YANGTI'S DHARMA IMMERSIONS
Yangti's Dharma Immersions offer ongoing intensive dharma containers, each dedicated to a sustained engagement with a complete cycle of practice from within Yangti's living lineages. These immersions provide sustained, sequential engagements with a single lineage text or practice with the support of a dedicated community and ongoing instruction. Throughout immersions practitioners receive a dedicated container for engaging in a particular practice or path that they may be focusing on, courses may include, live meetings or classes, community sits, resources and texts, retreats online or in person, and other opportunities for engagement.
Practitioners at all levels of experience are welcome. The lineage provides the map; your teacher provides the guidance; the immersion provides the container. Yangti offers these immersions as a means of providing the training, continuity, and lived familiarity that genuine practice requires, each immersion is a powerful means through which practitioners may develop authentic experience and build a solid basis for their practice. These programs may be taken individually or together as support along the way.
The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje lived during the14th century and is is among the most significant figures in the history of Tibetan Buddhism: a master of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, author of one of the most important texts on the vajra body, a contemporary, friend and occasional teacher of the great Dzogchen master Longchenpa, and widely regarded as the first officially recognized tulku. His biography details how at one point in his youth, Vimalamitra appeared to him in a vision and dissolved into the point between his eyebrows at which moment he received the full transmission of the Dzogchen tantras. What arose from that pure vision he wrote down and has become known as the Karma Nyingthig.
The text at the center of this immersion, The Marvelous Instructions is the only surviving text of the Karma Nyingthig Dzogchen cycle, and remains a uniquely remarkable example of Dzogchen practiced within the Karma Kagyu tradition.
In August 2022, H.E. Gyaltsab Rinpoche, one of the four heart-sons of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, encouraged Lama Justin to teach this text and gave his blessing in support of teaching the Karma Nyingthig.
The immersion moves through the complete cycle of instructions including: training with prana and bindu, Rushen, Trekchö, the postures and gazes, and the pointing-out methods for seeing the unborn self (Tögal). Access to our limited edition translation, two 5-day online retreats, Trekchö and Tögal, along with an optional in-person Rushen retreat at our center in Buckland, MA are included.
SCHEDULE
Thursdays 12–2pm EST / 9–11am PST · Starting January 7th, 2027
Weekly Friday Community Sit · Live + pre-recorded with recordings provided
ADDITIONS
Two 5-day online Retreats (Trekchö & Tögal) · Optional in-person Rushen retreat at Yangti, Buckland, MA · Digital copy of our special Yangti Yoga Publications limited edition translation of The Marvelous Instructions · Option to purchase a physical copy
TUITION
$1,200 · Multiple installment options available · Scholarship & Rota Applications are always available to students with financial limitations.
THE DETAILS
Jatsön Nyingpo — the 16th century master whose name translates as Rainbow Heart — was one of the great tertöns of his era: a revealer of hidden treasure texts, a Dzogchen master, and teacher of some of the most prominent practitioners of his time, including the 10th Karmapa Choying Dorje, the 4th Gyaltsabpa, the Dzogchenpa Tsele Natsok Rangdrol and the great yogin Lhatsun Namkha Jigme. He revealed a number of termas written by Yeshe Tsogyal, the most celebrated being the Könchok Chidü: The Embodiment of the Precious Ones.
The Könchok Chidü is best known for its Guru Rinpoche sādhana, widely practiced across the Tibetan Buddhist world and included within many three-year retreat curricula.
Far less known is the Dzogchen cycle embedded within the larger terma: the Khamsum Yongdrol, or Complete Liberation of the Three Realms, compiled and organized by the 19th century master Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye. This cycle is a powerful and complete guidebook for the full path of Ati Yoga, moving in an even, steady way from the foundational practices of Anuyoga through to Trekchö and Tögal.
This immersion follows that path in full: Anuyoga’s Chandali practices (training with nadi, prana, and bindu), Kadak Trekchö, Rushen, and the complete Lhündrup Tögal cycle. Access to our limited edition translation, two 5-day online retreats, Trekchö and Tögal, along with an optional in-person Rushen retreat at our center in Buckland, MA are included.
