Holiday Werma Retreat with Acharya Fleet Maull:Registration for $45/night for participants

THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELED
"Bring in the the New Year by invoking magic through Wisdom, Compassion and Power of the Rigdens."

As part of the Druk Sakyong's terma The Scorpion Seal of the Golden Sun, The Roar of the Werma expresses the highest level of the Shambhala teachings. Practicing this sadhana is a direct means of joining with and understanding the mind of the Sakyongs. It is with the eyes of the Rigden that we can manifest our fullest expression of what it means to be a full human being—simply, directly, and immediately.

The focus of this retreat will be intensive practice. It is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the sadhana as well as draw upon the potency of practicing with other warriors. Both longtime and new practitioners of The Roar of the Werma are warmly welcomed to join us. There will be a separate track offered for 2009and 2010 Scorpion Seal Assembly graduates.

Prerequisite: Participants must be practitioners of The Roar of the Werma sadhana.

Acharya Fleet Maull, MA, PhD candidate, has been a student of the Vidyadhara, the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1977 and is a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He earned a masters degree in Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa University in 1979, attended the Vajradhatu Seminaries and Kalapa Assemblies, 1981 – 1984, as well as the 2006 Vajrayana Seminary as faculty, and received the Vajrayogini Abhisheka in 1989.

Fleet founded the Prison Dharma Network in 1989, National Prison Hospice Association in 1991, Peacemaker Institute in 2001, and the Center for Contemplative End of Life Care Programs at Naropa University in 2003. He served on the Naropa University faculty from 1999 to 2009. He also serves as senior faculty with the Upaya Institute’s (Santa Fe, NM) Being with Dying program and co-director of the Upaya Institute’s Chaplaincy Training Program.

He leads meditation retreats, leadership trainings, street retreats and bearing witness retreats throughout the world. His peacemaking activities range from the streets of major cities, to former death camps in Poland, to Rwanda and Israel-Palestine, to corporate board rooms and to the forgotten world inside our jails and prisons. Fleet is the author of Dharma in Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull and numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of corrections, end of life care and socially engaged Buddhism.

Acharya Maull has held the Werma Sadhana as a core practice since receiving it from the Dorje Dradul in 1980 at the Keltic Lodge in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and is deeply inspired, to say the very least, by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s unfolding of the Scorpion Seal path.

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Our intent is to encourage and support intensive practice opportunities for Shambhala community members. Therefore we are making this program available to all qualified Werma practitioners by offering it under Shambhala Mountain's generosity policy. The policy provides the opportunity for participants to pay what they can afford by selecting one of three pricing options. The first option is zero tuition plus Shambhala Mountain's regular room and board rates.

For those who can not afford to pay our regular room and board rates, our second option is a flat room and board rate of $75 per night. Your accommodations will be the best we have available (up to single Lodge room with shared bathroom facilities) after accommodating all participants paying our regular rates. Priority for best-available housing will be on a first-come first-served basis. We will not be able to confirm which housing you will be assigned until a few days prior to the program start date.

For those requiring substantial financial assistance, our third option is the same as the second option except the flat room and board rate is $45 per night. Again, housing is best available (up to single Lodge room with shared bathroom facilities) on a first-come first-served basis. Please understand that we are not able to provide student or senior discounts at this rate.

Click below to be directed to the appropriate registration page for your situation:
Full Pay Option
$75/night Option
$45