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- Begins March 29th | Journey Through Grief Yearlong Program (Registration Open Until May 31st)
- Saturday, May 30th |Â Daylong Retreat in Atlanta: Healing, Resiliency, and the New Free World
- Saturday, June 6th | Werk with Lama Rod: Mindfulness as Spiritual Abolition
- Sunday, June 21st |Â Sunday Service for the New Saints
- Tuesday, June 23rd | Blessed Slay: Embodying the Jewel Garland of LiberationÂ
- Saturday, June 27th | Atlanta Daylong Retreat
- Sunday, June 28th | Lama Rod's Learning & Practice Community Monthly Live Gathering
- Sunday, July 19th | Medicine Buddha Half Day Retreat [Save the Date]
- Every Monday |Â Medicine Buddha: A Weekly Gathering with Lama Rod & Fellow PractitionersÂ
“There’s no liberation without actually leaning forward and looking at the things that we habitually run away from, in order to see things as they really are, not as we have imagined them.”
Werk with Lama Rod Spring '26 Offering
Mindfulness as Spiritual Abolition: Healing Our Confusion About the Truth of Freedom
Saturday, June 6th, 2026 from 11am-3pm ET
Immerse yourself in a half-day virtual retreat devoted to deep and embodied exploration of mindfulness as a radical force for spiritual abolition and joy. Drawing inspiration from our beloved community of Free Radicals, practitioners of all backgrounds from around the world are invited to deepen their direct relationship with the werk of mindfulness as a timeless capacity for freedom and healing beyond conceptual theory or critique.
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Monthly Daylong Retreats in Atlanta
Next Daylong:Â June 27th, 2026 from 9am-5pm ET
This Daylong Retreat series is a new monthly offering dedicated to deepening relationships with land and community in Atlanta through in person experiences of Lama Rod’s diverse teachings. The theme and structure of these offerings will change each month and in alignment with the needs of practitioners.
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“Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints.”
Discover insights and techniques to ignite your inner fierceness and compassion; create a sustainable spiritual practice that serves others and the planet; and embody the virtues of a New Saint.
Here is a clarion call for becoming a spiritual warrior—a human refreshed, serving a vision of a world shaped by love.
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