Unravel Your Core Patterns

In times of stress, emotional upheaval, trauma, and loss, our life force and vital essence energies can get depleted, leaving us feeling anxious, depressed, confused, numb, or cut off from our true selves. In Sowa Ripga, there is a branch of energy-healing called mantra-healing which uses specific Tibetan and Sanskrit mantras to initiate healing states, remove subtle-body blockages, and restore balance and energetic flow at physical, mental, and subtle levels. With mantra healing, we are using the vibrations of the mantra to affect the vibrations of our own physical, mental, and subtle body systems, with the aim of restoring balance, maintaining health, pacifying afflictions, and preventing future illnesses and imbalances.  

In this supportive and nurturing weekend immersion, Lee Mirabai Harrington will teach a few public mantras from the Sowa Rigpa "mantra pharmacy," each of which can help pacify the mind, balance the chakras, clear obstacles and obscurations, cultivate states of inner stillness and peace—even amidst the chaos of life—and find true ground, presence, and support within one's own body.  

In this program, you will:

• Practice kirtan (call-and-response chanting) and sing devotional mantras from the Buddhist and Hindu traditions.
• Explore the practices of mantra recitation (speech-level spoken chants) and silent chanting (inner chanting).
• Experience their effects on the energy channels of the subtle body.
• Receive guidance and instruction for home practice.

This is a program of deep self-care, rejuvenation, joy, and relearning how to gently return to our true selves. We will practice simple methods that can activate profound states of healing and bliss that exist within us all. The practice of mantra-healing can help us transform negative emotions (such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD) and heal core wounds. Devotional chanting helps to open our hearts, awaken our own innate divine qualities, and reconnect with our own true and unstained selves—our own authentic natures. The more we chant, the better we are able to release, unburden, and let go. Chanting is also an excellent method for those who find meditation difficult.  

Leave feeling relaxed, rejuvenated, revitalized, restored, and balanced, so that we are able to return to our daily lives and be of benefit to others.

Learn more about mantras and kirtan here:

• The Beginners' Guide to Kirtan and Mantra
• The Power of Kirtan

NOTE: Guests are encouraged to bring their own malas. Malas can also be purchased on-site in the Kripalu shop.