Programs

  • $175.00 – Patron Price
  • $150.00 – General
  • $125.00 – Current Members
  • $75.00 – Students

Date & Time Details: March 11th: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM March 12th: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM March 13th: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM All times are EST.

Location: Virtual

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Shambhala Training Level II: Birth of the Warrior (Online)

With Mark Seibold

March 11 - 13, 2022

This intimate program provides a deepening of instruction for sitting and walking meditation as a means to explore how we can free ourselves from the patterns that repress the brilliant, compassionate, mindful warrior within.

This second Shambhala Training Level presents the view that when we open up to our own genuineness, we can begin to work directly with our fears. Through tenderness, we can meet life’s challenging moments, not with distractions and self-aggression, but with courage and confidence.

By relating to fear through meditation practice, we begin to appreciate that there isn’t actually anything fundamentally wrong with us. We are good, just as we are, right here and now. We can discover and cultivate the bravery necessary to embrace our true nature.

Shambhala Training Level II: Birth of the Warrior introduces a meditation practice that builds upon the mindfulness-awareness technique of Shambhala Training Level I. The level provides students with real techniques for working with fear and habitual patterns of thought and behavior.

Our Shambhala teachers will incorporate these teachings into the weekend’s talks and meditation instruction. They lead a team of meditation instructors to personally assist participants with one-on-one sessions and guided group meditation.

Shambhala Training Level II includes:

  • Guided meditation practice

  • Meditation talks

  • One-on-one sessions with a senior instructor

  • Concluding Sunday celebration

Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level I

Shambhala Training Level II is the second retreat weekend in the highly acclaimed Shambhala Training curriculum. Completion of Shambhala Training Level I is a prerequisite for this program. The Everyday Life course series is recommended to be taken in parallel with Shambhala Training Levels I-V.

This Shambhala Training Level II course is being hosted by the Pioneer Valley Shambhala Meditation Center, with Sky Lake and three other regional Shambhala Centers participating virtually.

Leader

Mark Seibold
Mark Seibold has been studying and practicing within the Vajradhatu/Shambhala community since 1981. Between 2000 and 2007 he served as director and co-director of the New Haven Shambhala Center in New Haven, CT. From 2015 to 2018 he served director of Practice and Education for the Pioneer Valley Shambhala Center and from 2020 until Shambhala Day, 2022 as director. He has been on the faculty of the Nitartha Institute since 2005 where he teaches the Foundational curriculum as well as Tibetan grammar and Tibetan Buddhist literature. A member of the Nalanda Translation Committee, in recent years he has been working…
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