Activities We currently meet for practice each week on Tuesday nights on Zoom from 7-8:30. We also train in the important practice of sky-gazing outdoors from time to time - contact us for more details.
Please send us an email at info@chonyiling.comto learn how you can connect with Denver Dzogchen.
Join us to discover the primary focus of our group, which is the practice of seated meditation. By stilling the body and relaxing the breath, the mind becomes calm and its essence more easily recognized. Here ‘training’ has a special meaning, for this type of meditation is more about abandoning conceptual activity than simply choosing one set of thoughts or objects of focus over another.
Practice at Chönyi Ling in Denver takes place online once each week. We offer instruction to all levels, from serious long-term practitioners to relative beginners, although due to the profundity of the teachings, there are some requirements for joining. Please contact us for more information. We combine seated meditation with Tibetan yogic exercises (trulkor) easily learned and performed by everyone, independent of fitness or flexibility. Currently we meet every Tuesday for practice from 7 to 8:30pm. Contact us at info@chonyiling.com if you are interested in joining us and with any questions. We have a satellite sangha which meets in Boulder on the last Sunday of most months.
Joseph is also teaching meditation in person on Wednesday evenings from 6:15 - 7:15pm at Clear Light Yoga, 2107 E. Virginia, Denver. These classes are by donation and open to everyone.
Each quarter we perform some traditional practices of the Nyingma school as well as non-traditional meditation exercises intended to deepen one’s experience of the mind nature. These include feast offering (tsok), confession, smoke offering (sangcho), and outdoor meditation of various types.
Several times each year we invite advanced practitioners and Lamas to provide instruction, empowerment and guidance. See our Facebook page for more information.
During the summer of 2013 we went on a pilgrimage to Thailand and Cambodia, and our group shared an amazing journey to Wutai Shan - the home of Manjushri Bodhisattva - in 2016. More recently we made a pilgrimage to Nepal, visiting the Great Stupa of Bodhanath and making a trek to the mountains of Yolmo, where Milarepa performed a three-year retreat about 900 years ago.
We are planning future visits to India, Bhutan and Kham, Tibet. In recent years we have hosted the wife of HE Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche, Gangteng Tulku Rinpoche of Bhutan, Adzom Paylo Rinpoche, Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche, Dza Kilung Rinpoche, Adzom Gyaltse Rinpoche, Richard Lang (www.headless.org), and other teachers. In addition, we are currently building a number of large stupas here in the US and around the world.
Please visit our Facebook page for the current schedule and upcoming events.