SHAMBHALA MOUNTAIN CENTER

Learn to Meditate Align Body and Mind Deepen Relationships Explore Your Reconnect with Nature Transform Your Life SPRING | SUMMER

2014 Program Highlights

Learn to Meditate Align Body and Mind Through Training Level I, Explore a wide array of nourishing, body- Learn to Meditate weekends, Retreat and based programs including - Renewal or at one of our free monthly Based Stress Reduction, Qigong, Tai Chi, Open Houses. Pages 5, 6 and our diverse retreats.

Retreat and Renewal Explore Your Creativity Discover relaxation and wakefulness in a Enjoy fun weekend workshops on comedy pristine mountain environment with our improvisation, , contemplative spacious Retreat and Renewal program. photography, Ikebana, sacred music, Page 6 drumming and more!

Transform Your Life Plan a Getaway Immerse yourself in one or more weeks of Create your own personal retreat our Summer Dathun meditation retreat. throughout the year with a 25% discount Page 19 on lodging. Visit our website to schedule available dates. Please use discount code Shambhala Path “Getaway-3” when registering online. Whether you are looking to explore the series, a secular Extend Your Stay meditation program for beginning and We invite you to extend your stay before experienced meditators, or continue or after your scheduled program. Make the further on the Shambhala path, view most of your visit to our magical setting our calendar of programs to explore with an extra day or two to explore and upcoming offerings. Page 2 relax. You’ll receive a 25% discount on lodging costs. Deepen Relationships With Bruce Tift’s Relationship as a Path of Awakening, or come nurture bonds this summer with our popular Family Camp. Pages 12, 15, 20 Welcome Shambhala Mountain Center is located on over 600 acres of pristine mountain forests and meadows, just two hours northwest of Denver. A sanctuary and training ground for body, mind, and spirit, our wilderness setting provides an ideal environment for meditation, yoga, contemplative arts, and conferences. We warmly invite you to join us this spring and summer for one of our enriching retreats or to visit the Great of Dharmakaya. Reconnect with Nature Get away from the nonstop speed of modern life and spend a weekend recharging in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Explore our popular outdoor programs focusing on nature walks (page 26), mindful hiking (page 20), and “Running with the Mind of Meditation” (page 25).

This spring we are also launching our new Four Seasons program – an exciting series of interdisciplinary, nature-based retreats bringing together the expertise of scientific disciplines and wisdom traditions to celebrate and understand our sacred earth.

Four Seasons programs on a variety of topics are being offered March 21–23 (page 8), July 18–20 (page 17), and September 5–7 (page 26).

Photo credits: Barbara Columbo, Karen O’Hern, Greg Smith, Brian Spielman.

Welcome | 1 CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS

FEBRUARY MAY Retreat and Renewal | Feb 7 – 9 6 Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Shastri Jeffrey Stevens | May 2 – 4 13 Stress Reduction Living the Full Catastrophe: A Day of Mindfulness- Janet Solyntjes | Feb 14 – 16 6 Based Stress Reduction Denver Program Precious Knowing: Janet Solyntjes | May 3 14 A Meditation and Yoga Retreat for Women Comedy Improv: Katharine Kaufman | Feb 19 – 23 6 Humor for Health and Self-Discovery Jacqueline Kabat | May 9 – 11 14 MARCH Befriending Small Deaths, Big Deaths Retreat and Renewal | Mar 7 – 9 6 Dominie Cappadonna & Joshua Mulder Savasana: Exploring Our Death to Liberate Our Lives May 9 – 11 14 Elysabeth Williamson & Margery McSweeney Retreat and Renewal | May 16 – 18 6 Mar 7 – 9 7 Touching the Moment: Indelible Presence Shambhala Training Level IV: Awakened Heart Acharya Dale Asrael & Cynthia Moku | May 14 – 18 15 Melissa Robinson | Mar 7 – 9 7 Relationship as a Path of Awakening Gaia: Engaging the Rhythms of Our Living Earth Bruce Tift | May 16 – 18 15 Martin Ogle | Mar 21 – 23 8 Taming the Wild Horse: Chakrasamvara Intensive Riding the Energy of Emotions Greg Smith | Mar 21 – 29 8 Acharya Dale Asrael & Cynthia Moku | May 22 – 26 15 Sacred World Music Concert Boulder Program Wisdom of the Seasons: An Interspiritual Retreat Yuval Ron & Friends | Mar 27 9 Tessa Bielecki & Fr. Dave Denny | May 23 – 25 16 Sacred Sound, Meditation and Dance: Embodied Listening Healing and Transformation David Rome & Hope Martin | May 23 – 26 16 Yuval Ron | Mar 28 – 30 9 Dwelling in the Sacred: Shambhala Queer Retreat Everyday Places as Vessels of Awakening Acharya Eve Rosenthal & Acharya Eric Spiegel Anthony Lawlor | May 30 – Jun 1 16 Mar 28 – 30 9 Wisdom of the Sword APRIL Bob Wing | May 30 – Jun 1 17 CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS The Sacred World of Kyerim: JUNE A Scorpion Seal and Werma Program Scorpion Seal Assembly VI | Jun 12 – 23 17 Acharya Christie Cashman | Apr 10 – 16 10 Sacred World Assembly Shambhala Training Level V: Open Sky , Acharya Adam Lobel, Walter Taylor | Apr 11 – 13 10 & Acharya Christie Cashman | Jun 25 – Jul 16 17 Sacred Path: Meek, Perky, Outrageous and Inscrutable JULY Acharya Allyn Lyon | Apr 11 – 17 10 Exploring Trees and Wildflowers Weeklong Ngöndro Intensive Connie Gray, Laurie Huckaby & Jim Tolstrup Acharya Allyn Lyon | Apr 17 – 25 11 Jul 18 – 20 17 Ikebana: The Contemplative Art of Flowers Bridges to Heaven: A Grief Healing Workshop Alexandra Shenpen | Apr 18 – 20 11 Sue Frederick | Jul 18 – 20 18 Learn to Meditate Greg Smith | Apr 18 – 20 11 Mindful Living: Teachings and Practices from Relationship As a Path of Awakening Boulder Talk Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Bruce Tift | Apr 25 12 Janet Solyntjes | Jul 23 – 27 18 Retreat and Renewal | Apr 25 – 27 6 Summer Dathun: A Month-long Meditation Retreat FLOW: A Meditation and Yoga Retreat Acharya Jenny Warwick | Jul 23 – Aug 20 19 Katharine Kaufman | Apr 25 – 27 12 Traditional Chinese Qigong: Levels I-V Flowing Like Water, Strong as a Mountain: Eva Wong (Levels IV-V) & Dale Asrael (Levels I-III) A Tai Chi and Meditation Retreat Jul 25 – Aug 2 19 Larry Welsh | Apr 25 – 27 12 Enlightened Society Assembly | Jul 26 – Aug 10 20 Traditional Chinese Qigong: Level III Denver Program Dale Asrael | Apr 25 – 27 13 Mindful Hiking: Waking Up to the Wild Kay Peterson | Jul 31 – Aug 3 20 Summer Set-Up Volunteer Program Apr 27 – Jun 8 13

2 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter AUGUST Family Camp Steve Sachs, Rachel Steele, Kelly Lindsey & Others Aug 4 – 10 20 This Moment, Beautiful Moment: Yoga for Every Body De West | Aug 8 – 10 21 Limitless Ayatanas – Scorpion Seal and Werma Practice Intensive Shambhala Mountain Center Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown | Aug 11 – 19 21 in the City Traditional Chinese Qigong: Tendon-Changing and Marrow-Washing Intensive Boulder and Denver Programs Eva Wong & Dale Asrael | Aug 13 – 15 21 Sacred World Music Concert Traditional Chinese Qigong: Animal Forms Boulder Program Eva Wong & Dale Asrael | Aug 15 – 17 22 Yuval Ron & Friends | Mar 27 9 Brush Mind: Calligraphy and Brushwork Relationship As a Path of Awakening Kazuaki Tanahashi | Aug 15 – 17 22 Boulder Talk Courageous Women, Fearless Living Cancer Retreat Bruce Tift | Apr 25 12 Judith Lief, Victoria Maizes, MD & Linda Sparrowe Traditional Chinese Qigong: Level III Aug 19 – 24 23 Denver Program Retreat and Renewal | Aug 22 – 24 6 Dale Asrael | Apr 25 – 27 13 Summer Women’s Meditation & Yoga Retreat Living the Full Catastrophe: A Day Katharine Kaufman | Aug 20 – 24 23 of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Denver Program Learn to Meditate Patricia Kelly | Aug 22 – 24 24 Janet Solyntjes | May 3 14 Fall Take-Down Volunteer Program Aug 24 – Sep 28 27 Healing Sound Retreat Christine Stevens & Silvia Nakkach | Aug 29 – Sep 1 24 Music For Peace Ceremony at the Great Stupa Advanced Shambhala Aug 30 24 Programs Running with the Mind of Meditation ADVANCED SHAMBHALA Cynthia MacKay, Marty Kibiloski & Tarah Cech Chakrasamvara Intensive Aug 29 – Sep 1 25 Greg Smith | Mar 21 – 29 8 Thoughts Are Not the Enemy: An Introduction to The Sacred World of Kyerim: Recollective Awareness Meditation A Scorpion Seal and Werma Program Jason Siff | Aug 29 – Sep 1 25 Acharya Christie Cashman | Apr 10 – 16 10 Sacred Path: Meek, Perky, SEPTEMBER Outrageous and Inscrutable Being with the Land: Acharya Allyn Lyon | Apr 11 – 17 10 Turning to Nature and the Seasons Weeklong Ngöndro Intensive Clare Walker Leslie | Sep 5 – 7 26 Acharya Allyn Lyon | Apr 17 – 25 11 Big Sky, Big Mind: Scorpion Seal Assembly VI | Jun 12 – 23 17 Contemplative Astronomy Workshop Andrea Schweitzer & Jim Tolstrup | Sep 5 – 7 26 Sacred World Assembly Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Acharya Adam Lobel, Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human & Acharya Christie Cashman | Jun 25 – Jul 16 17 Jonathan Barbieri | Sep 5 – 7 26 Enlightened Society Assembly Opening the Good Eye: Jul 26 – Aug 10 20 An Introduction to Miksang Photography Michael Wood & Julie DuBose | Sep 11 – 14 26 Limitless Ayatanas – Scorpion Seal and Werma Practice Intensive: Discovering Waking Up to the Wild: Nature Walks the Sacredness of Sense Perceptions through Kay Peterson | Sep 12 – 14 26 the Werma Sadhana Sacred Embodiment, Sacred Service: Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown | Aug 11 – 19 21 A Retreat for Women Scorpion Seal Assembly II | Oct 10 – 21 26 Judith Ansara & Danya River | Sep 26 – 28 26

