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.

January 12 – February 2, 2025
integral buddhism

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.

Details: Integral Evolution: Waking Up & Growing Up

March 21-23
Sangha, Group Guru, Together

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
Retreat

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
breathing meditation retreat forest

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
Sadhana

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
Sadhana

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
Sadhana

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
Winter meditation retreat canada

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.

12 Manjushri meditation retreat
integral spirituality retreat

Meet the Teachers

Catherine Pawasarat Sensei
Catherine Pawasarat Sensei
Qapel Doug Duncan
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.

Jenai Lieu

These are ancient teachings that I feel are important to understand if someone is serious about meditation. I appreciate Qapel and Sensei’s unrelenting perseverance to teach about the roots and traditions of these life changing practices. They explore the rich history with us and also deliver the material in a very understandable and relevant way.

Jenai Lieu
Psychology student, Canada
Kira MacDuffee

Working with Qapel and Sensei at the five day hero’s journey workshop was deeply impactful and has clarified not only my deepest heart’s desire, but what I need to overcome to manifest it. They are extraordinary facilitators with a great depth of knowledge, wisdom and presence to share.

Kira MacDuffee
M.Ed / RCC
Dr. Duncan Cryle

Doing karma yoga, I watch how everyone gains new insights.  These many “a-ha moments” makes it clear to me that this type of active dharma training is a path that brings the modern spiritual explorer alive and moves them forward.

Dr. Duncan Cryle
Ph.D IBM executive, Clear Sky Accountability Officer
Evangelos Diavolitsis

Qapel and Sensei have consistently been honest, accurate and candid with me. It has sometimes taken me years to admit my self-sabotaging blind spots. Clear and radical self-honesty liberates my sticky parts. Thank you to my master teachers for helping me free up all the energy knots – especially the ones created from unconscious patterning around money, sex and power.

Evangelos Diavolitsis
Peter Ujlaki

Qapel and Sensei 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.

Peter Ujlaki
Fine Art Dealer, Japan

Awakening today.

We offer an ever-evolving modern spiritual path for committed, courageous seekers.
Explore the teachings three ways below:

Online

In-Person

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