Dancing with Rain and Rainbows: The Life and Teachings of Yeshe Tsogyal (Online)

Assisted by Eric Brus

Registration opens at 12pm ET on Saturday, April 11.

This is the ONLINE component of the retreat. If you’d like to register for the RESIDENTIAL component, please click here.

In this annual Vajrayana retreat, we gather in practice, study, and ritual while exploring the life and teachings of the great female adept Yeshe Tsogyal. Through meditation, community, and close engagement with her story, we will deepen our connection to the wisdom and liberating insight she embodies.

Revered as a powerful source of blessings and a guide through challenge and transformation, Yeshe Tsogyal’s life offers profound insight into the compassion and wisdom needed to navigate turbulent times. As a manifestation of the divine feminine principle of nondual wisdom, meditating with Yeshe Tsogyal invites us to experience the full range of our emotions as gateways to liberation.

Please join us to:

• Explore Yeshe Tsogyal’s life and teachings as a guide for awakening
• Deepen your connection to her blessings and protection
• Reflect on the divine feminine as nondual wisdom
• Participate in study, practice, ritual, and community with NDF’s Vajra Sangha

Throughout this retreat, we will explore the life and teachings of the female adept, Yeshe Tsogyal, while joining together in practice, community, and ritual. As the preeminent example of how to traverse the path of awakening through challenge and turmoil, Yeshe Tsogyal’s life story offers profound insight into the will, focus, compassion, and insight available to us for living well during these volatile times.

For Vajrayana practitioners, Yeshe Tsogyal is famous as a potent source for blessings. First, we supplicate her to help remove obstacles in our lives, practice, and minds. We pray to her to mitigate the forces of the setting-sun world—both the dark age of “disease, famine and war” and the human karma of struggle that expresses itself in aggression, intolerance, and prejudice. She bestows the blessing for the blossoming of long life and the deepening of prajna, or penetrating insight, the wisdom that sees the truth of things as they are. 

Inseparable from her humanity is Yeshe Tsogyal as a manifestation of the divine feminine principle–experiential nondual wisdom that takes female form (as well as male form) when it is represented symbolically. To meditate on or with Yeshe Tsogyal is to enhance our capacity to experience the outflow of our emotions as portals to liberation. Please join us for this unique retreat where we will learn to dance with the full spectrum of life’s expressions under the guidance of this yogini’s gentle hand.

Text: Please purchase prior to the retreat.

To help us to explore these practices and teachings more deeply, this retreat will include Dharma talks, practice sessions, ritual practice, breakout groups, and close reading sessions of The Life and Visions of Yeshe Tsogyal: The Autobiography of the Great Wisdom Queen, by Terton Drime Kunga and Yeshe Tsogyal, translated by Chonyi Drolma.

This retreat is open to NDF Vajrayana practitioners enrolled in the 2026 program.

Typical Retreat Schedule

(All times are Eastern time zone)

First Day — Opening session begins around 7:00 pm.
Last Day — The closing session typically ends by 12:00 pm.

These times are just for reference. An expanded schedule will be provided in pre-retreat information emailed during the week prior to the event.

Zoom Link

The Zoom link will be sent several days before the retreat to all those registered. If you register after that date, you’ll receive the link with your confirmation email shortly after submitting your registration. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly gone to your spam folder or to Promotions or Updates in Gmail.

Important: Please put these this email address in your Contact or Safe-Send list to make sure you receive our emails:

• register@naturaldharma.org

Program Cost

Our program fees provide essential support to our non-profit operations and NDF’s mission to spread the Dharma in accessible, relevant, and creative ways. Our goal is that no one misses out on our events due to lack of funds. Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to offer tiered pricing and additional support to fit varied financial situations: 

• May All Beings Benefit! *– supporting access for all and general support for NDF operations
• A Middle Way – covering the base cost
• Held in Sangha Loving-kindness – offering ease when financial resources are limiting

If the lowest cost tier creates an obstacle to your attendance, please see our financial support options on the registration page. The process is simple and does not require extensive information. Financial aid is immediately approved using discount code options that allow you to contribute the most you are able while honoring your particular resources.

* The difference between the May All Beings Benefit! tier and the Middle Way tier will be considered a tax-deductible donation and will be acknowledged as such in writing. Contributing at this level helps us offer financial aid to other participants. Thank you!!

Access to Recordings

NDF offers unlimited access to recordings, which are available in your user dashboard (more information about user accounts provided in pre-retreat materials). If you have a user account, please register with the same email you use to log into your dashboard. If not, an account will be created for you using your registration address.

Availability will vary depending on the type of event and the backlog for our precious resource volunteers. Thank you for your patience.

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