SCHEDULE
Tuesdays 12–2pm EST / 9–11am PST · Starting January 26th, 2027
Weekly Friday Community Sit · Live + pre-recorded with recordings provided
ADDITIONS
Two 5-day online Retreats (Trekchö & Tögal) · Optional in-person Rushen retreat at Yangti in Buckland, MA · Digital copy of our special Yangti Yoga Publications limited edition translation of The Complete Liberation of the Three Realms · Option to purchase a physical copy
TUITION
$1,200 · Multiple installment options available · Scholarship & Rota Applications are always available to students with financial limitations.
THE DETAILS
Ati Yoga (Tibetan: Dzogchen) is the most simple, direct, and profound path to reveal the sky-like nature of our own mind which is clear, vast, and unobstructed by the clouds of afflictive emotions.
In this year-long meditation-focused immersion, students will be guided through the steps of Ati Yoga practice as taught by Yuthok Yönten Gönpo, the 12th Century father of Tibetan Medicine and originator of the Yuthok Nyingthik set of spiritual practices.
Each week students will be given instruction on the practices, beginning with Guru Yoga, progressing through the Dzogchen special preliminaries (Inner and Outer Rushen) and the actual preliminaries of training body, speech, and mind with Vajra Posture, the Hung Syllable, and mind investigation. The year will finish instructions on Kadak (Primordial Purity) and Trekchö (Cutting Through Hardness).
Guided practice sessions will be an integral part of this program, providing students with the time to familiarize themselves with and deepen the connection to the practices in a supported group online setting with regular opportunities for questions and discussion. The mixture of live and pre-recorded classes ensure that there is time for both engaged question and response as well as very focused instruction sessions without distractions or interruption.
SCHEDULE
Fridays 12–2pm EST / 9–11am PST · Starting January 22nd, 2027
Weekly Friday Community Sit · Live + pre-recorded with recordings provided
ADDITIONS
Two additional week-long retreats, Rushen and Trekchö, online streaming is included with your course · Opportunity to join the Rushen Retreat in person at the Yangti Yoga Retreat Center in Buckland, MA, is available at an additional cost
TUITION
$1,200 · Multiple installment options available · Scholarship & Rota Applications are always available to students with financial limitations.
THE DETAILS
The Yangti Nakpo Ngöndro Platform is an open-ended online container for practitioners entering the path of the Yangti Nakpo lineage. We gather on the last Sunday of each month from 4–6pm ET for instruction, group practice, and to address questions about the concise and medium-length Yangti Nakpo Ngöndro practices. Based on guidance received from H.E. Chung Tulku Rinpoche, Lama Justin has confirmed a clear path for practitioners to progress through the ngöndro before receiving the Trikaya Guru Empowerment and beginning the associated mantra accumulation retreats. This platform gathers the necessary texts, teachings, refuge tree images, and recordings of past sessions so that all aspiring practitioners have what they need to engage these practices fully with the support of teachers and fellow practitioners.
SCHEDULE
The last Sunday of each month from 4–6pm EST / 1–3pm PST · Starting June 28th, 2026 · Live + recordings of all previous meetings provided
ADDITIONS
Access to necessary practice texts · Downloadable high resolution lineage tree image · Community led Whatsapp Group
TUITION
This program is offered free of charge
THE DETAILS
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
It's a very well-structured and paced course that allows you to deeply practice this dzogchen cycle. Lama Justin is deeply knowledgeable about both the history of Tibetan Buddhism and the direct experience of practice. I appreciated the Q&A format and input from my fellow students. Some explanations were above my knowledge level, but the year time frame and pace allowed me to build skills and I'm repeating the class next year so I can continue studying with Lama Justin.
EMMA B.
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
“Lama Justin’s teaching and supportive guidance created a powerful container for exploring Dzogchen as presented by Rangjung Dorje within the Karma Kagyu tradition.”
SCOTT C.
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
“You could feel the blessing of lineage in this class. The cycle takes you step-by-step through practices that support the experience of the Rigpa state in a way that feels both structured but also open and spontaneous.”
SARAH K.