We’ve tweaked our Sadhana of Mahamudra schedule, extending the end times from 8:00 to 8:30 PM. Sessions will take place on new and full moon days, as other programing allows.

Our monthly Ashe Society (Stroke Practice) sessions have been moved to the third Saturday of the month, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM.

You can access all of our regular schedules on our Programs page. A printable regular public events schedule is available below.

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Heads-up: Our November Open House program includes a talk by special guest Acharya Allyn Lyon―Shambhala: A Buddhist Shamanic Journey for Modern Times―and a four-part series on the ever-popular topic Working with Emotions, with David Marshall.

We plan to add a selection of audio recordings of these talks to our Audio Library.

Learn more on our Open House page.

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For a variety of peace-related articles, see this week’s Shambhala Times feature, Peace is the Answer.

A wonderfully diverse mix of about 30 people gathered at the Shambhala Centre over several hours today to celebrate this year’s Harvest of Peace and the Kootenay Shambhala community’s 30 years in our present home.

Peace, yes. May it continue to flower so beautifully.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s address to the international Shambhala community is available in video, audio and text formats on the Shambhala Times’ Harvest of Peace Address 2009 page.

We offer a variety of ways for you to stay connected with our Centre. (And the variety keeps growing!)

One of the simplest ways is subscribing to Kootenay Shambhala eNews, our monthly email newsletter. View the October 2009 issue (shown at the right). To subscribe, go to the “Email News Sign-Up” section on our home page or contact us at info@nelsonbuddha.com. (An unsubscribe link is included at the bottom of each message.)

It looks as if our September 26th - 27th Shambhala Training Level I program will be one of our biggest weekend programs ever!

If you intend to participate and you haven’t let us know, please contact Maria Stella, Coordinator, at info@nelsonbuddha.com as soon as possible, so that we can plan appropriately.

For a full program description go to our Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human page.

At last night’s Open House, in the lead-up to the introduction of our new core curriculum (starting with Shambhala Training Level I in less than two weeks), Sally Albert spoke about the nature, origin and purpose of the Shambhala teachings, and about the changes that the new curriculum will bring to the presentation of these teachings. Click on the icon below to listen to her talk.

Listen/Download “The Way of Shambhala: Path of the Warrior,” with Sally Albert (MP3: 33.3 MB; 36 min)

SALLY ALBERT has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche for about 30 years. She serves at the Kootenay Shambhala Centre as a meditation instructor and teacher and the Shambhala Training Resident Director. She enjoys living on rural land, growing a garden and relating to her lovely grandchildren.

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Save the dates! Acharya Allyn Lyon is set to give Open House talks on Mondays, October 26th and November 2nd.

Learn more on our Open House page.

To complement the wealth of audio recordings available through our online courses, and to help provide easy access to the (mushrooming!) resources on our website and blog, we’ve just created a public Audio Library.

The library currently features recordings of recent Open House talks. Likely coming soon are two talks by Acharya Allyn Lyon, who is scheduled to speak at our Open House on Mondays, October 26th and November 2nd (see our Open House Talks Schedule).

To visit the library click here.

Here is the third and final set of Robin Higgins’ collage work (“final” for just a short while, we hope). To view the first two sets, go to Journey with collage and Journey with collage - 2.

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