Featured Events
2026 Daylong Retreats in Atlanta
Woman Hold My Hand: Meeting the Radical Compassion of Mother Tara In An Unkind World
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 from 9:00am - 5:00pm ET
In this daylong retreat in Atlanta, we will practice in the tradition of Ma Tara, allying with Tara to awaken the compassion we need to continue the work abolishing systems of violence and establishing a new and more liberated world.
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Journey Through Grief
A Year in the Practice & Ritual of Breaking our Hearts Open
March 2026 - March 2027
Begins March 29th
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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Love and Rage Daylong Retreat
Saturday, April 4th, 2026 from 10am-6pm ET
Based on Lama Rod’s best-selling book, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger, this online daylong retreat is here to support you through your exploration of anger and individual and collective trauma. You will deeply come to know your rage, accept it, and learn how to use the wisdom contained within anger as ground for liberation.
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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!
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 Rod
Next Gathering 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 EST
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 | 1pm - 2pm EST | 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.
Upcoming gatherings open to members:
- 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, April 14th, 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).
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.
2026 Daylong Retreat Series in Atlanta
Upcoming Daylong: March 21st, 2026 from 9am-5pm ET.
This Daylong Retreat series is a new monthly offering dedicated to deepening relationships with land and community in Atlanta through in person experiences of Lama Rod’s diverse teachings.
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.
The Heart of Ma Tara: A Self-Guided Practice of Liberation & Boundless Compassion
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
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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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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Join Lama Rod and a stellar lineup of guest teachers for Rooting In The Sacred, a yearlong journey with a vibrant network of seekers, innovators and changemakers reimagining spirituality for these times.
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Times are Fierce. Practice Anyway. Lama Rod offers teachings at Southsea Sangha's launch of The Dharma of Now, an online meditaiton group.
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