Winter retreat: Miksang and contemplative journaling
With: Jessica Sarapoff
As the year comes to a close, come create, dream and recharge your batteries with the contemplative practices of Miksang photography, writing and creativity.
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With a château and farm buildings nestled among grand trees on peaceful cow-grazed meadows, with views over our lake and to a wide horizon, Dechen Chöling provides an ideal environment for meditation, yoga, retreats, and study. We are dedicated to hosting authentic lineage teachers whose teachings can have a positive impact on your well-being and personal development, and help create a kinder, saner world. We invite you to participate in our programmes, schedule some time for your personal retreat and renewal, and enjoy the serenity of this place.
With: Jessica Sarapoff
As the year comes to a close, come create, dream and recharge your batteries with the contemplative practices of Miksang photography, writing and creativity.
With: Dorothea Gädeke, Alex Paterson
Start off 2025 with this retreat on The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, as taught by Chögyam Trungpa. We will explore how these teachings connect to creativity, playfulness and improvisation, including practices of movement and voice. Open to everyone!
With: Laura Puts, Lennart Krogoll
A programme about meditation and compassion in action - open to all!
With: Peter Nowak, 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.
With: Peter Nowak, Sylvie Deraime
Register here if you would like to join this month-long meditation retreat for the first two weeks only. Open to all.
With: Peter Nowak, Sylvie Deraime
Register here if you would like to join this month-long meditation retreat for the last two weeks only. Open to all.
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!
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.
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!
With: Marcia Shibata
This course includes the Kado-Ikebana two-day programme, adding an extra three days to deepen your practice.
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.
With: Damien Sauvezie
Cultivate strength of body and calmness of mind through the practice of Qigong as presented by two distinct Taoist schools. Open to all. Taught in French.
With: Eva Wong
Register here if you would like to attend both programmes!
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.
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.
With: Sarah Coleman, Mark Nowakowski, Lama Brian Hilliard
A 10-day retreat for advanced Vajrayana practitioners (see prerequisites below).
With: David Schneider, Tessa Racine
The mind is the working basis for meditative practice. This one-week retreat introduces fundamental Buddhist teachings on mind, consciousness, and the development of wisdom through meditation and study.
With: Daniele Bollini, Alfonso Taboada, Sabine Rolf, Eve Rosenthal
Join us in a celebration of the precious and profound teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Let us celebrate our profound teachings and strengthen our confidence in contributing to the world in these challenging times.
With: Max Baltin, Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI
Instructor training for Kyudo practitioners combining the advanced and public programs led by Onyumishi Kanjuro Shibata XXI, Sensei.
With: Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI
Instructor training for advanced Kyudo practitioners. The programme will be led by Onyumishi Kanjuro Shibata XXI, Sensei.
For families, single parents, and children aged from 3 to 10. Activities for children are organized in the mornings, giving adults the opportunity to meditate, read or just relax.
Sun Camp is an outdoor, sleep-away summer camp for children aged 10-16. A whole week of offline fun, it's a chance to make friends from around the world while learning to take responsibility for oneself and one's world in a gentle and playful environment.
With: Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI
Open to all - a living tradition of contemplative archery.
With: Marcia Shibata
This teacher’s training continues to cultivate a mind/heart that is always open. The programme is by invitation only.
With: Tessa Racine
An exploration of how the Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the Five Wisdoms can be put into practice in all our interpersonal relationships. Open to all, no meditation experience necessary. Offered in French only.
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