Teaching Schedule 2018

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location:

Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, The Galleria #155, 740 Front Street, Santa Cruz

Description:

Flight of the Garuda

Session 3: Sunday, May 27, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Lama Lena (Yeshe Kaytup)
Comfortably straddling both East and West, Lama Lena, brings with her 40 plus years of traditional Buddhist study and practice, including a 7 year cave retreat in Tso Pema, India as well as some 30 years traveling with translating for the Venerable Wangdor Rinpoche, whose lineage in both Dzogchen and Chagchen she holds.
Traveling internationally, she teaches in a direct, informal style, blending earthy wit with compassion and incisive clarity. Currently, when not teaching, Lama Lena divides her time between homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and India, continuing to assist Ven. Wangdor Rinpoche, and providing medical assistance, as a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, to the Tibetan refugee community, local villagers, and mountain tribe people.

Contact:

Toni

Email:

wisdomcenter.sc@gmail.com

Phone:

831-469-9467

Website:

Things to know:

There is no fee for the Teachings. There will be an opportunity to give dana directly to Lama Lena while offering a white scarf and receiving blessings.

Chairs and some meditation cushions available. Parking available in adjacent lots and city lot at Front and River Sts.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia 954 N. Marshall St. Phila. PA 19123

Description:

Flight of the Garuda by the great Tibetan Yogi, Shabkar

Session 1: Friday, June 1 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

For those who were able to attend last year, this will be a continuation of the teachings we have received over the past three years. For those joining this year for the first time, it will be as if from the very beginning. All are welcome!

Lama Lena will share with us her extensive practice, insight and wisdom guiding us on an experiential journey within using Shabkar’s ‘Flight of the Garuda’ as the map for finding our inner unity of the ‘One Taste’ of awakened awareness. This teaching is open and suitable for meditation practicioners, both new and advanced in practice, entering with "beginners mind." 'This is a rare opportunity to receive teachings from the Heart of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Shabkar lived during the 19th century and was a great eccentric wandering yogi who engaged himself in extensive retreat through the methods of direct awakening found in the Dzogchen tradition. His poetic song, Flight of the Garuda, contains the essence of his realization and insight and conveys the depths and heart of its practice.

Contact:

Elazar Aslan

Email:

elazaraslan@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

http://www.tibetanbuddhist.org

Things to know:

Registration is required for this retreat as space is limited. Please email Tony Boris at tonyboris@gmail.com to register, and please write "Lama Lena Retreat" in the subject line.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

11:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia 954 N. Marshall St. Phila. PA 19123

Description:

Flight of the Garuda by the great Tibetan Yogi, Shabkar

Session 2: Saturday, June 2 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Session 3: Saturday, June 2 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

For those who were able to attend last year, this will be a continuation of the teachings we have received over the past three years. For those joining this year for the first time, it will be as if from the very beginning. All are welcome!

Lama Lena will share with us her extensive practice, insight and wisdom guiding us on an experiential journey within using Shabkar’s ‘Flight of the Garuda’ as the map for finding our inner unity of the ‘One Taste’ of awakened awareness. This teaching is open and suitable for meditation practicioners, both new and advanced in practice, entering with "beginners mind." 'This is a rare opportunity to receive teachings from the Heart of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Shabkar lived during the 19th century and was a great eccentric wandering yogi who engaged himself in extensive retreat through the methods of direct awakening found in the Dzogchen tradition. His poetic song, Flight of the Garuda, contains the essence of his realization and insight and conveys the depths and heart of its practice.

Contact:

Elazar Aslan

Email:

elazaraslan@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

http://www.tibetanbuddhist.org

Things to know:

Registration is required for this retreat as space is limited. Please email Tony Boris at tonyboris@gmail.com to register, and please write "Lama Lena Retreat" in the subject line.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

10:00am - 11:00am

Location:

Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia 954 N. Marshall St. Phila. PA 19123

Description:

Public Dharma Talk

Session 4: Sunday, June 3 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Contact:

Elazar Aslan

Email:

elazaraslan@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

http://www.tibetanbuddhist.org

Things to know:

Registration is required for this retreat as space is limited. Please email Tony Boris at tonyboris@gmail.com to register, and please write "Lama Lena Retreat" in the subject line.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:

The Pittsfield Sangha (% UU Church) 175 Wendell Ave. Pittsfield, MA 01201

Description:

Flight of the Garuda

Contact:

Bruce

Email:

pematara@hotmail.com

Phone:

413-358-2626

Website:

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Toward Harmony Tai Chi and Qigong, 16 Center St., Ste 527, Northampton, MA 01062

Description:

Intro to Dzogchen

Friday, June 8th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 PM

Contact:

Kathryn Komidar

Email:

info@towardharmony.com

Phone:

413 586-8880

Website:

www.towardharmony.com

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

11:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

Toward Harmony Tai Chi and Qigong, 16 Center St., Ste 527, Northampton, MA 01062

Description:

Flight of the Garuda

Session 1: Saturday, June 9th, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session 2: Saturday, June 9th, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Heart advice on the essential meditation instruction on mind and the Nature of Mind

The teachings will span two days, but you may come to either one or all three sessions.

