Courses & Retreats
2019 Program for Spiritual Awakening
Benefit from the support of experienced mentors and an inspiring community with online courses and meditation retreats.
New Book
Wasteland to Pureland: Reflections on the Path to Awakening
by Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat
Wasteland to Pureland is a contemporary guide to integrating spiritual practice with everyday life. Learn how the daily grist of work, relationships, and challenges can become our richest resources. Honest, edgy, and accessible, this book is for anyone ready to shed limiting beliefs, and wake up to the vibrant, creative nature of reality.
These teachings emerge out of decades of practice and study by master teachers Acariya Doug Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat. Grounded in the belief that awakening is available to everyone, they teach us how to reunite with our gifts, and become agents of compassion and transformation, personally, interpersonally and globally.
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Wake Up: Four Paths to Spiritual Awakening
Take this free online course that distills life-changing practice into four core paths that you can apply to your home, work and relationships.
Doug & Catherine's teachings are a rallying cry for all those who want no-holds-barred, honest guidance on the path of awakening. I'm thoroughly inspired by the spiritual potential we all have, and sobered by the challenges we face as a species and global consciousness. The path they lay out makes it clear that the journey is worth taking.
Doug and Catherine are always burning calories to get you back on a path that can lead toward greater self-awareness. When I am with these two very clear individuals, I am humbled by their dedication to others, and understand the every-waking-moment responsibility that comes with their calling.
If you get a chance to study with Doug and Catherine, don't miss it. Through the power of long dedication, deep meditation, and wise guidance, life can definitely be transformed.
What is the Purpose of Spiritual Practice?
Life is a fascinating journey, filled with discovery, exploration and awesome experiences. It can also be fraught with suffering and sorrow, often unnecessarily. Happiness is the original state that shines through after unnecessary suffering has been eliminated. We’re dedicated to sharing this path.
A Modern Spiritual Path
Our mandate is to support as many beings as possible to experience spiritual awakening. Our overall approach to the the spiritual path, includes four important aspects
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Four Aspects for a Modern Spiritual Path
A truly inspiring spiritual path includes discovery, exploration and study. It incorporates both formal study and apprenticeship-style modalities.
Formal study opportunities with Planet Dharma include online or in-person courses, meditation retreats and public classes.
Meditation also brings us vast insight and understanding, the building blocks of wisdom. We use both Eastern and Western methodologies to achieve these aims.
In Karma Yoga, we watch the patterns that arise as we interact with others. We use the same principles that we’ve learned in meditation and apply it to our work, our relationships and our communities.
We all have buried aspects of our psyches that became suppressed due to our family and societal conditioning. These are what Freud called the subconscious and Jung called the shadow. Spiritual awakening is also about making this unconscious aspect conscious.
It’s important that we are clear and honest: by its very nature, shadow work is not fun or pretty. It takes courage and fortitude to see parts of our being that are not like we wish them to be, and to dedicate one’s energy to transforming that.
We believe that integrating our shadow is fundamental and one of the fastest ways to unfold spiritually, and reduce our suffering.
Awakening is your birthright.
Current Training Schedule
Retreats
Year of Pureland Program for Spiritual Awakening
Becoming a Work of Art: Dharma Foundations Retreat
Wasteland to Pureland Retreat in Germany 2019
Public Classes
Year of Pureland Program for Spiritual Awakening
Public Talk: On Death, Dying and What’s Next.
Calgary Talks: The Journey to Self-Discovery: Unlocking Our Fullest Potential
Online Courses
Year of Pureland Program for Spiritual Awakening
Intro to Astrodharma
Crazy Wisdom: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side
Office Hours
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Office Hours: Online Q&A
Office Hours: Online Q&A
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YOUR WEEKLY REFLECTION
From "Me" to "We"
"The teaching begins and ends with compassion. What stands between you and compassion? Impurities in your physiology-psychology. If you remove the obstructions, the natural basis emerges by itself. What stands in the way of enlightenment is self referencing, attachment and aversion to people.
You get those out of the way and the awakening reveals itself."
--Doug Duncan & Catherine Pawasarat
REFLECTION
What does it feel like to shift the worrying of self to concern for other?
CONTEMPLATION
Practice for one full day and undertake to train yourself to not use the word "I" or "me". Keep asking yourself all day, what do others need to unfold in this moment? How can I help?
Watch what kind of thoughts and feelings arise as you shift from the needs of self to the needs of other.