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Buddhist Minister, Author, Activist, Yoga Instructor, Authorized Lama, Queen

Deepen Your Practice with Lama Rod

Sunday, June 21st | Sunday Service for the New Saints
Tuesday, June 23rd | Blessed Slay: Embodying the Jewel Garland of Liberation
Saturday, June 27th | Atlanta Daylong Retreat
Sunday, June 28th | Lama Rod's Learning & Practice Community Monthly Live Gathering
Thursday, July 2nd | Free Radicals
Sunday, July 19th | Medicine Buddha Half Day Retreat
Aug 23rd - Sept 10th | Ancestors Practice Series [Save the Date]
October 6th | Evening Talk & Practice in London, UK [Save the Date]
Dec 4-6th | Lama Rod Teaches in Melbourne, Australia [Save the Date]
Every Monday | Medicine Buddha: A Weekly Gathering with Lama Rod & Fellow Practitioners

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“There’s no liberation without actually leaning forward and looking at the things that we habitually run away from, in order to see things as they really are, not as we have imagined them.”

In-Person in Atlanta

Monthly Daylong Retreats in Atlanta

Next Daylong: June 27th, 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. The theme and structure of these offerings will change each month and in alignment with the needs of practitioners.

Virtual

You Are the Medicine

Half Day Medicine Buddha Retreat

Saturday, July 19th from 11am-3pm ET

Join us in Medicine Buddha practice, which honors a fierce commitment to embody our collective power to heal this world and abolish all forces perpetuating harm, cruelty, and spiritual incarceration. Through this practice, we remember that we are the medicine and that phenomenal reality is always trying to help us heal, get free, and care for others.

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Receive a recording of an online book talk celebrating The New Saints & a sneak peek of the book for free!

“Our era calls for saints who are from this time and place, who speak the language of this moment, and who integrate both social and spiritual liberation. I believe we all can and must become New Saints.”

Discover insights and techniques to ignite your inner fierceness and compassion; create a sustainable spiritual practice that serves others and the planet; and embody the virtues of a New Saint.

Here is a clarion call for becoming a spiritual warrior—a human refreshed, serving a vision of a world shaped by love.

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“The New Saints is breathtakingly honest. From grief and loneliness to radical acceptance, Lama Rod Owens beautifully weaves in the complexities of being human and truly getting free. It is a gift to be on this Earth in the same space and time as Lama Rod Owens.”

—Nova Reid, author of The Good Ally

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“The New Saints will challenge your current understanding and offer fresh inspiration about ways, together, we can bring healing to our beautiful and broken world. This is a bold and powerful offering—one that attunes to our times with great lucidity, wisdom, and heart.”

—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

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Buddhist Minister, Author, Activist, Yoga Instructor, Authorized Lama, Queen

Deepen Your Practice with Lama Rod

“There’s no liberation without actually leaning forward and looking at the things that we habitually run away from, in order to see things as they really are, not as we have imagined them.”

In-Person in Atlanta

Monthly Daylong Retreats in Atlanta

Virtual

You Are the Medicine

Order Lama Rod's Newest Book Today

Receive a recording of an online book talk celebrating The New Saints & a sneak peek of the book for free!

“The New Saints is breathtakingly honest. From grief and loneliness to radical acceptance, Lama Rod Owens beautifully weaves in the complexities of being human and truly getting free. It is a gift to be on this Earth in the same space and time as Lama Rod Owens.”

“The New Saints will challenge your current understanding and offer fresh inspiration about ways, together, we can bring healing to our beautiful and broken world. This is a bold and powerful offering—one that attunes to our times with great lucidity, wisdom, and heart.”

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