Featured Events
Virtual Self-Guided Offering
The Heart of Ma Tara
A Self-Guided Practice of Liberation & Boundless CompassionÂ
Now Available on Demand
Our grief work calls for an expansive, multifaceted approach to help us move through times of change and uncertainty. Ma Tara, the female Buddha of compassion, is a deity and sacred energy that helps us move through individual and collective grief with more compassion and freedom. Join my new self-guided practice series on Ma Tara, filled with guided ritual and energetic practices to help you to open and resource your heart to keep moving on.
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
 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
Next Session TBA
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, November 23rd 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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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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Sunday, November 9th, 2025 from 10:00am - 5:00pmÂ
New York, NY and Online
At this daylong event at New York Insight, join Lama Rod in a mid-autumn offering as the seasons change and the year comes to a close. Through evoking the sacred lineage of Ma Tara, the female Buddha of liberatory compassion, we will explore this liberating relationship with grief through guided ritual and energetic practice in order to open and resource our hearts to keep moving on.
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Healing, Resiliency, and Liberation in Times of Collapse
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET
Burlington, VT
Lama Rod is offering a talk & practice with Burlington Dharma Collective to explore themes of spiritual abolition, liberatory care, grieving as care work, as well as what it means to be a love centered agent of liberation in this moment.
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Lama Rod will be offering a talk on his book The New Saints at Just Book-ish.
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From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors
Saturday, November 15th, 2025 from 2:00- 4:00 PM ET
Boston, MA
Join Lama Rod in Boston for dharma practice, Buddhist meditation, and an afternoon talk on healing broken hearts & becoming spiritual warriors.
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Buddhist Voices for Immigration Justice: Compassion in Action
Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 6:00- 07:30 PM ET
Online
Together we can bring the Dharma to life by standing with immigrant communities in compassion and solidarity. Event proceeds will be divided between a national nonprofit serving the immigrant community, the Buddhist coalition for Democracy, and IMCW.
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 The Sacred Fire We Carry
Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 1:30pm to 3pm EST
Online
Join us for this timely conversation with Lama Rod Owens and Valarie Kaur as they illuminate how spiritually-grounded action can be a lifeline and transformative source of power—for ourselves, communities, and world.
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In this day of practice, we will expand and deepen our capacity to say “yes” to liberation and joy.
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