There has never been a timelier offering from beloved bestselling author Pema Chödrön than these teachings on working with our challenging emotions, known in Buddhism as the kleshas. In this all-new online retreat, Pema introduces the intense emotions at the heart of our suffering: craving, aggression, ignorance, pride, and jealousy. She gives us three powerful steps for working with them: refrain, reframe, and relax.
In a time of intense change and uncertainty, we are all experiencing strong emotions. There is no easy fix—but learning how to work with your own mind and the challenging emotions you experience is essential to staying calm in the midst of the storm, allowing you to better care for yourself and others.
Join Pema today to start your journey of emotional transformation and turn your world around.
What if our greatest fear is leaving our loved ones behind?
What if we fear the unknown or no longer existing?
What if we fear having not fulfilled our purpose in this life?
What if we’re scared of pain or isolation while dying?
AN I N T E R A C T I V E W O R K S H O P
M A D E F O R Y O U
This online writing workshop includes a bounty of exclusive resources, many of them available only for this one-time special offering.
This Retreat Includes:
This online retreat includes a bounty of exclusive resources, many available only for this one-time special offering, to support you in your retreat experience.
In this six-week interactive online retreat, Pema Chödrön will show you how to work with your challenging emotions.
Emotional Intelligence
“Pema Chödrön delivers the material in an extremely warm, understandable, and accessible way for westerners. I also appreciate her gentle humor and find myself smiling and laughing at many points during her talks. I [feel I am] in a more prepared and eager state to continue my study/practice and to take the next step of attending a meditation retreat in order to go further. To all responsible for putting this together, thank you so very much.”
“Even though I am an online participant I feel as though I am there. Pema and the participants are very ‘real’ and I can relate to the responses of those present. We all struggle with similar experiences.”
“I truly appreciate [Pema’s] manner of kindness and humor. She presents the material in a way that I can integrate into my daily life. I am a novice to many of the teachings but never feel overwhelmed or confused after a lesson. Thank you.”
“The quality of the videos was fantastic. I felt like I was attending the Yarne at the Abbey. The talks by Pema were absolutely wonderful and I'll watch them many times.”
“Pema is a relatable, delightful, and excellent communicator. The video is high quality and the support materials (e.g., talk transcript, notes, reading list, etc.) are helpful resources. I also appreciate that this course is available to those unable to take time away from work or family (at least at this particular time in life), as well as its self-paced nature.”
In this interactive online writing workshop, Natalie Goldberg will help you:
Natalie teaches straight to you in over eleven hours of video teachings recorded just for this workshop
ELEVEN HOURS OF POWERFUL TEACHINGS
Writing as a Practice
LESSON 1
This Lesson Will Help You . . .
- Learn what writing practice is and isn’t
- Build a meditation practice as a support for your writing
- Learn how to write what you don’t want to write, and why you should
- Use the practice of recall to improve your writing
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P R A I S E F O R N A T A L I E
W H A T Y O U W I L L L E A R N
As she entered the ninth decade of her life, Pema Chödrön spent a year in solitary retreat working deeply with traditional Tibetan Buddhist teachings on death, including teachings on the bardos from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. This interactive online retreat, recorded at her home monastery, Gampo Abbey, in front of a small audience of her close students and friends, brings the fruits of Pema’s study and practice to you.
Whether you’re a longtime practitioner, an enthusiastic beginner, or somewhere in between, this retreat will offer you teachings and tools for embracing the entirety of your human experience—including your death—as a sacred journey. These are teachings that you can listen to again and again over the coming years, returning to them for guidance and grounding as you navigate the ongoing journey of your life.
What if our greatest fear is leaving our loved ones behind?
What if we fear the unknown or no longer existing?
What if we fear having not fulfilled our purpose in this life?
What if we’re scared of pain or isolation while dying?