OCTOBER Scorpion Seal Assembly II | Oct 10 – 21 26 Fall | Winter 2013 | 3 “An inspiration Visit the Great Stupa for peace A Monument to Human Kindness and happiness The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya stands throughout 108 ft. tall, weighs 6,000,400 lbs., and is dedicated to world peace. It was the world, constructed and continues to be worked on by volunteers inspired to offer the world now, and in a big, beautiful, reminder that our nature the future.” as human beings is inherently good, pure and sane. Encountering the Stupa allows — The XIVth Dalai one to rediscover this inherent goodness, to experience a state of simplicity and confidence, and to connect with a of sanity that goes back 2,500 years.

Engaging with the Stupa may bring about an experience that is beyond the mundane, yet deeply familiar. What is it that we so often forget in the midst of our busy and complicated lives? The Stupa is an embodiment of awakened heart and authentic presence – the alternative to redundant mental drama and addictive behavior. Ultimately, the Stupa is reflective of one’s confident, radiant nature.

The Great Stupa welcomes the general public 365 days a year, between the hours of 9 am and 9 pm, free of charge. Experiential teaching tours of the Stupa can be arranged for groups of 8 or more for $10 per person. To schedule a tour please call 888-788-7221. Tours are also offered as part of our free Open House series which occurs the first Sunday of most months. Please see

THE GREAT STUPA our Open House section for exact dates.

“I love coming to the Stupa – it fills me with peace that lasts long after I leave.” — Liz Tuohy

4 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter Learn to Meditate

Shambhala Mountain Center regularly offers programs for people who are new to meditation. Included are our introductory Shambhala Training and Learn to Meditate weekends, Retreat and Renewals (page 6) and Open Houses – as well as programs that connect meditation to other disciplines – so that you can find the right fit for you.

The Basics Exploring Meditation with Movement

Introduction to Mindfulness-Based FLOW: A Meditation and Yoga Retreat Stress Reduction Katharine Kaufman | Apr 25 – 27 12 Janet Solyntjes | Feb 14 – 16 6 Embodied Listening Learn to Meditate David Rome & Hope Martin | May 23 – 26 16 April 18 – 20 | Aug 22 – 24 11 Summer Women’s Meditation & Yoga Retreat Shambhala Training Level I: Aug 20 – 24 | Katharine Kaufman 23 The Art of Being Human May 2 – 4 | Sep 5 – 7 13, 26 Mindful Hiking: Waking Up to the Wild Kay Peterson | Jul 31 – Aug 3 20 Thoughts Are Not the Enemy: An Introduction to Recollective Awareness Meditation Running with the Mind of Meditation Jason Siff | Aug 29 – Sep 1 25 Cynthia MacKay, Marty Kibiloski & Tarah Cech Aug 29 – Sep 1 25

Join us for an Open House Join us the first Sunday of most months for our popular Open House series. Enjoy a day in the beautiful Rocky Mountains and choose from a variety of free activities, including touring the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, receiving meditation instruction, listening to engaging dharma talks, or simply relaxing on this serene and powerful land.

Bring a picnic, or for a $10 suggested donation join us for a delicious lunch prepared LEARN TO MEDITATE by our talented chefs. For updates on our list of Open House speakers and topics, please visit our website. Tuition: FREE Feb 2 | April 6 | May 4 | June 1 | Aug 3 | Sept 7

“You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely …” — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 5 Shambhala Mountain Online Gift Store We’re excited to announce the launch of our new and improved online gift store, featuring hundreds of contemplative items including meditation and yoga supplies, books, handcrafted jewelry, fine tea sets and more! Even better, your purchases help support Shambhala Mountain Center to maintain a beautiful and enriching environment for thousands of visitors each year. Visit shambhalamountainstore.com.

February 14 – 16 Retreat and Renewal PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION Discover relaxation and wakefulness in our pristine

SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Introduction to mountain environment. Our Retreat and Renewal Mindfulness-Based programs offer contemplative approaches for working Stress Reduction with the fullness of daily modern life, bringing insight and inspiration to career, family, health, relationships, Janet Solyntjes and personal endeavors of all kinds. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a practical, Join us for a spacious retreat that allows time to walk scientifically supported program the land, visit the Stupa, or to follow the spontaneous designed to reduce stress, callings of your spirit. Meet other participants over tasty facilitate relaxation, and promote meals (vegetarian options provided.) Join in part of all physical health and emotional of the scheduled activities: meditation (with instruction), well-being. yoga, guided hike with our land steward, tour of the Tuition $190 + 2 nights Great Stupa, films, evening talks and discussion. Great for

See Janet’s bio on page 14 friends, couples, or individuals. Massage available. Tuition $100 + 2 nights lodging February 19 – 23 Feb 7 – 9 | Mar 7 – 9 | Apr 25 – 27 | May 16 – 18 | Aug 22 – 24 BODY AWARENESS Precious Knowing: “You are the sky. A Meditation and Yoga Everything else – it’s Retreat for Women Katharine Kaufman just the weather.” When we learn to fully inhabit — Pema Chödrön our bodies through mindfulness practices, we can know ourselves as complete and wakeful beings. Tuition $260 + 4 nights See Katherine’s bio on page 12

6 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter March 7 – 9 March 7 – 9 BODY AWARENESS SHAMBHALA Savasana: Shambhala Training Exploring Our Death to Liberate Our Lives Level IV: Elysabeth Williamson & Margery McSweeney Awakened Heart At the root of all our fears lies the fear of death – our own and our loved Melissa Robinson ones’. How would we live our lives differently if we contemplated and In Shambhala Training Level IV, even practiced this ultimate letting go? We begin the weekend with an we learn how to open our hearts open discussion about what is often left unspoken. We use hands-on so we can communicate more embodiment practices that support us to go beyond fear and resistance fully with the world. Rather than to rest in the eternal aspects of our being. Savasana, the ancient Yogic using our experiences as an practice for death, teaches us how to align ourselves in ways that occasion to regenerate habitual encourage the deepest relaxation on every level of our being. Whether patterns, we can use them as you are an elder caregiver, health care practitioner, or family member, reminders to further wake up. we are all touched by death. When we open our hearts and minds to When we allow ourselves to death in a safe and sacred context, we are empowered to live our lives meet the world without hope more fully and joyfully. The retreat includes movement and yoga practice; and fear, we find resources of however, no previous yoga experience is required. energy and steadiness. Continuing education credits are pending for this course. Prerequisite: Completion of Tuition $190 + 2 nights Shambhala Training Level III

Elysabeth Williamson, E-RYT-500, is the foremost authority on Principle- Tuition $150 + 2 nights AW AK ™ Based Partner Yoga , a style she founded and has developed since 1991. She Melissa Robinson began practicing is known for articulating and transmitting esoteric teachings in ways that are in New York City in the early accessible and practical for everyone. She is the author of The Pleasures and 1970s. She and her family moved Principles of Partner Yoga. to Boulder, Colorado in 1978 and Margery McSweeney, RN, CPM, CCBE, is a practicing nurse and midwife she has been teaching in the with 30 years experience assisting families through birth and death Buddhist and Shambhala traditions EN YOUR HEART transitions. Margery views death as a birth into the spiritual realm and is since the 1980s. In 2012, she and committed to supporting others to live in the present moment and embrace her husband retired to Northern transformational opportunities. Through her ongoing continuing education, Colorado after sixteen years as the she is trained as a Principle-Based Partner Yoga™ Teacher, Healing Touch Resident Directors of Dorje Khyung practitioner, and Reiki Master. Dzong Retreat Center.

The Pleasures and Principles of Partner Yoga by Elysabeth Williamson is available in our Gift Shop or online at shambhalamountainstore.com AND MIND

