author. His books are available in corporate and educational settings. She is the Director

SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, of Lunacare LLC. Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.

16 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND Spring | Summer 2018 | 17 Spring | Summer 2018 Tuition: $425 + 4 nights Tuition: best-selling author Times Susan Piver is the New York and meditation, of nine books on mindfulness, She is a graduate of a Buddhist seminary relationships. and has been a meditation practitioner for more than the CNN, featured on Oprah, Susan has been 20 years. Street the Wall Times, and in the New York Show, TODAY Journal and TIME. She founded the Open Heart Project, an online mindfulness community. Open Heart Project Retreat Retreat Project Heart Open Susan Piver recover a sense of balance, meditation to Practice and sharpen your mind, fearlessness, cultivate a gathering 4-day retreat is This heart. soften your a 20,000 member for the Open Heart Project, and anyone who is online meditation community, a clear mind and an open committed to living with and joy into love, sanity, heart in order to bring more include guided practices Each day will the world. as well as participant and talks from Susan Piver that arise from the group’s sessions led breakout will be spent in practice, Days collective wisdom. are Evenings each other. and learning from dialog, get to know each other and for gathering socially to deepen connections. June 27 – July 1 27 – July June (PACT). “We don’t “We (PACT). ® humanitarian efforts worldwide. Tracey is co-founder Tracey humanitarian efforts worldwide. in Southern California, and leads PACT programs and leads PACT in Southern California, in the US and internationally. bonding and the psychobiological particulars how you and your partner really work and begin to how you and your partner really work and begin help you understand what makes a relationship makes help you understand what Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT Clinician, author, PACT PACT author, MFT Clinician, PsyD, Tatkin, Stan workshop will help prepare you to choose your workshop will demonstrate general principles to principles general workshop will demonstrate See page 25. Stan Tatkin & Tracey Boldeman-Tatkin Boldeman-Tatkin Tracey & Tatkin Stan partner. During this weekend of teaching, interacting, interacting, of teaching, During this weekend partner. person won’t necessarily work for another. Nor Nor work for another. person won’t necessarily teaches at UCLA, maintains a private practice maintains a private teaches at UCLA, fundamental biological realities of human teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological A Psychobiological of and developer teacher, next partner and help you to construct a safe tools you will be shown will be invaluable, and tools you will be shown will be invaluable, ready to use immediately in your relationship. manuals, we aren’t robots: what works for one we aren’t robots: manuals, roles, she has been involved at the ground level of roles, If you are not currently in a relationship, this this If you are not currently in a relationship, Relationship Workshop Workshop Relationship director of various philanthropic family foundations director of various developer, and co-founder of the PACT Institute, Institute, and co-founder of the PACT developer, June 22 – 24 June and secure, long-lasting relationship. and secure, of your partner. If you are in a relationship, the in a relationship, If you are of your partner. construct a specific set of guidelines for both of you. construct a specific set of guidelines for both of and experimenting, you will come to understand and experimenting, does it work to fly blind, as many couples do, and as many couples do, does it work to fly blind, This fall into place. expect relationships to simply come with manuals that automate the process come with manuals that Even if we did have general of getting along.” of the PACT Institute. of the PACT over three decades. In addition to her leadership over three decades. Tuition: $375 + 2 nights Tuition: September 14 – 16. also occurs This program successful, and how to work toward that with your to work toward and how successful, Wired for Love: Love: for Wired Approach to Couple Therapy Approach to Couple Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD has served as the PhD has served as the Boldemann-Tatkin, Tracey This workshop will teach couples about the This “People are complex,” says Stan Tatkin, clinician, clinician, Tatkin, Stan says complex,” are “People June 30 – July 3 June 30 – July 7 July 11 – 15 Mindful Hiking: Mindfulness Deconstructing Opening to Change Meditation Retreat: Yourself

