Featured Events
Online & In-Person in Atlanta
Releasing and PlantingÂ
2025 Solstice Gatherings
ONLINE | Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
IN PERSON in Atlanta, GA | Saturday, December 20th, 2025 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Join Lama Rod for ceremonies that intentionally work with the energies of this seasonal transition to celebrate the fruits of our labor while also leaning into the spirit of release. These live offerings, held online (Dec 17th) and in-person (Dec 20th in Atlanta), will include ritual, ceremony, and practices that support letting go and planting seeds for ourselves and for our collective.
Can't make it to the gatherings?
You are welcome to participate in our collective solstice tending by sponsoring Lama Rod's 2025 Solstice Fire Ceremony. Offer a donation and a prayer request here.Â
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
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
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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, December 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
Next Session TBA
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.
More Events
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.
Learn MoreIn this day of practice, we will expand and deepen our capacity to say “yes” to liberation and joy.
Learn MoreImmerse 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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