ས་དཔྱད། Sache: Tibetan Geomancy
A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP for healing body, Mind, and land
with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
May 2 - 6, 2025 at Pure Land Farms
Due to the practical nature of this teaching, this event will NOT be livestreamed.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY MAY 2
3 - 6pm: Check in for Residential Guests
6pm: Welcome dinner for residential guests
SATURDAY MAY 3 - Monday May 5
8am: Breakfast for Residential Guests
9:30am - 12pm: Teaching with Dr. Nida
12:30: Lunch, rest and opportunity to receive healing therapies in Pure Land Farms Clinic
3 - 6pm: Teaching with Dr. Nida
6pm: Dinner
TUESDAY MAY 6
8am: Breakfast for Residential Guests
9:30am - 12pm: Teaching with Dr. Nida
12:30: Lunch & Check out*
*On Wednesday May 7, Dr. Nida will be offering a one day teaching on Yuthok Nyingthig tradition including the essential empowerment. Residential guests may optionally extend their stay in order to attend this program.
Sa Che: The Tibetan Ancient Art of Harmonizing with Earth Energy:
A Four-Day Immersive Workshop with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Sa Che, Tibet's sophisticated geomantic tradition, represents a profound understanding of how to live in harmony with nature and how environmental energies affect human wellbeing. Unlike its better-known counterparts—Chinese Feng Shui and Indian Vastu Shastra—Sa Che emerges from Tibet's unique spiritual landscape, offering distinctive insights into creating harmonious living spaces that incorporate principles from Buddhist Tantra, Astrology, and Medicine.
Sa Che analyzes the subtle interactions between earth, water, space, air, and light, teaching us how to design and create balanced spatial environments that enhance physical and mental health, prosperity, and spiritual wellbeing. The benefits of applying Sa Che principles ripple through all aspects of life—improving relationships, enhancing mental clarity, and supporting physical vitality.
What You'll Learn:
Mystical and Historical Origins: Explore Sa Che's development in Tibet and its uses over the centuries
Practical Assessment Tools: Learn authentic techniques to evaluate the energetic qualities of different landscapes, buildings, and your particular home or workspace
Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan Medicine) Principles: Understand how our physical, energetic, and mental health is connected to and influenced by the spaces in which we live and spend our time
Remedial Practices: Study traditional methods to neutralize negative influences and amplify beneficial energies in one's living or work space
Traditional Protection Methods: Create protective amulets and learn mantras to balance the five elements and bring environmental harmony
Hands-On Application: Learn Sa Che principles through the lens of our Topanga retreat center, designed according to Sa Che principles to embody the healing qualities of Medicine Buddha's Pure Land.
Through guided outdoor sessions, you'll develop a heightened sensitivity to landscape features, directional influences, architectural elements, and botanical energies. Working collectively on the land, participants will forge deeper connections with nature's inherent healing properties while learning practical applications of this ancient wisdom tradition.
For practitioners of Sowa Rigpa or other healing art, Sa Che provides the practitioner with an additional set of highly applicable tools to support and enhance one’s healing practice.
Join Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, internationally renowned Tibetan physician and spiritual teacher, for this rare opportunity to explore authentic Sa Che practices preserved through centuries of unbroken lineage transmission.
Please bring a hat, good walking shoes and a bottle of water. If you have a floor plan of your living or work space that you would like to analyze, please print and bring it with you.
Born in Amdo, in North Eastern Tibet, Dr. Nida Chenagtsang began his early studies Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan Medicine) at the local Tibetan Medicine hospital. Later he was awarded scholarship to enter the Lhasa Tibetan Medical University, where he completed his medical education 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, especially in the Longchen Nyingthig of the Nyingma school from his root teacher Ani Ngawang Gyaltsen and in the Dudjom Tersar lineage from Chönyid Rinpoche and Sremo Dechen Yudron. He received complete teachings 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 lineage by Jamyang Rinpoche of the Rebkong ngakpa/ma (non-monastic yogi and yogini) tradition.
A well-known poet in his youth, Dr. Nida later published many articles and books on Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan Medicine) and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition both in the Tibetan and English languages which have been translated into several languages. He has extensively researched ancient Tibetan healing methods, and has gained high acclaim in the East and West for his revival of little known traditional Tibetan external healing therapies.
Dr. Nida is also the Founder and Medical Director of Sowa Rigpa Institute school of Traditional Tibetan Medicine Co-Founder of the International Ngakmang Institute, established to preserve and maintain the Rebkong ngakpa non-monastic yogi/ini culture within modern Tibetan society.
In addition to his work as a physician, he trains students in Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in over forty countries around the world.
