Awakening in Form

AWAKENING IN FORM

An Embodied Introduction to Vajrayana Practice

Hosted by Pikes Peak Vajra Vidya

Friday July 31 

6:00 to 8:00 PM 

Saturday August 1, 2026

9:00 to 9:30 AM Meditation

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Teaching 

2:00 to 4:00 PM Teaching 

4:30 to 5:30 PM Yidam Practice

Sunday August 2, 2026 

9:00 to 9:30 AM Meditation

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Teaching 

THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT

In-person at

Pikes Peak Vajra Vidya

631 N Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, CO 

Parking accessed from the alley off of E Willamette Ave just east of Tejon

and Online via Zoom

(Link in registration confirmation)

Vajrayana is sometimes described as a swift and powerful path of transformation, but what does that actually mean in lived experience?

This weekend retreat offers an embodied introduction to Vajrayana practice as a way of cultivating intimacy with mind through form, mantra, imagination, energy, and meditative awareness. Rather than treating awakening as a distant ideal, Vajrayana invites us to engage body, speech, and mind as the very ground through which awakened qualities can be recognized, explored, and gradually embodied.

The emphasis will be experiential rather than purely philosophical. Through teaching, dialogue, meditative inquiry, and guided practice, we will bring curiosity to the complexity of yidam practice using examples from beloved sadhanas such as Chenrezig and Tara.

An accessible orientation to Vajrayana view and practice, this retreat will not replace formal empowerment, reading transmission, or personal instruction for specific deity practices. It offers a supportive foundation for understanding why Vajrayana works so richly with form, symbol, mantra, devotion, and the body as part of the path of awakening.

Participants will be invited to explore questions such as:

How can the body become a doorway to awakening rather than an obstacle to spiritual practice?

• What is the role of imagination in Vajrayana, and how is it different from fantasy?

• How does yidam practice cultivate intimacy with mind?

• How can sacred form help us recognize awakened qualities already present within experience?

• What does it mean to embody the path in daily life?

This weekend is suitable for those new to Vajrayana as well as practitioners who wish to deepen their understanding of the embodied and experiential dimensions of the path.

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DANA OFFERING

Prajna Fire offers all events at Scholarship, Giver, Supporter, and Benefactor levels, providing options for the variety of individuals entering into the interconnected relationship of mutual respect and care that is dana. 

Please choose the dana that suits your circumstances, joining us in gratitude to those who make this Dharma event possible to everyone, regardless of financial contribution.

The generosity of Prajna Fire benefactors funds full scholarships for all ordained monastics and anyone requesting aid, at no cost to them. 

Prajna Fire is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.