Halifax Shambhala Centre

Halifax Shambhala Centre Committed to offering teachings on meditation with the view of fundamental worthiness and goodness.

Tango is about getting lost and then found again. ⁠⁠“This is how to dance the tango! ⁠Feel the blood rise to your face w...
11/20/2025

Tango is about getting lost and then found again. ⁠
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“This is how to dance the tango! ⁠
Feel the blood rise to your face with every beat; ⁠
While an arm winds like a snake ⁠
Around a waist that is about to break. ⁠
This is how to dance the tango!”⁠
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This Saturday, Nov 22nd @ 7:30pm

$15 at the door | Register at halifax.shambhala.com/calendar

11/19/2025

Fred supports the Centre because of its unique offerings in the Maritimes – "If you're interested in Tibetan Buddhism, this is the place."

And with your help, we can keep it safe, welcoming, and vibrant for all who gather here. We're already more than half way to our $50,000 goal to support essential repairs and upgrades!

The Building the Future Together campaign is a multi-year effort to raise the funds needed to maintain, improve, and uplift the Shambhala Centre.

To make a one-time donation go to: halifax.shambhala.org/building

11/13/2025

The Building the Future Together campaign is a multi-year effort to raise the funds needed to maintain, improve, and uplift the Shambhala Centre.

Our goal for 2025 is $50,000 to support essential repairs and upgrades already underway.

If the Centre has touched your life, please consider making a gift to help sustain it for others.

With your help, we can repair and restore our building to keep it safe, welcoming, and vibrant for all who gather here.

Make a one-time donation: https://halifax.shambhala.org/building

One-pointed shamatha and open-hearted vipashyana are essential to the path of Dharma, from the very beginning to the sub...
11/10/2025

One-pointed shamatha and open-hearted vipashyana are essential to the path of Dharma, from the very beginning to the subtlest teachings and practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.

This holiday season, receive instructions to deepen your shamatha and vipashyana practice and discover how to directly experience the natural state.

This is the heart of the path of wisdom, and also the skillful means which empower all sadhana practices.

Profound Simplicity Retreat with Richard John
December 27 - 31
9 am - 5:30 pm

Register at halifax.shambhala.org/calendar

On the last Saturday of every month we welcome all who have participated — or are simply interested — in the Shambhala T...
11/07/2025

On the last Saturday of every month we welcome all who have participated — or are simply interested — in the Shambhala Training program. ⁠
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A morning of practice and community discussion, followed by tea and snacks. ⁠
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Benefit from a short review of the meditation instruction, followed by sitting and walking practice, a short guest talk and discussion at 11:30am, then tea.⁠
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This month the talk will be given by Julia McKaig, a lifelong meditator raised in the Shambhala community, who has practiced worldwide with recent focus on Vajrayana Buddhism under Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. ⁠
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Julia will be speaking on the role of spirituality and magic in the modern world. How do we discern what aspects of spiritual tradition remain essential, and what must evolve to meet our times?⁠
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November 29th⁠
9 am - 12 noon

In "Profound Instruction on the Four Syllables of Mahamudra", a famous doha, or song of realization, composed by Kunpang...
11/06/2025

In "Profound Instruction on the Four Syllables of Mahamudra", a famous doha, or song of realization, composed by Kunpang Sherab Gyamtso, we find the most relevant points of the path to enlightenment through the profound and direct instructions of Mahamudra.

Gerardo Abboud is uniquely qualified to present a commentary on this text.

He studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism in India and Nepal from 1970 until 1985. He has acted as the principal Tibetan to English and Tibetan to Spanish translators for many important lamas, specifically serving as the main interpreter for Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2000 to 2015), and to His Holiness Dalai Lama.

Register to attend online or in-person for $54-108 for three days, or PWYC.

https://halifax.shambhala.org/event/821693-on-zoom-a-profound-instruction-on-the-four-syllables-of-mahamudra-with-gerardo-abboud/

Come for soup and stay to hear about this opportunity to meet and learn about the Halifax Shambhala Centre’s new form of...
10/27/2025

Come for soup and stay to hear about this opportunity to meet and learn about the Halifax Shambhala Centre’s new form of circle governance, a style of governance where we all are involved and have a voice in shaping the future of the centre. Get involved and direct your passion and interests in the workings of a circle where you can have a voice, express your ideas and use your experience to be a more involved member of the sangha, and make it yours. ⁠
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Circles will each be explained and everyone will be able to ask questions of the current participants of each circle. Once you explore all the activities and aims and domains of each circle you are invited to join in whatever capacity works for you! (For example, the Practice and Education Circle is interested in working with newcomers to d]create a practice path. ⁠
The Community circle is an umbrella for contemplative arts and culture as well as health and well-being, diversity, and supporting youth and aging members.) ⁠
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Come and have lunch, chat, share, learn, and express your support for our community as we embark on this new self-governance journey to take the Halifax Shambhala Centre to a new and vibrant place!⁠
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Shambhala Training offers teachings based the vision that every human being has a natural source of innate wakefulness t...
10/20/2025

Shambhala Training offers teachings based the vision that every human being has a natural source of innate wakefulness that we can discover, cultivate and express in our life.

