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Featured Events

Give Everything: Reclaiming Joy, Clarity and Awakened Care Through Mandala Offering

Werk Series Spring 2025 Offering with Lama Rod Owens

Saturday, April 26th from 2:30pm - 6:30pm ET

The Spring Werk session is inspired by the profound teachings of Mandala Offering, a transformative practice of visionary imagination and ritual embodiment dedicated to freeing all beings everywhere without exception.

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.

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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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Ongoing Offerings

Chenrezig’s Ring of Fire
A Seasonal Offering with Lama Rod

May 24th, 2025 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.

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Ma Tara
A Seasonal Offering with Lama Rod

Sunday, April 20th from 11am - 3pm ET (In Combination with Sunday Service for New Saints)

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.

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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.

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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.

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Werk with Lama Rod

Give Everything: Reclaiming Joy, Clarity and Awakened Care Through Mandala Offering

Spring 2025: Saturday, April 26th, 2025 from 2:30-6:30pm 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.

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Blessed Slay:
Embodying the Fire of the Kagyu Lineage

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 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).

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Sunday Service for New Saints

Sunday, April 20th 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.

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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.

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Midnight Path: Illuminating Wisdom in Uncertain Times

April 15th - September 16th, 2025

Online

Lama Rod is co-teaching in The Lotus Institute's new program, Midnight Path, alongside Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward. This course is perfect for those who are deeply feeling the fear and uncertainty of this current moment in the world and feel called to build their capacity for action that will alter the trajectory towards more care, more community collaboration, and more love.

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