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 […]