Featured Events
Virtual Practice Series
Shelter in the Storm: Calling on the Blessings of the 5 Buddha Families
Saturday, October 11th - November 8th from 1-4pm ET
Join Lama Rod in the exploration of how each of the five Buddha Families –along with their corresponding symbolic elements, qualities, and personalities – can help us metabolize this moment of immense transformation and move us forward in the heart of spiritual abolition to liberate our entire ecology.
It's not too late to join! Registration upen until October 18th!
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Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
Next Session TBA
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.
Werk with Lama Rod
 Next Session in 2026
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, November 4th 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, November 23rd 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.
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 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.
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Time Beyond Clocks and Calendars: Exploring Mother Vishwamatha's Wisdom
Wednesdays, October 8th, 15th, and 29th, 2025 from 4-6pm PT
Online
Join Lama Rod Owens for a 3-class series exploring non-linear time through Mother Vishawamata, the mother of timelessness in the Kalachakra Tantra. It's not too late to join! Sign up for any or all sessions.
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Trauma-Informed Yoga Social Justice CertificationÂ
Begins Upon RegistrationÂ
Online
Lama Rod will be teaching in Susanna Barkataki’s Trauma-Informed Yoga & Social Justice Certification, a 50-hour, year-long certification for changemakers, yoga teachers, educators, healers, and deep hearted folks who are ready to go deeper.
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The Wisdom of the Hive: Facing Fear and the Future Together, Part 1 of 3
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 from 6 - 7:30pm ET
Online
Pain AND sweetness coexist. Discover how honeybees can lead us towards a future of greater connection to ourselves, each other, and the entire ecosystem.
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This gathering at Sweetgum Manor is an invitation to release spiritual wounds, reconnect with your body as sacred, and discover practices that nurture freedom, connection, and belonging.
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Join us for a transformative online daylong exploring the powerful and often misunderstood emotion of anger.
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Meditation Heights Dharma Talk & Meditation
Thursday, November 6th, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:00pmÂ
Jersey City, NJ
Lama Rod will be offering a talk and practice gathering in Jersey City.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2025 from 10:00am - 5:00pmÂ
New York, NY and Online
At this daylong event at New York Insight, join Lama Rod in a mid-autumn offering as the seasons change and the year comes to a close. Through evoking the sacred lineage of Ma Tara, the female Buddha of liberatory compassion, we will explore this liberating relationship with grief through guided ritual and energetic practice in order to open and resource our hearts to keep moving on.
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Healing, Resiliency, and Liberation in Times of Collapse
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET
Burlington, VT
Lama Rod is offering a talk & practice with Burlington Dharma Collective to explore themes of spiritual abolition, liberatory care, grieving as care work, as well as what it means to be a love centered agent of liberation in this moment.
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Lama Rod will be offering a talk on his book The New Saints at Just Book-ish.
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Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey in Reverence & Reimagining
Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 1:30 - 3:00pm ET
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Buddhist Voices for Immigration Justice: Compassion in Action
Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 6:00- 07:30 PM ET
Online
Together we can bring the Dharma to life by standing with immigrant communities in compassion and solidarity. Event proceeds will be divided between a national nonprofit serving the immigrant community, the Buddhist coalition for Democracy, and IMCW.
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