Module 5 Registration

The Healing Chod Program

Tsewong Sitar Rinpoche presides over all the rituals, with Lama Pema Tenzin acting as chant master. Rinpoche and Pema have been performing these practices for many decades, and are masters of these healing practices. Lama Jinpa has translated the texts over a period of several years, providing time for refinement and improvement, and will provide essential core teachings. There will be three stages to the teachings:

• Training in the performance of the rituals
• Stage-by-stage practice (in both Tibetan and English)
• Full performance of the ritual from start to finish (in both Tibetan and English)
• The opportunity to perform these healing rituals live for invited guests/patients, overseen by the lamas
• Training includes the use of tormas and offerings, as well as visualizations, meanings, melodies and how to properly conduct a healing ritual

Chod Master Tsewong Rinpoche

Date & Time

• Saturday-Sunday-Monday   April 21-23, 2012
• 9 am – 5 pm each day

Location

Rudramandir (Rasa Room)
830 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94710
(510) 486-8700 info@rudramandir.com
http://rudramandir.com/

Parking

FREE on Weekends, in the designated areas as shown on the downloadable map.

Travel

Oakland airport is the closest and a decent scale, but San Francisco Airport might be easier or cheaper to fly in to. It is a much longer cab ride and the airport is massive and convoluted.
Detailed directions to Rudramandir can be found here: http://rudramandir.com/directions/
And check the Google Map at the very bottom of the page.

Click to Download Parking Map

Accommodation

There are hundreds of hotels in Berkeley, including Bed & Breakfasts, etc. But Rudramandir but we have a very good deal available:
LaQuinta Inn. Located 4 blocks from the center, at University and 8^th St. Normal rates are around $100 per night, but can get a $69.00 per night rate. Calli 510-849-1121and giving the code –RUDRA- to the desk clerk. Web address is LAQUINTA

You can also find more information about local Hotels and restaurants here: Local hotels and restaurants

Food

We will be having group lunch both days at Tomate Cafe. There menu is here: http://tomatecafe.com/id1.html
Tea, water, juice, etc. will be provided. Feel free to bring your own refreshments, snacks, etc. (But note that tea and beverages can not be taken to your seat, but only consumed in the kitchenette area).

Local Transportation

Renting a car is not a bad idea (check Travelocity for the best rates, then book on your own), but you can get taxi from the airport and too and from the hotel. There also will be enough out of town guests that you can “carpool.” However, we won’t be able to co-ordinate that (unless you want to volunteer to do so!). And if you are from out-of-town, there is no better place for sight-seeing than the San Francisco Bay area.

NON-STUDENTS APPLICATION

Admission

Students: Module 5 is open to all students who have taken Module 1 or beyond. Though this is “out of sequence,” we are offering Module 5 because of the urgency of creating skilled healing Chod practitioners. Don’t worry…You DO NOT have to fill out an additional application, since I already know who you are!

Chod Practitioners: For the same reason, module 5 is open to non-students of the School. To apply, please DOWNLAOD the Application Form, fill ti out and email it back. Since Chod training varies tremendously, further interview (by email, phone or Skype) may be needed to make sure practitioners have the requisite knowledge and skill set to attend Module 5.

These are extremely powerful and formerly secret practices. While registration is open, if an individual is not suitable for this kind of practice, through problems with maturity, motivation, inflation, malicious intent, serious power issues, and so on, it is not appropriate that they undergo this training. The assessment of suitability lies at the sole discretion of the school’s director.

Registration

• Space is limited to 50 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register at your earliest convenience.

Tuition

• The fees for Module 5 are $375, for both on-site and Distance Learning Chod training. (Modules 4 & 5 cost more than the usual $275 per module because of the included 4-5 DVDs of the full rituals and torma-making instruction DVD).
• Due to the expense of creating, printing and mounting the seminar, payment in full must be received by April 1st, unless alternative arrangements are made.
• Checks can be sent to “Tibetan Cho” may be sent to: School of Chod, 4442 W. Kling St., Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Or you may pay by Paypal (3.5% automatically added to the total).

Download the Course Contents

Schedule

Details of the Live program (and subsequent recordings), can be downloaded by clicking on the cover to the right…

Study Materials

• Text of Four main practices
• Slide handouts
• CD of all teachings and instructions and sadhana melodies, including individual MP3 files of each ritual for accompanying your training and practice.
• DVDs of each of the practices
• Torma-making DVD of all four separate rituals.Warranty

While these practices have profound effects, and can be a catalyst to deep healing, they are not advertised as a substitute for standard health care, alternative health care, or warranted to cure any illness, disease or medical condition. They are, however, warranted to change your karma. You can’t go to jail for promising or delivering that!

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