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  • Combined Qigong programme: Exploring Energetic Terrain AND Stoking the Warrior and Scholar Fire

    9 May 2025 – 18 May 2025

    With: Eva Wong

    Register here if you would like to attend both programmes!

    • Culture Body and Mind
     
  • Stoking the Scholar and Warrior Fire

    11 May 2025 – 18 May 2025

    With: Eva Wong

    This programme is only open to advanced students of Eva Wong (graduates of Level 6) and a pre-requisite to Qi Gong Level 7.

    • Culture Body and Mind
     
  • Exploring Energetic Terrain

    10 May 2025 – 11 May 2025

    With: Eva Wong

    This programme is open to all who have completed Qigong levels 1 & 2. It is also required for graduates of Level 6 before continuing to Level 7.

    • Culture Body and Mind
     
  • Kado-Ikebana: 5-day course

    30 April 2025 – 6 May 2025

    With: Marcia Shibata

    This course includes the Kado-Ikebana two-day programme, adding an extra three days to deepen your practice.

    • Culture Contemplative Arts & Creativity
     
  • Let us shine Dechen Chöling

    28 April 2025 – 4 May 2025

    Come and join us for a week of volunteer work at Dechen Chöling to help prepare our beautiful center for the season ahead. Together, we’ll celebrate the arrival of spring by rolling up our sleeves and bringing out the best in Dechen Chöling.

    • Meditation Retreats for all
    • Society Psychology, Emotions, Relationships
    • Society Leadership
     
  • Kado-Ikebana: A two-day introduction

    1 May 2025 – 2 May 2025

    With: Marcia Shibata

    A two-day programme open to all. Discover the Way of Flowers through the contemplative floral practice of Kado-Ikebana! No experience or equipment necessary.

    • Culture Contemplative Arts & Creativity
     
  • Smile at Fear

    15 April 2025 – 26 April 2025

    With: Barbara Märtens, John Rockwell

    Ten days to reconnect with your heart and move beyond fear, using ancient Shambhala and Buddhist teachings. Open to all!

    • Meditation Retreats for all
    • Culture Contemplative Arts & Creativity
    • Society Psychology, Emotions, Relationships
    • Society Leadership
     
  • Dharma Art Training: Five-Part Intensive

    7 April 2025 – 13 April 2025

    With: Herbert Elsky, Andràs Hajdu, Cécile Daimez

    “Dharma art” is creative work that comes from an awakened state of meditation. According to Chögyam Trungpa, it is also a way to appreciate the nature of things as they are and to express them without striving or struggling to achieve anything.

    • Culture Contemplative Arts & Creativity
     
  • The Joy of Fearlessness: Contemporary Approaches to Mudra Space Awareness

    29 March 2025 – 5 April 2025

    With: Lee Worley

    Mudra Space Awareness is a group practice developed in the early 1970s by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. It challenges us to move beyond unhelpful habits and fears in order to become more aware, courageous and collaborative. Open to all!

    • Culture Contemplative Arts & Creativity
     
  • Dathün – A Month of Meditation

    2 March 2025 – 28 March 2025

    With: Peter Nowak, Toni Imfeld, Anne Von der Eltz, Sylvie Deraime

    One month of sitting in meditation: Take a radical step out of daily life to deepen your experience of who you are, touch your basic humanity and make friends with the simple reality of just being.

    • Meditation Retreats for all
    • Meditation Way of Shambhala
    • Society Leadership
     
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    Local programmes

    • Sunday Meditation for All

      1 June 2025

      A free programme open to everyone on the first Sunday of each month. The day consists of periods of meditation, talks and group discussions. It is suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators. Taught in French.

       
    • Sunday Meditation for All

      7 September 2025

      A free programme open to everyone on the first Sunday of each month. The day consists of periods of meditation, talks and group discussions. It is suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators. Taught in French.

       
    • Traditional Chinese Qigong Retreat • Level 3

      27 September 2025 – 28 September 2025

      With: Ute Schneider

      Cultivate strength of body and calmness of mind through the practice of qigong as presented by two distinct Taoist schools. Prerequisite Level 1 & 2

       
    • Sunday Meditation for All

      5 October 2025

      A free programme open to everyone on the first Sunday of each month. The day consists of periods of meditation, talks and group discussions. It is suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators. Taught in French.

       
    • Sunday Meditation for All

      2 November 2025

      A free programme open to everyone on the first Sunday of each month. The day consists of periods of meditation, talks and group discussions. It is suitable for both beginners and more experienced meditators. Taught in French.

       

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