Contact:

Kathryn Komidar

Email:

info@towardharmony.com

Phone:

413 586-8880

Website:

www.towardharmony.com

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

11:00am - 1:00pm

Location:

Toward Harmony Tai Chi and Qigong, 16 Center St., Ste 527, Northampton, MA 01062

Description:

Flight of the Garuda

Session 3: Sunday, June 10th, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Heart advice on the essential meditation instruction on mind and the Nature of Mind

The teachings will span two days, but you may come to either one or all three sessions.

Contact:

Kathryn Komidar

Email:

info@towardharmony.com

Phone:

413 586-8880

Website:

www.towardharmony.com

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Drikung Meditation Center, 15 Bartlett Ave, Arlington, MA 02476

Description:

Atiyoga: Featuring Rare Transmissions of Changchub Dorje.

Contact:

Brian

Email:

Harrisbrian321@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

https://www.drikungboston.org/

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Drikung Meditation Center, 15 Bartlett Ave, Arlington, MA 02476

Description:

Atiyoga: Featuring Rare Transmissions of Changchub Dorje.

Contact:

Brian

Email:

Harrisbrian321@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

https://www.drikungboston.org/

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:

Rime Buddhist Center 700 West Pennway Kansas City, MO 64131

Description:

Approaching Emptiness Through Compassion

Session 1: Friday, June 15, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

This is the first part of a set of Thousand-arm Chenrezig practices related to Tong-Len adapted for westerners by Lama Thupten Yeshe of the Galugpa linage. There is not a specific text. This set of practices can be very intense. It is best taught to more experienced and stable practitioners.

It is important to note that it is a continuous teaching...that is, to go to the 2nd teaching, you must attend the first, and to go to the 3rd, you
must have attended the 1st and 2nd. A person can stop after the 1st if they choose.

We are delighted to welcome back Lama Lena to the Rime Center. Lama Lena is a highly accomplished yogini in the Dzogchen tradition who will deliver very clear and accurate teachings on Dzogchen. She is accessible, easy to relate to, open to questions, and willing to deal directly with many of the questions to which we are seeking answers.

Register Today!

Dzogchen is a Tibetan word that means Great Perfection. On the outer level it refers to a method of meditative practice that enables us to recognize our true nature. Ultimately, great perfection is that very nature: the natural, primordially pure nature of mind.

Register online:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ee2zsenp1fc2403f&oseq=&c=&ch=

When she is not traveling, teaching, or translating, she works providing medical assistance to the Tibetan refugee community as well as the local Indian villagers and mountain tribes people. At the request of H.E., Zigar Choktrul Rinpoche and Ven. Wangdor Rinpoche, as well as many Western and Tibetan dharma students, she has been traveling and teaching from the lineages she holds in an informal style that is humorous, artful, and well worth experiencing.

Contact:

Lama Matt Rice

Email:

spiritual.director@rimecenter.org

Phone:

Website:

http://www.rimecenter.org

Things to know:

Folks are welcome to bring their own cushions - but we have more than 60 - and never run out. Because we are in an over 100 year old building - it is not 100% handicapped accessible.... however we do have a side entrance with fewer steps - and even an electric stair glide to bring folks up the final 8 steps or so. However, bathrooms are not handicapped accessible.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

Rime Buddhist Center 700 West Pennway Kansas City, MO 64131

Description:

Approaching Emptiness Through Compassion

Session 2: Saturday, June 16th, 10:00 am - 12 noon
Session 3: Saturday, June 16th, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This is the first part of a set of Thousand-arm Chenrezig practices related to Tong-Len adapted for westerners by Lama Thupten Yeshe of the Galugpa linage. There is not a specific text. This set of practices can be very intense. It is best taught to more experienced and stable practitioners.

It is important to note that it is a continuous teaching...that is, to go to the 2nd teaching, you must attend the first, and to go to the 3rd, you
must have attended the 1st and 2nd. A person can stop after the 1st if they choose.

