Emily Bower

Acharya Emily Bower

Acharya Emily Bower started practicing in the Shambhala community in 1987, the year that Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche passed away. She met Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 1991, when he came to teach in Berkeley, CA, where she was living at the time. She became his student then and has served as his editor for various projects including his first book, Turning the Mind into an Ally. She has studied kyudo with Kanjuro Shibata Sensei and she is a lifelong member of the Dorje Kasung. In 1991, she joined the staff of Karme Choling, where she lived for three years. She is currently traveling and teaching at Shambhala Centers--with no fixed address for the time being.

Teaching Schedule

2012
Mar 2 - 4 San Francisco Rigden Weekend with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Mar 4 Shambhala Online Lineage & Devotion
Mar 16 Boston Shambhala Sadhana Friday Vow Ceremony
Mar 17 - 18 Boston Shambhala Sadhana Retreat
Mar 27 - Apr 3 Karme Choling Retreat in Scorpion Seal cabin
Apr 15 Shambhala Online One-day online retreat: Lineage and Devotion
Apr 20 - 22 Chicago Rigden Weekend
Apr 27 -May 4 Shambhala Mountain Center Acharya Retreat
Jun 15 - 18 Shambhala Mountain Center Vajrayana Retreat with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche
Aug 23 - 31 New York City Weekthun

 

2011
Feb 4 - Feb 20      Karme Choling Sutrayana Seminary w/ Acharya Michael Greenleaf
Feb 13, 22, 27 Shambhala Online Lineage and Devotion
Mar 12 Shambhala Online Ngondro talk
Mar 18 - 24 Shambhala Mountain Center Acharya Retreat
Apr 15 - 17 St. Petersburg, FL Shambhala Training: Windhorse
Apr 22 - 23 New York City "What Do You Long For?"
Apr 24 New York City Ngondro Meeting and Werma Meeting
Apr 29 - May 1          Boston Shambhala Training: Level V
May 4 Philadelphia Open House "What Do You Long For?"
May 5 Philadelphia "Smile at Fear " advanced Mahayana program
May 6 - 8 Philadelphia Werma & Ngondro Retreat
Jun 2 - 10 Karme Choling Ngondro Retreat
Jun 19 - 30 Shambhala Mountain Center Scorpion Seal Assembly III
Jul 16 - 29 Dorje Denma Ling Scorpion Seal Assembly II
Sep 8 Baltimore Open House Talk
Sep 9 - 10 Baltimore Shambhala Training Level I
Sep 11 Baltimore Community Retreat
Sep 16 - 18 Boston Refuge and Bodhisattva Vows
Sep 24 - 25 Boston Shambhala Lineage Festival
Oct 2 - 9 Halifax Governance meetings and Dignity
Nov 18 - Dec 2 Karme Choling Half-dathun / Two-week retreat
Nov 19 Shambhala Online Ngondro "Devotion as Path"
Dec 26 - Jan 1 San Francisco Weekthun
     

 

Past Topics
Refuge Vows & Bodhisattva Vows

Teachers Academy

Shambhala Training Levels
Way of Shambhala classes
Ngondro Retreat

 

Books