11 HOURS OF VIDEO TEACHINGS
LIVE CALLS WITH
NATALIE GOLDBERG
FACILITATED
DISCUSSION FORUMS
LIVE WRITING PRACTICE SESSIONS
BONUS PRACTICES
PRINTABLE TRANSCRIPTS
DOWNLOADABLE
AUDIO FILES
RECOMMENDED READINGS LIST
50% OFF SELECTED TITLES
UNLIMITED ACCESS
DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO FILES
RECOMMENDED READINGS LIST
UNLIMITED ACCESS
Gain skills to handle procrastination and provide discipline
DEVELOP
DISCIPLINE
Discover what you have to say and why your story is important
FIND YOUR VOICE
Learn how to use details to launch, structure, and anchor your writing practice
DISCOVER
DETAILS
Start believing in the worth of yourself and your words
GAIN
CONFIDENCE
Break free to tell the story that you need to tell
TELL YOUR STORY
Free yourself from fears of judgment, rejection, and failure
OVERCOME FEAR
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
When you purchase this course you have the option to gift a second enrollment at no additional cost.
3-month payment plan option available
Launch Price Available for a Limited Time
RETAIL PRICE: $699
DISCOUNT: -$400
SPECIAL PRICE: $299
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
In this six-week interactive online retreat, Pema Chodron will be your guide in living purposefully and dying fearlessly by teaching you how to . . .
A RETREAT MADE FOR YOU
This online retreat includes a bounty of exclusive resources, many available only for this one-time special offering, to support you in your retreat practice.
THIS RETREAT INCLUDES:
RETREAT SUMMARY
Three live Q&A calls during which Natalie will take questions from students in the online workshop
LIVE CALLS WITH
NATALIE GOLDBERG
An opportunity to receive guidance from long-time students of Natalie along with the peer-to-peer support of fellow workshop participants
FACILITATED DISCUSSION FORUMS
Twice-weekly live writing practice sessions where you will be given time to write and the opportunity to read your work aloud to fellow workshop participants
LIVE WRITING PRACTICE SESSIONS
Expand your library and support your writing practice with 50% off Natalie’s Shambhala Publications books and other creativity books from Shambhala Publications
50% OFF
SELECTED TITLES
Additional practices and exercises to help you integrate writing into your life
BONUS PRACTICES
Printable transcripts of all video lessons so you can review the teachings at your own pace and highlight quotes or concepts for future reference
PRINTABLE TRANSCRIPTS
Listen on the go and take in these valuable teachings where and when it works best for you—on a walk, in a café, or while you’re traveling
DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO FILES
A list of readings and books recommended by Natalie for deepening your study and writing practice
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Access the workshop on your device or computer again and again as new insights emerge on your own path
UNLIMITED ACCESS
Listen on the go and take in this profound dharma where and when it works best for you—in the car, on a walk, or over the kitchen sink
DOWNLOADABLE
AUDIO FILES
A list of readings and books recommended by Pema for deepening your study and practice
RECOMMENDED READINGS LIST
Access the retreat on your device or computer again and again as new insights emerge on your own path
UNLIMITED ACCESS
Natalie teaches straight to you in over eleven hours of video teachings recorded just for this workshop
ELEVEN HOURS OF POWERFUL TEACHINGS
Three live Q&A calls during which Natalie will take questions from students in the online workshop
LIVE CALLS WITH
NATALIE GOLDBERG
An opportunity to receive guidance from long-time students of Natalie along with the peer-to-peer support of fellow workshop participants
FACILITATED DISCUSSION FORUMS
Twice-weekly live writing practice sessions where you will be given time to write and the opportunity to read your work aloud to fellow workshop participants
LIVE WRITING PRACTICE SESSIONS
Expand your library and support your writing practice with 50% off Natalie’s Shambhala Publications books and other creativity books from Shambhala Publications
50% OFF SELECTED TITLES
Additional practices and exercises to help you integrate writing into your life
BONUS PRACTICES
Printable transcripts of all video lessons so you can review the teachings at your own pace and highlight quotes or concepts for future reference
PRINTABLE TRANSCRIPTS
Listen on the go and take in these valuable teachings where and when it works best for you—on a walk, in a café, or while you’re traveling
DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO FILES
A list of readings and books recommended by Natalie for deepening your study and writing practice
RECOMMENDED READINGS LIST
Access the workshop on your device or computer again and again as new insights emerge on your own path
UNLIMITED ACCESS
Listen on the go and take in this profound dharma where and when it works best for you—in the car, on a walk, or over the kitchen sink
DOWNLOADABLE
AUDIO FILES
A list of readings and books recommended by Pema for deepening your study and practice
RECOMMENDED READINGS LIST
Access the retreat on your device or computer again and again as new insights emerge on your own path
UNLIMITED ACCESS
50% OFF
Select Titles
Expand your library and support your writing practice with 50% off all of Natalie’s books and Recommended Readings from Shambhala Publications.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Audio)
Translated by Francesca Fremantle and Chögyam Trungpa
Read by Richard Gere
2 ¾ hours, unabridged
This translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead emphasizes the practical advice that the book offers to the living.
