Invitation Only & Public Events
Upcoming SeminarTaoist Five Element Alchemical Healing Sounds Qigong
A Seminar for Internal Healing & Land Blessing
Please join Jessica Moerler (Padma Kila), and Karla Vandenbergh (Priya Prajna) for this rare event on Sunday 7/26 from 11 am - 1 pm @ Glenn Falls Park behind the natural play area for a transformational inner work seminar.
Learn Taoist Five Element Alchemical Healing Sounds Qigong for internal health, transformation, and building a relationship with the land. This practice balances your internal organs and harmonizes the relationship between them, enriching health, quality of life and longevity. As we heal ourselves, we heal the land. Gaia, or the consciousness of the earth, responds to our relationship with her. Learning to understand how the living elements are all around us and embodied within us is transformational and healing for ourselves as well as the earth and the many beings that have a home here.
What is Qigong?
Qigong is an ancient inner cultivation method that integrates breath work and slow intrinsic movement, enhancing longevity, psycho-emotional stability & health throughout the organs, channels, & neuro-biological systems.
You must be registered in order to participate!
This event is rain or shine, please bring appropriate gear and wear something you don’t mind getting dirty or wet.
We will be changing locations throughout the event to enhance our elemental experience and understanding. Be prepared to move your things (pack light or bring a backpack/bag), and to do some light hiking.
Gear: water bottle, journal for notes, yoga mat or blanket, backpack or bag to easily move your things.
Please arrive early to find a parking spot - there are two parking lots and street parking along the local side streets, though you may have to walk a bit.
We will be bringing some garbage bags to do a litter clean up in the park after the event. If anyone would like to stay and volunteer to help, you are welcome!
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Avalokitesvara Rainbow Light Distance Healing Empowerment
Open to the Public via Livestream 1.20.25
Avalokitesvara is the bodhisattva of compassion. Through his compassionate gaze, he expresses divine compassion and love. His undending generosity emanates through the wish-fulfilling jewel at his heart. Avalokitesvara emanates in many forms in our earthly plane, including objects, abodes and transformational healing energies. Through the rainbow light of compassion we are liberated from fear-based mentality and are able to see more objectively to support whatever is needed for each being to heal on physical, energetic and spiritual levels of being.
The generated light and prowess from this healing practice grants us the capacity to heal ourselves and others, near or far. It opens our channels to healing and transforms our mindset. It is beneficial for any healing modality and for those who wish to assist a group or situation that needs support and healing. Such as people in crisis situations.
Suggested Dana: $40
If you missed the live event, you can access the empowerment here
Heart Essence of Dakinis Fire Rite & Ganachakra Pig Roast with Chef Steve Gedra 10.19.24
to learn more about fire rites, go here
Ganachakra Pig Roast with Master Chef Steve Gedra!
Great Bliss Queen Empowerment 6.8.24
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Make an impact
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Create change
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Empower Others
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Make an impact ・ Create change ・ Empower Others ・
Avalokitesvara Rainbow Light Distance Healing Empowerment
Avalokitesvara is the bodhisattva of compassion. He expresses divine compassion and love through his gaze and his compassionate outpouring of generosity through the wish-fulfilling jewel he holds at his heart. Avalokitesvara emanates in many forms in our earthly plane, including objects, abodes and transformational healing energies. Through the rainbow light of compassion we are liberated from fear-based mentality and are able to see more objectively to support whatever is needed for each being to heal on physical, energetic and spiritual levels of being. Sometimes when we approach healing, we are captured by fixing, by fear or worry, and due to this we are not able to see clearly due to our own bias and attachment. To come from a place of compassion and universal love, we can stand back, see the bigger picture, and have more patience for the person’s unique process and authentic path. Their path is unique just like ours is, and this includes their healing journey, though we may not always understand why.
The rainbow distance healing practice is very special, and close to my heart. The generated light and prowess grants us the capacity to heal ourselves and others, near or far. It opens our channels to healing and transforms our mindset. It is beneficial for any healing modality and for those who wish to assist a group or situation that needs support and healing. Such as people in crisis situations.
Heart Essence of Dakinis Fire Rite
Heart Essence of Dakinis Fire Rite
A dakini is the divine feminine wisdom in form. The heart essence of the dakinis is the purity, joy, openness, ferocity, warriorship, love that fiercely transforms and eliminates obstacles to/for wealth, health, relationships, work, home, family, friends, community, the planet, as well as other beings who are not on the earthly plane.
Please join us as a distance-participant in our upcoming dakini fire rite. If there are any wishes and intentions you have for your life, loved ones, communities, and other beings, we can include them in this powerful ritual that brings transformation, healing, protection, purification and ultimately the unadorned mind of freedom and liberation. You can learn more about fire rites here on our fire rites page!