While Level I introduces mindfulness and the basic experience of basic goodness, Level II deepens the journey by working with fear, habitual patterns, and openness.

We are a community who see this as an opportunity to gather and implement these leadership teachings as a structure to hold conversation, explore issues, deepen our own understanding of ourselves and most of all, how to do something worthwhile with our lives.

Birth of the Warrior: Shambhala Training Level II
October 24th - 26th
Halifax Shambhala Centre

An opportunity for the community to meet the Shambhala Board of Directors. The Halifax Shambhala Centre itself no longer...
10/17/2025

An opportunity for the community to meet the Shambhala Board of Directors.
The Halifax Shambhala Centre itself no longer has a Board or a Director- we have adopted an organizational structure inspired by sociocracy, -- community members join Circles (committees) of different areas of activity to be directly involved in the aspects of the Centre that they are most interested in.
This is a rare opportunity to meet the Board of our parent organization.

October 26th 6- 8 pm
Tea and light refreshments will be served.

10/06/2025

Visit of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Halifax Shambhala Centre, Canada 🇨🇦

- - Public Talk on The Sadhana of Mahamudra
October 9th, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Program price: $25

"The Halifax Shambhala Centre is delighted to host Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on October 9th at 7 pm for a public talk on The Sadhana of Mahamudra by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Rinpoche began teaching on this text last year, and we're pleased he has agreed to continue."

All information and registration here:
https://halifax.shambhala.org/event/809468-ringu-tulku-hybrid-public-talk-on-the-sadhana-of-mahamudra

- - Advanced Buddhist Studies
Vajrayogini Audience
October 10th, 2025
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Program price: $39.90

"Ringu Tulku Rinpoche will offer an audience for sadhakas at the Halifax Shambhala Centre on October 10 at 9 am, along with an online option to participate - stay tuned for details. All are welcome to come and ask questions related to Vajrayogini (or other) practices.

In 2024, Rinpoche conferred the empowerment of Vajrayogini here in Halifax. We are delighted to host him again this year — to continue our learning and connection."

All information and registration here:
https://halifax.shambhala.org/event/809469-ringu-tulku-hybrid-vajrayogini-audience/

Birth of the Warrior is the second in the teaching series of Shambhala Training. These teachings were offered to us by ...
10/06/2025

Birth of the Warrior is the second in the teaching series of Shambhala Training. These teachings were offered to us by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche for these times of darkness and turmoil. They encourage us to rediscover our tender hearts and relax into openness, vulnerability and presence. This is who we are but have been momentarily lost in our pain, self-centredness and confusion. Using those as our path is the good news that we can be courageous and that our life is workable—a resource of wakefulness and benefit.

Please Join us for a weekend of learning about ourselves and others.

Shambhala Training Level 2: Birth of the Warrior
Friday, October 24, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Saturday October 25, 8:30am -5pm
Sunday, October 26, 8:30am - 1pm
at the Halifax Shambhala Centre
Pay what you can

Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level 1

Tai Chi Ch’uan is beneficial for your body, life force and overall health.⁠⁠This class is open to those who are new to T...
10/03/2025

Tai Chi Ch’uan is beneficial for your body, life force and overall health.⁠
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This class is open to those who are new to Tai Chi Ch’uan and also Tai Chi practitioners who want to refresh the exercises and deepen their Tai Chi Ch’uan form from the beginning. . You will be learning the Cheng Man-Ching 37-movement Yang-style Tai Chi Ch’uan form. You will also be learning Tai Chi basic training exercises – Dr. Wu’s “Methods for relaxation” and “Methods for cultivating the chi.” ⁠
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For those who previously learned the Tai Chi exercises and the whole Cheng Man-Ching 37-movement Yang-style Tai Chi Ch’uan form, you will be deepening these and in the last 30 minutes of the class, refreshing and deepening the entire form. We will also be doing push hands exercises. ⁠
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Your Tai Chi practice will be supported by video and written instruction. In case of inclement weather, the class will be held via Zoom. ⁠
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October 14th - March 31st⁠
Beginners: 7-8 pm ($220)⁠
Experienced: 7-8:30pm ($330)⁠
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Address

1084 Tower Road
Tower Road, NS
B3H2Y5

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 3am
Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 9am - 12pm

Telephone

+19024201118

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