Featured Events
In-Person in Atlanta
Healing, Resiliency, and the New Free WorldÂ
Saturday, May 30th, 2026 from 9am-5pm ET
The world is unsteady and chaotic. Many of us are being confronted with the reality of death and change in a way we thought we never would. In the face of all this, it is hard to maintain our physical and emotional balance. In this daylong in Atlanta, we will explore healing and resiliency through meditation, breath practice, gentle movement, visualizations, and group discussions.
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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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Virtual
Journey Through Grief
A Year in the Practice & Ritual of Breaking our Hearts Open
March 2026 - March 2027
Registration Open Until May 31st
As we move through this period of intense systemic collapse, confronting one crisis after another, we are experiencing a loss that seems to transcend language. This loss brings forth grief that is both personal and collective, as much as it is nonlinear, ambiguous, potent, and overwhelming. The next few years of our collective experience will be heavy with grief as we tend to the dying of our old world to open to the birth of a world anew. Grief work will be the next stage of healing activism. Join Lama Rod for a yearlong journey through grief from broken to open hearts.
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UK Retreat
Autumn Moon
29th September - 4th October, 2026
Somerton, UK
Sliding Scale and Installment payments available
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Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026 from 10-11:30am ET
In this practice, the Tantric deity known in Tibetan as Chenrezig (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara) becomes a representation of our own capacity for boundless love, opening a doorway into that love's energy and wisdom.
Medicine Buddha
A Weekly Gathering with Lama Rod & Fellow Practitioners
Every Monday from 7-8:30pm ESTÂ
Join Lama Rod and fellow practitioners for guided Medicine Buddha practice to nourish healing, deepen spiritual friendship, and abolish social forces that perpetuate harm for self and others.
Free Radicals: A Monthly Online Community Gathering
First Thursday of Every Month at: 6pm - 7pm UK Â | Â 1pm - 2pm EST Â | 10am - 11am PST
Free Radicals is a monthly online community practice space created specifically with our UK friends in mind - although everyone is welcome to join us.
Lama Rod's Learning & Practice Community
This space is to engage and deepen your practice, be witnessed by community, and connect more consistently to Lama Rod Owens' teachings. It is one of many ways to activate your commitment toward healing yourself and getting free.Â
Upcoming gatherings open to members:
 - Saturday May 23rd: Monthly Live Gathering
Werk with Lama Rod
Spring '26 Session on June 6, 2026 from 11am-3pm ET
Access the Recordings from Past Werk Sessions
The “Werk” series is a seasonal offering dedicated to deepening our embodied experience of spiritual abolition rooted in Lama Rod’s lineage and diverse teachings. Recordings of past sessions are available on demand.
Blessed Slay:
Embodying the Fire of the Kagyu Lineage
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 from 6-9pm ET
Lama Rod will be sharing monthly teachings on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, a masterwork of Tibetan Buddhism and foundational text of the 3-year retreat in the Kagyu School, written by Gampopa (b.1079 - d.1153).Â
Sunday Service for New Saints
 Sunday, July 19th, 2026 from 11am-2pm ET
In the spirit of Sunday Service, we call upon all the New Saints (and those curious about what that is) to come together and co-create a virtual space of reflection and practice.
2026 Daylong Retreat Series in Atlanta
Upcoming Daylong: May 30th, 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.Â
Self-Guided Offerings
The Dharma of Spiritual Abolition: Self-Guided Course on the Heart Sutra
This course explores how we might abolish anything that prevents us from being in direct, honest, and compassionate relationships first with ourselves and then the communities we belong to. The Heart Sutra is one of the tools available to us in this work of liberation.
Love and Rage: Self-Guided Course
This on-demand, self-guided Love and Rage course allows you to move at your own pace as you learn about the core meditation practices from Lama Rod’s best-selling book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger.Â
The Heart of Ma Tara: A Self-Guided Practice of Liberation & Boundless CompassionÂ
Our grief work calls for an expansive, multifaceted approach to help us move through times of change and uncertainty. Join Lama Rod's new self-guided practice series on Ma Tara, the female Buddha of compassion, to help us move through individual and collective grief with more compassion and freedom.
The Dharma of Spring Awakening
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Experience both an aliveness and a spaciousness around this revealing truth, in each moment, moving us through the brokenheartedness of a long Winter into the vitality of Spring. Select recordings of the 2025 UK Spring retreat in the are now available on-demand.
More Events
The Abolitionist’s Dream: A Journey through Love, Healing, and Liberation
August 13-20th, 2026
in Springfield, NH
Lama Rod Owens returns back to Wonderwell Mountain Refuge and NDF’s online space for a weeklong hybrid retreat.
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Remembering the Rituals to Awaken the Land
August 6, 2026
in Stockbridge, MA
In this online workshop, engage in meditation and somatic based practices that can guide us back to our bodies and relationship to the land.
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Land, Ancestors, and the World Beyond
October 23-25, 2026
in Stockbridge, MA
Our liberation is bound to our relationship with the earth, which is always pointing us to true awakening. Lama Rod is offering a retreat at Kripalu, where you will reconnect with your body and the earth through somatic-based mindfulness practices, grief work, chanting, prayer, ancestor practice, and more.
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