Kay Peterson A 7-Day, Teacher-Led, Michael W. Taft Silent Retreat Sometimes we welcome change When we release belief in in our lives; other times it comes Janet Solyntjes & Jim Colosi the ego, we release our unexpectedly. It may feel like our All of us have an innate capacity suffering as well – an life adventure has brought us to to experience well-being, insight which is the essence the banks of a swollen river and resilience, and unconditional of liberation. Explore and we’re not sure how to proceed care and kindness. In order to experience the wisdom of – do we turn back or take a leap enhance this capacity, we explore this truth as Michael W. Taft of faith? the power of mindfulness and guides you in meditation techniques for carefully Through engaging mindfulness/ mindfulness related practices revealing this constructed awareness practices, we can such as loving-kindness and nature of selfhood. This delve deeply into our connection compassion for self and other. peaceful retreat consists of with the natural world, turn This Mindfulness Meditation guided meditations, dharma our attention toward the subtle Retreat emphasizes the direct talks, and Q&A sessions, as interplay of our thoughts and experience of mind and heart well as time for silent practice feelings, tune into our sense in a powerful, silent container, and reflection. Each retreatant perceptions, and rediscover supported by the indescribable will have the opportunity to our innate ability to weather and vivid beauty of the Rocky discuss their practice 1:1 with in our lives with Mountains that surround the Michael. Backing up these grace and strength. Join us for a retreat center. traditional practices with weekend that will include sitting Tuition: $665 + 7 nights insights from neuroscience and hiking meditation (moderate SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS See bio for Janet on page 9. and psychology and difficulty at 7,000’– 9,000’ , you will learn the elevation), restorative yoga, group Jim Colosi is a Certified Teacher in the Mindfulness-Based Stress method of what Michael calls discussions, and lots of time for Reduction (MBSR) program and has “deconstructing yourself.” solo reflection in nature. taught meditation for 30 years in Tuition: $250 + 4 nights Tuition: $185 + 3 nights the Shambhala tradition. He was the Michael W. Taft is a meditation See other Mindful Hiking Director of the Prison Meditation programs on pages 20 and 24. Program, North Central Correctional teacher and bestselling author. Institution, Gardner, MA, from As a mindfulness coach, he Kay Peterson, MA, MFT 1995 – 2000. Prior to becoming specializes in secular, science- is a psychotherapist, wilderness an adjunct teacher at the Center based mindfulness training in guide, and Shambhala Meditation for Mindfulness at the University groups, corporate settings, and Instructor. She has been facilitating of Massachusetts in 2006, Jim one-on-one sessions. Michael nature-inspired programs that had a 25-year career in strategic is the author of several books, integrate mindfulness, individual marketing and communications, including the bestselling The transformation, and creative group with Hewlett-Packard Company and Mindful Geek, and Nondualism, process since 1996. Kay also other technology companies. as well as the founding editor of teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress the popular blog Deconstructing Reduction (MBSR) and is adjunct Yourself. faculty at Naropa University.

18 | shambhalamountain.org July 12 – 15 July 27 – 29 Inside (and) Out: Wisdom Rising: Yoga and Meditation for Everyone Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine Katharine Kaufman Lama Tsultrim Allione Our unique sensibilities are sustained by practices that include our whole being. The encouragement Calling all women for this life-changing meditation in this 4-day retreat is to find your way through retreat and celebration of the Empowered Feminine. the simple and spacious practices of meditation Come transform through the power of the mandala, and yoga. You will design new playful and a universal template of inner and outer wholeness. personal rituals you can carry into your life. Lama Tsultrim Allione offers a guide to access a Periods of silence will nourish intimacy. We will previously forbidden aspect of the feminine: the cultivate community by sharing our Way-Seeking fierce wise , whose juicy potency is needed Mind stories; the tender under-world of our to meet the gale force winds of the current world being. We will practice alone and together, inside situation. The Mandala of the Five is a and out, in the fields, forests and groves of this dynamic spiritual model based on 1000-year-old sacred land. tradition coming from Tibet, where obstructive emotional patterns are transformed into wisdom. This retreat is designed for everyone. This meditation practice gives you a practical Tuition: $250 + 3 nights method to center yourself and find strength within See bio for Katharine on page 8. while empowering you to be an effective agent of transformation in your world. We will work with

meditation, active imagination, sound, and mandala AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND drawing during the retreat. Tuition: $195 + 2 nights

