Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 29 March 2025 16:00 - 5 April 09:00
Teacher: 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!

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Monday 7 April 2025 16:00 - 13 April 09:00
Teachers: Herbert Elsky & Cécile Daimez & Andràs Hajdu

“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.

 

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Centre: Shambhala Global Services
Date: Thursday 10 April 2025 12:00 01:15

Join us for a look at Registrations and Participants in SDB Events plus time for your current questions about using the Shambhala Database. Please register, whether you can attend live or not. We'll send out the recording to all who register. 

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Tuesday 15 April 2025 16:00 - 26 April 10:00
Teachers: John Rockwell & Barbara Märtens

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

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Monday 28 April 2025 16:00 - 4 May 10:00

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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Wednesday 30 April 2025 16:00 - 6 May 09:00
Teacher: Marcia Shibata

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

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Thursday 1 May 2025 09:00 - 2 May 18:00
Teacher: 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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Friday 9 May 2025 16:00 - 18 May 09:00
Teacher: Eva Wong

Register here if you would like to attend both programmes!

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 10 May 2025 09:00 - 11 May 18:00
Teacher: 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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Sunday 11 May 2025 20:00 - 18 May 00:00
Teacher: 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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Friday 23 May 2025 16:00 - 1 June 10:00
Teachers: Lama Brian Hilliard & Sarah Coleman

A 10-day retreat for advanced Vajrayana practitioners (see prerequisites below).

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 7 June 2025 16:00 - 14 June 12:00
Teacher: David Hope

Discover the art of meditation in the serene beauty of Dechen Chöling. This retreat is designed especially for beginners, offering a gentle introduction to mindfulness, contemplation, and cultivating our innate wisdom.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Thursday 26 June 2025 16:00 - 3 July 10:00
Teachers: Alex Swain & Adam Lobel

Among the ancient trees and rolling meadows of rural France, join us for meditation, nature-connection practices, regenerative activism training, and deep inquiry.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 5 July 2025 16:00 - 12 July 10:00
Teachers: Tessa Racine & Otto Pichlhoefer

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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 12 July 2025 16:00 - 23 July 09:00
Teachers: Sabine Rolf & Eve Rosenthal & Daniele Bollini & Alfonso Taboada

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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Thursday 24 July 2025 16:00 - 4 August 00:00
Teachers: Max Baltin & Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI

Instructor training for Kyudo practitioners combining the advanced and public programs led by Onyumishi Kanjuro Shibata XXI, Sensei.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Thursday 24 July 2025 16:00 - 31 July 09:00
Teacher: Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI

Instructor training for advanced Kyudo practitioners. The programme will be led by Onyumishi Kanjuro Shibata XXI, Sensei.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Friday 25 July 2025 16:00 - 3 August 09:00
Teacher: Sophie Maclaren

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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 26 July 2025 13:00 - 2 August 12:00

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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Monday 28 July 2025 16:00 - 4 August 09:00
Teacher: Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI

Open to all - a living tradition of contemplative archery.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Thursday 14 August 2025 16:00 - 21 August 10:00
Teachers: Valérie Limon & Adrienne Chang

Discover the art of meditation in the serene beauty of Dechen Chöling. This retreat is designed especially for beginners, offering a gentle introduction to mindfulness, contemplation, and cultivating our innate wisdom.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Sunday 24 August 2025 16:00 - 31 August 09:00
Teachers: Jörg Kretzschmar & Ivan Tröscher

In this program we will bring together the living Warrior traditions from the lineage of Aikido practitioners with the Shambhala Warrior culture brought to the west by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Join us for this unique offering.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Friday 5 September 2025 16:00 - 10 September 10:00
Teacher: Alain Beauregard

During this retreat, we will delve into the journey of healing from both a spiritual and emotional viewpoint, drawing on Alain's personal experience of overcoming terminal cancer. How can our mind support our own healing?

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Friday 5 September 2025 16:00 - 10 September 10:00
Teacher: Alain Beauregard

During this retreat, we will delve into the journey of healing from both a spiritual and emotional viewpoint, drawing on Alain's personal experience of overcoming terminal cancer. How can our mind support our own healing?

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Sunday 28 September 2025 16:00 - 5 October 12:00
Teacher: Marcia Shibata

This teacher’s training continues to cultivate a mind/heart that is always open. The programme is by invitation only.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Sunday 5 October 2025 16:00 - 11 October 09:00
Teacher: Nita Little

This five-day workshop is for anyone who wishes to deepen their skills of improvisation in daily life, easy movement and relational levels of engagement that will include physical contact. Open to All.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Saturday 18 October 2025 16:00 - 26 October 10:00
Teacher: 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.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Sunday 26 October 2025 16:00 - 2 November 00:00
Teacher: Mathias Pongracz

Open to all who are ready to commit to a transformative week of mindfulness in silence.

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025 16:00 - 2 November 10:00
Teacher: Robert Eckstein

In this immersive lucid dreaming retreat join us for the experience how to transform the third of our lives that we spend asleep by learning how to dream lucidly and develop a nocturnal practice. Open to all!

 

Centre: Dechen Chöling
Date: Monday 24 November 2025 16:00 - 30 November 10:00
Teachers: Friederike Tröscher & Barbara Märtens

Join us for an exploration of mindfulness and awareness through simple meditation and movement practices from the traditions of Body-Mind Centering® and Shambhala Buddhism. Open to all.