Register for Online

Please register for only one of the formats: Online or In-Person.

For In-Person Attendance: Space is limited. We suggest registering as soon as possible to reserve your seat. If the available seats fill up early, there will be an option to add your name to a waiting list. Registration closes on Thursday, July 16th at 6:00pm Pacific Time.

Great Bliss Meditation Practice & Teaching of the Magnetizing Dakini Kurukulle

In this year’s 3-Day Summer Meditation Retreat, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will teach on the Magnetizing Dakini Kurukulle for the first time and will introduce us to a great bliss meditation practice of Kurukulle from a mind treasure of Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, which Rinpoche has translated into English. Rinpoche will also teach on how to bring all sensory experience into great bliss, and through direct instruction will guide us in this profound practice.

In addition, during the retreat Rinpoche will offer the Kurukulle empowerment and will teach about samaya, sacred commitments.

Through the meditation practice of the Magnetizing Dakini Kurukulle, we will learn how to magnetize worldly and transcendent, beyond-worldly qualities, and transform all ordinary experience into enlightened experience. In particular, we will explore how the five sensory enjoyments can be brought into great bliss.

Each practice carries its own energy and emphasis. For example, Chöd focuses on fearless experience, cutting through fear and attachment and resolving karmic debts. Vajrasattva emphasizes purification, clearing negative karma and emotions. Guru Rinpoche practice, or Guru Yoga, brings the energy of enlightened qualities into one’s life, removing ordinary perceptions of body, speech, and mind. Bodhicitta increases love and compassion, expanding the heart toward all beings.

Kurukulle embodies a distinct quality: magnetizing, blissful, and transformative. Through this practice, we learn how to draw in supportive conditions and bring all experience onto the path. Sensory and sensual experiences become a source of great bliss. In this way, all experiences increase bliss, everything naturally melts into great bliss, and enlightened experience can arise in this very moment.

Kurukulle is the manifestation of enlightenment in female form, the awareness of all enlightened beings appearing as a magnetizing dakini. Her activity is to bring ordinary experience into great bliss. Through this practice, one magnetizes both worldly and transcendent qualities, bringing beneficial conditions, positive circumstances, and awakened qualities into one’s life without hindrance. At the ordinary level, this means gathering what is supportive and beneficial. At a deeper level, one magnetizes blessings, energy, and enlightened qualities.

Schedule:

Friday, July 17th – Sunday, July 19th
10:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time: Morning Session
12:00pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time: Lunch
1:30pm – 4:00pm Pacific Time: Afternoon Session

Pricing:

Online
$150 – Program Price
$151 – $750 – Program Price + Donation
$50 – $149 – Scholarship Rate

In-Person
$275 – Program Price
$276 – $1000 – Program Price + Donation
$150 – $274 – Scholarship Rate (Limited seats available for in-person scholarship rate. Please contact us if you no longer see this option available upon checkout.)

No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. Please contact us if you need to make special arrangements.

Important Notes:

Prerequisites:

• The retreat is open to those who have received Vajrayana teachings before as well as those who are interested in and open to Vajrayana teachings and practices that include mantra recitation and visualization.

Live Stream and Recording:

• The Retreat will be live-streamed on Zoom for participants attending Online.
• Video recordings will be available for all participants (In-Person and Online) approximately one week after the retreat. The recordings will be available for 1 month.

In-Person Attendees:

• This is a commuter retreat. If you’re coming from out of town and need local accommodations, here are several hotels within a 20 minute driving distance of the retreat:
  • • Novato Oaks Inn (Best Western) Discount available after registering.
    • Marriott Novato Discount available after registering.
    • Sheraton Petaluma
    • Hampton Inn Petaluma
• Please bring your lunch each day as there will not be time to leave during the lunch break. There will be plenty of refrigerator space and a microwave available for your use. We also recommend bringing a bottle or thermos of water if you wish.
• We ask that anyone who is not feeling well or has any recent symptoms of illness prior to the event – or who has been in close contact with anyone who does – not attend in-person. If you are no longer able to attend in-person, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected] and we will be happy to assist you in getting set up to attend remotely via the live stream. Please let us know as far in advance as possible so that we may offer your seat to someone else.

Additional Notes:

• If you have a different time zone, you may convert the time to your local time here.