Yuthok Nyingthig Outer Guru Yoga
Seven dAy group retreat SEMI-guided by Christiana Polites
March 1 - March 9, 2025
Check in between 3-6pm on March 1st (or February 28th to participate in Losar Tibetan New Years Celebrations! Don’t forget to add a day to your lodging before the retreat starts if needed!)
Check out Sunday March 9th after 2pm
In-PERSON RETREAT PRICE:
Commuter $750: Includes retreat, three meals a day
Residential $1150 - $1950: Includes retreat, three meals a day, access to online retreat and onsite accommodation for eight nights
Limited to 15 residential guests
Application form for in person participation below
The Yuthok Nyingthig Outer Guru Yoga practice, also known as the 'Wish Fulfilling Jewel' is the first of four Guru Yogas in the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition and is a powerful practice for creating a direct link with the blessings of Yuthok in one's own life and practice.
This seven day intensive retreat combines sessions of silent meditation, group mantra recitation, prostrations, visualization and contemplation, as well as instruction in the practice while immersed within the healing natural environment of Pure Land Farms, our Yuthok Ling temple, and Medicine Buddha’s Tanaduk Gardens. Morning sessions are guided and afternoon sessions are an opportunity for personal practice in the temple.
On Sunday March 9th, we will receive instruction in Yuthok’s Healing Activities practice, a practice that one is authorized to do after completing the Outer Guru Yoga retreat.
Pre-requisite: Seven day Yuthok Nyingthig Retreat. If you have not completed ngöndro, you main join our retreat the preceding week of February 19 - 27th
Participants are welcome to join Pure Land Farms for our losar Tibetan new years festivities during the day on February 28th. Our first full day of practice begins March 2nd.
Daily practice Schedule (MARCH 2 - 8):
8am: Breakfast
9am - 1pm: Morning Guided Group Practice Sessions
1 - 3pm: Lunch and Break
3 - 7pm: Afternoon Self-Guided Practice Sessions
7pm Dinner
8pm Shanglon Protector Practice
SUNDAY MARCH 9
8am Breakfast
9am - 12pm: Yuthok’s Healing Activities Intruction
1pm: Closing Ganapuja
IN PERSON REGISTRATION
Please note that this is an intensive retreat with approximately eight hours of practice a day.
In order to assess if it is a good fit for you, kindly fill out this brief form.
After reviewing your form, you will be sent a link to register for the retreat and select your accommodation option.
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.
CHRISTIANA POLITES
Christiana Polites received her Bachelor of Arts in the Comparative Study of Religion at Harvard University and has been immersed in Eastern spiritual traditions for over twenty years. She has studied both Tibetan and Chinese Daoist healing arts and received a Masters in Acupuncture from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She has traveled extensively around the world, seeking out authentic living lineages in both the healing and spiritual sciences. Christiana is the Director of Pure Land Farms and the Sowa Rigpa Institute. She is also the co-founder of Yangchenma Arts & Music, a community organization celebrating the richness and diversity of human cultures through their artistic and musical wisdom traditions.
