Featured Events
Give Everything: Reclaiming Joy, Clarity and Awakened Care Through Mandala Offering
Werk Series Spring 2025 Offering with Lama Rod OwensÂ
Saturday, April 26th from 2:30pm - 6:30pm ET
The Spring Werk session is inspired by the profound teachings of Mandala Offering, a transformative practice of visionary imagination and ritual embodiment dedicated to freeing all beings everywhere without exception.
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2025 UK Retreats
The Dharma of Spring Awakening
May 6-11th, 2025
Join us in experiencing 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.
Click here to register for the Spring Awakening retreat.
(Registration for the in-person retreat has been extended until Monday, April 28th!)
Can't make it to the retreat? Bring your retreat home! Click here to register for the recordings for the Spring retreat.
Autumn Moon
September 26th - October 1st, 2025
We will experience practices and teachings to harvest what we have personally seeded and prepare to rest and reflect on balance, surrender, and stillness as Winter approaches.
Click here to register for the Autumn Moon retreat.
Ongoing Offerings
Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
May 24th, 2025 from 12-1:30pm 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.
Ma Tara
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
Sunday, April 20th from 11am - 3pm ET (In Combination with Sunday Service for New Saints)
Through evoking the sacred lineage of Ma Tara, the female Buddha of compassion, we explore the liberating practice of keeping our hearts open in the face of pain, grief, and loss, as well as the joy, beauty, and connection in the world.Â
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.
Werk with Lama Rod
Give Everything: Reclaiming Joy, Clarity and Awakened Care Through Mandala Offering
Spring 2025: Saturday, April 26th, 2025 from 2:30-6:30pm ET
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 20th, 2025 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, May 25th from 11am - 3pm 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.
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
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Join this three-part series at BCBSÂ to experience Lama Rod's unique translation of the Buddhist Lojong (Mind Training) teachings.
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Emergent Healing Spaces! Connecting to Our (More Than Human) Ancestors
April 29th - May 4th, 2025
In-Person at Yoga Roots Odeceixe, Portugal
Join Lama Rod & friends for an exploration of connecting to our ancestors at an in-person retreat in Portugal!
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Public Talk with Lama Rod Owens
July 24th from 7-8:30pm ET
In-Person at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham NC
In a time of systems collapse and rapid change, we are invited to remember who we are and resolve to do the work of learning to be free in an unfree world.Â
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July 25-27th, 2025
In-Person at Avila Center for Community Leadership, Durham NC
Join Lama Rod Owens as he guides us into relationship with our suffering and with both the seen and the unseen worlds to do the work of abolishing systems of violence. Through connection to the elders, the elements, land, indigenous wisdom, our magic, and our practice, we can learn to be the medicine we and our communities need.
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