10/26/2025
Opening The Heart Retreat: Mindfulness and Transforming Destructive Emotions with Lama Michael, November 7–9.
Struggling with anxiety, anger, feelings of being overwhelmed or emotional exhaustion in these challenging times? This retreat is for you. This is an invitation, an allowance - the gift of space to begin again.
📍 Attend live on Zoom or in-person at Pemako Retreat Center. Open to all, seasoned Practioners and those new to meditation.
Join us for a restorative and transformative weekend retreat dedicated to mindfulness of breathing and the liberation of destructive emotions. This retreat offers a compassionate and practical approach to working with transforming anger, anxiety, guilt, and depression and living a life of Emotional Elegance.
The process of cultivating emotional elegance begins with taking complete responsibility for the way one feels, meaning not blaming others for your life. Practical skills that have evolved from the Buddhist traditions will be offered with pragmatic and easy to assimilate teachings on bringing an end to destructive emotions through mindfulness meditation and highly effective cognitive behavioral techniques that have been studied and researched for their efficacy.
Through guided mindfulness meditation in every session, we’ll explore the most effective Buddhist insight practices and evidence-based cognitive tools for transforming the emotions that bind the heart and mind.
Register and Learn More:
https://buddhist-and-dzogchen-teachings.teachable.com/p/Openingheartmindfulness
🔹Throughout the weekend, Lama Michael will guide you through a series of mindfulness of breathing meditations, interwoven with talks and techniques on transforming the four primary destructive emotions that so often bind the heart.
🔹Discover the secrets to being reactivity free in the face of anger, anxiety, guilt and depression through powerful mindfulness and cognitive behavioral techniques that have changed the lives of thousands of practitioners over the last 25 years.
🔹Please join us during this time of uncertainty to hear how many people, throughout millennia, have learned to stop suffering and to find true peace and happiness. Unprecedented situations are arising each moment, and now is the perfect opportunity to learn to respond to our world without being caught up within it.
Whether you’re new to Dharma and meditation practitioner or a seasoned meditation practitioner, this retreat is open to all, and invites you to a life changing path toward living a life of emotional elegance and true happiness and purpose.
🧘♂️ Your Retreat Includes:
✔️ 8 Live Zoom sessions led by Lama Michael (Nov 7–9)
✔️ Guided meditations & Dharma talks with Lama Michael
✔️ Q&A and integration practice time
✔️ Lifetime access to recordings & materials on Teachable
✔️ Option to attend either online, in person at our San Diego Retreat Center or from home
Come as you are. Breathe. Begin again.
🎟️ Register now, for early registration for your retreat which ends November 3rd
Use code EARLYBIRD10% for 10% off
🔗Registration Open:
https://buddhist-and-dzogchen-teachings.teachable.com/p/Openingheartmindfulness