3-Day Annual Summer Retreat: The 5 Dakinis of Green Tara Meditation Practice

Register for Online

For In-Person Attendance: Space is limited. We suggest registering as soon as possible to reserve your seat. If the available seats fill up early, there will be an option to add your name to a waiting list. Registration closes at 6:00pm Pacific Time on Thursday, July 17th.

3-Day Annual Summer Retreat: The 5 Dakinis of Green Tara Meditation Practice

In this 3-Day Summer Meditation Retreat, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche will present The 5 Dakinis of Green Tara meditation practice. Rinpoche will provide teachings and guided meditation and we will engage in this profound practice together as a group.

Green Tara is a manifestation from ultimate reality, an enlightened being in female form. She embodies all Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and enlightened beings, and all enlightened qualities are perfectly complete within her. Green Tara practice is a meditation that focuses not on an ordinary object but on an enlightened image. The benefit of this practice is that it frees your mind from ordinary thoughts, emotions, unhappiness, and stress, and transforms all five mental poisons into enlightened awareness. It creates a clear mind and life and ultimately leads to completely perfect enlightenment.

Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche translated The 5 Dakinis of Green Tara meditation manual we will use in this retreat from the treasure teachings of the great treasure revealer Lerab Lingpa.

You may purchase a physical copy of the The 5 Dakinis Green Tara meditation practice manual on our online shop here. A PDF of the manual will be sent to all participants prior to the start of the retreat.

Rinpoche has explained that receiving the empowerment is recommended for all participants as it enhances your Green Tara practice so that it becomes more powerful. If you have the right perspective, receiving the empowerment allows Tara’s energy into your life. However, receiving the empowerment is not required in order to participate in this retreat or do the practice and anyone interested in this type of meditation practice that involves visualization and mantra recitation is welcome to attend.

Schedule:

Friday, July 18th – Sunday, July 20th
10:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time: Morning Session
12:00pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time: Lunch
1:30pm – 4:00pm Pacific Time: Afternoon Session

Pricing:

Online
$150 – Program Price
$151 – $750 – Program Price + Donation
$50 – $149 – Scholarship Rate

In-Person
$275 – Program Price
$276 – $1000 – Program Price + Donation
$150 – $274 – Scholarship Rate (Limited seats available for in-person scholarship rate. Please contact us if you no longer see this option available upon checkout.)

No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. Please contact us if you need to make special arrangements.

Important Notes:

Prerequisites and Empowerment:

• This practice includes visualization and mantra recitation. There are no prerequisites and no background is necessary so anyone interested in this type of meditation practice is welcome to attend.
• It is not required to receive the empowerment, but it is recommended. Rinpoche explained that if participants have received any Tara Vajrayana empowerment in the past, this is also beneficial.

Live Stream and Recording:

• The Retreat will be live-streamed on Zoom for participants attending Online. Please note that since you will receive the live stream link immediately upon registration, we are not able to offer refunds for this program.
• Video recordings will be available for all participants (In-Person and Online) approximately one week after the retreat. The recordings will be available for 3 months.

In-Person Attendees:

• This is a commuter retreat. If you’re coming from out of town and need local accommodations, here are several hotels within a 20 minute driving distance of the retreat:
  • • Inn Marin and Suites Novato
    • Marriott Novato
    • Novato Oaks Inn
    • Sheraton Petaluma
    • Hampton Inn Petaluma
• Please bring your lunch each day as there will not be time to leave during the lunch break. There will be plenty of refrigerator space and a microwave available for your use. We also recommend bringing a bottle or thermos of water if you wish.
• We ask that anyone who is not feeling well or has any recent symptoms of illness prior to the event – or who has been in close contact with anyone who does – not attend in-person. If you are no longer able to attend in-person, please let us know by emailing us at info@pristinemind.org and we will be happy to assist you in getting set up to attend remotely via the live stream. Please let us know as far in advance as possible so that we may offer your seat to someone else.

Additional Notes:

• If you have a different time zone, you may convert the time to your local time here.