If you are ready to make a deep commitment to change and to deepen spiritual values within daily life, this is the program for you.

Tarthang Tulku, founder of the Nyingma Institute, taught the first Human Development Training Program at the Institute in the Summer of 1973. The program offers a comprehensive education in how to develop and expand the capacity to know, to be aware through all the senses, and to find new, more positive ways of being in the world.

The program blends meditation, movement, and awareness exercises with discussion in an environment that encourages retreatants to integrate what they learn into daily life.

The benefits of the Program include establishing a strong foundation for meditation practice (including visualization and mantra); insight into how the mind and emotions work; and an appreciation of how to awaken our full human potential in any situation.

Although the program draws on the practices and insights from the ancient wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it deals with the direct, human experience of growth and change and does not require acceptance of any dogma.

What: 4 Month Human Development retreat
Where: Nyingma Tibetan Institute, Berkeley, CA
When: September 3 - December 20, 2003
Cost: $7,600  
Includes: Instruction, shared room, gourmet vegetarian cuisine
Info: http://www.nyingmainstitute.com, (510) 843-6812,
Nyingma-Institute@Nyingma.org

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