The Five Buddha Families (Video)
Taught by Judith L. Lief
1 1/2 hours, unabridged
In this talk on the Five Buddha Families, Judy Lief explains how our inner world and the outer world are comprised of the same elemental forces.
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Paying Attention
LESSON 2
This Lesson Will Help You . . .
- Pay closer attention to the details that will bring your writing to life
- Improve your writing through the practice of listening
- Learn how to get past the inner critic, or “monkey mind”
- Write from your present moment experience
- See how good writing is an expression of “awake mind”
Touching Impermanence: The Bardo of Living
LESSON 1
This Lesson Will Help You...
- Become more familiar with the impermanence of all things
- Train to become more courageous, wise, and compassionate in your everyday life
- Understand why we study the bardo teachings and how they are relevant to every part of your life (not just your death)
Entering the Sacred World: The Bardo of Dying
LESSON 2
This Lesson Will Help You...
- Learn the two most important things to keep in mind when you’re dying and how to practice them now
- Engage the practice of tonglen, or sending and taking, for awakening love and compassion
- Understand the steps of dissolution that occur in the process of dying (according to the Tibetan Buddhist view)
Getting Out of the Way
LESSON 3
This Lesson Will Help You . . .
- Understand the benefits of being “dumb” as a writer
- Learn the three most important things Zen practice has taught Natalie about writing
- Overcome “monkey mind” when it becomes very loud
- Free yourself to write what is true for you
Gateways to Liberation: The Bardo of Dharmata
LESSON 3
This Lesson Will Help You...
- Recognize the gateways to enlightenment that arise in the bardo of dharmata
- Explore how habitual patterns and perceptions create your reality
- Understand the benefits of leaving your comfort zone, the risks of staying in it, and the danger of going too far out of it
Trusting Yourself
LESSON 4
This Lesson Will Help You . . .
- Get to know your own mental patterns
- Access your senses as a gateway to writing
- Consider how to build a structure for your writing
- Reflect on what you need to know before you write a book
- Learn the benefits of making writing practice a lifelong endeavor
Styles of Imprisonment: The Six Realms
LESSON 4
This Lesson Will Help You...
- Recognize the six realms or habitual states of mind that trap you in unhelpful patterns
- Identify how these “styles of imprisonment” arise in your own experience
- Understand how to get unstuck when you find yourself in one of the six realms
A Waking Dream: The Bardo of Becoming
LESSON 5
This Lesson Will Help You...
- Learn how to transform the patterns that don’t serve you so you can act in alignment with your intention
- Discover how to best support a person who has just died, according to the Tibetan Buddhist view
- Identify the qualities and scenarios you could experience in the bardo of becoming and understand how to prepare for them
Co-emergent Wisdom: The Five Buddha Families
LESSON 6
This Lesson Will Help You...
- Understand the five categories of wisdom energy known as Buddha families
- Work with the wisdom of the Buddha families as they show up in your life
- Reflect on the meaning of bardo in your own life
Relax
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Thousands of people have studied writing with Natalie over the last 40 years.
Here’s some of what they’ve had to say . . .
This online writing workshop includes a bounty of exclusive resources to support you, many available only for this one-time special offering.
THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES
When does the course begin?
The course is available as soon as you register, and with the exception of the live elements, it does not have a specific start date. All lessons are available and you may go through the course materials at your own pace. The facilitated discussion boards will be available starting on November 30, 2020 and will remain open through May 30, 2021. The twice-weekly meditation sessions will begin on Monday, January 4, 2021.
How long does it take to complete the course?
There are six lessons in the course and each lesson is designed to last a week. However, the course is flexible and you can work at your own pace as well, so you can benefit just as much from the course even if it takes you longer to go through it. We encourage you to download videos as you go through the course for your own personal use in the future. You will continue to have unlimited access to the course materials online as well.
How long will I have access to the course?
Your access to the course is unlimited. It will not expire.
How long will the discussion boards be available?
The discussion boards will remain open through May 30, 2021. However, the facilitators will only be available to respond to questions about the teachings until February 20, 2021.
When are the live calls with Pema?
The live calls will take place on Saturday, January 16 from 2 to 3 p.m. (EST) and Saturday, February 6 from 2 to 3 p.m. (EST). Recordings of the calls will be made available in the course for those who are unable to attend the calls or who would like to listen to them again.
Can I still take this training without a desktop/laptop computer (for example, if I only have an iPad)?
Yes, you can access this course using the browser on your device. However, please note that if you’d like to save any of the course materials, you will need to download to a computer first and then transfer the files to your device.
What if I have technical difficulties with the course?
We have a dedicated course support person who can help you with any issues you may encounter in navigating or accessing the course.
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Watch Rachel Neumann, Associate Publisher at Shambhala Publications and author of four books, and KJ Grow, VP of Sales and Marketing, as they answer the following questions and more in a pre-recorded video interview!
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Rachel Neumann is a writer, editor, and publisher with twenty years of journalism and book publishing experience, including the last five years as the Publisher and Editorial Director of Parallax Press. She has worked at The Village Voice, The New Press, and AlterNet and continues to write regularly for Lions Roar and other publications. She is the author of four books: Not Quite Nirvana, Long Weekend, and the children’s book Baby Present, as well as the editor for I Am Home: Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers. Rachel is currently the Associate Publisher of Shambhala Publications.
KJ Grow
KJ Grow, VP Sales & Marketing, joined Shambhala Publications in 2015, having worked for over a decade as a sales rep in New York City for “Big 5” publishers including Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. She is a graduate of both the Columbia Publishing Course and the Yale Publishing Course for Executive Education, and has served on the steering committee for the Independent Publishers Caucus. She has also worked as a bookseller in both independent bookstores and national chains, and is always an active member of at least one book club.
And if you’ve ever wanted to have a chance to ask your own question of a book publisher, please join us for a
LIVE Q & A CALL WITH SHAMBHALA
with Rachel Newman and KJ Grow as they take questions from workshop participants and share their knowledge of the publishing world from over thirty years of combined experience!
