A Week-Long ONLINE Practice Intensive
May 7-13, 2023
Led by Dharma Teacher Khaydroup Zangmo
Assisted by Deidre Sklar guiding Feldenkrais & Addie deHilster guiding Yoga
We are happy to announce for the fourth consecutive year an online week-long practice intensive.
It is fortunate indeed to have the time to delve deeply into spiritual discovery. This is a rare opportunity to set aside our normal routines, unplug from distractions, and allow ourselves to experience the true relief that comes from cultivating a quiet mind and an open heart. Learning to be gentle with ourselves and “to relax in the doing” is liberating and transformative. Being at home in our own environments may prove supremely challenging. We will have to modify our expectations.
We will still have the support of practicing together as well as the flexibility to join any of the sessions according to your personal schedule. The key is finding the balance between, “not too tight, and not too loose”, between relaxed discipline and awake relaxation. In doing so, we discover that peace and happiness are already present within our own mind, we only have to relax into our practice and let go of everything that obscures the innate qualities of wisdom and compassion.
We will provide a “Zoom Room” for each separate practice you participate in as well as for whole group sessions.
We hope you will join our online Dharma community retreat.
By applying to this retreat, you are agreeing to commit yourself wholeheartedly to the retreat process: Attending practice sessions and sincerely cultivating an enlightened attitude.
For more info please write to pasadena@bodhipath.org
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Khaydroup Zangmo has been studying and practicing Buddhism since 1982 and kept monastic vows for 18 of those years. Under the guidance of the highly respected meditation master Lama Gendun Rinpoche, she completed two consecutive three-year retreats at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling in central France.
After completing her second retreat in 1997, Khaydroup lived in the women's monastery established by Gendun Rinpoche and began teaching the Dharma in centers, schools and organizations in Europe and in the USA. At the request of Shamar Rinpoche, Khaydroup moved back to the US in 2000 to be a resident teacher at the Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center. During the two years she was there, she helped found the San Luis Obispo Bodhi Path and the West Los Angeles Bodhi Path. The West Los Angeles group moved to Pasadena in 2004 where Khaydroup has been the resident teacher and held weekly classes and organized programs and retreats ever since.
In 1981, Khaydroup moved to Boulder, Colorado to work with a team of psychologists and a psychiatrist from The Naropa Institute who were using an innovative approach to caring for persons in psychological crisis in home settings. There she met and studied for 5 years with her first Buddhist teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Khaydroup was also a primary school teacher for 15 years, owning and directing a Waldorf Preschool for five of those years. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she is now a lay practitioner and lives with her family in South Pasadena.
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Deidre Sklar (PhD) has been investigating the effects of movement and stillness as an actor and corporeal mime, theatre director, scholar and professor of dance ethnology and embodiment theory, and now Feldenkrais practitioner, since she was asked to impersonate a snowflake in kindergarten. Her work was driven by what she saw, across cultures, to be the transformative possibilities of performance. Deidre's book, Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico is an ethnography of the annual Pueblo and Hispano religious celebration in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Based on a ten-year field study, it addressed her questions about the experience of belief in relation to communal practices. Her articles have appeared in The Drama Review, Dance Research Journal and Journal of American Folklore, among others. She is the recipient of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) 2014 award for Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance.
Perhaps the experience of imitating a snowflake, spinning and spinning until she felt herself to be on the ceiling looking down on herself, jump-started Deidre's immersion in movement as a form of transformative meditation. She began studying hatha and Kripalu yoga in the late 1960s, and then Viniyoga in the 90s, culminating in a month-long practicum in Chennai, India. Overlapping her yoga practice, Deidre was introduced to Buddhist meditation through several long (and challenging!) silent retreats through Spirit Rock in northern California. The depth possible with sitting meditation eventually led her deeper into Buddhist philosophy and refuge. Deidre joined Khaydroup's Pasadena Bodhipath group in 2007 and has remained devoted ever since. In January of 2015, sponsored by Pasadena Bodhi Path, she co-taught a workshop on "The Buddha and the Fool" with Carlo Pani Trinlay Dordje, including morning Feldenkrais lessons.
Deidre began studying the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education in 2010, completing the 4 year training in March 2016. It is a gentle movement practice that emphasizes awareness -- of kinesthetic sensation, body visualization, and mental processes. Feldenkrais lessons parallel and support meditation: learning from oneself by noticing differences, exploring possibilities, and finding alternative pathways. The emphasis is on ease, curiosity, discovery and pleasure in movement.
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Addie deHilster is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, a Yoga teacher trainer, and a Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator. She is the founder of the Moved to Meditate Class Library, which offers online classes based on the 4 M’s: Meaningful Mindful Movement that Meets you where you are. Now based in Vancouver, Washington (USA), she previously owned and operated a community yoga studio (Spiral Path Yoga Center) in Los Angeles, California for over five years. Her studio was known for its warm and inviting environment, robust teacher training program, and emphasis on adaptive yoga that made the practice more accessible to students who would not have thrived in most mainstream studios.
In addition to leading yoga classes and meditation groups for the general public, she also offers private yoga therapy sessions, as well as one-on-one meditation coaching, and Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings (all online). A dedicated practitioner of Buddhist Insight Meditation (aka Vipassana or Mindfulness), she has accumulated over three months of silent retreat practice over the years. She is a graduate of the 2014-15 Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, which is a program dedicated to weaving together the wisdom traditions of Hatha Yoga and Buddhist meditation. Her classes highlight the mindfulness principles within movement practice, helping students find an accessible pathway to self-healing and the heart of what yoga and meditation have to offer.
For more information and resources, you can visit her website at movedtomeditate.yoga, or tune in to the Moved To Meditate Podcast on any of the major podcast apps.