Lama Tsultrim Allione is an author, internationally known Buddhist teacher, and the founder and resident lama of Mandala. She is the author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict and Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine, to be published in May 2018.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 19 Please see our website for Family Camp pricing options. options. Camp pricing Please see our website for Family a member of the Steve Sachs has been an educator for 35 years and He has taught in Montessori schools, Shambhala community since 1982. and is a teacher and co-director of Academy, co-founded the Eastern Sun at Naropa University. He also teaches Alaya Preschool. from Naropa Rachel Steele holds an MA in Contemplative Education been She has 15 years. Alaya Preschool for over University and taught at Programming since 2002. involved in Shambhala Family co-founder of mind-body therapist, Lindsey is a meditation teacher, Kelly She is passionate about serving and mother of three. Dakini Meditative, children and families in the Shambhala Community of which she has been a part for over 20 years. a long-time True, is currently an editor at Sounds Wolf Nicole Pressly Nicole Council. Family of Shambhala’s and a member practicing buddhist, program when her children’s coordinated and taught in Shambhala NYC’s two boys were younger. Family Camp Camp Family Wolf Nicole Lindsey & Kelly Rachel Steele, Steve Sachs, the your spirit in connections while rejuvenating Nurture family Camp is a Family Mountain Center. of Shambhala beautiful terrain Take whole family can enjoy. contemplative retreat the creative and meditation or yoga to practice time for yourself in the mornings The in enriching group activities. while your children participate family hiking, offer fun family activities like afternoons and evenings song storytelling, games, arts and crafts, contemplative dance, yoga, and a talent show. night, Experiential grouped by age. program Children are in a morning in the woods, hikes songs, stories, projects, activities include craft Children are introduced to sitting meditation and and group games. They their hearts and minds. to work with meditative arts as ways to notion of basic goodness as a way are also introduced to the and compassion – all while having fun bravery, instill confidence, and developing friendships! (for children age 9 – 10) Rites of Passage children begin to make marks the transition special program This on greater from being dependent on their parents to taking sitting Through responsibility within the family and the community. haiku, (flower arranging), ikebana kyudo (Zen archery), meditation, gives Rites of Passage and other meditative arts, calligraphy, own mind and children powerful tools to help them care for their is sealed program this transformative end, At the week’s emotions. a vow of take with a powerful ceremony in which the children themselves and others. kindness towards July 28 – August 4 August 28 – July | shambhalamountain.org 20 | shambhalamountain.org Tuition: $195 + 4 nights Tuition: See other Mindful Hiking on pages 18 and 24. programs See bio for Kay on page 18. See bio for Jenny on page 12. Kay Peterson & Jenny Bondurant have doesn’t A passing rainstorm if we remember to to ruin a hike or don’t mind bring a raincoat getting a little wet! temporarily to pass clouds are certain The feeling and we may even be left stronger and more rejuvenated emotional Our than we expected. the landscape is much like able weather – we may not be have but we do to control it, to it. power over our reactions we learn to ride In this program of intensity by tapping the waves into the indestructible calm Join us for a weekend within. mindful hiking, of meditation, and silence as yoga, restorative well as group activities leaving you feeling refreshed and empowered for the weather ahead! July 27 – 31 July Hiking: Mindful Storms Life’s Weathering SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS August 1 – 5 August 10 – 12 Women’s Yoga and Meditation Rediscovering Essence Love

Retreat Tsoknyi Rinpoche Katharine Kaufman We all want and need the capacity to love and Our bodies hold emotions, images, patterns, and be loved unconditionally. We also seek the stories. When we inhabit our bodies through understanding and insight to work confidently with mindfulness practices, we come to know ourselves the challenges in our modern busy lives. as complete and wakeful beings. During this Rinpoche teaches on how we can rediscover our rejuvenating program, we will play with the 4 spark of unparalleled brilliance, an unlimited capacity postures of meditation, practice nourishing yoga, for warmth, openness, and courage, or essence love. and retreat in the forests, fields, and groves of Timeless and imperishable, essence love is often Shambhala Mountain Center. Through sitting layered over by patterns of behavior and belief that meditation, we will contemplate the nature of urge us to seek happiness in conditions or situations Way-Seeking Mind, the tender under-world of our that never quite live up to their promises. being. Our practice and insight will deepen through Tuition: $195 + 2 nights silent periods, and our community will develop understanding and trust through conversation. Born in 1966 in Nubri, Nepal, Tsoknyi Rinpoche is one of the most renowned teachers of Tuition: $285 + 4 nights trained outside of Tibet. Deeply versed in both the See bio for Katharine on page 8. practical and philosophical disciplines of Tibetan Buddhism, he is beloved by students around the world for his accessible style, his generous humor, and his deeply personal, compassionate insight into AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND human nature.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 21 August 10 – 13 August 13 – 17 Living Radical Dharma Quiet Mind, Open Heart:

Rev. angel Kyodo williams & Lama Rod Owens Stillness, Silence, and Spaciousness Radical Dharma is an urgent call to dharma Kelly Lindsey, Marissa Knox & Brooke Binstock communities to wake from the habitual ways Come home to yourself. Say YES to a spacious, they and their members reproduce and sustain 5-day retreat designed to nurture your body, heart, exclusion. Radical Dharma advocates a “new and mind. Connect with your heartfelt knowing dharma” that deconstructs rather than amplifies through embodied practices inspired by sacred systems of suffering, and prepares us to weigh wisdom traditions. A nourishing daily schedule will the shortcomings not only of our own minds, but include guided meditation, yoga, bodywork, time also of our communities. We can only accomplish in nature, and meaningful connection with others. shifts in awareness through radical honesty, a You will leave this retreat feeling open, inspired, and common ground where we can drop our need for ready to meet your everyday life with greater clarity perfection to speak and act from a place of deep and compassion. vulnerability, and authentic presence. Regardless of Tuition: $270 + 4 nights how unpleasant this feels or how messy this looks, Radical Dharma emerges out this kind of disarmed Marissa Knox is a PhD candidate at UT Austin with a honesty, just as a lotus emerges from the mud. research focus on self-compassion. Marissa teaches yoga and meditation with wholehearted reverence, integrity, Tuition: $215 + 3 nights and deep-rooted compassion. She sees spiritual practice Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei is a maverick dharma as a remembrance of our wholeness, with each breath a teacher, author, and founder of Center for Transformative sacred invitation to discover all we need within. Change. She applies wisdom teaching to social issues at Brooke Binstock is a heart-centered solopreneur and the intersections of racial, economic and climate justice. owner of Open Circle Healing, an all encompassing Rev. angel notes, “Love and justice are not two. Without wellness initiate where self-care and self-acceptance inner change, there can be no outer change. Without are the main pulse. In addition to teaching yoga and SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS collective change, no change matters.” meditation, Brooke is also a Licensed Massage Therapist.

Lama Rod Owens is an activist, poet, and authorized See bio for Kelly on page 20. Lama in the School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is a core teacher with Natural Dharma Fellowship in Cambridge, MA and will complete a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School in May where he has been focusing on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice.

22 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 August 15 – 19 Compassion in Action Sharon Salzberg, Acharya Fleet Maull & Rhonda Magee

Our world seems to be increasingly influenced by speed, materialism, and aggression. Many of us feel overwhelmed and powerless, wondering how we can make a difference. Compassion in Action is an opportunity to reconnect with our best intentions and engage in practices to develop compassion and resiliency. Relaxing our minds in meditation, we’ll cultivate a firm foundation from which to open to our own experiences of suffering and reclaim the tenderness of our hearts – the wellspring of love and happiness. Together we’ll explore how connecting with this innate sense of compassion in yourself and others prepares you to empower and uplift your relationships and communities.

Tuition: $400 + 4 nights

Sharon Salzberg is a central figure in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling author. She has played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness practices to the West and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching.

Acharya Fleet Maull, PhD, is an author, meditation teacher, social entrepreneur and activist COMPASSION IN ACTION working for peace, prison reform and social transformation. He is a senior Dharma teacher in both the Shambhala Buddhist and Zen Peacemaker traditions and leads retreats, activist and leadership trainings and prison programs worldwide.