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11 Hours of Video Teachings
Watch Pema speak to her close students and friends in the main shrine room at Gampo Abbey, her home monastery
Live Calls with Pema Chödrön
Join Pema in two live Q&A calls during which she will take questions from students in the online retreat (2 p.m. EST on Saturday, January 16 and 2 p.m. EST on Saturday, February 6)
Facilitated Discussion Forums
Receive guidance from senior practitioners in Pema’s tradition along with the peer-to-peer support of fellow retreat participants
Live Meditation Sessions
Sit with others in the retreat community in live meditation sessions via Zoom (Mondays & Thursdays 2–2:30 p.m. EST between January 4 & February 25)
Home Practices & Contemplations
Bring the dharma alive in your daily life
with weekly practices, journal prompts, contemplations, and opportunities
for discussion
Printable Transcripts
Printable transcripts of all video lessons so you can review the teachings at your own pace and highlight quotes or concepts for future reference
Downloadable Audio Files
Listen on the go and take in this profound dharma where and when it works best for you—in the car, on a walk, or over the kitchen sink
Recommended Readings List
A list of readings and books recommended by Pema for deepening your study and practice
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Not Getting Hooked
Reframe
Refrain
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Embracing Our Difficult Emotions
Lesson 1
Emotions are a hallmark of being human—and difficult emotions have been vexing humans and causing problems for all of human history. I want this, I don’t want that, I’m jealous, I’m angry, and on and on.
In this first lesson of the retreat, Pema introduces us to the kleshas, the intense and challenging emotions that we each encounter in our lives. She also talks about how we might begin to get some space from our habitual emotional reactivity using three fundamental steps: refrain, reframe, and relax.
We all know what it’s like to feel hooked by an emotion that just won’t let go. For many of us, it’s anger or craving or jealousy. For others, it’s an overwhelming need to check out and go blank. When we’re in the midst of being hooked, nothing else matters and often nothing—and no one—can reach us.
In this second lesson of the retreat, Pema talks more about shenpa, that experience of being hooked. Recognizing when we’re hooked is essential for applying the three steps for working with difficult emotions.
Lesson 2
Shenpa: Noticing What Hooks Us
The first step in working with difficult emotions is refraining. Refraining, or taking a mindful gap as Pema teaches in this lesson, gives you the chance to stay present to the energy of your emotions. In that mindful gap, you can go back to the emotion’s basically good, dynamic quality and remember to be embodied and feel what you’re feeling. Taking a mindful gap gives you the space for what you’re feeling to become workable.
Lesson 3
Refraining: Taking a Mindful Gap
We’re all so accustomed to thinking of difficult emotions as something negative, whether they’re in ourselves or others. But what if this view could be reframed? What if the challenging and intense emotions we experience could become stepping-stones for creating compassion, loving-kindness, patience, and empathy?
In this lesson, Pema talks about how to reframe our kleshas, giving us the opportunity to change our attitude from negative to positive by looking at our emotions in a different way.
Reframing: Changing Your Attitude
Lesson 4
Relaxing into intense emotions can feel very counterintuitive. But fighting against our emotions is like fighting a riptide—the harder we swim against it, the further we are pushed out to sea. The opposite of struggling against our emotions is becoming one with them. On this “one with” path, everything becomes workable.
In Lesson Five, Pema talks about how to work with whatever arises so that our emotions become the very path to our awakening.
Lesson 5
Relaxing: Becoming “One With”
In this final lesson of the retreat, Pema brings together refraining, reframing, and relaxing with reminders on the simple, ordinary, appreciative perception that can come with relaxing. She includes a meditative practice on giving everything away to help us each discover where we are holding on.
Lesson 6
Bringing It All Together
This retreat was designed with your needs in mind and contains all of the following:
11 Hours of Video Teachings
2 Live Calls with Pema Chödrön
Facilitated Discussion Forums
Practice Prompts
Recommended Readings List
Live Meditation Sessions
Printable Transcripts
Home Practices & Contemplations
Downloadable Audio Files
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Beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun, and mother, Pema Chödrön has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practicing peace in these turbulent times.
She has been teaching and writing extensively for many years, including authoring the best-selling books When Things Fall Apart and The Places That Scare You.
Pema first met her root teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic ordination in the Tibetan lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for westerners in North America.
Over 7,000 people have studied with Pema Chödrön through Shambhala Publications and Prajna Studios.
Here’s some of what they’ve had to say . . .
“Pema Chödrön delivers the material in an extremely warm, understandable, and accessible way for westerners. I also appreciate her gentle humor and find myself smiling and laughing at many points during her talks. I [feel I am] in a more prepared and eager state to continue my study/practice and to take the next step of attending a meditation retreat in order to go further. To all responsible for putting this together, thank you so very much.”
“Even though I am an online participant I feel as though I am there. Pema and the participants are very ‘real’ and I can relate to the responses of those present. We all struggle with similar experiences.”
“I truly appreciate [Pema’s] manner of kindness and humor. She presents the material in a way that I can integrate into my daily life. I am a novice to many of the teachings but never feel overwhelmed or confused after a lesson. Thank you.”
“The quality of the videos was fantastic. I felt like I was attending the Yarne at the Abbey. The talks by Pema were absolutely wonderful and I'll watch them many times.”
“Pema is a relatable, delightful, and excellent communicator. The video is high quality and the support materials (e.g., talk transcript, notes, reading list, etc.) are helpful resources. I also appreciate that this course is available to those unable to take time away from work or family (at least at this particular time in life), as well as its self-paced nature.”
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In this recorded program held at Omega Institute, Pema Chödrön and her teaching assistant, Meg Wheatley, provide a wealth of wisdom for learning to step right into the river—to be completely and fearlessly present even in the hardest times and the most difficult situations. It’s the secret to being fully alive.
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This online retreat includes a bounty of exclusive resources to support you in your retreat practice.
This online retreat includes a bounty of exclusive resources to support you in your retreat practice.
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What if the source of our greatest pain was also the source
of our greatest possibility?
What if instead of running from our challenging emotions, we could develop tools to engage with them? It’s not about getting rid of emotions, it’s about coming to know them well. Having the courage to work with the feelings we’d rather avoid can be a path to personal transformation and positive change in the world.
Share the gift of growth and knowledge. For this one-time special offer, when you purchase this course you have the option to gift a second enrollment at no additional cost. You can share this with a loved one, friend, colleague, etc.
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What if the source of our
greatest pain was also the source of our greatest possibility?
What if instead of running from our challenging emotions, we could develop tools to engage with them? It’s not about getting rid of emotions, it’s about coming to know them well. Having the courage to work with the feelings we’d rather avoid can be a path to personal transformation and positive change in the world.
There has never been a timelier offering from beloved bestselling author Pema Chödrön than these teachings on working with our challenging emotions, known in Buddhism as the kleshas. In this all-new online retreat, Pema introduces the intense emotions at the heart of our suffering: craving, aggression, ignorance, pride, and jealousy. She gives us three powerful steps for working with them: refrain, reframe, and relax.
In a time of intense change and uncertainty, we are all experiencing strong emotions. There is no easy fix—but learning how to work with your own mind and the challenging emotions you experience is essential to staying calm in the midst of the storm, allowing you to better care for yourself and others.
Join Pema today to start your journey of emotional transformation and turn your world around.
Share the gift of growth and knowledge. For this one-time special offer, when you purchase this course you have the option to gift a second enrollment at no additional cost. You can share this with a loved one, friend, colleague, etc.
In this six-week interactive online retreat, Pema Chödrön will show you how to work with your challenging emotions.
Emotional Intelligence
Learn to identify difficult emotions when they begin to arise.
Not Getting Hooked
Recognize when you’re being “hooked” by intense emotions.
Refrain
Stop yourself from immediately reacting when difficult emotions arise.
Reframe
Shift your experience of these emotions from negative to positive.
Relax
Settle into the energy of intense emotions and work with them instead of pushing against them
This online retreat includes a bounty of exclusive resources to support you in your retreat practice.
This Retreat Includes:
11 Hours of Video Teachings
Watch Pema speak to her close students and friends in the main shrine room at Gampo Abbey, her home monastery
Live Calls with
Pema Chödrön
Join Pema in two live Q&A calls during which she will take questions from students in the online retreat (2 p.m. EST on Saturday, January 16 and 2 p.m. EST on Saturday, February 6)
Facilitated Discussion Forums
Receive guidance from senior practitioners in Pema’s tradition along with the peer-to-peer support of fellow retreat participants
Home Practices & Contemplations
Bring the dharma alive in your daily life with weekly practices, journal prompts, contemplations, and opportunities for discussion
Printable Transcripts
Printable transcripts of all video lessons so you can review the teachings at your own pace and highlight quotes or concepts for future reference
Downloadable
Audio Files
Listen on the go and take in this profound dharma where and when it works best for you—in the car, on a walk, or over the kitchen sink
Recommended
Readings List
A list of readings and books recommended by Pema for deepening your study
and practice
PLUS
Bonus 1
Buy One, Gift One
Share the gift of growth and knowledge. For this one-time special offer when you purchase this course you have the option to gift a second enrollment at no additional cost. You can share this with a loved-one, friend, colleague, etc.
Bonus 2:
Fully Alive audio and video
4.5 hrs of content.
In this recorded program held at Omega Institute, Pema Chödrön and her teaching assistant, Meg Wheatley, provide a wealth of wisdom for learning to step right into the river—to be completely and fearlessly present even in the hardest times and the most difficult situations. It’s the secret to being fully alive.
Coupon Code for 50% Off the Entire Collection of Recommended Readings (from Shambhala Publications)
Total Retail Value: $153
You Save: $76
Expand your library with 50% off recommended readings for this retreat
by Shambhala Publications.
SPECIAL PRICE: $299
Sign up today and experience the profound effect of these teachings on your own life!
When you purchase this course you have the option to gift a second enrollment at no additional cost.
3-month payment plan
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Lesson 1
Embracing Our Difficult Emotions
Emotions are a hallmark of being human—and difficult emotions have been vexing humans and causing problems for all of human history. I want this, I don’t want that, I’m jealous, I’m angry, and on and on.
In this first lesson of the retreat, Pema introduces us to the kleshas, the intense and challenging emotions that we each encounter in our lives. She also talks about how we might begin to get some space from our habitual emotional reactivity using three fundamental steps: refrain, reframe, and relax.
Lesson 2
Shenpa: Noticing What Hooks Us
We all know what it’s like to feel hooked by an emotion that just won’t let go. For many of us, it’s anger or craving or jealousy. For others, it’s an overwhelming need to check out and go blank. When we’re in the midst of being hooked, nothing else matters and often nothing—and no one—can reach us.
In this second lesson of the retreat, Pema talks more about shenpa, that experience of being hooked. Recognizing when we’re hooked is essential for applying the three steps for working with difficult emotions.
Lesson 3
Refraining: Taking a Mindful Gap
The first step in working with difficult emotions is refraining. Refraining, or taking a mindful gap as Pema teaches in this lesson, gives you the chance to stay present to the energy of your emotions. In that mindful gap, you can go back to the emotion’s basically good, dynamic quality and remember to be embodied and feel what you’re feeling. Taking a mindful gap gives you the space for what you’re feeling to become workable.
Lesson 4
Reframing: Changing Your Attitude
We’re all so accustomed to thinking of difficult emotions as something negative, whether they’re in ourselves or others. But what if this view could be reframed? What if the challenging and intense emotions we experience could become stepping-stones for creating compassion, loving-kindness, patience, and empathy?
In this lesson, Pema talks about how to reframe our kleshas, giving us the opportunity to change our attitude from negative to positive by looking at our emotions in a different way.
Lesson 5
Relaxing: Becoming “One With”
Relaxing into intense emotions can feel very counterintuitive. But fighting against our emotions is like fighting a riptide—the harder we swim against it, the further we are pushed out to sea. The opposite of struggling against our emotions is becoming one with them. On this “one with” path, everything becomes workable.
In Lesson Five, Pema talks about how to work with whatever arises so that our emotions become the very path to our awakening.
