Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level II


With Lopön Chandra Easton

April 22-27, 2021
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​Due to the pandemic, it is still uncertain whether the retreat can proceed. That is why we work with provisional registration without financial obligation. 

Holland, Location: Bosoord, Hoofdweg 109, 7371 GE Loenen

This retreat consists of a deepening of the Prajña Paramita practice, an introduction to Jamgön Kongtrül’s text “Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother,” and Machig Labdrön’s method for cutting through discursive thoughts with sound. Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) work will expand through the mapping of family lineage demons, physical body demons, and hydra demons. 
For licensed therapists or counselors, completion of this Level II retreat and the required FYD Tracking Forms allows one to apply for certification to use the five steps of Feeding Your Demons® professionally. 

​Who Should Attend? 
  • This is a required retreat for the Magyu Mother Lineage Program.
  • Anyone who has completed the prerequisites

​What are the Prerequisites?  (Update november 2020)
  • Completion of Kapala Training Level I
  • 65 Feeding Your Demons® processes: 50 solo and 15 with a partner
    • For partner work, tracking forms from both partners equal one partner work session. This should not be done with clients. It is acceptable to work with gods instead of demons for some of these sessions.​
  • 20 Extended Ally Processes: 10 solo and 10 with a partner
  • 80 hours of Prajña Paramita practice
    • A practice session is a minimum of 30 minutes. One hour is recommended, and 30 minutes is just for those with very limited time. These 30 minutes include the beginning and ending prayers.
  • Plant a tree or sponsor a tree to be planted. 
    • This requirement came to Lama Tsultrim in a dream in which she was flying over Europe and saw that it was dry, parched, and very hot. She heard a voice that said: “For Climate Change everyone should plant a tree before Kapala Training Level II.” Planting a tree connects your practice to healing the earth and to Machig’s tree experience during her initiation from Sonam Lama.

This retreat includes:
  • Making a full-sized body map: This entails tracking where the 65 demons/gods you worked with between Kapala Training Level I and II appeared in your body and reflecting on what you see in the body map.
  • Male and female family lineage demon and ally maps
  • A hydra map looking at a constellation of demons/gods
  • “Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother”* practice
  • “Supplication to Machig Labdrön Nature of Mind”* practice
  • “Cutting the Four Demons Loose into Space”* practice
  • Teachings on excerpts from the “Grand Poem of Aryadeva the Brahmin” and “Machig’s Last Instructions”
  • Taking and Waking practice

​If you intend to apply for Feeding Your Demons® certification, you will need to do the following:
  • Complete Kapala Training Levels I and II. 
  • Provide documentation (Tracking Forms) showing that you have completed 54 solo and 54 partner sessions (tracking forms from both partners equal one partner work session), totaling 108 sessions.
  • Pass a test with Lama Tsultrim or an Authorized Tara Mandala Teacher showing that you can guide someone through the process by memory, without using the text.​
Registration
Due to the pandemic, it is still uncertain whether the retreat can proceed. 

Practical information

​The cost of the retreat including teachings and materials, accommodation for 5 nights, and vegetarian meals is: 
€ 700,- in a shared double room 
€ 830,- in a single room (there are few single rooms available)
€ 540,-Scholarship: yogi-jobs & shared room
€ 370,- Scholarship camping: yogi-jobs & own tent & meals.

Time details: This retreat begins with registration from 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm on the first day and ends after lunch on the last day.

How to get there: Bosoord can be reached by public transport. From Schiphol airport it is easy and fast to take the train to Apeldoorn and continue by bus or taxi. Coming from Germany take the train to Arnhem and continue by bus or taxi. More information.
Diet 
All meals are standard vegetarian and almost entirely organic. We can take into account vegan, gluten free and/or lactose free diet requirements if imposed by health circumstances. 
Teacher Lopön Chandra Easton

Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the Assistant Spiritual Director and Lead Authorized Teacher for Tara Mandala Retreat Center in Colorado, US, founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. 
​She is currently on the Tara Mandala Board of Directors and the Tara Mandala Bay Area coordinating committee, through which she teaches and organizes events in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Visit www.shunyatayoga.com and www.taramandalasf.org.

Click here to learn more about Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton