{"id":62866,"date":"2026-06-10T21:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunpen-staging.test\/events\/ritiro-di-vajrayoghini-3\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:34:59","slug":"ritiro-di-vajrayoghini-3","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/events\/ritiro-di-vajrayoghini-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat of Vajrayogini with Lama Michel Rinpoche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Retreat of Vajrayogini: <\/b><\/span><strong>The Quick Path to Great Bliss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The practice of Vajrayogini, one of the most important of the Mahanuttara Yoga Tantra, the highest class of Tantra, is considered one of the most powerful of all Buddhist Tantric meditations.\u00a0Buddha emanated Vajrayogini, a special female enlightened being, 2500 years ago. She is the female counterpart of Heruka, the Lord of the Heroes, and she teaches us how to attain enlightenment through purifying our female essence, our dakini nature. It is an excellent antidote against limitless attachment and greed and the realisations brought about by it\u2019s practice can lead to Enlightenment in a single lifetime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Instructions for the Vajrayogini retreat<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"s1\">To do the retreat you must have already received in the past the Vajrayogini empowerment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those who wish to participate in the full retreat, in the meditation hall (on the second floor of the Temple), must necessarily attend all four daily sessions for the duration of the retreat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The retreat will be conducted, in the traditional way, by Lama Michel Rinpoche: the daily sessions to be completed on the same meditation seat. In each session the sadhana will be recited together first and then the mantras individually. The retreat is only considered complete when each participant has recited 100,000 mantras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mobile phones are not allowed in the meditation hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Session schedule:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><b>Thursday 15th october<\/b><\/p>\n<p>first session of the retreat: 5.00 pm &#8211; 7.00 pm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>from Friday 16th october to Monday 2nd october\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>I session: 6.30 am &#8211; 8.30 am<\/div>\n<div>II session: 10.30 am\u00a0 -1.00 pm<br \/>\nIII session: 3.30 pm &#8211; 6.00pm<br \/>\nIV\u00a0 session: 8.00pm &#8211; 10.00pm<\/div>\n<div><b>Tuesday 3 november\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>last session of the retreat: 6.30am &#8211; 8.30am<b><\/b><\/div>\n<div>fire puja: 11.00am &#8211; 1.00pm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>To attend the retreat, please complete the<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> registration form <\/span>by October 1.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>or those wishing to stay at the Center, please contact the reception directly &#8211; email: reception@kunpen.it <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>before the september 30th, indicating participation in the Vajrayoghini retreat; it is not possible to book directly on the website.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b><i>For those who wish to have meals at the Center, reservations online:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/shimbu.ngalso.org\/\"><b><i>https:\/\/shimbu.ngalso.org\/<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>To buy the study materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.ngalso.org\/products\/vajra?_pos=2&amp;_psq=vener&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\">https:\/\/shop.ngalso.org\/products\/vajra?_pos=2&amp;_psq=vener&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Venerable Naro Kach\u00f6 Vajrayogini -The Quick Path to Great Bliss<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><b>The Dharma is precious and has no price.<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>In accordance with tradition, this activity is\u00a0<b>donation based<\/b>\u00a0according to each person\u2019s possibilities and choice.<\/div>\n<div>The suggested minimum contribution to cover the costs the Center sustains to host the retreat is 12 euro per day, for a total of \u20ac240.<\/div>\n<div>You can make your offering at the reception of the Centre or at the following <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/ritiro-di-vajrayogini\">link<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":33974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0},"tags":[],"event_type":[84,161,439],"event_type_2":[119],"event_type_3":[],"event_type_4":[472],"event_type_5":[],"class_list":["post-62866","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_speaker-lama-michel-rinpoche-speaker-en","event_location-albagnano-healing-meditation-centre","event_type-meditation","event_type-retreat","event_type-save-the-date","event_type_2-lama-michel-rinpoche-en","event_type_4-albagnano-healing-meditation-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/62866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62866"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=62866"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=62866"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_3","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_3?post=62866"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_4","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_4?post=62866"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_5","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunpen.ngalso.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_5?post=62866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}