Online Courses

How do you bring attentiveness, clarity, joy and compassion into your daily life? Karma Yoga is an incredible practice for just this. Join Doug & Catherine Sensei for this enlightening four part webinar series.

Do you want to combine spiritual awakening with a fulfilling career and a life filled with creativity? Join us for the second four part webinar series of 2017.

How can we use our pleasure from film to explore the experience of spiritual awakening? Join us in these webinars to learn how.

Discover how to truly follow your bliss. In this online course we'll look at bliss spiritually and scientifically. What is transcendent unitive bliss? How can we experience more calm, insight and ecstasy? Study online with us from June 4-25, 2018.

Ignite Your Spiritual Life Online Course: Sept 15-Oct 20, 2018 This course explores how to create a supportive structure in your daily life for spiritual growth.  Retreat centres - such as Planet Dharma's home base at Clear Sky Retreat Centre - provide nurturing and uplifting spaces for meditation and learning.  The good news is that the same simple principles can be applied to our daily lives at home and at work.  This gives us a strong foundation for year-round meditation and growth. This course is for you if: you struggle in the busyness of life to have a consistent meditation practice. you attend courses and retreats, and have great insights, but somehow end up stuck back in the same old habitual patterns in your daily life. you want to build a strong foundation for year-round Dharma growth and exploration. This course is offered by senior Planet Dharma students through their work at Clear Sky Retreat Centre as a complement and support to your Planet Dharma studies. Online classes will take place live on Saturday mornings 10:00-11.30am MST. Recordings will also be available if you can’t attend live. The critical lost art of the spiritual container and how it can re-ignite your spiritual life If you’re like many people, you may know what will help keep you calm and centered – like regular meditation practice, and ongoing Dharma studies and retreats - yet you have a hard time applying it in your daily life. Especially in these turbulent times, when it seems nobody is immune from growing levels of fear, depression, and anxiety in […]

How healthy is our society's views, norms and paradigms regarding human sexuality? Can wisdom traditions exist with sexuality and relationship as a core component? How about without them? The Joy of Sex & Relationship: Online Course Since this is the Year of Joy, and we're here to bring joy and humor to this rather fraught topic, so worthy of our considered attention and energy. 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? The history of human civilization is a history of diverse cultural paradigms, including varied expressions of love, sensuality, interest, sexuality, and romance. Our motivations are growth (personal and spiritual unfoldment), through learning (insight) and joy (bliss). How healthy is our society's views, norms and paradigms regarding human sexuality? How did we get here? That is, how did our views regarding sex and relationship get shaped? Partly from our family and tribe, to be sure, and how were their views shaped? More importantly, are we choosing our own views on sex and relationship? Or using second- or third-hand ones that we believe to be our own?  Are we making informed choices about how to relate to one another, sexually and otherwise? Prehistorical humans––the hunters and foragers––were polyamorous. Such behavior helped weave the fabric that held the community together. Without fixed paternity, men, women and children were all communally cared for. Without ownership, assets were shared. Then came agriculture. And fences. And possessions. Women became […]

Astrology and Buddhism?! These are two powerful tools to help us better understand ourselves as individuals, our lives, the nature of being human, and the universe around us.  The unique combination of Astrology and Dharma gives us unprecedented leverage to draw on personal strengths to transform personal and situational challenges. Intro to AstroDharma is designed to support you on your spiritual path and thereby benefit others. Why this Course? The combination of Dharma and Transpersonal Astrology is a powerful method to help you to understand your soul map––your natal astrology chart–– and your unique Hero’s Journey depicted therein.  With the Teachings of the Buddha, also known as “Buddhadharma” or just “dharma” we gain insights from 2500 years of profound consciousness studies. With Transpersonal Astrology we draw on Western Greco-Roman mythology plus Jungian principles and archetypes to help us understand ourselves, others and the cosmos. Course Overview   Understand the Map of Your Soul’s Journey & Transform Challenges Intro to AstroDharma is an online self-study program that supports you as you begin the journey of self-discovery and transformation through the uniquely combined lens of Buddhist teachings (Dharma) and transpersonal Western astrology. Learn the Fundamentals of Astrology This introductory course will help you get to know your own astrological birth chart. Along the way, you learn the spectrum of corresponding characteristics that you can choose to manifest in your life and your personality, as shown through the zodiacal signs, the planets and the houses. If you don’t quite understand what this means, this […]