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January 3, 2025 6:00pm

Overcome Your Addictions, Open Your Heart, and Ground Your Practice | 1 of 5 Weekend Retreats to make the Water Snake Year Life-Changing with Robert Thurman, John Campbell, Jamie Bonelli

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Robert A.F. Thurman | John R.B. Campbell, PhD | Jamie Bonelli

$35.00 – $900.00

Description

Weekend Workshop Part 1 of 5

Friday 6:00–9:00pm
Lecture, Meditation & Yoga Nidra: “Grounding Practice in the Heart” [all
presenters]
Saturday 9:30–11am
Vinyasa-based Yoga for Heart Opening [Campbell & Bonelli]
11:15–12:30pm
Lecture and Meditation: Reinforcing the Ground [Thurman & Campbell]
2:00–4:00pm
Lecture and Meditation: Reinforcing the Ground pt. II [Thurman & Campbell]
4:00–6:30pm
Tibetan Healing Yoga (Nejang) and Yoga Nidra [Campbell & Bonelli]
Sunday 9:00–11:30am
Tibetan and Hatha Yoga with Pranayama [Campbell & Bonelli]

Hybrid |$200 for each workshop, $900 for all 5  monthly workshops (Jan-May) , $35-$40 for 1 day

 

Part 1 of 5

January 3-5 

The retreat begins on Friday evening with chanting and lecture woven around contemplative focusings by renowned scholar/performer of Buddhism Bob Thurman, who draws on the perspectives of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist and Hatha Yoga tantristic traditions to elucidate how working with the mind in reality and its intention to make it
better is the master key to unlock the extraordinary potential of yoga technology. As the tantric neuroscientific saying goes, mind guides body, and word guides mind. Lecture and practice sessions on Saturday and Sunday focus on alignment-based Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Tibetan Healing Yoga, meditation and philosophy in a non-
sectarian journey of self-discovery through grounded in physical health, emotional balance, and joy.

Chairs are provided as needed for the Friday night lecture and meditation. Yoga and meditation sessions can involve active movement, so please dress accordingly. All practices can be adapted for students with physical limitations. Yoga mats are provided. Schedule (subject to adjustment)

 

Part 2-5

January 31 to February 2— Yoga of Living Well: The Yamas and Niyamas
as Karmayoga

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

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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

Additional information

Pricing Options

January 3-5 (entire workshop): $200 In Person, January 3-5 (entire workshop): $200 Online, Friday, January 3 ONLY, In Person $35, Friday, January 3 ONLY, Online $35, Saturday, January 4 ONLY, In Person $40, Saturday, January 4 ONLY, Online $40, Sunday, January 5 ONLY, In Person $40, Sunday, January 5 ONLY, Online $40, ALL WORKSHOPS 10% OFF NOW: $900 IN PERSON/ONLINE

Featuring

Jamie Bonelli

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Jamie was born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC and has been practicing yoga in the city for over 20 years.
Jamie views the physical asana practice of yoga as a place to expand the limitations of the human mind. Both in finding joy in breaking perceived physical boundaries and also by being loving, gentle and accepting of oneself when coming up against challenge.
Jamie has practiced the entire old ashtanga yoga asana syllabus and up through the 4th series in the more current structure.
In the past few years she has become increasingly interested and practiced mantra meditation and chanting from the Vedic tradition. Jamie has guided Yoga Nidra meditation for over 10 years.
She graduated with honors from Fordham University studying both media and comparative religion.
She still lingers with the question that led her college studies of how war can be fought over religious reasons and how can it be prevented. Jamie still resides in NYC with her two vivacious daughters.

John R.B. Campbell, PhD

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John Campbell has been practicing yoga and meditation for thirty years, teaching both worldwide for much of that time. A scholar of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, he holds a PhD in Religion from Columbia University. He is a Fulbright Fellow and has taught at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, where he co-founded the Contemplative Sciences Center (https://csc.virginia.edu/) for research and teaching centered on contemplative methods and traditions. From 2018—2021 he was Director of South Asian Collections for the Asian Legacy Library (https://asianlegacylibrary.org/) which preserves of rare and endangered text collections in Nepal, India, and Mongolia. He is currently working on a multi-volume translation from Sanskrit and Tibetan of commentaries on the Guhyasamaja Tantra, a Buddhist scripture. The first volume of that project was published in 2020 as The Esoteric Community Tantra by Vajradhara with the Illuminating Lamp by Chandrakirti. A native New Yorker, he lives with his wife, three children, and various cats and dogs in Newburgh, New York.

Robert A.F. Thurman

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Robert Thurman is the President and Founder of Tibet House US. Known in the academic circles as Professor Robert A.F. Thurman, he is a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings and the first Westerner Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A charismatic speaker and author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, Bob was named by The New York Times the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism, and was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri Award in 2020, for his help in recovering India’s ancient Buddhist heritage. Time Magazine chose him as one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1997, describing him as a “larger than life scholar-activist destined to convey the Dharma, the precious teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, from Asia to America.”

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