SKYMIND

We offer a path of contemplative training rooted in lived experience, oriented toward clarity, compassion, and care for the world

What Skymind Is

Skymind is a contemporary expression of contemplative training rooted in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition.

The work draws especially on the lineage and teachings of Machik Labdrön, an 11th-century Tibetan yogini whose teachings emphasize direct recognition of the nature of mind, compassion in action, and a fearless intimacy with lived experience. Her primary contribution, known as chöd or “severance,” points to a practice of cutting through habitual ego-clinging in order to meet life with greater openness, clarity, and care.

Our aim is not to preserve tradition as a museum piece, nor to dilute it for accessibility, but to translate its essential insights into forms that can be genuinely lived — in modern relationships, ethical complexity, and the particular challenges of the times we find ourselves in.

Who We Are

Skymind is shaped and guided by the lived practice of its founders.

Pieter Oosthuizen and Charlotte Rotterdam’s collaboration emerges from decades of study, practice, and teaching within the Vajrayana tradition. Their approach reflects long-term training, close relationship with lineage, and a shared commitment to offering contemplative practice in ways that are both rigorous and deeply human.

Skymind emphasizes a culture of practice — one that values inquiry, humility, and community, and that invites participants into a living relationship with the teachings as they unfold in real life. In a time marked by fragmentation and isolation, this work is offered as a way of remembering unity, connection, and our shared participation in something larger than ourselves.