Featured Events
UK Residential 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.
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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.
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Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
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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
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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, September 9th 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, September 14th 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.
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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Deep Roots, Deep Breaths
Thursday, September 18th, 2025 at 4pm CEST
Berlin
Join Lama Rod for a half-day workshop, offering a space of restoration and reconnection for Black participants. Come experience a simple yet empowering offering that will help us feel resourced with radical honesty, compassionate love, and a dedication to liberation for all.
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Lama Rod is offering a weekend immersion in Berlin on the heart sutra as a teaching that informs our work of spiritual abolition, to liberate our entire ecology.
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Celebrate the freedom to read with an inspiring panel of writers who teach and mentor across generations as they share personal insights into censorship and storytelling.
Panelists will explore the impact of censorship on classrooms, communities, and creativity.
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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Join us for a transformative online daylong exploring the powerful and often misunderstood emotion of anger.
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