Enrichment Activities

Begin your day with Lujong, or body training. This is a series of fifteen physical exercises developed by the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche to help us enhance our health and synchronize our body and mind, thereby increasing energy and pliancy. The wakefulness that we develop from these exercises can bring a quality of meditation to ordinary activities throughout the day. Because of the interactive nature of this course it is offered onsite only.

DEBATE

Join Nitartha faculty members in this lively and interactive activity. You will be led through a process of using the ideas presented in your shedra courses to play with them in a clear way by defining, analyzing, examining and exploring their meaning. You will then learn how to reformulate those study topics in the context of debating them. By learning to use the principles of debate, you can gain more certainty in the views that are taught in your shedra courses.

Debate I prerequisite: Clear Thinking

HEALTH AND HEALING FOR MEDITATORS:
DRAWING FROM THE TIBETAN TRADITION

(online and onsite)

This course is based on teachings from the Tibetan tradition as taught by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, as well as from western medicine.

We will begin with the topic of intrinsic health. Then, we will explore our inner abilities of natural balance and awareness. These abilities enable us to skillfully chart a healthy course for ourselves and others. We then continue by exploring the role of dualism in our health, such as hot and cold in our bodies, inflammation and sluggishness. After that, we will explore systems of healing in Tibetan Meditation as examples of the previous principles, such as its division of phenomena into three, four or five aspects, such as earth, water, fire, wind and space.

FACULTY

DR. PHIL WEBER

SPACE AWARENESS

End your day with Space Awareness, which is a series of physical and vocal exercises derived from the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, as presented in the West by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. These exercises utilize the body as a means of clarifying mental confusion and taming the mind, allowing you to access  a greater awareness of outer and inner space. The workshop format of the course enables you to gain an experiential basis from which to investigate Buddhist approaches to concepts such as “space” and “ego” while discovering how they can correct physical and mental imbalances. Class exercises will help you to develop a sense of well-being and an appreciation of yourself and others in the context of a live and ever-changing space. Because of the interactive nature of this course it is offered onsite only.

Click  here to read about the connection between Space Awareness and Mahamudra!

FACULTY

MITRA LEE WORLEY