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Sādhana: Practices for Power 2022

Clear Sky Meditation Center 3567 Cockell Road, PO BOX 19, Fort Steele, British Columbia, Canada

February 18 - February 20, 2022
Now in-person and online.
This weekend meditation retreat provides an opportunity to participate in Empowerments and learn how to use a sadhana. It is offered in-person at Clear Sky Meditation Center, as well as online from your home.

Integrating Mindfulness: Tools for Holistic Living (Online or In-Person)

A six-week course with Associate Teachers Karen McAllister & Duncan Cryle
Cultivate a supportive container for personal sustainability so that you can live the change you wish to see. Integrating Mindfulness helps you create a container that supports you physically, mentally and emotionally.

Breathing Meditation Retreat (In-Person & Online)

Meditation Retreat with Catherine Pawasarat Sensei

This one week meditation retreat on breathing covers the core and fundamental practice in dharma. This simple yet powerful framework will extend your meditation experience to everything from subatomic particles to the vastness of space, and all that’s between.

16 Buddha Body Practice (In-Person Meditation Retreat)

Meditation Retreat with Catherine Pawasarat Sensei

This one week meditation retreat on breathing covers the core and fundamental practice in dharma. This simple yet powerful framework will extend your meditation experience to everything from subatomic particles to the vastness of space, and all that’s between.

Nine Vajrayana Empowerments

December 25 to 30, 2022
Lamas Doug and Catherine Sensei will bestow 9 Vajrayana initiations or empowerments (also called Tib. དབང་, wang or Wongkur). These days of initiations empower you to practice some rarely given meditations on the radiant forms of deities.

Going, Going, Gone: Teachings of Nagarjuna (In-Person or Online)

Meditation Retreat with Founding Teacher, Qapel Doug Duncan.
How deeply do you understand emptiness? Join Qapel Doug Duncan for an eight day meditation retreat on the deep emptiness teachings of Nagarjuna. In it we will study, reflect and meditate on the nature of emptiness – both ultimate and approximate.

Come to your Senses: A Day to Practice Deep Mindfulness

April 29, 2023 @ 1:30pm - 4:30pm

If you want to learn skills to be calm, grounded and nurtured whether at home or work, this half-day retreat is for you. You will learn how to release tension in your system and gain calm through focused concentration, using the senses of taste, touch, sight and sound.

Dharma in the Stars: AstroDharma Basics (In-Person or Online)

Weekend Retreat with Founding Teacher, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei
Delve into the mysteries of the stars and the principles of Dharma to unlock your true potential and live a fulfilling life. Our astrological natal chart provides us a kind of soul map for this lifetime. This map can help give us clarity for our unique bodhisattva path. This retreat is a great compliment for studies on the Kabbalah and Tarot.

As the Spirit Moves (In-Person and Online)

Weekend Retreat with Founding Teacher, Qapel Doug Duncan
Show up for teachings from Qapel and find out what he’ll teach. It will be eclectic and sure to inspire. In the spirit of Guru Yoga – unorganized, undetermined, unregulated. No seatbelts allowed.

Breathing 2.0 Meditation Retreat

Meditation Retreat with Founding Teacher, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei
This ten day meditation retreat covers a fundamental practice in dharma – awareness of the breath. Through this practice we also develop mindfulness of the body, feelings, mind states and contents of mind. Highly recommended for beginners and experienced meditators alike.

Integrating Mindfulness: Weekend Retreat (In-Person & Online)

A six-week course with Associate Teachers Karen McAllister & Duncan Cryle

Cultivate a supportive container for personal sustainability so that you can live the change you wish to see. Integrating Mindfulness helps you create a container that supports you physically, mentally and emotionally.

The Mind’s Cutting Edge: 12 Manjushris Meditation Retreat

Meditation retreat with Founding Teachers, Qapel Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei

Do you wish to embrace wisdom and its different manifestations? Manjushri is the Vajrayana Buddhist archetype of wisdom. In this retreat we will focus on developing cognitive intelligence, discrimination, clarity and rigor in terms of thinking.

The Five Stages of Emptiness Meditation Retreat (In-Person or Online)

Meditation Retreat with Founding Teachers, Qapel Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei.
Are you ready to deepen your meditation practice? Perhaps you’ve heard of ’emptiness’ or shunyata, but would like more experiential contact with it. In this retreat, we will study how we construct reality from false views and learn how to penetrate through this illusion into greater clarity, freedom and joy.

Come to Your Senses: A Spring Renewal Retreat

May 11-12, 2024

If you want to learn how to feel refreshed, renewed, grounded and nurtured whether at home or work, this two-day retreat is for you. Surrounded by the peace and calm of the Clear Sky Mediation Center, come learn how to release tension in your system and gain calm through focused concentration, using the senses of taste, touch, sight and sound.

Breathing Meditation Retreat

Meditation Retreat with Founding Teacher, Catherine Pawasarat Sensei
This ten day meditation retreat covers a fundamental practice in dharma – awareness of the breath. Through this practice we also develop mindfulness of the body, feelings, mind states and contents of mind. Highly recommended for beginners and experienced meditators alike.

Razor’s Edge: The Dance of Absolute & Relative Truths (In-Person and Online)

Weekend Retreat with Founding Teacher, Qapel Doug Duncan
The Razor’s edge is the line between wisdom and ignorance. A paradoxical, joyous, and pristinely aware place, the edge of which is finer than most realize. This weekend course is an opportunity to study with meditation master and Namgyal lineage teacher Qapel (Achariya Doug Duncan).

The Movement of the Mandala

Meditation retreat with Founding Teachers, Qapel Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat Sensei

The Movement of the Mandala is a dramatic experiential retreat in which participants explore the rich variety of the Kabbalah and Western Mysteries. This retreat was offered only once by Namgyal Rinpoche in 1974 . This will be a 50 year anniversary event and will be the only time this retreat is offered by Qapel and Sensei in his lifetime.

Clear Sky’s 20th Anniversary Celebration!

Join us for our 20th Anniversary celebration where we will explore Clear Sky's past, present and future and celebrate with a Chenrezi empowerment.

Hamster Wheel or Heaven? The Wheel of Dependent Origination (In-Person and Online)

Weekend retreat with Founding Teacher Catherine Pawasarat Sensei.
Everything depends on everything else. Ecosystem is pure and simple, the way things are. Would you like to look closer at the nature of our mind-body continuum? This weekend course is an opportunity to study with meditation master and Namgyal lineage teacher Sensei (Catherine Pawasarat).