A Vajrayana Online Community Retreat with Cort and Tim

Join us for our first annual retreat, focusing this year on the Vajrayana approach to working with emotions
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A Vajrayana Online Community Retreat with Cort and Tim

Join us for our first annual retreat, focusing this year on the Vajrayana approach to working with emotions
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October 18, 2025

Saturday

10:00–18:00

US ET (New York)

Requirements

This event is open to everyone.

Recordings

We strongly encourage you to join us live. If you’re unable to attend, recordings will be available for two months.

About Our Annual One-Day Retreat

During times that can feel fragmented and uncertain, coming together as a community to practice is more important than ever — providing a vital source of meaning and shared purpose. Join our worldwide Vajrayana Online community for our annual one-day online retreat with Tergar guides Cortland Dahl and Tim Olmsted.
This year, we'll dive deep into the Vajrayana approach of working with emotions. Through teachings, guided meditations, Q&A, and small group discussions, we will explore the three ways of relating to emotions — a central theme in our upcoming Blueprints of Awakening Immersion course.
This is a precious opportunity to gather as a community, deepen our practice, and gain clarity on these transformative teachings. Whether you're looking to deepen your practice or find new ways to work with challenges, this retreat offers a welcoming space to turn the teachings into lived experience alongside fellow practitioners.

If you are not a Vajrayana Online member, please join the community so you can participate in the retreat.

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SCHEDULE

A Day with Cort and Tim

Exploring the Vajrayana approach to working with emotions

*All times US ET (New York).

Session 1

  • 10:00–11:30 AM | Teaching, meditation, and discussion
  • 11:30–11:45 AM | Break
  • 11:45–12:15 PM | Guided meditation
  • 12:15–1:30 PM | Teaching and discussion
  • 1:30–2:30 PM | Lunch

Session 2

  • 2:30–4:00 PM | Teaching, meditation, and discussion
  • 4:00–4:15 PM | Break
  • 4:15–5:45 PM | Teaching, meditation, and discussion
  • 5:45–6:00 PM | Closing and farewell

Join Us Live!

More than a workshop, this is also an opportunity to connect with a vibrant community of fellow meditators, sharing the energy and support that comes from practicing together. We strongly encourage you to join us in real time. However, if you’re unable to attend, recordings will be available for two months.
MEET YOUR GUIDES

Cortland Dahl

Cortland Dahl is a scientist, translator, author, and meditation teacher with a lifelong interest in meditation and the science of flourishing. His journey began in the early 1990s when he first learned to meditate. His passion led him on a journey around the world, from monasteries in Burma to zendos in Japan, as well as eight years living in Tibetan refugee settlements in Nepal and India.
During his travels, Cort became fluent in Tibetan and became a translator and scholar, receiving a master’s degree in Buddhist studies and publishing twelve volumes of translations. He went on to study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was mentored by the renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and received a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain, and Contemplative Science, the first ever degree of its kind awarded by the university. He has since published numerous scientific articles, including a new scientific framework for the cultivation of well-being, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 
As part of his Ph.D. dissertation, Cort created the Healthy Minds Program, now a free mobile app that has been featured by the New York Times, Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. More recently, he authored A Meditator’s Guide to Buddhism and the forthcoming Born to Flourish: How to Thrive in a Challenging World, with Dr. Richard Davidson. 
Cort currently serves as Executive Director and board member for Tergar International, the organization that oversees the Tergar community in the West, as well as a senior instructor for the Tergar community. He is also a scientist at the Center for Healthy Minds and Chief Contemplative Officer for its affiliated nonprofit, Healthy Minds Innovations.  
Cort currently lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin.
MEET YOUR GUIDES

Tim Olmsted

Tim Olmsted began his Buddhist studies in 1977 under the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. In 1981, Mingyur Rinpoche’s father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, was invited to teach in Boulder. Profoundly moved by him, Tim and his family moved to Kathmandu just a few months later to study with Tulku Urgyen and his sons.
During the twelve years that he lived in Nepal, Tim studied with many of the most renowned teachers living there and worked as a psychotherapist serving the international community. In 2000, Tim moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, at the invitation of Pema Chödrön, where he served for three years as the director of Gampo Abbey, the largest residential Buddhist monastery in North America. He is the founder and president of the Pema Chödrön Foundation, which supports monastic training and communities in need around the world.
In 2003, after a visit by Mingyur Rinpoche to Gampo Abbey, Tim started the Yongey Foundation to support and promote Mingyur Rinpoche’s activities in the West. Since its inception, Tim has been one of the five instructors for Mingyur Rinpoche’s worldwide meditation community, Tergar International.
Tim lives with his wife Glenna in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he leads an active community that follows Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings and those of his family lineage.
Just as poison can be extracted from a poisonous plant and taken as a medicine, the special quality of this teaching lies in the fact that any disturbing emotion may arise as wisdom the moment you relax in naturalness. Look directly into it, don’t deliberately reject it, regard it as a fault, indulge in it concretely, or regard it as a virtue.

— Khenpo Gangshar

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