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Summer 2010 Retreats

Summer 2010 Retreats

This summer the Nyingma Institute presents three unique series of retreats, offering training in Meditation, Tibetan Yoga, Advanced Buddhist Studies, and Nyingma Psychology. Students may attend single weeks of retreat, but the most benefit will be gained from attending an entire series, or the entire summer, of retreats.

Four-Week Series of Nyingma Psychology Retreats

Open Heart: Luminous Mind (NPS504-507)

July 19-August 14

…we can learn to move through experience like a fish through water, an accomplished dancer, or an eagle soaring through the sky. We can pass from understanding to understanding, deepening and broadening our vision until we reach a freedom from all fixed positions, a transparent clarity based on freedom itself. -Tarthang Tulku, Knowledge of Freedom


Nyingma Psychology utilizes introspective practices and penetrating analysis to examine and transform ordinary consciousness, emotions, and thought. This four-week series focuses on opening the heart and revealing the mind as pliable, luminous, and effortlessly intelligent. The residential cost for the entire four-week series is $2,100. The non-residential cost for the three weeks held at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley is $1,000. Prerequisite: Familiarity with meditation and openness to exploring consciousness in an experiential manner.

Week Four, August 9-14: Luminous Mind (NPS507)

Our whole being can wake up and merge into a brilliant, unified field of awareness. -Tarthang Tulku, Hidden Mind of Freedom


The fullness of our being, luminous and free, reveals itself through visualization and dream yoga practices. A mirror-like equanimity arises; all things, inner and outer, dance with a new sense of harmony and light. Cost for week: $360 (nonresidential); $550 (residential). Begins Monday morning and ends Saturday at 4:45 PM. Instructors: Sylvia Gretchen and the Nyingma Psychology staff. Retreat is part of the following Certificate Programs: Nyingma Psychology Program; Two-Year Nyingma Studies Program.