This winter, Lama Rangbar Nyima Özer (Yugyal Tulku) will travel to the USA to visit several locations. Lama Rangbar will be offering some or all of the various teachings listed below and will also be available for a limited time for both home and group ceremonies by scheduled appointment.  For more information on what blessing, healing, fortune or removal of obstacles ceremonies may be scheduled please see the: Sacred Spaces & Sacred Lives section of this web site. 

For event dates please see: "Event Calendar" Page

Lama Rangbar Nyima Özer (Yugyal Tulku)
An Western Yogi in the Tibetan Nyingmapa Tradition

Born as Adam Friedensohn and recognized as the activity emanation of the Yogi and Loppön, Tulku Chimed Yugyal of Rangnang Ogminling Dzogchenpa Monastery of Kham Riwoche, Tibet, Lama Rangbar exemplifies the transfer of Eastern wisdom to Western mind, having absorbed these living traditions over a 28-year period. Today he is one of the few Westerners who can lucidly explain spiritual principles, based on direct experience and realization. Lama Rangbar's root Guru is His Holiness Dunjom Rinpoche and he has spent the last 16 years in Nepal. He has studied with, His Holiness Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche, His Holiness Trulshig Rinpoche, His Holiness Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche, Karma Gyalpo Rinpoche, Acharya Dawa Chhodrak Rinpoche as well as with other great masters of the non-monastic, White-Robed lineage. Lama Rangbar is also well versed in Feng Shui and has offered consultations in several countries.  Currently, he is building the first Tersar Naljor retreat and spiritual practice / learning center of its kind, Evam Mingyur Ling (Place of Unchanging Great Bliss), in Nepal. Lama Rangbar is the founder and director of the Ngakdra Labrang and is authoring several books on the integration of Dharma practice into daily life.

Contact for Los Angeles:

Logistic information about the Schedule for ceremonies and teachings in LA is available from  Caroline at: caroline@mamadrum.net

Contact for Western Massachusetts:

Logistic information about the Schedule for ceremonies and teachings in the Shelburne Falls area of Western Massachusetts is available  from  Valerie at: (413)-625-9350

Contacts for Northern New Jersey can be found on the event Calendar page under specific events

For Yoga Loka, please contact Bonnie at: studio@905studio.com; bonnie@yoga-loka.com  

For Shakti Yoga Please contact Anna at: anna@shaktinj.com

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Seminars for Western Massachusetts Northern New Jersey and Los Angeles

The Union of Skillful means and Wisdom

Dignity, Respect and Realization Through Relationships and
Enriching ones life through entering the path of Kindness

One of the most central elements of our lives concerns our closest relationships.  Our relationships can bring us to the highest elation and bliss and can sometimes feel like insurmountable challenges that seemingly leave us with no avenues to move nor conclusions about their purpose.

In the west we often bring ailments of lack of self-respect and dignity to these relationships as well.  Without self-respect and without dignity, people become alienated, depressed, and desperate, unable t share and develop true kindness.  In this seminar Lama Rangbar talks about how entering the Vajrayana Buddhist path helps to build courage and dignity to face the world we live in and become a beacon of guidance for others.

By Special Request, Lama Rangbar will address these issues from a Tantric Buddhist point of view covering elements such as the purpose and potential of relationships to enhance our practice on the path and to bring us towards enlightenment.

Although we may wish to be ultimately spiritual we have achieved a precious human birth which is supported by the interdependent phenomenon of cyclic existence.   Just as a parent would never abandon their own child, the path of the secret Vajrayana and Guru Rinpoche in particular have availed us the skillful means required to be able to traverse the practical challenges of basic human life and fulfill the ultimate meaning of our birth in this world. In this workshop, Lama Rangbar will introduce the framework and tools for working as a "Karmic Warrior" in this challenging and often chaotic world of ours.

The Three Sacred Bodies
Tantric Transformation of  Ordinary Experience into Radiant Living

We experience through our three gates of body, speech and mind. Our actions, words, thoughts and feelings can either be the doors to accumulating more negative karma, confusion and suffering or can form the basis for the accumulation of merit and wisdom leading us to eventual enlightenment. The vibrant Tantric teachings of Tibet can provide a sacred experience of body as mudra, sound as mantra and mind-activity as samadhi. By uniting our meditation and our daily experience, we begin to transform the three gates into the enlightened Three Sacred Bodies:

• Form Body: purified (form-emptiness) unobstructed compassion
• Energy Body: purified (vibration-sound-emptiness) Radiant clarity
• Truth Body: purified (arising-emptiness) primordial essence

In this seminar Lama Rangbar will impart methods for working with the three gates, which can lead to a genuine and stable shift from ordinary experience to radiant living, taking each moment as the spiritual path.

Dispelling Negativity & Preparing the Seat of Innate Awareness

During the 4th to 8th century A.D., Tantric yogic practices flourished in India. While many such sacred teachings were lost on the subcontinent, Tibet become a repository of these powerful ways of human transformation. Here they were further refined by great yogis and yoginis living in the seclusion of the Himalayan ranges.

Lama Rangbar, who has received these teachings from an unbroken lineage of meditation masters, will impart the ancient Tibetan yoga of expelling negative or obscured energy-winds (prana) from the wisdom channels (Nadi). Such techniques engage our three sacred doors of body (mudra), wind (mantra) and mind (samadhi). This is an essential foundation for correct and profound meditation practice. By dispelling the three poisons of ignorance, grasping and hatred, our natural, indwelling mind becomes stable, healthy and powerful. This allows its own inherent wisdom nature to shine forth radiantly and helps form a stable base for meditation practice.

Understanding hidden messages, the dark and the light

Blessings, Realization and Recognizing the Three Defects of the Vessel

Day long seminars (morning and evening sessions): 9 am to 5 pm with lunch / break or will be conducted as one or two evening sessions, from 7-10 pm.   Fee: $75

Half day seminars ( 3 hours) as either a morning or an evening session: Fee: $35

All proceeds are dedicated for the development of the Ngakdra Labrang and Evam Mingyur Ling retreat center at the sacred site of Sanku Vajrayogini, Nepal.