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Kalachakra Tantra Extra Practice Module
April 15 - April 19, 2019
Robert A.F. Thurman
Michele Loew
Michael G. Burbank
For those students and practitioners attending the Kalachakra Tantra Study & Practice Intensive, this discounted extra week-long practice module is available, providing ample time for significant mantra accumulation and sadhana practice in the breathtaking hidden mountain valley of Tibet House’s Menla Retreat and Spa. Start your day with optional yoga, book nourishing treatments in our Tibetan Dewa Healing Spa, and enjoy daily long practice sessions led by Dr. Thurman.Students will also benefit from unlimited access to our Devi Room meeting space for personal practice. This intimate space features large-format images of Kalachakra-Vishvamata yab-yum and the Kalachakra Mandala as well as access to supplemental books, including the priceless out-of-print Kalachakra Tantra picture book by Namgyal Monastery which includes hundreds of detailed images of the many deities of the mandala.Treat yourself to a perfect practice environment and much-needed peace, quiet, and solitude, as well as additional opportunities to ask Thurman questions relating to your practice. Join us for this personally transformative and very inspiring retreat intended to help initiates, from total novices to more advanced practitioners, deepen their connection to, their understanding of, and ultimately their embodiment of the magnificent reality of Kālachakra-Vishvamata.Please bring your own vajra, bell, damaru, and inner offering vessel (ritual skullcup).Please note: Menla’s Co-Director Michael Burbank or Michele Loew may fill in for Thurman if he is unexpectedly unable to attend a practice session on any given day.Schedule Coming Soon!
ABOUT THE TEACHERs
Robert A.F. Thurman
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University as well as co-founder and President of Tibet House US and it's Menla Retreat & Spa. A world-wide lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, translator of Buddhis...
Michele Loew
Michele Loew is an international yoga teacher and the founder and director of The Yoga Space in Portland, Oregon. She is known as a teacher’s teacher and is respected for her 200 Hr. & 500 Hr. Yoga Schools and her ability to combine Western knowledge of the body (anatomy & ph...
Michael G. Burbank
Michael G. Burbank has been a student of Robert Thurman and HH the XIV Dalai Lama for 20 years, since his undergraduate years at Columbia University. In February of 2002 he was invited to help the Thurmans and Tibet House start the newly acquired Menla retreat. Over the years, he...
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