We are delighted to welcome back Lama Lena to the Rime Center. Lama Lena is a highly accomplished yogini in the Dzogchen tradition who will deliver very clear and accurate teachings on Dzogchen. She is accessible, easy to relate to, open to questions, and willing to deal directly with many of the questions to which we are seeking answers.

Register Today!

Dzogchen is a Tibetan word that means Great Perfection. On the outer level it refers to a method of meditative practice that enables us to recognize our true nature. Ultimately, great perfection is that very nature: the natural, primordially pure nature of mind.

Register online:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ee2zsenp1fc2403f&oseq=&c=&ch=

Register by mail by downloading the form:
http://www.rimecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/RimeRegistration2015.pdf

When she is not traveling, teaching, or translating, she works providing medical assistance to the Tibetan refugee community as well as the local Indian villagers and mountain tribes people. At the request of H.E., Zigar Choktrul Rinpoche and Ven. Wangdor Rinpoche, as well as many Western and Tibetan dharma students, she has been traveling and teaching from the lineages she holds in an informal style that is humorous, artful, and well worth experiencing.

Contact:

Lama Matt Rice

Email:

spiritual.director@rimecenter.org

Phone:

Website:

http://www.rimecenter.org

Things to know:

Folks are welcome to bring their own cushions - but we have more than 60 - and never run out. Because we are in an over 100 year old building - it is not 100% handicapped accessible.... however we do have a side entrance with fewer steps - and even an electric stair glide to bring folks up the final 8 steps or so. However, bathrooms are not handicapped accessible.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

Rime Buddhist Center 700 West Pennway Kansas City, MO 64131

Description:

Hitting the Essence in Three Words (Public Talk)

Session 4: Sunday, July 17th, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

We are delighted to welcome back Lama Lena to the Rime Center, July 28 through 30. Lama Lena will be teaching on Patrul Rinpoche’s Hitting the Essence in Three Words: “The Special Teaching of the Wise and Glorious King”. Lama Lena is a highly accomplished yogini in the Dzogchen tradition who will deliver very clear and accurate teachings on Dzogchen. She is accessible, easy to relate to, open to questions, and willing to deal directly with many of the questions to which we are seeking answers.

Register Today!

Dzogchen is a Tibetan word that means Great Perfection. On the outer level it refers to a method of meditative practice that enables us to recognize our true nature. Ultimately, great perfection is that very nature: the natural, primordially pure nature of mind.

Register online:
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ee2zsenp1fc2403f&oseq=&c=&ch=

Register by mail by downloading the form:
http://www.rimecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/RimeRegistration2015.pdf

When she is not traveling, teaching, or translating, she works providing medical assistance to the Tibetan refugee community as well as the local Indian villagers and mountain tribes people. At the request of H.E., Zigar Choktrul Rinpoche and Ven. Wangdor Rinpoche, as well as many Western and Tibetan dharma students, she has been traveling and teaching from the lineages she holds in an informal style that is humorous, artful, and well worth experiencing.

Contact:

Lama Matt Rice

Email:

spiritual.director@rimecenter.org

Phone:

Website:

http://www.rimecenter.org

Things to know:

Folks are welcome to bring their own cushions - but we have more than 60 - and never run out. Because we are in an over 100 year old building - it is not 100% handicapped accessible.... however we do have a side entrance with fewer steps - and even an electric stair glide to bring folks up the final 8 steps or so. However, bathrooms are not handicapped accessible.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

12:30pm - 2:30pm

Location:

State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5911

Description:

Not a public event. This teaching will be for inmates only.

Contact:

Email:

Phone:

605-367-6053

Website:

Things to know:

Not a public event. This teaching will be for inmates only.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

12:30pm - 2:30pm

Location:

State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5911

Description:

Not a public event. This teaching will be for inmates only.

Contact:

Email:

Phone:

605-367-6053

Website:

Things to know:

Not a public event. This teaching will be for inmates only.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Tara House, 3112 Rebecca St., Sioux City, IA 51103

Description:

Public Talk

Contact:

Ibu Nooney

Email:

tarasammy@gmail.com

Phone:

712-490-6410

Website:

http://tarahouse.org/

Things to know:

Participants can bring their own pillows,
on Street parking,
dana accepted,
light potluck at 9 pm.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Tara House, 3112 Rebecca St., Sioux City, IA 51103

Description:

Public Talk

Contact:

Ibu Nooney

Email:

tarasammy@gmail.com

Phone:

712-490-6410

Website:

http://tarahouse.org/

Things to know:

Participants can bring their own pillows,
on Street parking,
dana accepted,
light potluck at 9 pm.

