The next WORLDWIDE TRANSMISSION occurs on Saturday, November 22, on the Anniversary of Adzam Drugpa.

Upcoming retreat on "The Real Nature of Ati Dzogchen"

is to be held in Moscow, Russia, and will be transmitted in OPEN webcast starting on September 2nd at 17:00 hrs (5:00 PM) Moscow time. Subsequent sessions from September 3rd to 9th will begin every morning at 10:00 AM Moscow time. Webcasts will be facilitated at Dondrub Ling starting at 6 AM PT, and then nightly from 11 PM-1:00 AM througout the retreat.
This Webcast is OPEN (no password required for audio connections). Updated URLs and instructions on how to connect are found HERE.

YANTRA YOGA promotional book tour and free demonstrations come to the bay area November 1-2

Dzogchen Community America and SSI/Italy are collaborating to promote a series of free Yantra Yoga demonstrations nationwide, in conjunction with the October release of YANTRA YOGA: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, trans. by Adriano Clemente.
Demonstrations will be led by Oni McKinstry, an authorized instructor of Yantra Yoga, at Open Secret bookstore in San Anselmo, Ca., located at 923 C St., San Rafael, on Saturday and Sunday 1st and 2nd of November from 2-4 p.m.

The book tour will be followed shortly after by a beginning Yantra Yoga workshop on December 5-7, with Naomi Zeitz.

Yantra Yoga offers the practitioner a unique approach to Yoga practice, parallel to the Hatha Yoga of the Hindu tradition. Called the "Union of Sun and Moon", it is a dynamic system of trulkhor (movements) and tsalung(pranayamas) and differs from more widespread yogas in that it is done as a sequence of movements co-ordinated with breathing and specific ways of holding. This practice helps us to relax and achieve a state of well-being and harmony, at the same time enhancing physical health, energy, and mental balance. At a more profound level, it is an important practice to integrate body, speech and mind in a state that is beyond our normal dualistic concepts.Yantra Yoga is a very rich body of knowledge that includes 3 preliminary series, 75 yantras (asanas), 7 breathing practices, 7 lotuses and the vajra wave--108 exercises in all. Profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs,Yantra Yoga presents Tibet's trulkhor yoga tradition as taught by one if its master exponents, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. Yantra Yoga's movements, exercises, and methods of concentration are all based on an eighth-century text by Vairocana whose translation is included, illuminated by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's commentary. Detailed charts for the timing of the breathing exercises are also included.

Yeshi Silvano Namkhai comes to Dondrub Ling November 14th-16th

Yeshi Silvano Namkhai is the son of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. As a child he was recognized as the reincarnation of Khyentse Rinpoche Chökyi Wangchug (1910-1958/1959?), tulku of Galenting village and maternal uncle of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. Khyentse had been an important Dzogchen Master and died during the cultural revolution.
He will be teaching on Rigbai Kujyug, an Atiyoga teaching introduced by Vairocana into Tibet.
Please check the community schedule, call 510-644-2260, or write to aha@dzogchencommunitywest.org for more detailed information.