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SUMMARY:Reclaiming Wholeness: A Journey into the Enneagram and the Five Buddha Families - Online 8-week Course
DESCRIPTION:with Charlotte Rotterdam & Catherine Bell\n\n\n\nIs your inner weather matching the world outside?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat if the seasons were not only happening around us\, but within us? \n\n\n\nGrowth isn’t a straight line; it’s a cycle. \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week journey\, we move beyond ‘fixing’ ourselves and instead learn to read the weather of our inner lives. By weaving together the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism\, the psychological depth of the Enneagram\, and the natural rhythms of the seasons\, you’ll discover a map for living that honors mystery and your own innate wholeness. \n\n\n\nA Journey of the Seasons…\n\n\n\nA Unique Dialogue Between Two Wisdom Traditions \n\n\n\nWhere the psychological precision of the Enneagram meets the vast\, energetic landscape of the Five Buddha Families. \n\n\n\nThis is an 8-week journey to align your inner world with the rhythms of life.\n\n\n\nNature’s Wisdom\n\n\n\nAligning your personal growth with the natural cycles of the seasons. \n\n\n\nDeep Awareness\n\n\n\nUsing the Enneagram and Five Buddha Families to see clearly beyond your automatic patterns. \n\n\n\nCompassionate Inquiry\n\n\n\nMeeting your inner weather with presence rather than judgment. \n\n\n\nRadical Wholeness\n\n\n\nRemembering the deeper intelligence that lives within your being. \n\n\n\nMEET YOUR GUIDES:\n\n\n\nCATHERINE R. BELLSession Facilitator\n\n\n\nCatherine R. Bell\, Founder of The Awakened Company and best-selling author\, Catherine has dedicated her life to awakening the inherent humanity within ourselves and our organizations. With decades of experience in the Enneagram and business transformation\, she guides participants with a unique blend of grounded wisdom and fierce compassion\, helping them navigate their inner weather to find radical wholeness. \n\n\n\nLEARN MORE \n\n\n\nCHARLOTTE Z. ROTTERDAMSession Facilitator\n\n\n\nDorje Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam is a senior Buddhist teacher and lineage holder at Tara Mandala who has spent over 20 years teaching at the intersection of spiritual practice and daily life. A master of the Five Buddha Families\, she brings a profound ability to make ancient wisdom both accessible and transformative\, offering a nurturing yet clear presence for those looking to reclaim their innate intelligence. \n\n\n\nLEARN MORE \n\n\n\nWhat if the Seasons Were Not Only Happening Around Us\, But Within Us? \n\n\n\nThis eight-week course explores transformation through the wisdom of the Five Buddha Families from Tibetan Buddhism\, the Enneagram\, and the living rhythms of the seasons. Rather than treating growth as a linear project\, we’ll approach it as cyclical\, embodied\, and ever-evolving. Each season reveals different energies\, patterns\, gifts\, and invitations within our psyche\, our being and our doing. \n\n\n\nDrawing on contemplative tradition\, psychological insight\, and symbolic teaching\, this unique course brings the Five Buddha Families and the Nine Enneagram Points into conversation. The Buddha Families offer a framework for understanding our encumbered patterns and particular forms of wisdom\, while the Enneagram helps us recognize our defaults and wake up from automaticity. Together\, they offer a compassionate map for transforming neurosis into wisdom and living more fully from our innate wholeness. \n\n\n\nOver eight weeks\, we explore how the seasonal cycle mirrors the movement of consciousness: spring inspires creativity\, summer reveals vitality\, fall invites abundance and letting go\, and winter opens us to essence\, stillness\, and presence. This is not a course about fixing ourselves or locking ourselves into fixed types. It is about learning to read the weather of our inner life and to meet each season with greater awareness\, compassion\, discipline\, courage\, and trust.
URL:https://skymind.us/event/reclaiming-wholeness-a-journey-into-the-enneagram-and-the-five-buddha-families-online-8-week-course/
LOCATION:Online (through The Awakened Company)
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SUMMARY:Skymind Immersion Program
DESCRIPTION:A Nine-Month Transformational Journey into the Nature of Mind\, Meditation\, and Compassionate Living\n\n\n\nWith Pieter Oosthuizen and Charlotte RotterdamGuest teachers: Lama Tsultrim Allione\, Sarah Harding\, Elena Brower \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkymind is an invitation to rest into our true nature. In the Buddhist tradition this nature is inseparable from the ground of being – vast\, luminous\, and compassionate – embracing all things like a Great Mother. But how do we recognize the innate wakefulness and primordial wholeness of our true nature? How do we access the ground? “Rest\,” say the teachings\, “rest in the natural state.” \n\n\n\nOur nine-month immersive journey is guided by the wisdom of the great 11th-century Tibetan yogini\, Machig Labdrön\, whose teachings are held in the non-dual Mahamudra lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Her direct and piercing instructions point us to the nature of mind – our true nature – and call us to meet our lives and the world with vast awareness and a fiercely loving heart. \n\n\n\nBeginning at the spring equinox and unfolding through the winter solstice\, Skymind is a program of focused study\, committed practice\, and everyday integration\, so that these ever-green teachings become not merely understood but lived experience. It unfolds along the time-tested Buddhist structure of Ground\, Path\, and Fruition. \n\n\n\nThree Interwoven Streams\n\n\n\nThroughout the nine months\, the course weaves together three complementary streams of study\, practice\, and integration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Study: The Teachings of Machig Labdrön\n\n\n\nAt the heart of the program are the extraordinary nature-of-mind teachings of Machig Labdrön\, founder of the Severance (Chöd) lineage. We explore her repeated instruction to “rest in your nature” – drawing on her core texts and pith verses to carry through everyday life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Practice: Open Awareness Meditation\n\n\n\nA central thread is meditation as a doorway into direct experience of the nature of mind. You will train in focusing attention\, recognizing awareness itself\, attuning to loving radiance\, and resting into open awareness through the Skymind meditation practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Integration: Bringing the Teachings Into Life\n\n\n\nHow do these teachings transform the way we live? We walk the Skymind path – cultivating radical acceptance and fierce compassion\, turning toward our obstacles with awareness and curiosity to uncover the awakened heart (bodhicitta) even within our difficulties. \n\n\n\n\n\nFive Life Dimensions\n\n\n\nYou will have the opportunity to apply these teachings to key areas of your life: \n\n\n\n\nRelationships\, community\, and service\n\n\n\nWork and livelihood\n\n\n\nBody\, health\, and environment\n\n\n\nIntellect\, learning\, and creativity\n\n\n\nSpirituality\n\n\n\n\nWhy Nine Months?\n\n\n\nThe nine-month arc provides the time and container for real transformation to take place\, allowing teachings\, meditation\, and integration to deepen\, stabilize\, and mature together. The extended timeframe also creates a committed community of practitioners traveling the path together – a sangha that strengthens both individual practice and collective learning. \n\n\n\nWho Is This Program For?\n\n\n\nSkymind offers significant benefit to both the experienced practitioner and those with little or no previous experience. It is particularly suited for those who: \n\n\n\n\nAre interested in the nature of mind and non-dual teachings through the lens of Tibetan Buddhism\n\n\n\nWish to cultivate and deepen their meditation practice in a structured\, supported way\n\n\n\nSeek a path that integrates deep contemplative insight with everyday life\n\n\n\nWant to cultivate greater compassion\, resilience\, and clarity in the face of life’s challenges\n\n\n\nWould like to become part of a supportive community of learning and practice\n\n\n\n\nIncluded as a recommended but not required retreat within Tara Mandala’s Magyu Program. \n\n\n\nYour Teachers\n\n\n\n\n\nPieter Oosthuizen – Co-teacher\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlotte Rotterdam – Co-teacher\n\n\n\n\n\nGuest Teachers\n\n\n\n\n\nLama Tsultrim Allione – Founder\, Tara Mandala\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Harding – Lama\, author & translator\n\n\n\n\n\nElena Brower – Teacher & author\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Details\n\n\n\n\nDates: Spring equinox through winter solstice – March 21 to December 19\, 2027\n\n\n\nTwo live teaching sessions each month: Sundays 10am–12pm Mountain Time (1st & 3rd Sunday)\n\n\n\nTwo live practice sessions each month: guided meditation and discussion (dates & times TBD)\n\n\n\nAll sessions live online and recorded for those who cannot attend live\n\n\n\nTranslation: via Zoom with instantaneous subtitle translation into most languages\n\n\n\nBreakout discussions\, optional peer pods\, personal practice between sessions\, and regular brief personal meetings with Pieter and Charlotte\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkymind Deep Blue – Advanced Mentorship Track\n\n\n\nFor students who wish to engage with Skymind as a committed path at an advanced level\, Deep Blue offers deeper study of the curriculum and particular texts\, smaller-group engagement with Pieter and Charlotte\, and support for solitary retreat\, including preparation and integration guidance. Enrollment is limited; we ask for a brief application and interview. For more information\, please contact Charlotte at charlotte@skymind.us. \n\n\n\nRetreat Opportunities\n\n\n\nFor a more complete Skymind experience\, we invite you to attend at least one in-person retreat – offered in the US and in Europe – over the course of the program. These retreats are complementary to the coursework\, but optional\, with separate registration. \n\n\n\n\n“The realization of the nature of mind includes all phenomena without exception.” — Machig Labdrön \n\n\n\n\nA Few More Images\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Your Interest
URL:https://skymind.us/event/6032/
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SUMMARY:The Garrison Institute: Skymind - Buddhist Teachings on Meeting our World with a Vast Mind & Fierce Heart
DESCRIPTION:A thousand years ago\, Machig Labdrön\, the renowned 11th century Tibetan yogini\, taught that it is only in meeting our fears and shadows that we are able to access the wisdom and peace we so deeply yearn for. We are invited to “go to the places that scare you” – not with armor and aggression but with curiosity and compassion. These ancient insights are grounded in the profound understanding of our fundamental\, indestructible wholeness and the recognition that the sky-like vastness of our awareness can hold and embrace whatever arises. They offer refuge and guidance as we engage a world marked by uncertainty\, confusion\, and even despair. How can we draw on the depths of our innate wakefulness to meet this moment of time with clarity and a fiercely loving heart? Our practice is not to effort/strain more\, but to access\, rest into\, and move from the awakened heart-mind which lies within each of us. In this retreat we draw on Machig’s direct teachings\, practice open awareness meditation\, and cultivate the warmth of community in order to access the spacious brilliance of our minds and the tenderness of our care.
URL:https://skymind.us/event/skymind-at-the-garrison-institute-buddhist-teachings-on-meeting-our-world-with-a-vast-mind-fierce-heart/
LOCATION:The Garrison Institute\, 14 Mary’s Way\, Route 9D\, Garrison\, NY 10524\, Garrison\, New York\, 10524\, United States
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