Gratitude for your werk & practice
Lama Rod Owens
Buddhist Minister, Author, Activist, Yoga Instructor, Authorized Lama, Queen
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Dear?Friends,
As 2024 comes to a close, I invite you to take a few deep breaths and reflect on all that you have done, both seen and unseen. This past year, I have witnessed the various ways that we each have shown up to do the werk and work of figuring out how to care for ourselves and for the collective.?
As I reflect on all the offerings my team and I were able to share virtually and across the world in 2024, I feel grateful to be in alignment with the werk of getting free. My dream is to continue to teach freely and audaciously, tending the tree of our work, and supporting communities through transformative practices and ways of being.
In the spirit of choosing sustainability over exhaustion as a practice of liberation, my team and I will be resting through the end of the year, leaning into this period of repose as fertile ground in which to plant the seeds for the werk of 2025.
Here are some ways you can support your practice during this time:
1) Rest!
2) Sponsor a Solstice Candle & my Fire Ceremony (see details below)
3) Stay connected to your practice through offerings such as the seasonal Werk with Lama Rod recordings, our Learning & Practice Community, and my Love and Rage Self-Guided Course (also a holiday gift for these times). We’ll also be scheduling some posts to support your practice on Instagram / Facebook / Linkedin.
4) Offer a recurring donation to support my werk and nourish the spaciousness and sustainability that it takes to expand my teachings, grow my team, and continue offering scholarships. ?
However you choose to and are able to engage, I deeply appreciate the paths of our liberation werk crossing in this lifetime.? ?
May we all welcome the rest and restoration we need as we end this year, and all the abundance and transformation that we are calling in for the new year.
Love,
Lama Rod
As we prepare to enter into winter as well as a new year, it can be powerful to help sponsor light and fire ceremonies.? ?
For the first time, I would like to invite you into my solstice light offering work by sponsoring a white votive or tall candle. You can also sponsor my fire ceremony this season. Along with a financial donation, you are invited to submit a prayer request that I will read as I light your sponsored candle and make offerings during the fire ceremony.? ?
Candle sponsorships and prayer requests will be accepted until December 19th at 12am ET.
Winter Hours
A Weekly Live Limited Series?with Lama Rod?
Monday, January 13th, 20th, & 27th, 2025 at?11am ET
The Winter Hours is an exploration of what it means to honor the medicine of winter, a medicine that encourages us to slowdown, rest, reflect, dream, and prepare for the call of spring awakening.?Each session will be a journey into deep restorative practice supported by the wisdom of Buddhadharma, herbalism, yoga, and West African spiritualities.?We will also explore themes of working with fear, resting for resistance, choosing freedom, and much more.
Upcoming Events
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Free Radicals Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm UK | 1:00pm - 3:00pm ET | 11:00am - 1:00pm PT Online Free Radicals is a monthly free/by donation online community practice space created specifically with our UK friends in mind - although everyone is welcome to join us! We welcome your ongoing support toward the sustainability of the Free Radicals project. Recordings of previous sessions are also now available to recurring donors.
The New Saints Retreat January 31st - February 2nd, 2025 The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC This sacred retreat invites you to delve into the depths of your inner landscape, blending personal healing with collective empowerment. Through powerful stories, spiritual insights, and practical contemplative practices, you’ll awaken your inner strength and embrace your role as a compassionate spiritual warrior.
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Love and Rage: A Self-Guided Course 20% Off for Members of Lama Rod's Learning & Practice Community
Love and?Rage invites you to deeply come to know your rage, accept it, and learn how to use the wisdom contained within anger as ground for liberation. Move at your own pace as you learn about the core meditation practices from Lama Rod’s best-selling book,?Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger.?