A Week-Long ONLINE Practice Intensive
May 7-13, 2023
Led by Dharma Teacher Khaydroup Zangmo
Assisted by Deidre Sklar guiding Feldenkrais & Addie deHilster guiding Yoga
We are happy to announce for the fourth consecutive year an online week-long practice intensive.
It is fortunate indeed to have the time to delve deeply into spiritual discovery. This is a rare opportunity to set aside our normal routines, unplug from distractions, and allow ourselves to experience the true relief that comes from cultivating a quiet mind and an open heart. Learning to be gentle with ourselves and “to relax in the doing” is liberating and transformative. Being at home in our own environments may prove supremely challenging. We will have to modify our expectations.
We will still have the support of practicing together as well as the flexibility to join any of the sessions according to your personal schedule. The key is finding the balance between, “not too tight, and not too loose”, between relaxed discipline and awake relaxation. In doing so, we discover that peace and happiness are already present within our own mind, we only have to relax into our practice and let go of everything that obscures the innate qualities of wisdom and compassion.
We will provide a “Zoom Room” for each separate practice you participate in as well as for whole group sessions.
We hope you will join our online Dharma community retreat.
By applying to this retreat, you are agreeing to commit yourself wholeheartedly to the retreat process: Attending practice sessions and sincerely cultivating an enlightened attitude.
For more info please write to pasadena@bodhipath.org
__________________________________________________________________________________
Khaydroup Zangmo has been studying and practicing Buddhism since 1982 and kept monastic vows for 18 of those years. Under the guidance of the highly respected meditation master Lama Gendun Rinpoche, she completed two consecutive three-year retreats at Dhagpo Kundreul Ling in central France.
After completing her second retreat in 1997, Khaydroup lived in the women's monastery established by Gendun Rinpoche and began teaching the Dharma in centers, schools and organizations in Europe and in the USA. At the request of Shamar Rinpoche, Khaydroup moved back to the US in 2000 to be a resident teacher at the Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center. During the two years she was there, she helped found the San Luis Obispo Bodhi Path and the West Los Angeles Bodhi Path. The West Los Angeles group moved to Pasadena in 2004 where Khaydroup has been the resident teacher and held weekly classes and organized programs and retreats ever since.
In 1981, Khaydroup moved to Boulder, Colorado to work with a team of psychologists and a psychiatrist from The Naropa Institute who were using an innovative approach to caring for persons in psychological crisis in home settings. There she met and studied for 5 years with her first Buddhist teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Khaydroup was also a primary school teacher for 15 years, owning and directing a Waldorf Preschool for five of those years. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she is now a lay practitioner and lives with her family in South Pasadena.
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Deidre Sklar (PhD) has been investigating the effects of movement and stillness as an actor and corporeal mime, theatre director, scholar and professor of dance ethnology and embodiment theory, and now Feldenkrais practitioner, since she was asked to impersonate a snowflake in kindergarten. Her work was driven by what she saw, across cultures, to be the transformative possibilities of performance. Deidre's book, Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico is an ethnography of the annual Pueblo and Hispano religious celebration in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Based on a ten-year field study, it addressed her questions about the experience of belief in relation to communal practices. Her articles have appeared in The Drama Review, Dance Research Journal and Journal of American Folklore, among others. She is the recipient of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) 2014 award for Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance.
Perhaps the experience of imitating a snowflake, spinning and spinning until she felt herself to be on the ceiling looking down on herself, jump-started Deidre's immersion in movement as a form of transformative meditation. She began studying hatha and Kripalu yoga in the late 1960s, and then Viniyoga in the 90s, culminating in a month-long practicum in Chennai, India. Overlapping her yoga practice, Deidre was introduced to Buddhist meditation through several long (and challenging!) silent retreats through Spirit Rock in northern California. The depth possible with sitting meditation eventually led her deeper into Buddhist philosophy and refuge. Deidre joined Khaydroup's Pasadena Bodhipath group in 2007 and has remained devoted ever since. In January of 2015, sponsored by Pasadena Bodhi Path, she co-taught a workshop on "The Buddha and the Fool" with Carlo Pani Trinlay Dordje, including morning Feldenkrais lessons.
Deidre began studying the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education in 2010, completing the 4 year training in March 2016. It is a gentle movement practice that emphasizes awareness -- of kinesthetic sensation, body visualization, and mental processes. Feldenkrais lessons parallel and support meditation: learning from oneself by noticing differences, exploring possibilities, and finding alternative pathways. The emphasis is on ease, curiosity, discovery and pleasure in movement.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Addie deHilster is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, a Yoga teacher trainer, and a Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator. She is the founder of the Moved to Meditate Class Library, which offers online classes based on the 4 M’s: Meaningful Mindful Movement that Meets you where you are. Now based in Vancouver, Washington (USA), she previously owned and operated a community yoga studio (Spiral Path Yoga Center) in Los Angeles, California for over five years. Her studio was known for its warm and inviting environment, robust teacher training program, and emphasis on adaptive yoga that made the practice more accessible to students who would not have thrived in most mainstream studios.
In addition to leading yoga classes and meditation groups for the general public, she also offers private yoga therapy sessions, as well as one-on-one meditation coaching, and Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings (all online). A dedicated practitioner of Buddhist Insight Meditation (aka Vipassana or Mindfulness), she has accumulated over three months of silent retreat practice over the years. She is a graduate of the 2014-15 Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, which is a program dedicated to weaving together the wisdom traditions of Hatha Yoga and Buddhist meditation. Her classes highlight the mindfulness principles within movement practice, helping students find an accessible pathway to self-healing and the heart of what yoga and meditation have to offer.
For more information and resources, you can visit her website at movedtomeditate.yoga, or tune in to the Moved To Meditate Podcast on any of the major podcast apps.