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Dream and Sleep Meditation Retreat

with Mingyur Rinpoche

Date/Time:

This event takes place December 27–28 (Asia-Pacific restream December 28-29), 2025. 

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Registration

Registration will close 1 hour in advance of the event. Full refunds will be given for cancellation requests up to 1 hour in advance of the event.

Who can attend this event?

This program is open to everyone.

 

Translation

Translation from English will be offered in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Dreams can reveal useful psychological information that cannot always be accessed with our daytime minds; but when we use dreams to investigate reality, we do not try to interpret or understand their meaning or look for signs and symbols. We work with the direct experience that dreaming offers us to challenge our assumptions and expand our perceptions.

– Mingyur Rinpoche

WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?

Our lives can feel like a relentless cycle of distraction and agitation. Through ancient wisdom teachings, we can transform that cycle, turning even our sleep into a source of profound insight. This retreat provides the tools to make every moment, whether we are awake or dreaming, a step on the path to awakening.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

In this program, you will learn: 

  • about the dreamlike nature of reality
  • practices for dream and sleep meditation
  • how sleep meditation can be a gateway to free us from fear and grasping
  • about the innate clarity and joy that is always present in us

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM?

  • Live teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Mingyur Rinpoche
  • Teaching sessions with Khenpo Kunga
  • Guided practice with Cortland Dahl

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:

This program is open to everyone.

 

Special Reduced Rate Available Until December 19

Our aspiration is for this retreat to be open and accessible to everyone. As part of Tergar’s non-profit mission to make authentic meditation teachings available to all, we’re offering a reduced rate of $50 for this two-day retreat with Mingyur Rinpoche, intended for those with limited income or financial constraints.

To help our team organize the event smoothly, this reduced rate will be available until December 19. If you’d like to join us at this rate, we warmly encourage you to register before that date.

If you’re able to participate at the Base or Sponsor rate, your contribution will greatly support Tergar’s activities and the organization of this event, helping us continue to make these teachings accessible to everyone.

Simultaneous interpretation
Live interpretation will be provided during the main teachings in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Recordings of these sessions will also be available in these languages.

Special note for students in Asia-Pacific time zones
For students in the Asia-Pacific time zones, Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings, Khenpo Kunga’s teachings, and Cortland Dahl’s practice sessions will now be restreamed at convenient morning/afternoon times on December 28–29.

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About Mingyur Rinpoche

In his approach to teaching meditation, Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health – making the practice of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.

Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began to study meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. As a child he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists who were visiting his father, and as he grew older he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.

Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. His second book, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, explores how difficult emotions and challenging life situations can be used as stepping stones to discover joy and freedom. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey. Mingyur Rinpoche recently appeared in the Netflix series The Mind, Explained, in an episode about the benefits of mindfulness.

As the head of the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche supports groups of students in more than thirty countries, leading workshops around the world for new and returning students every year.

About Khenpo Kunga

Khenpo Kunga is a Senior Tergar Lama. He became a monk at a young age and began his education at Tergar monastery, where he studied the rituals, prayers, and other traditional practices of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. At fifteen, he entered an extended meditation retreat and spent three years mastering the profound contemplative practices of the Kagyü lineage.

Following this period of intense meditation practice, he entered the renowned Dzongsar monastic college near Dharamsala in Northwest India. After studying there for eleven years and receiving his Khenpo degree (roughly equivalent to a PhD), he taught at Dzongsar college for three additional years. Khenpo Kunga’s primary teacher is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, though he has studied with many other revered masters as well.

In recent years, Khenpo Kunga has taught in Asia, Europe, and the United States as one of the main teachers for the worldwide network of Tergar monasteries, meditation centers, and meditation groups.

About Cortland Dahl

Cortland is a scientist, translator, and meditation teacher who offers workshops and leads retreats around the world. He has practiced meditation for nearly three decades and has spent time on retreat in monasteries and retreat centers throughout Japan, Burma, and India, including eight years spent living in Tibetan refugee settlements in Kathmandu, Nepal. He has a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain and Contemplative Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was mentored by renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson. He also holds a master’s Degree in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University. In addition to his work as an Instructor for the Tergar community and Executive Director of Tergar International, Cortland serves as Research Scientist and Chief Contemplative Officer at UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds and the center’s affiliated non-profit, Healthy Minds Innovations. Cortland is actively involved in scientific research and has published articles on the impact of meditation practices on the body, mind, and brain. He has also published twelve books of translations of classical texts on Buddhist philosophy and meditation. He currently lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin.