Description
Weekend Workshop Part 2 of 5
Friday, January 31 6:00–9:00pm
Lecture, Meditation &Yoga Nidra: “How to Live Well—the Yoga of Action”
Saturday 9:30–11am
Vinyasa-based Yoga and Yoga Nidra [Campbell and Bonelli ]
11:15–12:30pm
Patanjali Buddha’s “Dharma Cloud”I —Yama, Niyama, and Eightfold path
[Thurman and Campbell]
2:00–4:00pm
Raja Yoga and Bodhisattva Ethics
“Dharma Cloud” part II [Thurman and
Campbell]
4:00–6:30pm
Tibetan Healing Yoga (Nejang) and Yoga Nidra [Campbell and Bonelli]
Sunday 9:00–11:30am
Tibetan and Hatha Yoga with Pranayama [Campbell and Bonelli]
This workshop is a comparative exploration of ethical thought and practice on the Buddhist and Yoga paths. In Friday’s lecture, renowned scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Bob Thurman addresses the topic of karma—the full meaning of evolution based on spiritual as well as material sciences—and how our mental and physical actions relate to our experience in the world. The basis for his discussion are selected masterpieces of the Indic inner sciences, especially Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and its core practice banches of karma yoga oriented yama and niyama. Thurman orients the yogic project to the the possibility of attaining a state of freedom from our root pathologies of attraction, egoism, aversion, and dysfunctional reactivity. These themes continue to weave throughout Saturday and Sunday’s additional lectures and practice sessions, including guided meditation, vinyasa-based yoga sessions, and Tibetan healing yoga. Chairs are provided as needed for the Friday night lecture and meditation. Saturday’s yoga practice session involves active movement, so please dress accordingly. Allpractices can be adapted for students with physical limitations. Yoga mats are provided.
Part 3-5
March 14 to 16— Be Your Own Neuroscientist—Managing Your Subtle
Vajra Body
April 11-13— Climbing up to Heaven: Four Immense Emotions, & Four
Goddesses
May 16-18—Coming Down from Brahma Heavens as a
Nondual Dharmamegha Kṛiṣhṇa-colored Monsoon Raincloud
The THUS Vajra Yoga ™ Urban Retreat Series Open Your Heart, Ground, and Intensify Your Practice Five weekend retreats to make the Water Snake Year Life-changing
The Vajra Yoga Urban Retreat Series presents 5 weekend-long yoga and meditation workshops for the study and application of the transformational interventions of the Buddhist and Hatha Yoga traditions. Inspired by insights of the great yogic civilization ofIndia and Tibet, the 2025 Vajra Yoga Urban Retreat Series offers practitioners at all levels of experience the opportunity to experience the Buddhist and Classical Indian inner sciences and yogic arts under the guidance of expert teachers, John Campbell and Jamie Bonelli, led by world-renowned scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Robert Thurman.
The uniting theme of the Retreat Series is the Vajra Yoga™ signature focus on the Haṭhayoga-Rājayoga entanglement (stated in the HaṭhayogaPradīpikā first verse),where positive mind vision of reality empowers life-purpose intention and energizes living immersed in joyful and easygoing sensitive yoga practice. Through practice and lecture sessions over the course of the weekends, presenters guide the group in the practices of analytic insight, energizing movement, and clarifying breathing grounded in compassionate concern for others. Students who have the time can fortify their transformative process by also joining the morning in person yoga practice sessions with Campbell and Bonelli at THUS during the weekdays
In the process, yoga students find that the simple act of cultivating realism in worldview, intensifies natural motivation, and yokes realistic determination to practice. Such shifts not only bring relief from the suffering of self-preoccupation, with its “you can’t get no … satisfaction” refrain, but also connects each of us with our authentic, joyful nature with its compassionate creativity. How totally cool, the yogic surge—intellectual and visceral—of the easy-going immersion in open-heartedness and spontaneous concern in response to our interconnectedness with all beings! Such a realistic attitude transforms our experience of and impact on the world.
CEU’s CME’s and a Vajrayoga Certificate available, + counting hours toward Yoga Alliance credit
Scholarships and financial assistance are available, please email [email protected] with a request.
We gratefully acknowledge those who register as a sponsor. Your support makes financial assistance possible for others.
