“Bringing Presence into Your Life” is the motto at Merigar East in Romania, and it’s a reality that unfolds here every moment.
“Bringing Presence into Your Life” is the motto at Merigar East in Romania, and it’s a reality that unfolds here every moment.
We held an April weekend Gakyil meeting at the Gar. It was a wonderful and harmonious meeting, a day and a half of discussions of immediate needs
The practice of this precious form of children’s yoga has come a long way since it was first taught in a small primary school close to Merigar in the 1990s
Meeting him was just to show me that I didn’t need to look for more, and to discover how it is enough. It seems that like all the teachings he ever gave were aimed at that. Nothing exists outside. You don’t need to look for more initiations or connections because he has given everything you need. And the rest is just to work on the inside.
The prehistory of this visit started in the late 80’s when I read Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s book Talks in Conway, the so-called Green book, for the first time. It was in 1988 and I was really amazed.
Recently Sergio Quaranta, an authorised Yantra Yoga and Breathe instructor, was asked to meet separately, for one hour each, three eighth grade classes of an international school in Rome, in order to work on breathing as a means for managing stress and emotions.
Michela Martello, an Italian-born illustrator-turned-artist who lives and works in Brooklyn recently published an uplifting, whimsical coloring book. The book speaks directly to some of her larger works; which are portrayed at the end of book in full color images.
I would like to talk about and give some details of Master Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche’s first retreat that took place in Subiaco, Italy, in the summer of 1976 and which I call “the mother retreat”.
People often have a magical idea of how music is created. Music is remotely reminiscent of language. We pronounce words, express ourselves, we can speak quietly, loudly, softly, sharply. The same applies to music. When some language becomes native to you, it’s easy to compose a poem or begin to write a text, and in the same way you can sit and compose music.
The portrayal of Changchub Dorje presented in the words below is based on the oral testimony of two yogins of Khampa Gar, the trusted Togden Amtin and Togden A Chös who, having met the Master and received his Dharma teachings, had a samaya connection with him.
Tsegyalgar West is located about 500 meters above sea level in the southern extension of the Sierra La Laguna in Baja California Sur.
The title of this article is taken from a tango of the 1940’s. And it suits exactly to what we feel at Tashigar, mainly the few of us that have traveled from other places of the country up to here.