Yuthok Nyingthig Secret Guru Yoga
Seven dy group retreat guided by Dr. Nida CHENAGTSANG
NOVEMBER 19 - 26
Check in 3 - 6pm on November 19 in for residential guests; Check out 2 - 4pm November 26
In-PERSON RETREAT PRICE:
Commuter $1050: Includes retreat, three meals a day, all digital texts, audio and visual resources, and one year access to video recordings of retreat sessions (offsite accommodation)
Residential $1300 - $1800: Includes retreat, three meals a day, access to online retreat and onsite accommodation for seven nights
Open to all who have completed Yuthok's Ngöndro preliminary practices.
Limited to 20 residential guests
Application form for in person participation below
ONLINE LIVESTREAM
$300 suggested contribution
Online retreat includes livestream of morning sessions (on Zoom), all digital texts, audio and visual resources, and one year access to video recordings of retreat sessions.
If you have questions about the pre-requisites for online attendance please write to info@sowarigpainstitute.org
If you would like to join the retreat online, please sign up here:
Secret Guru Yoga is the third of Yuthok’s four guru yogas, known as the “Swift Liberation for the Fortunate Ones” and presents a complete Kyerim (creation stage) practice according to the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition.
Creation stage practices of the Anuttarayoga tantra Buddhist tradition train us to generate or "re-create" ourselves as the deity through visualization paired with meditation on emptiness and compassion. The result is purification of all inner and outer perceptions and recognition of our true essence.
This is the first time that Dr. Nida has shared this full practice publicly and it is a unique opportunity to receive instruction and direct transmission in a small group setting.
On the first day of this retreat Dr. Nida will bestow the Yuthok Nyingthig Essential Empowerment required to do this practice.
Pre-requisite: Seven days Yuthok Nyingthig Ngöndro retreat, alone or in group (or ngöndro practice in another lineage with commitment to complete Yuthok’s ngöndro). If you have questions about the pre-requisites please write to info@purelandfarms.com
Daily practice Schedule:
Sessions in bold will be livestreamed
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19
Check in: 3 - 6pm for residential guests
6pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Introduction to Yuthok’s Guru Yogas (Public talk, open to all)
MONDAY NOVEMBER 20 (Medicine Buddha Day):
8am Breakfast
9am - 12pm: Yuthok Nyingthig Essential Empowerment and Explanation with Dr. Nida
(this session will be made available to larger sangha)
12:30 - 3:30: Lunch and break (opportunity to receive Sowa Rigpa healing sessions)
3:30 - 6:30: Practice sessions
6:30pm: Dinner
8pm: Shanglon protector practice
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21 - FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25
8am Breakfast
9am - 12pm: Secret Guru Yoga Practice and Teachings with Dr. Nida
12:30 - 3:30: Lunch and break (opportunity for Sowa Rigpa healing sessions)
3:30 - 6:30: Secret Guru Yoga practice sessions
6:30pm: Dinner
8pm: Shanglon protector practice
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26
9am - 12pm: Concluding Practice and Teachings with Dr. Nida
12:30pm: Lunch and check out for residential guests'
Schedule subject to modification.
Yuthok Nyingthig, the ‘Heart Essence of Yuthok.' This unique and comprehensive set of Tibetan Buddhist practices was transmitted by Yuthok Yönten Gönpo the Younger, the great 12th century Tibetan physician and meditation adept who is considered to be an emanation of Medicine Buddha. It is a complete system of practice from the Anuttarayogatantra (Highest Yoga Tantra) class of teachings, beginning with Ngöndro (the preliminaries) and progressing through Kyerim and Dzogrim (Creation and Completion Stage practices) to the highest practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
The tradition includes concise and essential methods perfectly suited for busy contemporary practitioners that offer both worldly benefits including improved health and longevity for oneself and others, as well as the ultimate benefit of complete spiritual liberation. The Yuthok Nyingthig is the main spiritual tradition connected with Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine), and it contains many unique methods to heighten the intuitive, diagnostic, and healing capacities of doctors. It is the only complete cycle of Vajrayana teachings in which Medicine Buddha as a yidam (personal meditative deity).
Yuthok Nyingthig meditation practices are traditionally done in the context of a seven day retreat, making them practical and accessible in these modern busy times.
Dr. Nida chenagtsang
Born in Amdo, in Northeastern Tibet, Dr. Nida began his early studies of Sowa Rigpa at the local Tibetan medical hospital. Later, he was awarded a scholarship to enter the Lhasa Mentseekhang or Tibetan Medical University, where he completed his degree in 1996, with practical training at the Tibetan Medicine hospitals in Lhasa and Lhoka.
Alongside his medical education, Dr. Nida trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism. In particular, he trained in the Longchen Nyingthig tradition of the Nyingma school with his root guru Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen and in the Dudjom Tersar tradition with Chönyi Rinpoche and Semo Dechen Yudrön. He received complete instruction in the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage, the unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Medicine, from his teachers Khenpo Tsultrim Gyaltsen and Khenchen Troru Tsenam, and was requested to continue the Yuthok Nyingthig lineage by Jamyang Rinpoche of the Rebkong ngakpa and ngakma community.
A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in Tibetan and English, which have been translated into several languages. He has extensively researched ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained acclaim in East and West for his revival of little-known Tibetan external therapies.
