Future events, drop-in sessions and courses

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Evening sessions in London

Tuesday evenings – Drop-in Meditation in N1

We warmly invite you to join our drop-in meditation sessions, open to all, held weekly on Tuesdays from 6.30pm to 8pm with our experienced instructors in our London Centre at 330 Caledonian Road, London N1 1BB.

Click here to find out more and book a ticket on Eventbrite if you’d like to.

The last session was on July 9th and they will start again on September 3rd, 2024.

There will not be a session on September 24th as Ling Rinpoche will be teaching that evening. Please see below for more information and booking.

Should a drop-in session need to be cancelled we’ll let you know via eventbrite booking cancellation and here. Please check on this page before coming each week if you haven’t booked through eventbrite.

Visiting Teachers

Meditation into Action – A practice for life

Held by Matt Padwick

Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th November 2024

Nov 16th: 10.30-5pm and 17th: 9.30-2pm

Suitable for all ages and fitness levels, Kum Nye’s simple movement and breathing exercises restore the body’s natural rhythms and calm the mind.

During this weekend retreat, we will experience how Kum Nye can be:

A very effective gateway to meditation

A means to deepen our practice

A support to integrate a meditative awareness in everyday life

Matt has been practicing meditation and Kum Nye since 1998 at Dzogchen Beara, a retreat centre overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in south-west Ireland. During this time he completed two years of closed retreat and worked in a variety of roles including Centre Director (2003-2013). More recently he has been helping to plan and present the public programme in the new Temple.

Matt offers Kum Nye workshops and retreats at Dzogchen Beara, elsewhere in Ireland and online. This will be his first visit to the Rigpa London Centre to teach Kum Nye.

You can book through eventbrite.

In person tickets: click here.

Online tickets: click here.

A Spiritual Approach to Healing

Presented by Alain Beauregard

Weekend event:

Saturday, 5th & Sunday 6th October: 10.00pm – 4.00pm

Tibetan Buddhists often consider a major disease like cancer to be a wake-up call. When we look at some of the deeper aspects of our being, like spirituality and decide to radically change the way we have been living so far, it may be possible to heal our entire being.

During this weekend program held by Alain Beauregard, we will explore the path of healing from a spiritual and emotional perspective, based on Alain’s experience of healing a terminal cancer. Can we help our healing with our mind? What are the different approaches and how to understand them? We will explore four main themes:

-Our fundamental nature – a source of healing

-Meditation – a practice to heal our being

-Discovering the source of love within ourselves – to accept and become friends with ourselves

-Visualizing and invoking – another way to heal our being

Practices such as meditation, compassion and visualization can help us to understand and actualise the transformative potential of illnesses as we face the different treatments we may have to undergo while fighting a disease.

This approach introduces a holistic view on the topic of healing that allows us to deal with all physical, mental, and emotional suffering. It considers healing from the perspective of our entire being, not just the body. Whether the body dies or not, one can still live a profound experience of healing, hence being better prepared for death.

IMPORTANT

In any case of illness, it is advised that medical diagnosis and treatment be sought and followed in addition to any spiritual approach.

The views and opinions expressed by Alain Beauregard are his own and reflect his experience and understanding of healing and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rigpa UK.

Alain Beauregard

Buddhist Teacher – Physicist and Entrepreneur
Alain Beauregard is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1995. He is a physicist by training and a high-tech entrepreneur. Alain lives in Montreal and has been teaching healing internationally since 2011, based on his own healing story.
At the age of 46, Alain was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic bladder cancer which was inoperable and had spread to such a point that his doctors said he was incurable. In less than 3 months of receiving chemotherapy combined with working on the emotional cause of disease and doing spiritual healing practices, his cancer went into complete remission. Alain has been cancer-free to this date.
This life-changing experience inspired Alain to give public talks and workshops about the tools that Tibetan Buddhism offers to deepen our perspective on illness and introduce us to a holistic approach to healing that considers our entire being, not just the body.

www.alainbeauregard.com

You can book through eventbrite.

In person tickets: click here.

Online tickets: click here.

His Eminence Ling Rinpoche in London-September 2024

We are delighted to announce that His Eminence the 7th Kyabjé Yongzin Ling Rinpoche — a young and eminent master in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition—will teach at our centre on Tuesday 24th September, 7-9pm (in person and online). This is part of a series of teachings and events during Ling Rinpoche’s visit to the UK 18-25th September.

This event is a rare and precious opportunity to receive teachings from Rinpoche on the topic of “The Three Principal Aspects of the Path.” Renunciation, bodhichitta and a correct view of emptiness (voidness) are the three pathways of mind essential for reaching enlightenment through either the Sutra and tantra vehicles of practice.

Booking will be through eventbrite from early September 2024. The booking links will be added here once they are ready.

Ling Rinpoche will also be teaching at Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London on September 21st. For more information and booking (opens August 14th), see the Jamyang website here.

H.E. Ling Rinpoche

His Eminence the 7th Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche was born in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, on 18 November 1985. In 1987, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnation of the 6th Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche (1903 – 1983), who was the most Senior Tutor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

Upon the successful completion of his Geshe studies, Rinpoche’s focus turned to traveling the world and spreading the Dharma through giving Buddhist teachings and initiations, public talks and interviews, and engaging with great interest in Buddhist and interfaith conferences and various community events.

The Practical Applications of Mindfulness

Four Wednesdays, Rigpa London Centre or online: 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th September 2024, 7-9pm

We are delighted to welcome Venerable Sean Price back to the Rigpa London Centre this September to teach on The Practical Applications of Mindfulness. Open to all, this practical yet profound series of talks is based on the ‘Four Foundations of Mindfulness’:

1. Mindfulness of the body

2. Mindfulness of feelings (thought)

3. Mindfulness of consciousness

4. Mindfulness of dharma (phenomena and our relations with them)

These talks will support us to settle and stabilise our mind through the development of meditation (sitting) practice, along with exercises to develop and enhance the mind through mindfulness.

You can book through eventbrite until September 24th, 5pm.

In person tickets: click here.

Online tickets: click here.