Featured Events
Online
Journey Through Grief
A Year in the Practice & Ritual of Breaking our Hearts Open
March 2026 - March 2027
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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2026 UK Retreats
The Dharma of Spring Awakening
28th April - 3rd May, 2026
Autumn Moon
29th September - 4th October, 2026
Somerton, UK
Sliding Scale and Installment payments available
Register for both 2026 UK Retreats and receive a 10% discount!Â
Limited spaces remaining.
Click here to register for the Spring retreat.
Click here to register for the Autumn retreat.
Ongoing Offerings
Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
Saturday, February 21st, 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, February 21st: Monthly Live Gathering
- Saturday, March 22nd: Monthly Live Gathering
Werk with Lama Rod
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, March 17th, 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, April 5th, 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.
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.
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Living An Ethic of Love – Celebrating Black Dharma Teachings
Weekdays, February 2nd – 27th, 2026
Online
This February, New York Insight invites you to explore that legacy through a month-long series of Black dharma teachings, offered as a daily practice of reflection, resilience, and connection. When you join, you’ll receive a short prerecorded video dharma talk each weekday from Black dharma teachers including Lama Rod Owens, Jan Willis, Rhonda Magee, Leslie Booker, and many others.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 from 5:30-7:00pm PT
Online
Join PICO California for a soulful virtual conversation with Lama Rod Owens and Norma Wong Roshi, moderated by Joseph Tomás McKellar. Together, we’ll explore what it means to meet this moment with courage, wisdom, and spiritual grounding, and how who we are shapes the future we are building.
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Public Talk with Lama Rod Owens
Saturday, March 7th, 2026 from 7:00 pm  –  8:30 pm ET
Durham, NC
Join Lama Rod for an evening talk and community practice. Presented by Bhumi Durham in partnership with Peace Hill at Avila.
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As the land around us awakens, we will settle into community practice, grounding ourselves in an awareness that helps us meet the world’s unraveling with clarity and compassion. Retreat presented by Bhumi Durham in partnership with Peace Hill at Avila.
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Immerse yourself in a 3-day Art of Living retreat in NC with Lama Rod to move through the challenges of past seasons and into a season of liberation, vitality, and inner freedom.
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Dharma Talk & MeditationÂ
Thursday, March 26th, 2026, Time TBA
Jersey City, NJ
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Spiritual Activism and Abolition
Friday, March 27th, 1-6pm ET and Saturday, March 28, 9am-5pm ET
New York, NY
Join Lama Rod at Union Theological Seminary for a 2-day in-person immersive practice. Learn how to embody the spirit of New Saints, modern day beings like you and I who commit to abolishing any system and institution that prevents people from experiencing agency and resources needed to experience joy and care.
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