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 7 Tuition $50 + 8 Tuition nights Greg Smith is a well-known artist and painter who has lived and painted at Shambhala Mountain Center He for many years. has been a student of meditation since first 1976, with Chögyam Rinpoche and later Trungpa with his Sakyong son, Mipham Rinpoche. Greg has taught meditation and since 1982. March March 21 – 29 SHAMBHALA ADVANCED Chakrasamvara Intensive Smith Greg Intensive isChakrasamvara This geared toward the accumulation of the recitation practices in a those who group However, setting. have finished the recitation are also invited to come and deepen their connection with the practice. If you are just learning the this is a practice, good opportunity to become really familiar with the will There be guided sadhana. instruction on the practice, practice of the different sections, and group study and discussion of the wonderful manual by Translation Vajravairochana the Committee and the tris. profound This practice intensive will be held within the physical representation in of Chakrasamvara’s the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya. are welcome to You come for all or a part of this intensive. Chakrasamvara Prerequisite: Abhisheka Lord of the to Flies, honor that science is rediscovering what our This retreat This kicks off our exciting new Seasons Four program – an initiative to celebrate and understand both our 640 acres of magnificent land and Earth Each as we season, a will whole. host nature-based interdisciplinary, programs that bring together experts from a variety of scientific disciplines – such as geology, astronomy, and hydrology – with the profound teachings of various wisdom traditions including Shambhala and the , the Lakota, Join ancient us Chinese for tradition of this Shui. Feng inspiring opportunity to explore our sacred planet in a beautiful and Seasons contemplative Four programs environment. on other topics are being offered July 18–20 (page 17) and September 5–7 (page 26). Four Seasons Program Series Program Seasons Four Tuition $190 + 2 Tuition nights Martin Ogle holds Wildlife degrees Biology in from Colorado State and He was Chief Naturalist for Tech. Virginia Regional the Northern Virginia Authority from promoting 1985-2012, a widespread Park understanding and writings, of camps, children’s the through Gaia programs, Paradigm He a was major awarded the conference. Award for 2010 Non- Krupsaw Academy of Sciences. (D.C.) Washington by the Teaching traditional ancestors already enriching knew This retreat in willtheir mythology. explore these ideas through talks complemented with nature walks, and art, more!poetry, storytelling, games, “solo-spots,” It’s no secret It’s that modern life is often andtoo structured, fast, part in a retreat weekend topurpose-driven Take for our well-being. not and only intellectual slow down emotional, but to find experiential, connections to the rhythms of weAs our we living reengage, planet. – learn the about “Gaia confluence the Paradigm” of recent scientific understandings of Earth with ancient understandings of nature and Gaia The theory describes Earth human as nature. a single living system of which human beings are a seamless It continuum. was named after the Greek goddess of William Earth author Golding, by of Engaging the Rhythms of Our Living Earth of Our Living the Rhythms Engaging Martin Ogle March March 21 – 23 FOUR SEASONS PROGRAM Gaia: 8 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS March 27 March 28 – 30 March 28 – 30 CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION Sacred World Music Sacred Sound, Concert Meditation and Dance: Shambhala Queer Dharma Retreat Boulder Program Healing and Transformation Acharya Eve Rosenthal Yuval Ron & Friends Yuval Ron & Acharya Eric Spiegel Experience an uplifting mystical Take a journey deep into the All beings possess natural feast of Sufi and Hebrew sacred sacred arts and practices of the goodness, kindness, and songs, wisdom stories, and the hidden wisdom traditions of East intelligence – noble qualities divine poetry of Hafiz and Rumi and West. This unique, experiential inherent in each of us, regardless with renowned world music retreat will explore Zen Buddhism, of style or sexuality. The artist, composer, and peace sacred chanting from Kabbalistic Shambhala dharma is about activist Yuval Ron. Ron (oud, Judaism, mindful walking, gaining confidence in these voice) will be joined by Carolyne song from early contemplative qualities by means of meditation Aycaguer (harmonium), and Silan Christianity, and ecstatic chant and infusing this confidence (violin) for this mesmerizing and and movement from Sufism. into everyday life. While this is inspiring evening. Modern science points to the true for everyone, the LGBTQ power of these ancient disciplines The concert begins at 8 pm at the community faces particular to enhance memory and cognition Solstice Center, 302 Pearl Street, challenges within society; this while lowering stress, anxiety, Boulder, CO 80302. Cost $20 can be both an inspiration and depression, and anger. Yuval Ron an obstacle. Through personal See bio for Yuval Ron at right. will also offer live oud music and AW AK inquiry and supportive discussion, storytelling as he guides us on an we will explore how to maintain inner exploration that nurtures, the integrity of our identity while transforms, and inspires. “Keep some fostering compassion for others Tuition $215 + 2 nights with diverse views. Our weekend room in your Yuval Ron is an internationally includes meditation, yoga, Tai EN YOUR HEART heart for the renowned world music artist, Chi, walks in the mountains, and composer, educator, peace activist, community celebration. Inspired unimaginable.” and record producer. Among his and nurtured, we will return to many honors, he was invited to our lives with greater clarity, — Mary Oliver perform for the and the confidence, and an open heart. Sufi leader Pir Zia Inayat Khan, and No previous meditation experience won an Oscar for his songs and score is necessary. of West Bank Story. He has lectured at numerous universities including Tuition $200 + 2 nights Yale, Johns Hopkins and MIT, and Acharya Eric Spiegel has been teaches regularly at Esalen Institute. teaching the Shambhala dharma since the mid-1970s. He has also had a decades-long career in finance.

Acharya Eve Rosenthal has been a meditator in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition since 1973.

Founder of Shambhala Online, she AND MIND has worked in technology on Wall Street and as a university professor.

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 9 April 10 – 16 April 11 – 13 April 11 – 17 ADVANCED SHAMBHALA SHAMBHALA ADVANCED SHAMBHALA The Sacred World Shambhala Training Sacred Path: of Kyerim: Level V: Meek, Perky, Outrageous A Scorpion Seal and Open Sky and Inscrutable Werma Program Walter Taylor Acharya Allyn Lyon Acharya Christie Cashman Shambhala Training Level V is the The Four Dignities are a path In 2010, after the Sacred World concluding level of the Shambhala and a process by which we can Assembly, the Sakyong wrote Training series. With our bodies extend our meditation training an extraordinarily beautiful text resting on the earth, no different and warriorship. They describe a to deepen and ease the journey from the earth, and our minds warrior’s maturing and his or her of his students involved in resting in the sky, no different widening sphere of benevolent kyerim – generation from the sky, we encounter the engagement in the world. Training stage – practices. Until now, vastness of heaven joined with the in the dignities allows us to the text has been available only primordial depth of earth in our maintain awareness and delight to Scorpion Seal practitioners, own being. This state is the basis at each stage. Meek is a study but with this course, the text for our activity in the world. of the grounded, humble, and will also be offered to Werma gentle beginning stages of a Communicating with the world Sadhana practitioners who have warrior’s journey. Perky focuses gently and fearlessly, our attended a Rigden Abhisheka. on cultivating sharp, vibrant, and awareness is sharpened and we The program will include a lung uplifted energy through natural find the clear, open sky of mind – for the kyerim text, daily talks, discipline. The final fruitional a delightful source of wisdom and personal interviews, and evening dignities combine an outrageous, uplifted energy. We learn to trust classes for each year of Scorpion unconventional, and visionary our nature enough to let go into Seal. The course itself is a study perspective with spontaneous

S the present moment. of the Werma Sadhana, preparing inscrutability to create benefit for

PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Werma practitioners for the Prerequisite: Completion of others on a large scale. Shambhala Training Level IV Scorpion Seal path. Come for the entire week, or Prerequisites: Vajrayana Seminary Tuition $150 + 2 nights register for an individual level. (Sacred World Assembly) and Walter Taylor came to Boulder, Please see website for individual Rigden Abhisheka Colorado in 1967 to teach level entry dates and tuition mathematics at the University of information. Tuition $150 + 6 nights Colorado (CU). In the late 1970s, he Prerequisite: Completion of the Acharya Christie Cashman met various students of Chögyam worked closely with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and soon after Drala Sacred Path level Trungpa Rinpoche for many began to actively participate in the Tuition $475 + 6 nights years on curriculum design and Shambhala Training weekends. He See Acharya Allyn Lyon’s bio at right. implementation. From 1999 to has taught Shambhala Training since 2003 she served as international the 1990s. Walter recently retired executive director of Shambhala from CU and pursues an interest in Training, and today she continues to landscape painting. “If we open engage in Shambhala and Buddhist our eyes, our curriculum development and the training of teachers. minds, and our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.” — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

10 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter April 17 – 25 April 18 – 20 April 18 – 20 ADVANCED SHAMBHALA CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS SHAMBHALA Weeklong Ngöndro Ikebana: Learn to Meditate Intensive The Contemplative Art Greg Smith Acharya Allyn Lyon of Flowers It seems we all agree that training Whether you are seeking to Alexandra Shenpen the body through exercise, diet, establish your Ngöndro practice Delight in the natural beauty and relaxation is a good idea, or are an experienced practitioner, of our world and awaken but why don’t we think about join us for this intensive program. your gentleness, courage, training our minds? This weekend By practicing in a group context, and artistic instinct. Through retreat will give accessible and we increase both our personal the practice of Ikebana, the powerful meditation practice and group windhorse, while giving placement of each stem techniques to help us find peace power and potency to the vision of becomes an expression of within ourselves while developing Shambhala. We also foster a sense our innate wisdom and a strong and flexible mind. We of camaraderie and celebration humanity. As we look longer, will draw from Turning the Mind during our time together. All our perception deepens and into an Ally, the best-selling book Rigden Ngöndro practitioners are we bring forth Hana-kokoro, by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, as warmly invited to attend. This or flower heart/mind, the we explore this question together retreat fulfills the group practice inherent appreciation and life in a contemplative and nurturing requirement for Rigden Ngöndro between humans and nature. environment. You will receive a practitioners. During this enriching retreat, copy of this book at the retreat.

Prerequisite: Sacred World we will work attentively with Tuition $150 + 2 nights AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND branches, flowers, water, and Assembly See Greg’s bio on page 8 greenery to celebrate our Tuition $150 + 8 nights connection to the natural Acharya Allyn Lyon is a senior world and create elegant, teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist awake space. New, returning, tradition. She has served as director and longtime Ikebana students of Shambhala Mountain Center and welcome. has taught at Seminary. Allyn has traveled and taught Tuition $195 + 2 nights (includes materials) extensively in Europe, the U.S., and Mexico, as well as at Alexandra Shenpen, Sensei, has University. She currently serves as studied Ikebana/kado through resident acharya in both Tepotzlan, Kalapa Ikebana and the Sogetsu Mexico and Los Angeles, California. School of Japan for the last Allyn is known for the clarity and 25 years and is a Riji (master directness of her teaching and for teacher) through Sogetsu-ryu her irreverent sense of humor. in Tokyo. Recently, she was appointed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as Master Instructor for Kalapa Ikebana and an Artist to the Kalapa Court. She also teaches extensively at , meditation centers, and public venues, both locally and abroad, and is a psychotherapist in private practice.

