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Shambhala Online offers live and recorded courses with teachers from across the Shambhala community, and with other Buddhist teachers and health and well-being experts from around the world.
Our online courses feature high-quality, recorded presentations by some of the best teachers of meditation and Buddhism in the world, as well as an online community of meditators, and facilitation by experienced course leaders.
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Featured Upcoming Courses
Our course participation guidelines
Buddhism
Being Buddhist: Exploring the Refuge Vow
This three session course explores the moment when a person decides to “be Buddhist”—formally, through the practice of taking a vow. It is open to all who are interested in the Refuge Vow, or anyone looking to reconnect with their original inspiration.
No Prerequisites
The Genuine Heart of Sadness: Navigating Loss and Grief
During this online session, we will explore Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on “the genuine heart of sadness” from the timeless classic, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
2024 Continuing Education for Meditation Instructors: Weekend Two
This series of three weekends is designed to help meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs) and support them in cultivating skills to assist others.
No Prerequisites
Buddha’s Discourse on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings: A New Moon Meditation Practice and Study Session
Join this exploration of the Buddha’s Discourse on The Eight Realizations of Great Beings. We will read, discuss, and contemplate how to incorporate the eight realizations into our every-day lives with a sense of warmth, openness, and power.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Writing Your Dharma: Sharing Your Path with Humility and Authenticity
In this six-week workshop, we will learn how to share our spiritual paths in writing: how to write with authenticity and vulnerability, how to say what we mean, and how to support others and be supported in the act of creation.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Already Awake: Seeing Our Buddha Nature
In this weekend retreat, we will explore the Buddha’s teachings on buddha nature and the fundamental truth that we are “already awake.”
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Open Sky: Shambhala Level V
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Prerequisites apply Level IV: Awakened Heart (attendance)
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Contemplative Photography and Liberation: The Outer and Inner Teachings
This course will take you into the world of contemplative photography. A basic introduction to the practice of contemplative photography will be explored—as well as the liberation aspects of this practice.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
2024 Continuing Education for Meditation Instructors: Weekend Three
This series of three weekends is designed to help meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs) and support them in cultivating skills to assist others.
No Prerequisites
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
The Way of Flowers: Exploring Ikebana as a Mindfulness Practice
Join us as we explore ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, as a contemplative dharma art exploration to enrich your meditation practice and experience mindfulness in everyday life.
No Prerequisites
First Tuesday: Learn to Meditate
Learn to Meditate! This is a space where beginners or people newer to meditation can receive meditation instruction, learn how a meditation practice can inform their daily lives, and connect to other meditators in a warm, inclusive environment.
No Prerequisites
Meditation for a Broken Heart
A broken heart is something most of us face at least once or several times during a lifetime. In this session, Chaplain Alley Smith will lead you through a guided meditation to help you begin to heal from a broken heart.
No Prerequisites
The Life of Milarepa
Join this short and accessible summer course that will explore the legendary life and story of Milarepa—Tibet’s most famous yogi and Meditation Master.
No Prerequisites
The Genuine Heart of Sadness: Navigating Loss and Grief
During this online session, we will explore Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on “the genuine heart of sadness” from the timeless classic, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior.
No Prerequisites
Understanding Vajrayana: An Exploration of the Vajrayana Path and Culture
Join an exploration of the profound path of Vajrayana that is open to all! This course is ideal for those who are longing to learn more about, inquire into, or refresh their connection to, the Vajrayana path.
No Prerequisites
Walking the Path of a Bodhisattva: Exploring the Mahayana
During this in-depth course on Mahayana teachings, Khenpo Gawang will guide participants through teachings on the profound path of the bodhisattva from the famous Tibetan text, Entering the Path of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Great Eastern Sun
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Prerequisites apply Level V: Open Sky (attendance)
Wellness, Life, and the Arts
Preparing to Die: Book Group
In this book group we will explore Andrew Holeck’s book, “Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition.”
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Windhorse
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Prerequisites apply Great Eastern Sun (attendance)
Being a Bodhisattva: Exploring the Bodhisattva Vow
This three-session course explores the moment of making a profound commitment to put others before yourself. It is open to all who are interested in the vow, or those looking to reconnect with the vow.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
The Dharma Seal and The Three Doors to Liberation: A Mini-Retreat
During this mini-retreat, we will study and contemplate the Buddha’s Sutra on The Dharma Seal and The Three Doors to Liberation. According to the Buddha, these three doors are passageways that lead to freedom from suffering.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Drala
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Prerequisites apply Windhorse (attendance)
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