The Six Session Guru Yoga
Class, Discussion and Practice Series

with Ven. Yönten

Sundays, 10:30am – 12:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
January 23 – February 13, 2022
(4 sessions)

For those with Highest Yoga Tantra empowerments only.

Includes guided six session guru yoga practice with explanation and time for discussion.

To register for this program, please click this link to fill out an application.  Details on how to access the program will be provided after your application has been reviewed. 

The Six Session Guru Yoga practice is given to those of us who have taken a highest yoga tantra empowerment — with the mandate to do it for life. But why is this practice so important and how do we keep it alive and fresh day after day, year after year?

Join this four-part series with Venerable Yönten who studied this practice formally in Chenrezig Institute’s Advanced Buddhist Studies Program in Australia with the former Abbott of Gyurme Tantra college: Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering as well as with Geshe Lobsang Jamyang. She will also draw from a number of valid commentaries and her own relationship with the practice to facilitate an in-depth experience of this practice as well as to engage tantric community support and collaboration.

This program is meant to be a series, and is not offered as drop-in.

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Ven. Yönten is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003. Her (merely labeled) pronouns are she/her and she is a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition.

Buddhist since her teenage years, Ven. Yönten moved to Chenrezig Institute in QLD, Australia when she was 19 and studied intensively under Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering (Lharampa Geshe from Sera Je Monastery and former Abbot of Gyü-me Tantric College) for seven years, completing their Buddhist Studies Program (including FPMT’s Basic Program as well as other advanced topics) and retreats.

​She then continued to study, retreat and offer service at Dharma Centers in India and Taiwan as well as Australia and New Zealand, becoming an In-Depth Registered Teacher within the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in 2012.

Ven. Yönten was then the Resident Teacher of Kunsang Yeshe Retreat Centre in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia from 2012 – 2015 and then at Mahamudra Centre for Universal Unity in New Zealand until 2018. She continues to offer classes and retreats at both Centres annually (unless there is a global pandemic).

Ven. Yönten also offers Buddhist classes 4–5 months a year in Israel. With FPMT’s Shantideva Study Group and also, from a secular perspective, for a seven-year postgraduate program called Human Spirit which is a Buddhist Psychoanalytic Training Program.

From August 2021 – February 2022, Ven. Yönten will lead classes hosted by Land of Medicine Buddha in California.