Featured Events
Seven Homecomings Certification Course
A Five-Week Online Certification Training for Teachers, Facilitators, Healers, & Community LeadersÂ
with Lama Rod Owens & Peer Mentors
March 29th - April 27th, 2025
Join Lama Rod and the growing community of Seven Homecoming practice leaders in their commitment to sharing a simple yet empowering practice that helps us feel resourced with radical honesty, compassionate love, and a dedication to liberation for all.
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2025 UK Retreats
The Dharma of Spring Awakening
May 6-11th, 2025
Join us in experiencing 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.
Click here to register for the Spring Awakening 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.
Click here to register for the Autumn Moon retreat.
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Ongoing Offerings
Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama RodÂ
Stay tuned for the Spring session date!
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 RodÂ
March 2nd, 2025 from 11am-3pm ET
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.Â
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
Stay tuned for the Spring date!
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. The theme and structure of these offerings will change with the seasons and the needs of practitioners. Recordings of past sessions are available on demand.
Blessed Slay:
Embodying the Fire of the Kagyu Lineage
New date: Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 from 6-9pm ET
Beginning in 2025, 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
Monthly Gathering beginning on March 2nd, 2025 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.
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. These practices offer refuge as you work with the difficult emotions arising from the circumstances of our time.
More Events
This February, New York Insight invites you to explore the legacy of Black dharma teachings, which offer a deep perspective on resiliency and dharma. Sign up to receive daily recorded talks by Black dharma teachers including Kaira Jewel Lingo, Ruth King, Tuere Sala, Devin Berry, Lama Rod Owens, Kate Johnson, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Leslie Booker, and others.
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The Burning Refuge Conference is organized around several keynote speakers who are each leaders in the world of Buddhism as it relates to social-spiritual liberation. Lama Rod will be offering a keynote speech.
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Join Lama Rod at Kripalu for an awakening from the darkness and an invitation to move through the brokenheartedness of a long winter into the vitality and energy of spring.
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Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship Convocation
April 11-13th, 2025
In-Person in Mariottsville, MD or Online
Lama Rod will be delivering the keynote speech the convocation. Join in-person or online for spiritual and practical resources to all who are interested in Unitarian Universalist Buddhism.
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