If you would like to be included in the rite, please send an email with your wishes and intentions to Karla at gaiabuddhism@gmail.com. They will be held in sacred confidence and offered into the fire during a special section in the rite that is dedicated to sponsors & participants. We will also make a special torma offering for you. *Please note, this is not an in person event*
Sponsorship Suggested Dana (donation)
Wishes: $20- $50
Wishes & Torma Offering: $50 - $100
Benefactor Rate: $500-$1000
Please send your donation of any amount to our donation page here on our website or Venmo @Karla-Vandenbergh
Wishes
Wishes are personal and unique for each of us. What are your deepest wishes for yourself, your family, your community, the collective, the planet? They are intentions that hold power as they are released into the fire. These intentions can be about anything and everything from health, work, home, career, prosperity, creativity, a project, the planet, a loved one, an illness, the collective, or any obstacle or impasse. Please write as many as you would like and email them to Karla at gaiabuddhism@gmail.com. They will be held in sacredness and confidentiality, carefully prepared, and offered into the fire during the ritual on your behalf.
Preparatory Journal Prompts to deepen your experience
Many of our past sponsors tell us that they experience a powerful shift after a fire rite, even participating from a distance. They have found it beneficial to do some journaling in preparation for the rite, to make the experience more intentional and fruitful.
If I could remove internal/external obstacles to anything in my life it would be…
My highest purpose is to…
My soul longs to…
To cultivate happiness and joy, I…
My heart feels most at peace when I …
Vajrayogini Fire Rite to Heal the Mother
Alchemizing trauma of the mother: transforming fertility issues, experiences of deep loss, such as miscarriage, early termination, or the death of a child. sexual trauma, birth trauma, medical trauma, change of life trauma (trauma surrounding the circumstances of new motherhood), housing/environmental or resource trauma (such as extreme poverty). We are born through our mothers, and our children are birthed through us. Mothers are an expression and manifestation of the divine feminine, and the dakini nature of wisdom, playfulness, joy and love. Being a mother is challenging in the dharma ending age with the pressures of the world, societal expectations, social, work, and home life.
Vajrayogini is the trauma healing goddess. She supports us in healing and alchemizing our deepest mother wounds, and wounds associated with the feminine. We will be performing a powerful Vajrayogini fire rite ritual to support the transformation of mother trauma. This could manifest in many ways and is very personal to each individual. please note that it does not matter how long ago or how old the trauma is.
If you feel this could benefit you or someone you love, and would like to be included in this healing ritual (not an in person event), please email me your or the person’s first name, photo (if possible & with permission) and perhaps a little bit about what they have experienced (your/their privacy is deeply respected). email gaiabuddhism@gmail.com
please note: This is for distance participation only & not an in person event- portions of the rite will be filmed and/or photographed and shared with you
To sponsor yourself or another person, please click this link here to make a donation or Venmo @Karla-Vandenbergh
Great Bliss Queen Fire Rite
Become a Fire Rite Sponsor!
With joyful hearts, we invite you to be part of our upcoming Great Bliss Queen Fire Rite (distance participation). Performing fire rites is a powerful, heartfelt experience. They create a vessel for transformation, healing, and abundance, supporting all human and other-than-human beings, including the earth herself. Our rite will take place on Sunday, July 14th at the close of our private retreat. *Please note, this is not an in person event*
Becoming a fire rite sponsor means you are included in the ritual. Each sponsor is invited to submit wishes and intentions, which we will write out on special puja paper and wrap with an empowered ribbon to be offered during the ceremony. One also has the option of a torma offering on their behalf. Our vajra torma master will create one specifically for you and offer it into the fire. This burns away obstacles, purifies health and opens pathways to one’s awakening.
Wishes
Wishes are personal and unique for each of us. What are your deepest wishes for yourself, your family, your community, the collective, the planet? They are intentions that hold power as they are released into the re. These intentions can be about anything and everything from health, work, home, career, prosperity, creativity, a project, the planet, a loved one, an illness, the collective, or any obstacle or impasse.
Please write as many as you would like and email them to Priya at gaiabuddhism@gmail.com. They will be held in sacredness and condentiality, carefully prepared, and offered into the fire during the ritual on your behalf.
Sponsorship Donation Levels
Wishes: $20- $50
Wishes & Burn Offering: $50 - $80
Wishes, Burn Offering & Torma Offering: $80 - $100
Benefactor rate: $500-$1000
You can send your sponsorship donation here
Preparatory Journal Prompts to deepen your experience
Many of our past sponsors tell us that they experience a powerful shift after a fire rite, even participating from a distance. They have found it benecial to do some journaling in preparation for the rite, to make the experience more intentional and fruitful.
● If I could remove internal/external obstacles to anything in my life it would be...
● My highest purpose is to...
● My soul longs to...
● To cultivate happiness and joy, I...
● My heart feels most at peace when I ...