Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human with Cynthia Drake

Open your eyes, heart and mind to your own basic goodness and the sacredness of life. Level I is an excellent introductory program if you would like to learn to meditate or deepen your practice.

Shambhala Training is a secular meditation training that develops fearlessness, confidence, openness, and gentleness towards ourselves and our world. These qualities arise out of meditation practice and the study of Shambhala warriorship. Shambhala Training welcomes people of all religious traditions as well as those who do not follow a particular spiritual path.

In Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human, we will learn the simple yet challenging practice of meditation. By relaxing our body and mind in this way we begin to discover something profound within our ordinary experience of ourselves and the world. We get a glimpse that the ground of our existence is unconditional goodness. Opening to ourselves with gentleness and appreciation, we begin to see our potential as genuine and compassionate human beings.

Recommended Reading:

Turning the Mind into an Ally
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Also offered January 15 to 17.

Cynthia Drake has been a meditator and member of the Shambhala community since 1985. For the past 21 years she has taught English as a foreign language, college composition, and literature and worked as an academic advisor. She currently teaches literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Contemplative Practice Seminar for first-year students at Naropa University.

Extend Your Stay. We are offering a 25% housing discount for additional nights. Stay an extra day or more after this program to savor your retreat experience.

Please arrive between 2 and 5pm on Friday, November 20. Program ends with lunch at 12:30pm on Sunday, November 22. View Detailed Program Information.