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 11 Tuition $190 + 2 Tuition nights has MA, trained MAc, inWelsh, Larry short Listening form, Yang-style the Chi Hands and Tai Sword of Form Chuan since He 1977. practices Japanese classical acupuncture, and whole-foodherbal medicine, Larry Colorado. nutrition in Boulder, is a senior adjunct professor and mindfulness-meditation teacher in Arts programEastern Traditional the at Naropa University. April 25 – 27 WISDOM TRADITIONS Like Water, Flowing as a Mountain:Strong and Chi A Tai Retreat Meditation Welsh Larry Chi Tai ancient The practice of Chuan has often been called the “supreme ultimate exercise.” When joined with mindfulness sitting these meditation, two forms bring forth a potent way to health and awaken restore well- being and in mind, spirit. body, During this in-depth we retreat, will discover the wellspring of our own intrinsic health and sanity through of the Foundations Four and enjoy authentic Mindfulness, relaxation through the wisdom of the Five Elements and Five We Seasonal Movements of Life. will return home with a powerful practice that enhances flow, relationships, strength, flexibility, and deeper peace throughout All each age day of our lives. groups are welcome. www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter Tuition $190 + 2 Tuition nights Katharine Kaufman is a senior yoga She Colorado. teacher in Boulder, degree holds in an Performance MFA and Choreography and is an adjunct faculty member at Naropa University where she teaches Contemplative Arts and Movement studies poetry. Katharine is a priest ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist lineage. FLOW: A Meditation Retreat and Yoga Katharine Kaufman We have all had moments or delightful This days that flow well. motion may begin in what the or energetic yogis “nadis,” call which run throughout channels, Our individual our bodies. rhythms are unique and in we “flow” are free of striving, finding lightness and ease while We discover inhabiting our body. small movements, that stillness, and simply being present with our breath allow us to unearth our quiet as wisdom, well as prepare us for more spectacular When sequences of postures. we we return are to stillness, different from having In moved. this we retreat, will investigate this interplay of movement and stillness by partnering sitting We will meditation with yoga. practice a variety of creative deepening asana sequences, and By refreshing our practice. listening to natural our body’s flow rather than demanding a we may certain performance, experience a practice that is and nourishing, refreshing, rich, supports our well-being. April 25 – 27 BODY AWARENESS Already Free: Buddhism Meets Already Free: 12 | Phone: (303) 468-9640 Tuition $20 Tuition has been in LMFT, MA, Tift, Bruce private practice since taught 1979, at Naropa University for 25 years, and has given presentations in the and His Japan. new Mexico, U.S., CD, Psychotherapy on the of Path Liberation, explores the human issues body anxiety, awareness, of neurosis, and relationship dynamics. Bruce Tift How can we use the inherent disturbance and richness of our intimate relationships as an opportunity for wakefulness? Psychotherapy helps us understand the deep historic conditioning we bring to our Buddhist practice relationships. cultivates the confidence that, in each fresh we moment, are free in how we relate to this explore Let’s conditioning. how we can learn to our keep hearts open within the profound provocation of intimacy. talk This will begin at 7 pm at the 302 Street, Pearl Solstice Center, CO 80302 Boulder, retreat on Tift’s See Bruce As a Relationship ofPath May page 16–18, 15. Awakening, Boulder Talk April 25 TRANSFORMATION PERSONAL as a Relationship of Awakening Path SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS April 25 – 27 April 27 – June 8 May 2 – 4 WISDOM TRADITIONS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY SHAMBHALA Traditional Summer Set-Up Shambhala Training Chinese Qigong: Volunteer Program Level I: Level III Denver Program As wildflowers burst forth from The Art of Being Human Dale Asrael the melting winter snow, we Shastri Jeffrey Stevens start to prepare for our busy Cultivate strength of body and Through the practice of summer season. Join us for calmness of mind through meditation, we glimpse a week or more and help us the healing Taoist practice of unconditional goodness as the set up tents for this exciting Qigong. This is an opportunity ground of our existence. This time of year. Enjoy working in to receive instruction in two immersive meditation weekend our mountain meadows and unique lineages, the Pre- helps us open to ourselves with wooded hillsides, practicing Celestial Limitless Gate School gentleness and appreciation, meditation, participating free of (Xiantianwujimen) and the Yiquan and begin to see our potential charge in some of our renowned School, neither of which have as genuine and compassionate programs, and making new previously been fully transmitted human beings. This program friends. Participants from our to students in the West. In Level is recommended for new and Set-Up crew often transition into III, we will learn animal forms for experienced meditators, as well summer volunteer positions after balance and strength as well as as those looking to enrich their this program. practices for removing blockages existing spiritual path. You will in the meridians and circulating For more details, see page 27. receive a copy of Shambhala: The

qi. Dale will also offer enriching Sacred Path of the Warrior by AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND talks on the background of these Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Qigong forms. Tuition $150 + 2 nights

This weekend program will be held Jeffrey Stevens began studying at the Denver Shambhala Center and practicing the Shambhala at 2305 S. Syracuse Way on Friday Buddhist path in 1992. He has an 7-9 pm, Saturday 9 am-9:30 pm academic background in philosophy, and Sunday 9 am-6 pm. anthropology, and Indo-. In his professional Tuition $195 life, he is a founding partner of Dale Asrael is an associate professor August Wealth Group, a financial at Naropa University. She is the management company. He serves Dean of Meditation Instructors as Shastri, a senior teacher of for Shambhala International. Dale the Shambhala tradition, at the studies qigong with, and has been Shambhala Meditation Center authorized to teach by, Eva Wong. of Denver.

“We don’t have to try too hard to fi nd ourselves. We haven’t really lost anything; we just have to tune in. The majesty of the world is always there.” — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 13 May 3 May 9 – 11 May 9 – 11 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION Living the Full Comedy Improv: Befriending Small Catastrophe: Humor for Health Deaths, Big Deaths A Day of Mindfulness- and Self-Discovery Dominie Cappadonna & Joshua Mulder Based Stress Reduction Jacqueline Kabat Denver Program Approaching death with curiosity, Enjoy an uproariously fun Janet Solyntjes courage, and spiritual skills workshop and soothe your allows for fearlessness in facing This experiential workshop will spirit while reenergizing the unknown. The small deaths offer user-friendly techniques yourself with laughter. Learn of broken-heartedness, sickness, for dealing with stress and the basic principles of comedy aging, loss of work and more, for cultivating our deepest improvisation, including offer us practice moments for potential for living a full and the central lesson of being the big death at the end of life. satisfying life. Mindfulness-Based completely present and open By relating in a profound way Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a to whatever happens. With with our small deaths, we build well-recognized approach which skillful guidance, we will work resilience and positive qualities has been shown to be effective together as a group to create a to strengthen our encounter with in reducing stress, depression, safe environment, eliminating dying moments as they arise. and anxiety; enhancing any individual fear. Having fun, During this retreat, we will meet communication and health; we relax and when we are inside the Great Stupa and burial fostering courage in difficult relaxed, we listen, communicate, grounds for gentle, experiential situations, and supporting overall overcome insecurities, and processes and meditations that well-being. The day will include express our full capabilities. draw upon universal principles, an introduction to the theory During this dynamic weekend, as well as Shamanic and Buddhist of Mindfulness-Based Stress we will increase our confidence,

S teachings. For individuals and Reduction, guided instruction in improve our relationship skills,

PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS those who work in the field of mindfulness practices used in and learn to creatively deal with death and dying. MBSR (body scan, sitting and the ambiguous and constantly walking meditation, mindful changing circumstances Tuition $190 + 2 nights hatha yoga), and discussion of of everyday life—all while Dominie Cappadonna, PhD, CT, is the benefits and applications of celebrating the healing and joyful a transpersonal psychotherapist, mindfulness in daily life. power of laughter. No previous mentor, death awareness educator, and contemplative chaplain. The program will be held at improv experience necessary. Dominie’s popular work, Radiant Tuition $215 + 2 nights the Denver Shambhala Center Living – Luminous Dying: Guiding at 2305 S. Syracuse Way Jacqueline Kabat is a Manhattan- Midlife Elder Passages and Beyond, from 9:30 am-4:30 pm based comedian who performs facilitates life and death transitions. stand-up at popular comedy clubs, Tuition $95 Joshua Mulder is the Director of including Gotham and Caroline’s the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya Janet Solyntjes, MA has offered on Broadway. She has studied with at Shambhala Mountain Center. mindfulness courses at Naropa Amy Poehler, warmed up audiences Drawing on a wealth of wisdom and University, Omega Institute, at ABC Studios with Mario Cantone, deep knowledge of meditation, he Hollyhock, Shambhala Mountain and is currently in production for will share collaborative practices Center, and in corporate and non- her documentary, Comedy Improv that enhance our experience within profit workplaces. Can Save the World. She teaches the powerful and sacred space of improv in theaters, corporations, the Stupa. medical centers, and institutes such as Omega and Esalen.

