A Special New Offering:

The Sadhana of Mahamudra Practice

Join us for the this practice each month, on the fourth Thursday

Introduced and led by Derek Kolleeny, Open to All

In-person at The Aligned Center, or via Zoom

Thursday, April 24th, 7 – 8:30 pm ET , also May 29th, June 19th and continuing this Summer.

Please register for the evening program below.

We hope you can join us for a new Thursday evening program, for group practice of the Sadhana of Mahamudra, introduced and led by Derek Kolleeny. The series will continue monthly through the summer, including a series of talks by Derek Kolleeny.

The Sadhana of Mahamudra is an extraordinary poetic practice text that beautifully and powerfully expresses the essence of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings. The heart of this liturgical practice is the merging of the qualities of emotion and insight, energy and space, compassion and wisdom. The Sadhana also addresses the Vidyadhara's primary concern in transmitting the buddhadharma to the West: the issue of spiritual materialism — the tendency to appropriate the trappings of a spiritual practice to enhance one's personality and sense of certainty and ease; to bolster one's ego.

The Sadhana is a vajrayana liturgical practice that revitalizes spiritual inspiration and insight, especially in times of global materialism and political divisiveness. Uniquely for this kind of text, Trungpa Rinpoche offered this sadhana to students at any level of experience, not just those who have received vajrayana transmission. Usually practiced on the new and full moon in group settings, such as on retreat, the Sadhana of Mahamudra is meant to rouse inspiration to cut through all types of materialism and see our mind and the world as workable and sacred.  For more on the origins of the practice, please see this article at the Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library.

We are initiating this new monthly offering partially inspired by the first-ever publication of the full text of the Sadhana for a general audience, in a revised edition of the author's commentary, available at Shambhala Publications.