Rhonda Magee, MA (Sociology), JD, is Professor of Law and former Co-Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of San Francisco. She is an expert in Contemplative Pedagogy, Race Law, Identity-Sensitive Pedagogy, and Critical Race Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Immigration.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 23 August 17 – 19 August 24 – 26 August 31 – September 2 Mindful Hiking: Healing From Mindfulness to Waking up to the Wild Sound Retreat Pristine Mind:

Kay Peterson Christine Stevens Journeying Into Your Natural State of Mind Like the snow melting to reveal Explore music and rhythm through Meditation vast meadows ripe with the as gateways to spiritual promise of wildflowers, we too consciousness. Learn practical Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche can shed the layers of past tools and creative practices Join renowned meditation master seasons and old habits to make for using sound in healing, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche for way for new possibilities in our spiritual practice, and this special meditation retreat lives. By tuning into our senses community building. Discover designed to take us through a and mindfully moving through the 3 secrets to drumming progression of the true human nature, we can cultivate the for healing, reaching back experience of happiness and a ability to discern opportunities thousands of years. Greet the sense of well-being to the total for growth as they arise moment day with morning song, drum transformation of our world. We to moment. Join us for a around a fire under the stars, will focus on practical meditation rejuvenating weekend of sitting and ignite your creative spirit. instructions and will experientially and hiking meditation (moderate This is a celebration of the introduce the way these methods difficulty at 7,000’ – 9,000’ music of your soul through a fit together to reconnect us with elevation), restorative yoga, group path that unites sacred music the unconditional happiness exercises and discussion, and solo traditions in sound. that lies within us all. Orgyen time in nature. Return home with No prior musical experience Chowang Rinpoche will present a renewed sense of purpose and necessary. Drums provided – methods from ancient masters fresh start. Wake up to the wild or bring your own. of Tibet and India to bring this both inside and out! experience into our lives today.

SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Tuition: $255 + 2 nights Tuition: $175 + 2 nights These methods are deeply Music for Peace Ceremony relevant whether you are just See other Mindful Hiking at the Great Stupa seeking a happier life or are programs on pages 18 and 20. (included in retreat) pursuing the spiritual journey all See bio for Kay on page 18. Saturday Aug 25, 5 pm the way to enlightenment. Tuition: $30 to attend Tuition: $195 + 2 nights Saturday evening only (includes dinner) Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Christine Stevens holds master’s lineage of the Buddhist tradition. degrees in music therapy and He studied for nine years at Larung social work. She is the founder Gar in Serta, eastern Tibet, with his of UpBeat Drum Circles and teacher, Jigmed Phuntsok Rinpoche, author of Music Medicine and who is widely acknowledged as one the Healing Drum Learning of the greatest meditation Program. She has studied masters of the twentieth century. with Lakota elders for over Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche lives in a decade, taught drumming the San Francisco Bay Area and is for peacemaking in Iraq, and the founder and spiritual director of traveled internationally training Pristine Mind Foundation. facilitators in more than 25 countries.

24 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 September 7 – 9 September 8 September 14 – 16

Lucid Dream Yoga Living The Full Wired for Love:

