Dharma Teachings 2025
Welcome to the 2025 teaching schedule of Dharma Teachers Qapel and Sensei. We invite and encourage you to plan your year of Dharma practice in advance.
Overview Schedule 2025
2025 is the Year of Integral!
We invite and encourage you to plan your year of Dharma practice in advance, in affirmation of your spiritual aspiration. As your aspiration guides you, choose from a variety of meditation retreats and online courses. Mark your calendars now.
Integral Evolution: Waking Up & Growing Up
(4 Week Online Course)
Along with the work of waking up—cultivating an enlightened state—we also need to do the work of growing up. This means learning to integrate the clear state into the world through doing our shadow work, developing our communication, and doing all the critical development work to be a fully integrated human being. In this course we explore the elements of a fit and dynamic vehicle for 21st-century awakening, and beyond.
March 21-23
Dharma in the Stars: Integrating Saturn
(Weekend Course
In-Person & Online)
As spiritual explorers, we want breakthrough. We want liberation, freedom, and the ability to manifest our deepest vision for this lifetime. The only way to bring these spiritual aspirations to fruition—and break away from our timeworn, “stuck” patterns—is to embrace discipline, which gives us access to breakthrough. Astrologically, this means working with Saturn. Join Catherine Sensei, a wisdom teacher who has developed AstroDharma as a tool for transformation, in a weekend ripe for life-altering insights..
Course Details: Dharma in the Stars: Integrating saturn
April 13-May 4
Joy! Fuel for Awakening
(Four Week Online Course)
The spiritual path is the hardest—yet most worthwhile—path one can undertake. To walk the path and meet our challenges, we need serious sustenance. Joy is a vital treasure that can feed us and put the air under our wings.
In what can be seen as a dark time for our whole planet, joy is vital to cultivate for ourselves and for each other, in our aspiration to benefit all beings. This online course with teacher Catherine Pawasarat Sensei throws open the door to joy, and revitalizes it as a resource for the journey of awakening.
Course Details: Joy! Fuel for Awakening
June 13-22
Vipassana
(8 Day Meditation Retreat)
Study sensation, the breath, body, and mind. Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei in an eight-day Vipassana meditation retreat, a practice suitable whether you are a newbie or seasoned meditator, or have always wanted to do a longer retreat. Gift yourself the in-person guidance of an accomplished meditation teacher and a balanced meditative approach using the foundations of mindfulness from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta. In-person, with an online option.
Retreat Details: Vipassana Meditation Retreat
July 11-13
As the Spirit Moves
(Weekend Course)
Show up for teachings from Sensei and find out what he’ll teach. It will be eclectic and sure to inspire. In the spirit of Guru Yoga – unorganised, undetermined, unregulated. No seatbelts allowed.
Retreat Details: As the Spirit Moves weekend retreat
Oct 31-Nov 2
Dharma & Sex
(Weekend Course)
Everything in our life comes back to our view. Can wisdom traditions exist with sexuality and relationship as a core component? How about without them? Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei for a female Dharma perspective on sexuality and spiritual practice – using the integral spirituality framework as a lens.
Course Details: Coming Soon
Nov 23-Dec 14
To Be Announced
(Four Week Online Course)
The topic of the fourth online course in 2025 is to be announced. Mark your calendars!
Course Details: Coming Soon
Dec 25- Jan 1
Christmas Retreat
(Sangha Meditation Retreat)
Meditate in community this Christmas with a sangha meditation retreat at Clear Sky Meditation Centre.
Details: to be announced
Mark your calendars now! And stay tuned for updates. Thank you for joining us!
Supporting Each Other
Although there is no formal year program, we encourage you to reflect and set an intention for the year of what you will attend. We also invite you to connect with people in your local Sanghas to share your aspirations and ways you can work together to explore and support each other with your Dharma studies.
Meet the Teachers
Catherine Pawasarat Sensei
Qapel Doug Duncan
Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat are Dharma and meditation teachers who founded Clear Sky Meditation Centre, BC, Canada.
Qapel (Achariya Doug Duncan) received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978, and is a lineage holder in that teaching. Known for his direct, humourous and compassionate engagement with students, Doug embraces various traditions, contemporary psychology, and science, to mentor all beings to a more awakened state.
Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Acariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003. In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life, Catherine Sensei also draws on generative living and the arts. With Doug she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Center in the BC Rockies.
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