14 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter May 14 – 18 May 16 – 18 May 22 – 26 WISDOM TRADITIONS PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION WISDOM TRADITIONS Touching the Relationship as a Taming the Moment: Path of Awakening Wild Horse: Indelible Presence Bruce Tift Riding the Energy Acharya Dale Asrael Many of us feel deeply of Emotions & Cynthia Moku disconnected at times – from Acharya Dale Asrael & Cynthia Moku Uniquely blending meditation, ourselves, from others, and from contemplative arts, sensory life. Actually, it is impossible Intense emotions such as awareness practices and not to be intimate and fully anger, jealousy and fear can Hatha Yoga, we will practice connected at all times. Using either trap us in struggles in a rich environment to relationships as a powerful or open us to the direct shed habitual patterns and vehicle for investigating this experience of awakening. This rediscover the world with central human issue, we will retreat presents techniques to fresh perception. As we explore how we create and expose core belief structures investigate the four elements maintain – and how we can that perpetuate emotional of our inner and outer worlds, dissolve – this vivid and painful confusion, meditation we will open ourselves to appearance of disconnection. practices that foster clarity and the fullness of life. Using Through a potent combination of insight, and daily Hatha Yoga meditation practices, interpersonal tools, views from classes. Revealing that even periods of silence, dharma Western psychotherapy, and the most painful emotions

talks, discussion and daily compassion-generating practices offer us an opportunity to AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND contemplative brush-and-ink of Buddhism, we can experience develop genuine compassion, practice led by artist Cynthia our relationships as a path of these practices also give Moku, we will touch the awakening. This program is for us a glimpse of the pure Indelible Presence of our individuals, couples, therapists, energy that is the essence of everyday moments. or anyone interested in exploring emotion. Guest presenter and Tuition $205 + 4 nights their view of relationships and artist Cynthia Moku will also feelings of disconnection. lead a special contemplative See Dale’s bio on page 13. Tuition $190 + 2 nights brush-and-ink session as a Cynthia Moku is an means of trusting emotions. accomplished artist in Japanese See Bruce’s bio on page 12. Tuition $205 + 4 nights brushwork and Buddhist Scroll painting. A student of Kyabje See Dale’s bio on page 13. Kalu Rinpoche, she continues See Cynthia’s bio this page. her meditation training with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Cynthia is the founder of Naropa University’s Visual Art Degree Program. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 15 May 23 – 25 May 23 – 26 May 30 – June 1 WISDOM TRADITIONS BODY AWARENESS MINDFUL LIVING Wisdom of Embodied Listening Dwelling in the Seasons: David Rome & Hope Martin the Sacred: An Interspiritual Retreat Embodied Listening is an intensive Everyday Places Tessa Bielecki & but gentle body, mind, and heart as Vessels of Awakening Fr. Dave Denny training for releasing habitual Anthony Lawlor patterns that constrict our lives Celebrate late spring in the Discover ways to experience and relationships. When we learn mountains and awaken to the your home, workplace, and to listen deeply to ourselves, we divine nuances of all the seasons, community as sacred places also become more open and both in the outer landscape and that can serve as allies on your sensitive to the feelings and needs in our inner soulscape. Rejoice life journey. During this retreat, of others. During this retreat, we in how the burgeoning green we will practice exercises at the will draw on several powerful of springtime reflects our own Great Stupa allowing us to feel modalities including: mindfulness burgeoning vitality. During this the archetypal elements of holy meditation to relax mental holding interspiritual retreat, we will sites and helping us to learn patterns; Alexander Technique draw on the wisdom traditions ways of finding peace, healing, to release physical holding of the Abrahamic peoples who and inspiration within the build- patterns; and Mindful Focusing emerged from the desert – Jews, ings we inhabit each day. We to access deeper feelings held Christians, and Muslims – and will also learn ways of arranging in the body. This workshop is weave together lecture and discus- furnishings, selecting colors, highly experiential and includes sion, silent meditation, personal and choosing materials to foster periods of meditation, exploration sharing, hiking, and journaling, inner and outer harmony, health, of the felt sense, and gentle Enjoy a Saturday evening session and happiness. in the Great Stupa sharing the hands-on bodywork. Tuition $215 + 2 nights S presenters’ rich experience of Tuition $300 + 3 nights

PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Buddhist-Christian dialogue. Join Anthony Lawlor is an architect David Rome and Hope Martin have whose work focuses on the us as we explore the sacred in the been teaching together for over ten intersection of design and spiritual ordinary, the role of poetry, and years throughout North America. experience. He is the author of A the diverse weather we encounter Both are qualified Focusing Trainers Home for the Soul, The Temple in the throughout the mystical seasons as well as House, 24 Patterns of Wisdom, and of our lives. teachers. David served as private a film, The Living Temple. He has secretary to Chögyam Trungpa Tuition $205 + 2 nights received awards from the American Rinpoche, and has developed Institute of Architects and Interior Tessa Bielecki and Fr. Dave Denny Mindful Focusing, a unique Design Magazine, and has been have worked together for over forty synthesis of Eastern and Western featured on The Oprah Winfrey years, first as Carmelite monks in contemplative practices. His book, Show, National Public Radio, and the Spiritual Life Institute where Your Body Knows the Answer, other national media. they co-edited Desert Call. At will be published by Shambhala Colorado College, they taught Fire Publications in fall of 2014. Hope, and Light, a history of Christian a Senior Teacher training Alexander Mysticism. After leaving monastic teachers at The American Center for life in 2005, they created the Desert the Alexander Technique, has had Foundation (see www.desertfound. a lively private practice teaching org), published Season of Glad Alexander for over 25 years and Songs: A Christmas Anthology, and operates Hope Martin Studio in New now live in neighboring hermitages York City. in Crestone, Colorado. Tessa is also the author of three books on St. Teresa of Avila and recorded Wild at Heart for Sounds True.

16 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 AWAKENAWAKEN YOUR YOUR HEART HEART AND AND MIND MIND Spring | Summer 2014 | 17 Spring | Summer 2014 Tuition $190 + 2 Tuition nights Connie Gray has degrees in horticulture and landscape architecture and over 30 years of experience She working has with specialized plants. in using managing native natural plants areas, in and is built a environments, long-time educator for these subjects. Laurie Huckaby is an ecologist at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins and has done considerable research on SMC’s She land. specializes in using dendrochronology (the science of tree rings) to reconstruct climate effects and historical disturbances in Rocky Mountain and has American researched forests, land Native use and bark peeling practices. a director Training, of Shambhala Tolstrup, Jim has been a practitioner of indigenous wisdom traditions since He 1977. is president Ti of Cankatola a non-profit that Ospaye, American supports Native As the executive director of elders. the High Plains Environmental he Center in Colorado, Loveland, works with land developers to restore nature where and work, play. we live, more For information on the Seasons Four Program, see page 8. Exploring Trees and Wildflowers Trees Exploring Tolstrup & Jim Laurie Huckaby Connie Gray, Join us as we explore the native plant com- munities of Shambhala Mountain Center and learn about the complex relationships between During and wildlife. weather, soil, native plants, this we retreat, will also discover some of the history We and will cultural uses of native plants. visit trees that were peeled for food by Native Americans centuries ago and contemplate the age of trees – some of which are over 700 time to relax Taking deeply years into old. this unique we environment, will rekindle our sense of wonder natural for world the around intricate, In the William words us. Blake: of See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. July July 18 – 20 FOUR SEASONS PROGRAM

, an , organization TM seminars. A dedicated seminars. ® and Warrior of Warrior the and Heart TM Aikido practitioner since Bob 1977, also has experience in and a number jodo, He of hashealing kyudo, arts. kendo, taught at Naropa University and leads trainings worldwide. Tuition: $1040 +21 nights Tuition: Please see website for presenter bios This advanced program, formerly known as Vajrayana formerly Vajrayana known advanced program, This as is Seminary, designed to deepen students’ practice and understanding of the Buddhist and Shambhala and to enter teachings, them vajrayana into a sacred relationship with Sakyong the , Miphamviracharya helping him to Rinpoche, create an enlightened society. Assembly are Warrior Assembly Enlightened and Society prerequisites for along this with program, and vows. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Acharya Adam Lobel, Adam Lobel, Acharya Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Acharya Christie Cashman & June June 25 – July 16 SHAMBHALA ADVANCED Assembly World Sacred Tuition: Please see website for Tuition: tuition and housing Scorpion Seal Assembly VI Scorpion Seal Assembly Open to participants who have already completed V Scorpion and Seal the practice requirements for Please VI. Scorpion join Seal us for this potent and study, celebration of mandala the of practice, Scorpion Seal path. V. Assembly Scorpion Prerequisites: Seal June June 12 – 23 SHAMBHALA ADVANCED Tuition $190 + 2 Tuition nights is MA, WiseActions director Wing, of Bob Bob Wing In the mountains of there Japan, live beings called may They be real or they may Tengu. just be a way of describing a particular state of It mind. is said that protect the Tengu punish innocent, the the wicked, and teach master swordsmanship to the In worthy. we will study this the time physical together, aspects learn of a Japanese series swordsmanship, of practice and or perhaps two Tengu invite moves, to a instruct us on the right use of swordsmanship in the world today. transformative art This will help bring calmness in action refining to our our movement lives, and allowing our inner power to be more gracefully expressed. May 30 – June 1 WISDOM TRADITIONS of the Sword Wisdom dedicated to cultivating compassionate and transformative arts in the He world. is Warrior also the Mountain The founder of Institute July 18 – 20 July 23 – 27 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION Bridges to Heaven: Mindful Living: A Grief Healing Workshop Teachings and Practices Sue Frederick from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Experience powerful ways of releasing grief and Janet Solyntjes communicating with your departed loved ones. This healing retreat will draw on Sue Frederick’s Inspired by the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, this bestselling book, Bridges to Heaven: True Stories extended retreat offers an in-depth look at of Loved Ones on the Other Side, and share Sue’s mindfulness tools for engaging the demands of our effective teachings including the Eight Essential lives and for deepening our inquiry into fundamental Steps for Healing Grief and the Break Your Heart health and wholeness. Through sitting, walking, Wide Open Meditation. You will also receive and body scan meditation practices, , personal guidance and a brief reading from Sue, a and periods of silence, we will return to our lives lifelong intuitive, to help you heal. At the conclusion better equipped to manage stress and to confidently of this powerful weekend, you will leave with direct integrate mindfulness into daily life. Recommended experience of the soul presence of your departed, for both newcomers and people with prior a fresh new perspective on your pain, and a experience in mindfulness disciplines. meaningful plan for a brighter, happier future. Tuition $285 + 4 nights Tuition $205 + 2 nights See Janet’s bio on page 14. Sue Frederick is the author of Bridges to Heaven: True Stories of Loved Ones on the Other Side; I See Your Soul Mate and I See Your Dream Job. An intuitive since childhood, Sue has trained more than 200 intuitive coaches around the world. Her work has been S featured in the New York Times, CNN.com, and Yoga

PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Journal, among others. For more info about Sue, visit bridgestoheaven.com. “Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

18 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter July 23 – August 20 July 25 – August 2 SHAMBHALA WISDOM TRADITIONS Summer Dathun: Traditional Chinese Qigong: A Month-long Meditation Retreat Levels I-V Acharya Jenny Warwick Eva Wong (Levels IV-V) & Dale Asrael (Levels I-III) “Whether we sit for a month or a week, coming to Levels I-II: July 25–27 a Dathun is a profound step. We have heard about Level III: July 27–29 peace, strength of mind, and enlightenment. During Level IV: July 29–31 Dathun, we discover what these elements are, we Level V: July 31–August 2 see that they are innate, and we learn to bring Cultivate strength of body and calmness of mind them into our experience.” through the healing Taoist practice of qigong. This — Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche intensive program is a rare opportunity to receive instruction in two unique qigong lineages: the Pre- Dathun, Tibetan for “moon session,” is an Celestial Limitless Gate School (Xiantianwujimen) intensive group meditation retreat for new and and the Yiquan School. In Level I, we will practice experienced meditators interested in deepening techniques to strengthen the musculoskeletal their mindfulness-awareness. Composed of four systems, nourish internal organs, circulate energy, weekly segments called “weekthuns,” this month- and still the mind. In Level II, we will delve more long retreat allows participants to attend anywhere deeply into postures that cultivate flexibility, from one week up to the full Dathun. Through this strength, and softness in the joints, muscles, and immersive program, the practice of meditation goes tendons. We will also learn self-massage techniques beyond the cushion, with every aspect of daily AW AK to support our internal organs and circulate qi, or life becoming a practice of wakefulness and an life energy, through our meridians. In Levels III, IV opportunity to make better friends with ourselves and V, we will learn animal forms for balance and and our world. strength as well as practices for removing blockages. Tuition: Please see website for tuition and Talks on qigong, Chinese medicine, and will housing information be included.

Acharya Jenny Warwick has been a senior teacher in the EN YOUR HEART Shambhala Buddhist tradition since 1975. She teaches Levels I-II must be taken together. Levels III-V may Shambhala Buddhist programs throughout the North be taken separately but sequentially. West region of the U.S. Currently her special interests Prerequisites: none for Levels I-II; Levels III-V include intensive Werma practice, the teachings of the prerequisites are completion of the preceding levels. Gesar lineage, and the life of Yeshe Tsogyal. Tuition: Levels I-II: $195 + 2 nights lodging Levels III, IV, or V: $195 for each level + 2 nights lodging per level Attend any three levels to receive a 10% tuition discount.

Eva Wong, author and translator of 13 books on the Taoist arts of health, meditation, and qigong, is the 19th generation lineage carrier of Xiantianwujimen Taoism and 3rd generation student of Wang Xiangzhai, founder of the Yiquan martial arts and Zhangshuan (standing qigong).

See Dale’s bio on page 13. AND MIND

www.shambhalamountain.org SpringFall | |Summer Winter 20132014 | 19 July 26 – August 10 July 31 – August 3 August 4 – 10 ADVANCED SHAMBHALA MINDFUL LIVING MINDFUL LIVING Enlightened Society Mindful Hiking: Family Camp Assembly Waking Up to the Wild Steve Sachs, Rachel Steele, Kelly Lindsey & Others Enlightened Society Assembly Kay Peterson Looking to get away to nature is a Shambhala program that Like trees in the forest or with your family this summer? emphasizes the view of the fish in the sea, we have Come nurture bonds while intrinsic goodness of all beings an innate ability to live in rejuvenating your spirit in the and society, practices that rouse greater harmony with our beautiful terrain of Shambhala bodhichitta and compassionate environment. While trying to Mountain Center. Family Camp openness, and confident activity navigate our busy, high-tech is a creative and contemplative that engages fully in the world, we can develop retreat the whole family can world. In particular, living up habits of mind that leave enjoy. Take time for yourself in to its name, this Assembly will us feeling disconnected and the mornings with meditation, focus on how we can create unfulfilled. Delving deeply into yoga, workshops, or just relaxing enlightened society on the spot, the practice of mindfulness/ in nature while your children at home, in our city and nation, awareness in nature, we participate in enriching group and wherever we go. turn our attention toward activities like Rites of Passage. This program works to integrate the subtle interplay of our Then come together as a family in study, practice, and community thoughts, feelings, physical the afternoons and evenings for with an aim to understanding sensations, and sense fun activities like guided hiking, the basic goodness of oneself, perceptions and rediscover kite flying, calligraphy, dharma others, society and the how we can open to our art, storytelling, and singing. phenomenal world. Under fundamental interconnection the guidance of an Acharya to all things. Rather than Tuition and Meals: S and another senior teacher, always needing to change • $395 each adult • $265 first child (3+) PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Enlightened Society Assembly where we work, live, or who • $225 each additional child (3+) will provide an opportunity for we love, we can change our + 6 nights family lodging you to fully engage and integrate relationship to these aspects these teachings and practices of our lives in a way that Please see website for while living in a Shambhala brings us greater happiness registration procedure. practice environment. and contentment. Join us for Rites of Passage an extended weekend that Prerequisites: Please see website (for children age 8-10) will include sitting and hiking This special program marks the Tuition $420 + 15 nights meditation (moderate difficulty transition children make from Please see website for updated at 7,000’- 9,000’ elevation), being solely family-centered to teacher information. restorative yoga, and lots of becoming important individual time for solo reflection members of their community. in nature. Through sitting meditation, kyudo Tuition $225 + 3 nights (Zen archery), haiku, nature hikes, Kay Peterson, MA, MFT Intern, calligraphy, and other meditative “The clearest is a psychotherapist, wilderness arts, Rites of Passage gives guide, and Shambhala children powerful tools to help way into the meditation instructor. She has them care for their own mind and been facilitating nature-inspired emotions. The program’s end is Universe programs focused on individual sealed with a powerful ceremony transformation, creative group in which the children take a vow is through processes, and mindfulness of mindfulness and kindness since 1996. Kay also teaches a forest Mindfulness-Based Stress towards themselves and others. Reduction (MBSR) and is adjunct Tuition $105 per child wilderness.” faculty at Naropa University. Visit our website to read about our — John Muir fun and experienced team of Family Camp presenters.

20 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter August 8 – 10 August 11 – 19 August 13 – 15 BODY AWARENESS ADVANCED SHAMBHALA WISDOM TRADITIONS This Moment, Limitless Ayatanas– Traditional Chinese Beautiful Moment: Scorpion Seal Qigong: Yoga for Every Body and Werma Tendon-Changing and De West Practice Intensive: Marrow-Washing Intensive Cultivate deep awareness of Discovering the Eva Wong & Dale Asrael Sacredness of Sense your body and learn to uncoil This intermediate qigong program Perceptions through obstructions to find greater focuses on further strengthening the Werma Sadhana freedom. During this rejuvenating of the musculoskeletal retreat, we will discover where Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown system: tendons, bones, joints, we have developed patterns over One of the most provocative muscles, ligaments, and spine. the years. Even in the womb we teachings in the Werma Sadhana We will learn how to build favored one side or the other of is that our ayatanas, or sense musculoskeletal strength and our mother’s belly. Through slow, gates, are limitless. This program endurance for the practice of directed movements, we will learn introduces the profundity of the martial arts through the where we can focus our mind to these teachings through Werma Eight Basic Wudang Warrior create more energy and openness practice, talks, and guided Qigong forms; how to regain and less physical discomfort sensory exercises drawn from tendon strength and elasticity, and stress. We will target our the Buddhist and Shambhala revitalize bone marrow, and build entire bodies gently rather than traditions. We will explore endurance by enhancing bone stressing some parts while how these practices widen our and tendon strength through the AW AK ignoring others. This workshop is awareness of the ordinary magic 12 Devas and Animals forms; for every body and everybody. of direct perception and how we and how to direct internal energy Tuition $190 + 2 nights might bring these practices into toward healing and enhancing the musculoskeletal system using De West is a leader in the Boulder our daily lives. the Immortals’ Guide to Self- yoga community and is a co-director Prerequisite: Werma Practitioner of Studio Be Yoga. Her teaching Massage and Breath Regulation EN YOUR HEART Tuition $150 + 8 nights combines principles from Iyengar and Red Phoenix Calisthenics. alignment and therapeutic yoga. As Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, This program is a prerequisite a teacher, De is insightful, intuitive, Ph.D., is professor of religious for the four other intensives and attentive. Her years of work studies at Naropa University, and (Animal Forms, Breath Regulation, with osteopathic doctors allow her Dean of the Shambhala Teachers’ to apply yoga to many different Academy. She has been an acharya, Standing Qigong and people and conditions. Students senior dharma teacher, since 2000, Wudangshan Animals Long Form) leave De’s classes rejuvenated and and is author of ’s Warm and Traditional Chinese Qigong grounded with a sense of personal Breath: The Feminine Principle in Level VI. and physical empowerment. Tibetan Buddhism and Meditation Prerequisite: Traditional Chinese in the Classroom. Qigong Levels I – V Tuition $195 + 2 nights

