Moving forward with our beloved teacher Qapel’s exhortation to embrace Integral as part of our spiritual practice. Awakening, he said, is like everything else: evolutionary. The Buddha said that his teachings would last 2,500 years—which brings us to now. It’s time for a new turning of the wheel. Integral Evolution is the next stage of humanity’s awakening and development. It’s thrilling we’re alive at the new frontier of consciousness. Drawing on more of the last teaching notes our guru Qapel made, come and explore with Catherine Sensei how we can marry authentic Dharma and the Integral paradigm. How do we evolve and awaken in alignment with the fullness of our current time and lay the groundwork for a revolutionary and generative future?

Details: Integral Evolution: The Next Frontier

Become fluent in conversation with your constant companions: the breath, body, feelings, the mind, and phenomena of the mind. Join Catherine Pawasarat Sensei in a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat based on classical Buddhist teachings from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta. The Buddha called these teachings, “the most direct path to (spiritual) realization.” They’re also called “the foundations of mindfulness;” this retreat supports you to cultivate deeper skills with these teachings and practices, essential for your spiritual unfoldment. These breath-centered practices are suitable whether you are a new or seasoned meditator, or have always wanted to do a longer retreat. Gift yourself the in-person guidance of an accomplished meditation teacher and deepen your commitment to the alleviation of suffering, yours and others’. In-person, with an online option upon approved application.

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After co-teaching with her teacher Qapel Doug Duncan for many years in the UK, Catherine Sensei returns to offer a somatic retreat on the Namgyal Rinpoche lineage’s powerful teachings on Womb, Karma & Transcendence. This practice liberates karmic patternings that a being acquired in the womb, which powerfully shape and transform the entirety of a lifetime. Join Catherine Sensei for a birth to awakening in this lifetime.

Retreat Details: Womb, Karma & Transcendance Retreat 

Catherine Sensei and the Planet Dharma team are passionate about supporting future generations. We are very excited to welcome the new generation to come to Sensei’s home center at Clear Sky to reconnect with the earth and ecosystem, and to learn and ground in ancient spiritual wisdom amongst an intergenerational community. Spiritual awakening is inseparable from ecological and collective healing, and that’s what this teaching is all about. We are here to support you in your development for the present and future Earth.

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Join Catherine Sensei and the Sangha for a weekend of teachings, meditation, reflection, celebration and connection for our annual honoring of Qapel’s birthday.

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Emotional intelligence isn’t just a nice skill to include on a resume: In Buddhist philosophy, conflicting emotions like anger and greed are considered poisons that prevent our minds and hearts from functioning properly. It’s also essential for the future of the planet! Our emotions, how aware we are of our impact on others, and how skillful we are at playing the music of that impact, are what really makes the world go round. It’s how we can learn to enjoy our own company, and therefore truly live and work well with others. No matter how much therapy work we’ve done, there’s more we can do to Dharmify our emotional intelligence, and to dance with our emotions in a way that supports our vocation and the path toward planetary healing.

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In Catherine Sensei’s revolutionary integration of Dharma and Astrology, our Nodes show us our life’s odyssey. The South Node represents our Karma: conditioned patterns we  are too often stuck in. THe North Node is our Dharma; our spiritual path, our calling, the unfamiliar directions we must courageously grow into for a new iteration of our greater potential, for the benefit of all beings. This lifelong quantum stretch also liberates the familiar skills we inherited with our South Node. In this equinox weekend, Join Catherine Sensei to explore how to use your Nodes for serving the greater good and planet.

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The anniversary of Qapel’s passing is a special time to come together with Sensei and the Sangha to celebrate and honor our incredible teacher. It’s also a time to step back and reflect on how our path is evolving  and how we each see ourselves growing and contributing to Dharma. We will mark this occasion with a series of online meditations, teachings, Sangha reflections and celebrations.

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Spiritual awakening is possible in this very lifetime, and the teachings of our lineage offer that spiritual awakening is the most helpful thing we can dedicate ourselves to, for us, and for all beings. Catherine Pawasarat Sensei is a wisdom teacher in a lineage that goes back to the Buddha, and offers the opportunity for serious practice and seriously awakening training in this by-application-only advance retreat.

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Money, sex, and power are the foundation of our being. Catherine Sensei and her teacher Qapel have taught that money and sex are, in fact, the handmaidens of power, and that the spiritual path is a quest for the truest and most deep-rooted empowerment there is.  Sensei collaborated with Right Use of Power and Authentic Leadership teacher Susan Skjei to explore what power and empowerment mean in the context of tantric spiritual practices, empowering us to weave every moment with exactly the energy that is needed.

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We like reminding each other that the Buddha told his beloved discipline Ananda that our spiritual friends on the path, or “kalyana mitta,” are not just a portion of the path—but the whole path. We enjoy this community time with our sangha each year, and invite those who are already students to join Sensei and other members of our community for a retreat to focus on foundational meditation practice together. If we don’t know you yet—we’d love to have you at another offering first, and to have you join us one day for our sangha retreat.

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