Retreats for Rigpa Mandala Students

Yang Nying Pudri Nyenpa
5 September 2023 to 26 January 2024
with options to enter the retreat for one, two or three months.

Yang Nying Pudri is a cycle of Vajrakilaya practices revealed as a terma by Tertön Sogyal. It is the main yidam practice of the Rigpa sangha, and this is a unique opportunity to do this extraordinary practice with the inspiration and support of a secluded group retreat.

For further information, email: retreats@dzogchenbeara.org

Terton Sogyal Foundation Study and Practice Grants

If you have a heartfelt wish to do one of these retreats but face financial challenges, you can avail of flexible payment options or apply for a Study and Practice grant towards your retreat contribution.

Dzogchen Beara is offering the opportunity to join the live streaming of the presentations being given to retreatants who are preparing to do a Yang Nying Pudri nyepa in closed retreat.

Who is it For: For students who have completed a nyenpa of Rigdzin Düpa and plan to do a nyenpa of Yang Nying Pudri at home in the near future.

Dates and Time: The streaming will take place on zoom over seven days, from 7th to 13th September, from 10am to 1pm CET

For further information and to register: retreats@dzogchenbeara.org

Terton Sogyal Foundation Study and Practice Grants

If you have a heartfelt wish to do one of these retreats but face financial challenges, you can avail of flexible payment options or apply for a Study and Practice grant towards your retreat contribution.

To register your interest and receive information write to retreats@dzogchenbeara.org

Terton Sogyal Foundation Study and Practice Grants

If you have a heartfelt wish to do one of these retreats but face financial challenges, you can avail of flexible payment options or apply for a Study and Practice grant towards your retreat contribution.

Rigdzin Düpa ‘The Gathering of Vidyadharas,’ is the inner lama practice from the Longchen Nyingtik, the terma revelation of Jikmé Lingpa.

Doing this nyenpa in the protected environment of retreat creates extremely favourable circumstances for practice.

Nyenpas take place in Longchen, our long-term retreat centre, and are held in a very traditional way with complete silence and seclusion.

There are sessions of group practice in the morning and evening, the rest of the day is devoted entirely to individual practice.

As well as doing the full nyenpa, there are options to join the closed group retreat for: One, two and three months, starting in September – please ask for details

Nyenpas are preceded by an Introduction Retreat, where full instructions on the main practice are given by a senior instructor, using teachings and commentaries. These presentations are also streamed for those plan to do the nyenpa at home in the near future. Additionally, guidance is given on : simple choponing, making tormas, using ritual instruments such as bell dorje and drum; along with advice on how to make the most of your retreat.
During this period retreatants set up the mandala of Rigdzin Düpa in the mainshrine room, and their personal shrines in their rooms.
For further information and to register: retreats@dzogchenbeara.org

Terton Sogyal Foundation Study and Practice Grants

If you have a heartfelt wish to do one of these retreats but face financial challenges, you can avail of flexible payment options or apply for a Study and Practice grant towards your retreat contribution.

Yang Nying Pudri Nyenpa
End of January to June 2025
with options to enter the retreat for one, two or three months.

Yang Nying Pudri is a cycle of Vajrakilaya practices revealed as a terma by Tertön Sogyal. It is the main yidam practice of the Rigpa sangha, and this is a unique opportunity to do this extraordinary practice with the inspiration and support of a secluded group retreat.

For further information, email: retreats@dzogchenbeara.org

Terton Sogyal Foundation Study and Practice Grants

If you have a heartfelt wish to do one of these retreats but face financial challenges, you can avail of flexible payment options or apply for a Study and Practice grant towards your retreat contribution.

To register your interest and receive information write to retreats@dzogchenbeara.org

Terton Sogyal Foundation Study and Practice Grants

If you have a heartfelt wish to do one of these retreats but face financial challenges, you can avail of flexible payment options or apply for a Study and Practice grant towards your retreat contribution.

Personal Retreats are an opportunity to go much deeper into practice away from the busyness of our daily lives, whether we are accumulating Ngondro, practicing meditation or loving kindness, or wish to deepen our study.

In retreat we benefit from the three components which support us in integrating the benefit of our practice into daily life – right environment, practice in formal sessions, and integrating during the breaks.

Your retreat can be a short as a few days or up to several months and your schedule will be worked out to suit you.

You will have a single room in a reserved retreat area with glorious views out over the Atlantic Ocean. Rigpa students have been doing retreat in these rooms for over 20 years, and fruition of their practice is tangible – you can feel the blessings in the peaceful and settled atmosphere.

There is silence in the retreat area until 1pm, and again from 8pm onwards.

You are welcome to join the local sangha for daily group practices and to participate in daily guided meditation and loving kindness sessions.

Cost
The cost of only €60 a day includes access to an extensive library of books and teachings and instructor support as well as full catering and a laundry service, so you can devote your entire day to undistracted practice.

Travel

Further Information

Catering
All meals are vegetarian and we can offer a gluten and dairy free special diet if needed.

“Dzogchen Beara is a place where all thoughts and emotions find space to come to rest by themselves. The open sky with the sun, the wind, the sea, the fog, the rain and the weather´s constant change make you experience the constant change of everything. You wake up and you can´t see anything because it´s so foggy, after one hour of practice you look up and suddenly there is the sea and the waves, one hour later the sky wears the most beautiful blue dress and the seagulls glide through the sky, 30 minutes later rain. No chance to hold on a single experience as lasting. This very direct experience of change is safely held in an atmosphere of practice and love and care. I could open up completely. I got in touch with all kinds of feelings and emotions and had the space to let them go again and see their impermanent nature. At the same time I got in touch with something bigger that hosts all these risings. Clarity took place. I found space in myself and I carry Dzogchen Beara in my heart wherever I go to keep me in touch with my true nature.”
– A Ngondro student who did three weeks personal retreat

We now offer the opportunity for Ngondro/Sadhana students to come and be on retreat at Dzogchen Beara, for no charge, in exchange for five hours work a day, five days a week.

Positions on this Work-Retreat Programme are available for periods of one month up to three months, and depend on the skills of the retreatant matching the needs of the tasks that Dzogchen Beara needs to be done.

Work-Retreat Programme retreatants have a single room in the personal retreat area, with glorious views out over the Atlantic Ocean., They follow a daily schedule of personal practice, and keep all the retreat guidelines and boundaries.

Benefits
You will have access to an extensive library of books and teachings and instructor support as well as full catering and a laundry service, and,outside the five hours work a day, will be able to focus undistractedly on practice

Travel

For further information email: retreats@dzogchenbeara.org