Lesson 6
Bringing It All Together
In this final lesson of the retreat, Pema brings together refraining, reframing, and relaxing with reminders on the simple, ordinary, appreciative perception that can come with relaxing. She includes a meditative practice on giving everything away to help us each discover where we are holding on.
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Beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun, and mother, Pema Chödrön has inspired millions of people from around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practicing peace in these turbulent times.
She has been teaching and writing extensively for many years, including authoring the best-selling books When Things Fall Apart and The Places That Scare You.
Pema first met her root teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, in 1972. Lama Chime encouraged her to work with Rinpoche, and it was with him that she ultimately made her most profound connection. At the request of the Sixteenth Karmapa, she received the full monastic ordination in the Tibetan lineage of Buddhism in 1981 in Hong Kong. She is resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery for westerners in North America.
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Over 7,000 people have studied with Pema Chödrön through Shambhala Publications and Prajna Studios.
Here’s some of what they’ve had to say . . .
“Pema Chödrön delivers the material in an extremely warm, understandable, and accessible way for westerners. I also appreciate her gentle humor and find myself smiling and laughing at many points during her talks. I [feel I am] in a more prepared and eager state to continue my study/practice and to take the next step of attending a meditation retreat in order to go further. To all responsible for putting this together, thank you so very much.”
“Even though I am an online participant I feel as though I am there. Pema and the participants are very ‘real’ and I can relate to the responses of those present. We all struggle with similar experiences.”
“I truly appreciate [Pema’s] manner of kindness and humor. She presents the material in a way that I can integrate into my daily life. I am a novice to many of the teachings but never feel overwhelmed or confused after a lesson. Thank you.”
“The quality of the videos was fantastic. I felt like I was attending the Yarne at the Abbey. The talks by Pema were absolutely wonderful and I'll watch them many times.”
“Pema is a relatable, delightful, and excellent communicator. The video is high quality and the support materials (e.g., talk transcript, notes, reading list, etc.) are helpful resources. I also appreciate that this course is available to those unable to take time away from work or family (at least at this particular time in life), as well as its self-paced nature.”
When does the course begin?
The course is available as soon as you register, and with the exception of the live elements, it does not have a specific start date. All lessons are available and you may go through the course materials at your own pace. The facilitated discussion boards will be available starting on November 30, 2020 and will remain open through May 30, 2021. The twice-weekly meditation sessions will begin on Monday, January 4, 2021.
How long does it take to complete the course?
There are six lessons in the course and each lesson is designed to last a week. However, the course is flexible and you can work at your own pace as well, so you can benefit just as much from the course even if it takes you longer to go through it. We encourage you to download videos as you go through the course for your own personal use in the future. You will continue to have unlimited access to the course materials online as well.
How long will I have access to the course?
Your access to the course is unlimited. It will not expire.
How long will the discussion boards be available?
The discussion boards will remain open through May 30, 2021. However, the facilitators will only be available to respond to questions about the teachings until February 20, 2021.
When are the live calls with Pema?
The live calls will take place on Saturday, January 16 from 12 to 1 p.m. (MDT) and Saturday, February 6 from 12 to 1 p.m. (MDT). Recordings of the calls will be made available in the course for those who are unable to attend the calls or who would like to listen to them again.
Can I still take this training without a desktop/laptop computer (for example, if I only have an iPad)?
Yes, you can access this course using the browser on your device. However, please note that if you’d like to save any of the course materials, you will need to download to a computer first and then transfer the files to your device.
What if I have technical difficulties with the course?
We have a dedicated course support person who can help you with any issues you may encounter in navigating or accessing the course.
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Learn to identify difficult emotions when they begin to arise.
Recognize when you’re being “hooked” by intense emotions.
Stop yourself from immediately reacting when difficult emotions arise.
Shift your experience of these emotions from negative to positive.
Settle into the energy of intense emotions and work with them instead of pushing against them
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