See Eva’s bio on page 19. See Dale’s bio on page 13. AND MIND

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 21 August 15 – 17 August 15 – 17 WISDOM TRADITIONS CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS Traditional Chinese Brush Mind: Qigong: Zen Calligraphy and Brushwork Animal Forms Kazuaki Tanahashi Eva Wong & Dale Asrael Explore the 1,700-year-old wisdom of East Asian calligraphy The ancient Chinese shamans and engage your heart in learning and creativity. During this were the first to practice the contemplative retreat, we will faithfully copy selected ideographs art of “becoming” an animal in the different styles of ancient Chinese masterpieces. While to embody the power of that practicing basic aesthetics and techniques of brushwork, we will animal. Taoist practitioners further notice how our imperfection and inner criticism keep us from fully developed the techniques of enjoying each moment. Step by step, we will find ways to foster embodying animal energy as a joy and serene excitement, both in our art and in everyday life. means of enhancing health and We will experiment with artistic interpretation and spontaneous longevity. During this training, improvisation using a variety of papers and brushes. Materials will we will learn to embody the form include black ink and biodegradable watercolor paint. No previous and essences of the animals experience is needed. Brushes and paper will be provided. through Hua Tu’s Animal Forms Tuition $230 + 2 nights (includes materials) – the Wudang Five Animal Forms Kazuaki Tanahashi, born and trained in Japan, is an artist, writer, and – and selected forms from the 12 peace worker. As a painter and calligrapher, his brushwork has been Devas. We will also be introduced featured in solo exhibitions. He has created a genre of one-stroke to a new Wudang Shan form, paintings and multi-color Zen circles. As a calligrapher in East Asian style, the Combined Five Animals. By he creates works of large single ideographs. He is a Fellow of the World the end of the workshop, we Academy of Art and Science. will have the skills to embody S the essence of the bones of the “The brush from PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS tiger, the tendons of the leopard, the spine of the snake and the the East offers the dragon, the ligaments of the wisdom of being monkey, the stamina of the bear, the generative energy of the deer, slow, relaxed, and and the vital energy of the crane. fully present.” This program is a prerequisite for three other intensives (Breath — Kazuaki Tanahashi Regulation, Standing Qigong, Wudangshan Animals Long Form) and Traditional Chinese Qigong Level VI. Prerequisite: Traditional Chinese Qigong Levels I-V and Tendon- Changing & Marrow-Washing Intensive. Tuition $195 + 2 nights

See Eva’s bio on page 19. See Dale’s bio on page 13.

22 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter August 19 – 24 August 20 – 24 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION BODY AWARENESS 8th Annual Courageous Women, Summer Women’s Fearless Living: Meditation and A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer Yoga Retreat Judith Lief, Victoria Maizes, MD & Linda Sparrowe Katharine Kaufman Cancer is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this retreat, we Our bodies hold emotions, learn how to navigate this potentially confusing, treacherous, images, patterns, and stories. and heart-breaking terrain. Our extraordinary team of experts When we inhabit our bodies will share their wisdom in integrative medicine, Tibetan Buddhist through mindfulness practices, healing, meditation, yoga, art, ritual, and community building, we come to know ourselves as providing a multi-dimensional roadmap for a transformative complete and wakeful beings. journey. When gently and skillfully embraced, facing our mortality During this rejuvenating program, or that of someone we love can be a vehicle for profound healing we will play with the four and awakening: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. postures of meditation, practice Integrating body, mind, heart, and soul, we will discover ways nourishing yoga, and retreat in to meet the totality of this experience directly and courageously. the forests, fields, and groves Whether you have a current or past diagnosis or are the caregiver of Shambhala Mountain Center. or loved one of a woman on the cancer journey, join us August 19 Through sitting meditation, we and receive the tools you need to transform the way you relate to will contemplate the nature of the challenges you are facing. Way-Seeking Mind, the tender AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND MIND Tuition $395 + 5 nights under-world of our being. Our practice and insight will deepen Early registration is encouraged. through silent periods, and To support your participation in this retreat, Shambhala Mountain our community will develop Center is a 25% discount option on housing. understanding and trust through talking circles. This retreat takes Scholarships are available for this program on a first-come basis. place in a scenic pavilion among Please see the Courageous Women website, cwfl.org for information the pine trees – an indoor/ and an application specific to this retreat. outdoor space – and is limited The 8th Annual Courageous Women Retreat is being generously to 15 women. supported by the Eileen Fisher Foundation and the Beanstalk Tuition $285 + 4 nights Foundation, both of whom have awarded grants to fund See Katharine’s bio on page 12 program scholarships. Judy Lief is an experienced Buddhist teacher, author, and contemplative hospice pioneer. Her book, Making Friends With Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality, is a guide for those interested in how contemplative tools can be of benefit in facing loss and in caring for the dying.

Victoria Maizes, MD, is executive director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, founded by Dr. Andrew Weil and Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona. She is an internationally recognized leader in integrative medicine.

Linda Sparrowe, a writer and teacher with deep roots in both ancient and contemporary yoga, specializes in yoga for women’s health. She is the former editor-in-chief of Yoga International magazine and author of several books, including The Woman’s Book of Yoga & Health.

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 23 August 22 – 24 August 29 – September 1 SHAMBHALA CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS Learn to Meditate Healing Sound Retreat Patricia Kelly Christine Stevens & Silvia Nakkach It seems we all agree that Join two internationally renowned teachers in a powerful and training the body through illuminating exploration of cross-cultural rhythms and the inspired voice. exercise, diet, and relaxation This highly experiential program introduces you to the two most ancient is a good idea, but why don’t and transformative vehicles to support healing and release joy – voice we think about training our and rhythm. Through guided contemplative practices of drumming and minds? This weekend retreat will chanting, you’ll gather an original repertoire of medicine melodies to give accessible and powerful use personally and in shamanic, psychotherapy, and wellness sessions. meditation practice techniques You’ll learn healing rhythms and drumming from world cultures to to help us find peace within support your creativity, growth, and personal practice. No prior musical ourselves while developing a experience necessary. Being alive, you have a voice and a heartbeat. strong and flexible mind. We will Drums provided. draw from Turning the Mind Into Tuition $255 + 3 nights an Ally, the best-selling book by Music For Peace Ceremony at the Great Stupa Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, as Saturday, August 30, 7:30 pm (Included in retreat) we explore this question together $30 to attend Saturday evening only (includes dinner) in a contemplative and nurturing Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, a pioneer in the field of sound and transformation environment. You will receive a of consciousness, is an award-winning composer, voice-culturist, and copy of this book at the retreat. a former psychologist. She is on the faculty of the California Institute Tuition $150 + 2 nights of Integral Studies and founder of the Vox Mundi School of the Voice. A long-time student of the late maestro Ali Akbar Khan, she has released Patricia was introduced to 10 CD-albums and authored Free Your Voice. meditation practice by a Zen/ S Episcopal priest in 1986. She holds Christine Stevens, MSW, MT-BC, MA is the author of Music Medicine, the

PRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS a masters degree in Contemplative Science and Spirit of Healing Yourself through Sound and The Healing Drum Psychotherapy from Naropa Kit. Founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, she has trained facilitators from over University and has been in private 25 countries. Christine led the first drum circle training for peace-making in practice in Boulder since 1992. She a war-zone in northern Iraq. Her work has been featured on NBC, PBS, KTLA, is a student of Sakyong Mipham and the movie Discover the Gift. Rinpoche and has served in various capacities at the Boulder Shambhala Center.

24 | Phone: (888) 788-7221 www.facebook.com/shambhalamountaincenter August 29 – September 1 August 29 – September 1 BODY AWARENESS WISDOM TRADITIONS Running with the Mind Thoughts Are Not the Enemy: of Meditation An Introduction to Recollective Cynthia MacKay, Marty Kibiloski & Tarah Cech Awareness Meditation This popular retreat is based on Sakyong Mipham Jason Siff Rinpoche’s best-selling book, Running with the Learn a new and refreshing approach to meditation Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training the Body that calms the mind by allowing thoughts rather and the Mind. Geared for runners, walkers, and than stopping them. Recollective Awareness other athletes, the book offers fresh insights into Meditation is a unique and easy to learn form of the activities of meditation and movement, and the practice that brings you in touch with your emotions. ways our running experience can be dramatically By surrendering control over where your attention enhanced by working with the principles of goes in meditation, you will learn how to tolerate meditation. Our retreat will bring these teachings and understand difficult emotions and meet each to life through direct instructions in the practices experience in a softer, kinder manner. Thoughts of sitting, walking and running meditation, yoga, and emotions begin to settle down naturally as and discussion groups. We will contemplate awareness of the body and the breath move into the our motivation in both our sitting and running foreground, opening up to greater tranquility and meditations. We feel our way into the mindfulness of heightened clarity. the Tiger, discover the pure appreciation and joy of During this renewing retreat, meditation sessions the Lion, and see our basic goodness in the strength will last 20 to 40 minutes and can be done and gentleness of Windhorse. The same steady basic AW AK sitting comfortably or lying down. There will also goodness exists whether we are sitting, running, be optional journal practice for writing down walking, swimming, or struggling with injury. meditation experiences and hour-long interviews in The program is designed for runners and walkers small groups. of all levels, as well as other athletes wishing to experience the joy of synchronizing mind and body. Tuition $255 + 3 nights

Tuition $255 + 3 nights Jason Siff was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the EN YOUR HEART 1980s when he started developing Recollective Cynthia MacKay has been a student of Sakyong Mipham Awareness Meditation. In 1996, he co-founded the Rinpoche for over 20 years. Inspired by her teacher’s Skillful Meditation Project and has been a full-time running, Cynthia has completed eight marathons of her meditation teacher since then. He also trains teachers own, from Casablanca to San Francisco. She lives in Los in Recollective Awareness Meditation in retreats Angeles where she teaches meditation at the Shambhala throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia. His first book Center, the Men’s Central Jail, and a drug and alcohol on meditation, Unlearning Meditation: What to do when rehabilitation facility. the instructions get in the way, was published in 2010. Marty Kibiloski is an Ironman veteran. Through meditation and yoga, he has discovered a deeper sense of richness that brings fullness to all aspects of his life.

