Yangti Yoga Retreat Center

The page describes Bhutan as the last existing Vajrayana kingdom and a location for the preservation and practice of Vajrayana Buddhism. It also describes Bhutan's connection to the development of Dzogchen, or Ati Yoga.

The page describes dark retreat as a Vajrayana completion stage practice in which practitioners enter complete darkness to engage with the ground of appearance and the luminous nature of mind.

Yangti's Dharma Immersions are intensive programs dedicated to sustained engagement with complete practice cycles from Yangti's lineages. They include sequential study of a lineage text or practice, community support, and ongoing instruction.

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center is located on 66 acres of forested land in Buckland, Massachusetts, on the eastern edge of the Berkshires.

Yangti Yoga Publications produces and translates rare Tibetan-language practice texts, while Lama Justin contributes interviews, essays, and press features on Vajrayana practice, chaplaincy, and contemplative life.

The Yangti Yoga Retreat Center in Buckland, Massachusetts, accepts volunteer applications to assess applicants’ potential fit with the center’s current needs.

Yangti offers free online group practice every Guru Rinpoche day, the 10th day of the lunar calendar.

Brian Foote is a Buddhist chaplain and educator who practices at Weill Cornell Medical Center and privately online and in New York City. His pastoral care and counseling draw on Vajrayana traditions, contemporary clinical standards, Carl Rogers, person-centered care, and narrative therapy.

James Mannion is a Brooklyn-based chaplain and spiritual director, a Vajrayana student of Lama Justin von Bujdoss, and a Zen student of Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi. He completed over six years of residential Zen training and two years of chaplaincy residency through New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Jasmine Pema is a multidisciplinary creator, healer, and practitioner based in Santa Fe. Jasmine Pema is a student of Nyingma master Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and has studied with Dr. Nida Chenagatsang, receiving teachings in Tibetan Medicine.

Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American Vajrayana Buddhist teacher and writer, and co-founder of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center. He wrote Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Embodiment in Dharma Practice and contributed to Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections.

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center specializes in completion stage practices, including dark retreat and practices related to the bardo and preparation for death. Its curriculum centers on Ati Yoga, or Dzogchen, and includes distinct cycles of approach to this meditative path.

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center was conceived by Lama Justin von Bujdoss and Dr. Nida Chenagatsang to establish conditions for Yangti (dark retreat) practice in the West, including transmission, qualified teachers, sustained support, and a dedicated physical space.

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supported largely by its community. It has no endowment or institutional backing.

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center's application is a preliminary request to visit for personal retreat in Buckland, Massachusetts. The center was preparing to host retreat guests in late fall 2024.

A nonprofit dark retreat center in the Berkshires offering authentic Vajrayana path-to-fruition practices through a non-sectarian, Rimé approach

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center is committed to providing support as a place for practitioners who are engaged in the work of awakening.

Yangti Yoga Retreat Center's terms apply to registration for its programs, retreats, and services. Yangti may update the terms, and continued participation constitutes acceptance of changes.