Kalachakra Dark Retreat (3 Isolations / Wensum) in the Winter
In-person only
Register at Dzokden Kalapa in Austria
February 28th – March 9th (9 nights)
We are grateful to be able to offer in the Winter season the Three Isolations (Wensum) Retreat in the beautiful Austrian mountains. This retreat is a rare opportunity to practice similarly to how aspiring yogis practice during the traditional three-year Kālachakra retreat. This retreat will support the participants in cultivating the Three Isolations of Body, Speech, and Mind as a solid ground for entering the Kālachakra Completion Stage of the Six Vajra Yogas.
We will start the event with a Kālachakra-Tsok celebrating the start of the Tibetan New Year and then practice Wensum during this very auspicious period of Losar. You are welcome to take part in the entire period or to leave earlier if you absolutely need to.
Rafa Lobsang Dorjé will lead the retreat with Rinpoché’s blessing. He received the Wensum teachings from Rinpoché in 2017 and has participated in about twelve Wensum retreats in group and solitary settings. He also led three long Wensum retreats at Kalāpa. Additionally, Rinpoché may offer remote via Zoom personal audiences for the participants in case there are requests.
REQUIREMENTS
All participants must have received the Four Higher Empowerments of Kālachakra with instructions for the Three Isolations (Wensum) from Shar Khentrul Rinpoché. Everyone who has already taken them is automatically approved for participation. If you have not received them yet and have the aspiration to do so in the Summer, fulfill the request here.
How to prepare myself for this retreat & Materials
Retreat Infos, Guidelines, and Schedule
Cook Volunteering Opportunity
Food and Accommodation
Dark Meditation Apartment
Getting to Kalapa
Registration Cost
Speaker
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Rafa Lobsang Dorje
Rafa Lobsang Dorje (Rafael Nassif) started his contact with Buddhism in 2008, after practicing in other systems of spiritual practice in his homeland Brazil. In Europe, India and Tibet he had precious opportunities to receive teachings, transmissions and empowerments from masters from almost all schools of Tibetan Buddhism and from the Theravada Tradition as well, and took part in different group and solitary retreats. He was fortunate to met his precious Guru Jamphel Lodrö (Khentrul Rinpoche) in She Drup Ling-Austria in 2015, from whom he has been receiving a vast and profound wealth of Dharma, since the foundational subjects until the Kalachakra Vajra Yogas. Since 2016 he has been teaching Lu Jong (Tibetan Healing Yoga). In 2018 he received authorisation from Rinpoche to teach the Kalachakra-Ngöndro. Recently he reduced his professional activities as a composer in order to serve the altruistic ideals of his Guru as a full-time volunteer at our Dzokden community. He serves the community a.o. as a translator, editor and coordinator for the translations’ groups for both German and Portuguese languages.