Workshops & Retreats (In-Person & Online)
Most programs are online; a select number are hybrid (both online and in person) based on the discretion of the instructor. Some longer retreats may be in person only. Please register as early as possible in order to ensure that your workshop will run, as programs must meet minimum enrollment conditions. Our suggested registration deadline for workshops is one week in advance. After you enroll, a faculty member will send you the link to join online — usually this is sent about a day before the date of the workshop.
WINTER AND EARLY SPRING WORKSHOPS & RETREATS
Continuing Training for Level 1 KNTT Graduates
January 18th (Saturday), 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM, PT
Online Only
This training day for KNTT Level 1 graduates will satisfy continuing training requirements for certified Kum Nye instructors for 2025. Open to all graduates of the KNTT program. Advance your Kum Nye understanding and further develop your teaching skills, at the same time connect with your global Kum Nye colleagues!
Register Here: https://nyingmainstitute.com/courses-new/lvl1kntttraining/
The Art of Sitting Comfortably Workshop
January 25th (Saturday), 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, PT
In-Person Only
This is intended to be a very practical, hands-on workshop, with a particular aim in mind: getting more comfortable in the meditation posture. Balance and ease in the body helps bring balance and ease to the mind.
You will be guided through a self-assessment of your own anatomy as it pertains to sitting meditation. We will practice both on a chair and on the floor using various props as is needed to make the posture balanced, grounded, and appropriate for your body at this time. Bring an open mind, and a willingness to play with different possibilities! You will leave with some practical exercises to use to support your meditation posture.
Instructor: Donna Morton. Register Here: https://nyingmainstitute.com/courses-new/the-art-of-sitti…ortably-workshop/
Activating Joyous Feeling Retreat
March 1 (Saturday), 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, PT
Online & In-Person at the Nyingma Institute
Consider giving yourself a one day retreat, nurturing the gift of joyful feelings, as an antidote to the world’s chaos and confusion. Using our inner resources, body, breath and mind, we can transform our experience to connect with joy, one of the Four Immeasurables, qualities that we can develop in meditation. This day-long retreat will offer sitting and walking meditations, gentle Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga movements, breathing techniques and chanting, to activate flowing, healing energies to nourish our whole being. When we feel happy, this positive energy naturally bubbles over to touch others around us. Lunch at the institute for in-person participants will be included.
Instructor: Olivia Hurd. Registration coming soon.
Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma
March 8 (Saturday), 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, PT
Online & In-Person at the Nyingma Institute
Contemplating specific insights into the nature of existence can help turn the mind toward the path of enlightenment. These traditional insights are often presented as a group of four: awakening to freedom and good fortune available only to a human being, contemplating impermanence, understanding karma, and seeing the pervasiveness of suffering. Through contemplating each of these thoughts, we are led to greater mindfulness and alertness, opening to the possibilities Dharma practice makes available. Readings from Path of Heroes. Open to all who wish to turn their life around through Dharma practice.
Instructors: Mark Henderson and Hugh Joswick. Register Here: https://nyingmainstitute.com/courses-new/fourthoughtsworkshop/
Exchanging Self and Other Workshop
April 26 (Saturday), 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Online & In-Person at the Nyingma Institute
“Whatever joys there may be in the world, all come from desiring the happiness of others. Whatever sufferings there are in the world, all come from desiring your own happiness.”
We can train ourselves to put the welfare of others at the center of every thought and action through the power of bodhicitta. In this workshop we explore the relative mind of enlightenment. Working with the breath, and through certain preliminary practices cultivating love and compassion, we meditate on exchanging self for others. To transform the three poisons of desire, hatred, and ignorance, we can awaken compassion and wisdom of the mind of enlightenment in our hearts. Open to all with an interest in transforming their lives through meditation practice. Readings from Path of Heroes, which can be purchased from Dharma Publishing.
Instructors: Mark Henderson and Hugh Joswick. Register Here: https://nyingmainstitute.com/courses-new/selfandotherworkshop/
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