The Six Dharmas of Naropa: The Path of Transformation with Elizabeth Callahan & Andrew Holecek: Registration for $70/Night Participants

Join us for this precious opportunity to receive these powerful tantric practices.

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The Six Dharmas of Naropa are the crown jewels of the Kagyu path, and the completion stage practices of both Vajrayogini and Chakrasamvara. These profound methods are designed to transform our daily life, sleep, dreams, and death. The Six Dharmas show us how to enter lifetime retreat in the midst of normal life.

This program begins with chandali, vase breathing, and basic trulkhor (yogic exercises), but places equal emphasis on the remaining Dharmas. With chandali comes the bliss of melting duality, which brings an openness that allows us to mingle with this brilliant yet illusory daytime world, and the nighttime world of dreams and deep sleep. After exploring and practicing these four root dharmas, the program concludes with a presentation of bardo and phowa.

Elizabeth Callahan and Andrew Holecek will be co-teaching this program. Due to a prior commitment, Elizabeth will only be able to attend the first four days of the program. During this time she will teach on the practice of chandali. Andrew will be teaching the remaining yogas.

Prerequisite: Vajrayogini Amending the Mantra Fire Puja

Materials: We will contact you about practice materials required or recommended for this program after you register. If you have any questions about materials contact Jon Pratt at 303-545-0062 x115.

Elizabeth Callahan completed the three-year retreat under Kalu Rinpoche’s direction, and is a longtime student of Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. She has served as the translator for many teachings on the Six Dharmas, including those given by Tenga Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim. She has also taught numerous Four Root Dharmas programs, emphasizing the ways to take these techniques as daily practice. She is currently working on Rangjung Dorje’s Profound Inner Reality as a fellow of the Tsadra Foundation and on other long-term translation projects with Marpa Foundation under the guidance of Khenpo Tsültrim.

Andrew Holecek has completed the traditional three-year meditation retreat and is the founder of the Forum of Living and Dying, which offers seminars around the country on death and dying. He writes a column for Bodhi Magazine, and his book on spiritual hardship, The Power and The Pain, is forthcoming from Snow Lion.

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Register below if you wish to pay $70/night for best available housing (up to single Lodge room with shared bathroom facilities) to attend the program. To register and pay either full price or $40/night for best available housing return to the main program page. Your actual accommodations will be determined a few days prior to program arrival.

There will be an opportunity during the program to offer a teachers gift.

Please arrive between 2 and 5pm. No program activities are scheduled for the departure day. View Detailed Program Information.