Shambhala Training Level II: Birth of the Warrior with Adana Barbieri and Patricia Kelly

Recognize your habitual patterns and discover the fearlessness to transcend them.

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 II: Birth of the Warrior, we will learn to recognize habitual patterns and discover fearlessness.

Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level I

Recommended Reading: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Adana Barbieri is a teacher and student of Shambhala Buddhism, having studied initially with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the early 1970’s. She later worked with the Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin on the development of the original Shambhala Training program as well as the Shambhala Delek System. She is currently active as a teacher and administrator engaged in the organization and societal aspects of community life at Shambhala Mountain Center. Adana and her husband, Jonathan, established DralaGroup, LLC, for the development of contemplative cohousing communities. She is also a realtor in Fort Collins, Colorado.


Patricia Kelly was introduced to meditation practice by a Zen/Episcopal priest in 1986. She holds a masters degree from Naropa University in Contemplative Psychotherapy and has been in private practice in Boulder for 20 years. She is student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and has served in various capacities at the Boulder Shambhala Center.

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

Please arrive between 2 and 5pm on Friday, November 5. Program ends with lunch at 12:30pm on Sunday, November 7. View Detailed Program Information.