Tarah Michelle Cech is a naturopath, Anasura Yoga instructor, Lomi Lomi practioner, and wellness educator. She has run 13 marathons and received All-American honors in track events. Her personal practice, Island Girls Naturals, is located on Maui, Hawaii. AND MIND

www.shambhalamountain.org Spring | Summer 2014 | 25 Four Seasons Program: Earth and Sky September 12 – 14 MINDFUL LIVING These two groups will join together for two short sessions over the weekend to share in exploration of our connection Waking Up to both earth and sky. to the Wild: Nature Walks September 5 – 7 September 5 – 7 Kay Peterson FOUR SEASONS PROGRAM FOUR SEASONS PROGRAM Join us for a rejuvenating Being with the Land: Big Sky, Big Mind: weekend of gentle walking Turning to Nature Contemplative Astronomy meditation in the fresh air and the Seasons Workshop and sunshine. This retreat is Clare Walker Leslie Andrea Schweitzer & Jim Tolstrup well-suited for those who are looking for short walks on easy Join naturalist, writer, artist, and Throughout history, we have terrain at the lower elevations teacher Clare Walker Leslie, for looked to the skies to follow (around 8,000’). Wake up to an opportunity to sink into the the rhythm of the seasons and the wild both inside and out! earth, air, sky, and mountains to ponder life’s mysteries. This around you, gathering a deeper workshop will reignite our Tuition $190 + 2 nights connection to land that can carry passion for the stars by using September 26 – 28 you beyond this weekend. interactive, kinesthetic astronomy PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION Tuition $205 + 2 nights to experience the movement of the celestial bodies. Sacred Embodiment, Tuition $190 + 2 nights Sacred Service: A Retreat for Women September 5 – 7 September 11 – 14 Judith Ansara & Danya River SHAMBHALA CONTEMPLATIVE ARTS Through guided meditations, Shambhala Training Opening the movement and voice, solo writing, partner and group Level I: Good Eye: processes, and time in nature, The Art of Being Human An Introduction to we will learn to access our Jonathan Barbieri Miksang Photography unique vision and to weave our Michael Wood & Julie DuBose gifts into the fabric of our lives. This immersive meditation weekend helps us open to If you would like to be able to Tuition $205 + 2 nights ourselves with gentleness and express your full and complete appreciation, and begin to see experience of seeing through October 10 – 21 our potential as genuine and your camera, this course is for ADVANCED SHAMBHALA compassionate human beings. you. Through visual exercises, Scorpion Seal FALL HIGHLIGHTS This program is recommended for assignments, discussion, and new and experienced meditators, sharing of images, we learn how Assembly II as well as for those looking to to recognize our experience of This retreat, led by Shambhala enrich their existing spiritual direct visual perception. acharyas, will focus on path. You will receive a copy of Tuition $300 + 3 nights intensive practice of the Shambhala: The Sacred Path of Werma Sadhana and other the Warrior by Chögyam Trungpa practices, as well as the Rinpoche. reading transmission of the Tuition $150 + 2 nights entire Profound volume. Prerequisites: Completion of Scorpion Seal Assembly I and related practice requirements Tuition: Please see website for tuition, housing and updated teacher information.

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Aug 24 – Sep 28 Apr 27 – Jun 8 (Application deadline is May 1) (Application deadline is Jul Dates 1. may vary slightly.) Join us for a week or more this spring or summer and help us with the set-up and of take-down our Enjoy seasonal working tent in village. our mountain meadows practicing and meditation, wooded hillsides, participating in some of and our renowned programs, making new friends. Shambhala Mountain Center provides dorm or tent access to meditation meals, housing, instruction, will also earn You $100 classes and group activities. in program credits each week which can be used at SMC While for we up have to a two lot years. of fun and work please hard, be aware that the Center is located high in the Rocky Mountains (about 8,000’), and the work can be Please physical and rigorous. consider this before applying. apply please To Visit our website to learn more. [email protected] email: Volunteer and Core Staff Opportunities Opportunities Staff and Core Volunteer We are seeking committed individuals who aspire to create an enlightened society through working in a contemplative serving practice community, and inspiring guests who come to Shambhala Mountain Center. Summer Positions May 1 – Septmeber 30 (Application deadline is May 1) Enjoy summer in the beautiful Rocky Mountains We have during our most exciting time of year. a wide variety of positions available in a range Check our of website departments. for updates on opportunities. Take-Down: Summer Set-Up and Fall Set-Up: Take-Down: – All donations – are

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Being in nature has always been a huge part part a huge been has always nature in Being theoretical. You feel them. You’re part of it.” part of it.” them. You’re feel You theoretical. through monthly Receive giving. a membership pin and special member updates. Scholarship Fund restrictions experience Shambhala Mountain. Donation One-Time greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. Donate on our website or contact us at [email protected] Ways to Help Ways Monthly Donors Generosity in Action in Action Generosity generosity plays a Your pivotal role in helping Shambhala Mountain Center provide transformative now retreats and for generations to come. of the SMC experience. The seasons are not are seasons The SMC experience. of the www.shambhalamountain.org — Lodging and Meals Inclusive Bedding Shambhala Mountain Center’s accommodations are All Lodge and Red Feather rooms include bedding comfortable and varied, ranging from simple shared and towels. If you are staying in a tent or seasonal quarters to fine lodge rooms. Meals, with vegetarian dormitory please bring your own twin bedding options, are included. and towels unless otherwise indicated in your registration information. Lodges Staying Offsite The Shambhala Lodge offers single and double rooms, with full-size beds. All rooms have a desk, walk-in Participants staying offsite pay tuition, plus $49 per day closet and private bathroom with towel warmers. If for meals and use of our facilities. you are traveling alone and reserve a bed in a double room, we will assign you a roommate. The Rigden Transportation Lodge offers single rooms with a queen-size bed For travel information including shuttle providers topped by a cozy comforter, a desk, dresser, closet and from Denver International Airport, directions from private bath. Our Jr. Suites also include a sitting area surrounding areas, and the Shambhala Mountain and bathtub. Smaller rooms are furnished with full-size Shuttle to and from Fort Collins, please visit our beds, a desk and closet, and access to shared baths. website or email [email protected]. Two same-gender dormitories, each with seven twin Rideshare beds and shared baths, are also available. Be kind to the environment. Rideshare is a fun and Summer Platform Tents easy way to share costs and meet new friends. Located in campgrounds throughout the property, Available on our website. these 12’x14’ tents have two twin beds, two bookcases and a hanging clothes rack. Each campground offers a shared bathouse. About Your Stay ■ Guest registration is from 2:00 to 5:00 pm SPRING | SUMMER PROGRAMS Red Feather Campus on arrival day. Our Red Feather Campus is a 15-minute walk from ■ Meals include dinner on arrival day the main campus and features four rustic cabins. through lunch on departure day. Three contain five double rooms, outfitted with two twin beds, and a fourth is arranged for dormitory ■ SMC altitude is 8,000 feet. Weather changes space. Guests make use of a shared bathhouse. quickly and can vary to extremes. ■ Gift store offers some toiletries and a few Seasonal Dorms over-the-counter medications. Additional dorm space, configured for up to fifteen ■ Internet access is available in most rooms, people per room, is available from September but connectivity is unpredictable in our through May. mountainous location. ■ Cell phones do not get reception here. Public phones are available. ■ The nearest medical facility and/or pharmacy is located about one hour away in Fort Collins. ■ Please bring no-scent or low-scent toiletries, and refrain from using scented products. All campus facilities are smoke-free. Smoking is allowed only in designated outdoor areas ■ Pets, other than designated service animals, are not allowed on the land. ■ For safety reasons, please refrain from burning candles, incense or sage in rooms/tents. More Questions? Need Help? Call us! 888-788-7221

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Rates The rates given are per person, per night. Prices Room and Meals Inclusive include lodging, three meals per day (vegetarian Note: All rates are per person/per night option available) and use of our facilities (trails, the Platform Tent Great Stupa, meditation gardens, dining hall, etc.). Double $79 To calculate the total cost of your stay, add your lodging amount (program nights x room rate) to the Single $109 tuition amount listed in your program description. Seasonal Dorm Prices are subject to change. Please call or check (September – May) $79 our website for updates and special offers. We Red Feather reserve the right to cancel any program. Double $109 Discounts Lodge Accommodations Shambhala Mountain Center offers a 10% discount Dorm/Shared bath $109 off of housing and meals to full-time students and Double/Private bath $147 senior citizens (60 years or older). If you qualify for a discount, please use the coupon code indicated on Single/Shared bath $167 the registration page. Single/Private bath* $209 AW AK Jr. Suite/Private bath* $263 Subsidized Rate/Financial Aid Children’s Rates (Ages 7–17) † Our subsidized rate is $60 per night for Tent or Seasonal Dorm/Shared Bath accommodations Same room as parents $39 depending on the season. This includes both lodging Age 6 and under FREE and meals but does not affect program tuition. * A second person in a private bath Single or Jr. Suite is $75 per night. EN YOUR HEART

This option is available for select programs on † Children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver at all times. the program registration page. This offer cannot We do not offer childcare. For more information, visit our website. be combined with other discounts or financial aid. Shambhala Mountain offers financial aid to individuals for select programs on a by-needs basis. If financial aid is available for the program you are Sample Schedule interested in, a notice will appear on the program (May change depending on individual program) registration page. Please see our website for Arrival Day more details. 2–5 pm – Registration Group Rentals 6–7 pm – Dinner 7 pm – Orientation: Program Begins Our facility and its surroundings provide a comfortable, rustic and naturally peaceful Typical Day environment for rental groups seeking a 7:30–8:30 am – Breakfast contemplative environment. We can host up to 9 am–12:30 pm – Program Session/Activities 150 guests in the fall, winter and spring. During 12:30–1:30 pm – Lunch AND MIND the summer, platform tents increase our group 1:30–3 pm – Work Assignment/Free Time capacity to 450. Our campus has three unique 3–6:30 pm – Program Session indoor meeting facilities, ranging in size from 875 to 6–7 pm – Dinner 1600 sq ft, which can be used singly or jointly. All 8 pm – Program Session meeting facilities provide an environment that can be configured to suit your group’s needs and activities. Departure Day For more details about our rental facilities, including 7:30–8:30 am – Breakfast square footage, group capacity configurations and 9 am–12:30 pm – Program activities photos, please visit our website. 12:30 pm – Lunch and Departure

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