Featured Events
Apocalyptic Grief
A Spiritual Abolitionist Practice and Ritual Journey through Our Broken Hearts During Systemic Collapse
A Three-Part Practice Series and Ritual Journey
Saturday, August 16th, 23rd, & 30th 2025 from 1-4pm ET
Virtual
Apocalyptic grief is reminding us that grief is generative and necessary, that it is a partner helping us to practice care as it encourages us to change and embody more liberatory ways of being. Learn and deepen in practices that support us in tending to this moment of both personal and collective grief.
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The Dharma of Spiritual Abolition: Self-Guided Course on the Heart Sutra
Now available on demand
This Self-Guided 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.
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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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Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama Rod
Saturday, August 9th from 12 - 1:30pm 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.
Ma Tara
A Seasonal Offering with Lama Rod
Ma Tara Practice is Currently Integrated into Sunday Service gatherings. Click here for the upcoming dates.
Through evoking the sacred lineage of Ma Tara, the female Buddha of compassion, we explore the liberating practice of keeping our hearts open in the face of pain, grief, and loss, as well as the joy, beauty, and connection in the world.
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.
Werk with Lama Rod
Summer Werk '25: Sunday, August 31st from 11am - 3pm ET
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, August 12th 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, July 13th 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.
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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Join a talk and discussion on what it means to be a bodhisattva (or as a "New Saint"), moving through our sorrow and hopelessness into clarity and connectedness.
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Public Talk with Lama Rod Owens
July 24th from 7-8:30pm ET
In-Person at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham NC
In a time of systems collapse and rapid change, we are invited to remember who we are and resolve to do the work of learning to be free in an unfree world.
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July 25-27th, 2025
In-Person at Avila Center for Community Leadership, Durham NC
Join Lama Rod Owens as he guides us into relationship with our suffering and with both the seen and the unseen worlds to do the work of abolishing systems of violence. Through connection to the elders, the elements, land, indigenous wisdom, our magic, and our practice, we can learn to be the medicine we and our communities need.
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Becoming a New Saint: Emerging As Warriors from Our Broken Hearts
July 31st - August 3rd, 2025
In-Person in Chapel Hill, NC
Join Lama Rod in an in-person retreat in NC! Open to ages 18-35 year old.
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Welcome to the 11th year of Sex Down South, where we celebrate a milestone with our 2025 theme centered around Spirituality. This year, we invite you to join us on a profound exploration of the sacred and the sensual. Lama Rod will be offering the keynote for the conference.
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