2026 COURSES & RETREATS
RELEASING INTO PRESENCE
Meditation, Mantra, Movement in the Matrix (Mmmm....)
Live Online with Chandra Easton
Echoes of Emptiness
Community Kirtan & Meditation
With Chandra Easton
Join Chandra Easton, renowned Tibetan Buddhism teacher and devotional chantress, for an evening of sacred sound where we experience the “echoes of emptiness”—the empty yet appearing nature of all sound, thought, and experience. This event blends Buddhist and Hindu Tantric traditions, offering an accessible, joyful exploration of devotional music and meditation suitable for all levels.
Embodying Tara’s Compassionate Presence
With Chandra Easton and Guest Musicians
Rare and intimate — gather in person to chant, meditate, and be held by community in the living mandala of Tara’s presence.
Wintering Within
Meditation, Music, and Gentle Yoga for the New Year
Chandra Easton with Guest Musicians Sorelia
Bring in the New Year with a rejuvenating week of meditation, music, and gentle yoga, guided by Buddhist teacher and author Lopön Chandra. As winter invites us to slow down and turn inward, we’ll explore “wintering” — the art of embracing rest, renewal, and the quiet gifts of this season.
Embodying the Innate Wisdom and Compassion of the Twenty One Taras
Presenter: Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton, Lopön Karla Jackson-Brewer MS, Nina Rao, Spring Washam and special guest, Lama Tsultrim Allione and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
Open Registration, Join Anytime!
Explore the symbolic meaning, power, and purpose of the 21 Taras through teachings, embodied meditation, mantra, and journeys with Tara.
In this immersive and transformative program, Dorje Lopön Chandra will offer us a lens through which we can understand and integrate the contemporary context of the Taras through inspiring stories about historic and modern Buddhist and non-Buddhist women who embody their myriad qualities.
Courageous Heart
The Healing Power Of Tara Practice
With Chandra Easton
An Embodied Path of Compassion and Essential Self-Esteem
We are living in a moment that asks a lot of the heart. There’s tenderness, fatigue, uncertainty, and pressure. Tara, a beloved female Buddha of compassion in the Tibetan tradition, invites us to see everything in our experience as part of the path—even fear, anger, and disillusionment.
In our new online course, Courageous Heart: The Healing Power of Tara Practice, dharma teacher Chandra Easton offers a clear, accessible introduction to Tara practice, helping you awaken inner courage, protection, and essential self-esteem. Through four self-paced modules and eight video lessons, you’ll explore Tara as a mirror for recognizing your own awakened capacities—working through the body, breath, voice, imagination, and awareness.
The course begins with the foundations of Green and White Tara, introducing embodied practice through meditation, visualization, and mantra. From there, you’ll be guided step by step through Tibetan deity practice, learning to work skillfully with fear and anxiety by embodying protective qualities and meeting experience with compassion. You’ll then turn toward integration—bringing Tara’s healing into relationships and everyday life, and discovering how your practice can be a source of joy and creativity.
If you’re seeking steadier footing amid fear, uncertainty, or transition, and feel drawn to explore deity practice in a clear and grounded way, this course is for you. For those wanting compassion practices that meet strong emotions with openness and care—and support a more embodied connection with oneself and others—Tara practice offers a powerful path forward.
Registration is now open for Courageous Heart, and early bird pricing is available for a limited time. We invite you to save your spot today and begin the course on February 2nd.
Foundations of Nondual Buddhist Tantra
Philosophy & Meditation Practices of Vajrayana
A Yearlong Dharma Immersion with Chandra Easton
This yearlong immersion offers a grounded, experiential introduction to Buddhist Tantra—its origins, classical forms, and relevance to modern life. Whether you are new to Vajrayana or deepening an established practice, this course provides a supportive path guided by a qualified teacher and a dedicated cohort.
A central thread of this immersion is the relationship between language and direct experience. As a translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts, Chandra works intimately with the subtle ways meaning is carried—and limited—by words. The teachings themselves remind us that conceptual understanding is only a doorway. Realization happens in the body, in presence, in the immediacy of practice. As the Fletcheress Dakini, Saraha’s 8th‑century teacher, expressed:
“The Buddha’s meaning can be known through symbols and actions, not through words and books.”
This course is designed to help you cross that threshold—from studying the teachings to embodying them.