Andrew Holecek Catastrophe: Relationship Workshop A Day of Mindfulness- Discover the remarkable world Stan Tatkin Based Stress Reduction & Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin of nocturnal meditation, where Denver Program a wealth of wisdom awaits you “People are complex,” says Stan every night. Lucid dreaming and Janet Solyntjes Tatkin, clinician, teacher, and dream yoga have boundless developer of A Psychobiological This experiential workshop potential for rapid psychological Approach to Couple Therapy® will offer user-friendly and spiritual growth. During (PACT). “We don’t come with techniques for dealing with this weekend we’ll explore the manuals that automate the stress and for cultivating our science behind lucidity, how process of getting along.” Even if deepest potential for living a to induce lucid , what we did have general manuals, we full and satisfying life. to do with them, and how to aren’t robots: what works for one transcend any obstacle. Lucid Mindfulness-Based Stress person won’t necessarily work for dreaming has been developed for Reduction (MBSR) is a another. Nor does it work to fly thousands of years in the East, well-recognized approach blind, as many couples do, and and recently augmented with which has been shown to be expect relationships to simply sophisticated techniques from the effective in reducing stress, fall into place. This workshop will West. Learn how lucid dreaming depression, and anxiety; demonstrate general principles leads to lucid living, and how enhancing communication to help you understand what and health; fostering courage this ancient practice can change makes a relationship successful, AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND your brain, facilitate healing, in difficult situations; and and how to work toward that improve relationships, heighten supporting overall well-being. with your partner. During this performance, and wake you up. The day will include an weekend of teaching, interacting, Tuition: $185 + 2 nights introduction to the theory and experimenting, you will come of Mindfulness-Based to understand how you and your Andrew Holecek has completed partner really work and begin the traditional three-year Buddhist Stress Reduction, guided to construct a specific set of meditation retreat and offers instruction in the mindfulness seminars internationally on practices used in MBSR (body guidelines for both of you. meditation, lucid dreaming, and scan, sitting and walking This workshop will teach couples dream yoga. He is the author of meditation, hatha yoga), and about the fundamental biological The Power and the Pain, Preparing discussion of the benefits and realities of human bonding and to Die, and Meditation in the applications of mindfulness in the psychobiological particulars iGeneration, as well as the audio daily life. of your partner. If you are in a learning course, Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening Through This program takes place in relationship, the tools you will Lucid Dreaming. His most recent Denver, CO. be shown will be invaluable, and ready to use immediately in book is Dream Yoga: Illuminating Tuition: $125 Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming your relationship. If you are not and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep. See bio for Janet on page 9. currently in a relationship, this workshop will help prepare you to choose your next partner and help you to construct a safe and secure, long-lasting relationship. Tuition: $375 + 2 nights This program also occurs June 22 – 24. See page 17.

See bios on page 17.

Spring | Summer 2018 | 25 September 21 – 23 September 28 – 30 Introduction to Mindfulness- Beyond Suffering: Based Stress Reduction Unconditional Self Love, Mindfulness, Janet Solyntjes Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Blake D. Bauer is a program of practical, scientifically-supported Join international bestselling author Blake D. Bauer teachings to reduce stress, facilitate relaxation, to discover why depression, addiction, physical and promote physical health and emotional well- illness, unfulfilling work, and relationship problems being. Inspired by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, this are caused by years of hiding your true emotions, retreat offers tools for engaging the demands of denying your life purpose, and living in fear. Learn our lives, including illness, chronic pain, personal how all forms of suffering are logical cries from your crisis, and even the ongoing challenges of a “full body, soul, and subconscious mind asking you to catastrophe.” By relating directly with our bodies finally love, value, forgive, and be true to yourself in and emotions, we’ll discover the power of the present. mindfulness to change our lives. Through sitting, This weekend will help you to create a healthy walking, and body scan meditation practices – as relationship with yourself that is based on deep well as mindful yoga – we will return to our lives self-worth, self-acceptance, and self-respect. It will better equipped to manage stress. include mindfulness meditation and Qi Gong healing Recommended for stressed out people from all exercises designed to unlock the stuck energy, blood, walks of life. and emotion that is keeping you unhappy, sick, Tuition: $195 + 2 nights or trapped. This program also occurs March 9 – 11. Tuition: $300 + 2 nights

See bio for Janet on page 9. This program also occurs March 30 – April 1. See bio for Blake on page 11. SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS

26 | shambhalamountain.org | (888) 788-7221 October 5 – 7 Volunteer and Foundations of Core Staff Opportunities Authentic Leadership We are seeking committed individuals Acharya Susan Skjei & Michael Gayner who aspire to create an enlightened Authentic Leadership is a powerful approach to society through working in a leadership that encourages us to bring the best contemplative practice community – of who we are into how we lead. Anchored in serving and inspiring the thousands self-awareness and the courage to genuinely show of guests who come to Shambhala up for the moments that matter, you can effectively Mountain Center each year. lead the changes we want to see in our lives and work. This experiential workshop provides practical Visit shambhalamountain.org/staff to methods for fostering self-awareness, inspiring learn more about current opportunities! and engaging others, and taking wise action with confidence and compassion. Drawing on principles and practices from contemplative traditions as Group Rentals well as contemporary approaches to leadership Shambhala Mountain Center is available and organizational learning, we will create a to groups for exclusive and non-exclusive collaborative learning lab to foster deep personal insights, enhance interpersonal skills, and increase rental use. Bring your business, family, overall leadership effectiveness. non-profit, spiritual, or educational group for a retreat in our beautiful Tuition: $395 + 2 nights

contemplative environment. Let us host AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND Acharya Susan Skjei is an educator, executive coach, and you as you enjoy time to practice, meet, consultant specializing in leadership and transformative deepen, and relax together. change. Formerly a Vice President of Learning and Development for a large technology company, she For more details about rental currently directs the Authentic Leadership program at facilities, including square footage Naropa University and consults internationally. and capacity, and date availability, Dr. Michael Gayner has lived at Shambhala Mountain please visit our website or email Center since 2010, serving as the Executive Director since 2012. In his previous incarnations, Michael owned [email protected]. a benefits management company, taught and studied in Japan for four years, and served as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. He earned a PhD in Education Generosity in Action from the University of Toronto. Your generosity plays a pivotal role in furthering Shambhala Mountain Center’s mission to provide extensive programs for personal and societal transformation, both now and for generations to come.

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Use this catalog or visit LODGING, MEALS, AND AMENITIES www.shambhalamountain.org Cost per night includes: · Lodging selection 2 | SELECT YOUR LODGING · Three meals per day Peak season rates may apply Jun 1 – Sep 1. (vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free available) LODGE OR SEASONAL DORM · Hiking trails, walking paths 7–15 people per same-gender room · Access to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya with shared same-gender bathrooms. · Coffee, tea, and fruit $85 – 117 per night per person

LODGE DOUBLE Two full-size beds, private bathroom. Roommate assigned or selected. $158 per night per person

LODGE SINGLE Full or queen-size bed and private or shared bath. $179 – 219 , per night 1st person $89 per night for 2nd person

LODGE SUITE Queen-size bed, closet, private bath with tub, and sitting area. $279 per night 1st person $89 per night for 2nd person Lodge Double RED FEATHER DOUBLE CABIN Two twin-size beds, shared same-gender bathhouse. $117 per night per person

TENT SINGLE (Avail. Jun – Sep) 12’x14’ tent with two twin beds, shared same-gender bathhouse. $117 per night per person

TENT DOUBLE (Avail. Jun – Sep) 12’x14’ tent with two twin beds, Retreat Intensives shared same-gender bathhouse. Roommate assigned or selected. For longer retreats lodging rates may be $85 per night per person significantly reduced. See web for details.

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Payment ARRIVAL DAY Full payment is required for stays of three 2 – 5 pm | Registration nights or less. A 50% deposit is required 6:30 – 7 pm | Dinner for stays of four nights or more. The final 7 pm | Orientation: Program Begins 50% balance is processed 30 days prior to arrival. Payment can be made by credit card, TYPICAL DAY check, or money order. 7:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast Cancellation Policy 9 am – 12:30 pm | Program Session 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch If you cancel your reservation more than 1:30 – 3 pm | Free Time 14 days prior to arrival, you will receive a 3 – 6:30 pm | Program Session full refund less a credit card processing fee 6:30 – 7:30 pm | Dinner of 5% of payment. If you cancel 2–14 days 8 pm | Program Session prior to arrival, you will receive program credit to be used toward another program DEPARTURE DAY at Shambhala Mountain Center. No refunds or credits are issued for cancellations received 7:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast fewer than 48 hours prior to arrival. 9 am – 12:30 pm | Program Activities 12:30 pm | Lunch and Departure Discounts Shambhala Mountain Center offers a Transportation 10% discount off our lodging and meals to full-time students and senior citizens For travel information including shuttle (60 years or older). If you qualify, please use providers from Denver International the coupon code indicated on the registration Airport, directions from surrounding page or mention it over the phone. areas, and the Shambhala Mountain Shuttle to and from Fort Collins, Subsidized Rate/Financial Aid please visit our website or email Our subsidized rate offers a $65 per night [email protected]. rate for Tent Double or Seasonal Dorm Stay an Extra Night accommodations, depending on the season. Tuition is still paid in full. Take the stress out of your travel plans by adding an extra night before or after your This option is available on the program retreat for 25% off. registration page. It cannot be combined with other discounts or financial aid. We also offer financial aid to individuals for Shambhala Path programs on a by-needs basis. If financial aid is available for the program you are interested in, a notice will appear on the registration page.

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