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

11:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

Shambhala Center, 2344 N. Oakland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211

Description:

Flight of the Garuda

Session 1: Saturday, June 23, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session 2: Saturday, June 23, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location:
Shambhala Center
2344 N. Oakland Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211

We will continue our exploration of "Flight of the Garuda" the visionary poetry of Shabkar Lama, which also presents the Dzogchen view in a different context

The Teacher:
Lama Lena is a highly accomplished yogini in the Dzogchen tradition. Beginning in the mid-70’s she spent seven years in retreat and practice in a small cave above Tso Pema under the tutelage of her root teacher, Ven.Wangdor Rimpoche. For many years she traveled with Wangdor Rimpoche as his translator and assistant. At the request of H.E., Zigar Choktrul Rimpoche and Ven.Wangdor Rinpoche - as well as many Western and Tibetan dharma students - she has been traveling and teaching from the lineages she holds.

Her style is accessible, direct, humorous and contemporary, and she truly exemplifies the "wandering yogi" spirit!!
To get a sense of Lama Lena's teaching style, watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb2NDSpqdKQ

Attending: The teaching is open to all - no requirements other than being present... There is no "door fee" for the teachings, but there will be the opportunity to make an offering to Lama Lena.

Didn't attend previously? No problem! The text is the framework that the teacher uses to convey the actual teaching, and the introduction to the Dzogchen view is always part of that. Often Lama Lena has time for question / answer as part of the overall teachings.

Contact:

Michael

Email:

tharpa.osang@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

https://milwaukee.shambhala.org/

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

11:00am - 1:00pm

Location:

Shambhala Center, 2344 N. Oakland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211

Description:

Flight of the Garuda

Session 3: Sunday, June 24, 11:00 - 1:00

Location:
Shambhala Center
2344 N. Oakland Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211

This year we will have several teachings. We will begin with the 3 Words that strike the Essence, a commentary by the 19 century yogi Patrul Rinpoche. It is the classic text for introducing the Dzogchen view to meditators of varied experience. Lama Lena will present how it relates to Mahamudra as well as Dzogchen. Following that we will continue our exploration of

Contact:

Michael

Email:

tharpa.osang@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

https://milwaukee.shambhala.org/

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Kriya Temple 2414 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647

Description:

How to be self-loving while undergoing "inner remodeling?

Monday, June 25th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

A teaching on transcendence of reasoning that permits or denies love, and moving toward relating from a higher perspective. Why reasoning and justification work better when loving another and not as potent when trying to love self? Join us for an evening with Lama Lena, and learn how Tibetan shamans access higher states of consciousness to change reality for the benefit of sentient beings.

With over 40 years of dharma study and practice and seven years in retreat in a small cave above Tso Pema under the tutelage of her root teacher, Venerable Wangdor Rinpoche, Lama Lena now travels the world teaching to those at any level of dharma practice with an informal style that is both humorous and anecdotal.

Contact:

Vova Kuperman

Email:

Phone:

Website:

lov4mu6@gmail.com

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Essential Evolution Holistic Wellness 459 Central Ave #201, Highland Park, IL 60035

Description:

Healing the body and karma of relationships through spiritual awareness

Tuesday, June 26th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

This lecture will explore the effects that thoughts and emotions have on the physical health and relationships. Learn how to utilize spiritual awareness and meditation to clear psychological and emotional toxicity from the tissues,organs, meridians and energy centers of the body. Join us for an evening with Lama Lena, and learn how Tibetan shamans access higher states of consciousness to change reality for the benefit of sentient beings.

With over 40 years of dharma study and practice and seven years in retreat in a small cave above Tso Pema under the tutelage of her root teacher, Venerable Wangdor Rinpoche, Lama Lena now travels the world teaching to those at any level of dharma practice with an informal style that is both humorous and anecdotal.

Contact:

Vova Kuperman

Email:

lov4mu6@gmail.com

Phone:

847-926-3252

Website:

http://www.eehwellness.com/

Things to know:

User:

Lama Lena Yeshe Kaytup

Time:

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:

Alchemy Arts Occult Bookstore 1203 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL 60660

Description:

How do we answer our own questions?

Tuesday, June 26th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

This lecture will explore whether it is possible to find the answer in the question itself and how to look at the question in such a way so that an answer presents itself.

Contact:

Vova Kuperman

Email:

lov4mu6@gmail.com

Phone:

Website:

https://alchemy-arts.com/

Things to know: