Dzogchen Practices

You are warmly invited to join Dr. Ale Chaoul for a three-day retreat designed to prepare the body, breath, and awareness in readiness for Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s Tögal teachings on sky and sun-gazing.

Over three days, we will enter a space of deepening presence through essential practices: establishing a sacred boundary, engaging the Tsa Lung movements, resting in the Dzogchen practice of contemplative breathing, and the union of three spaces (heart, eyes, sky).

These practices are gateways—softening habitual patterns and guiding us toward a direct glimpse of the natural state of mind: open, luminous, and endowed with the qualities of loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity.

Through learning and practicing together for 3 days, you will gently become more familiar with both the methods and the innate wisdom that is already within you—your natural state of mind.

Arriving a few days early also provides us a soft landing into retreat; to settle the body, quiet the mind, and open the heart. In this way, we will prepare the ground to receive more deeply the precious and subtle teachings of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

These preperatory teachings are optional but highly encouraged.

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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s weekend teaching will focus on the Dzogchen practices of trekchö and tögal in the Bön tradition. As in the Buddhist traditions, “trekchö” and “tögal” are both advanced meditation practices of the Dzogchen teachings. Trekchö serves as the foundational practice that cuts through mental elaborations to help recognize one’s innate awareness, while tögal relates to clear light and the visions that can arise from that state, supported by the practices of sky gazing, sun gazing and dark retreat. This Dzogchen teaching is open to all. Rinpoche will be teaching at Shambhala in lieu of teaching in Crestone, Colorado, where his Chamma Ling Colorado center has cabins available for solitary retreat including dark retreat.

These events are cosponsored by Chamma Ling and Boulder Shambhala Center.