Healing with Tara – Rigpa UK (original) (raw)

🧘🏻‍♀️ Type:

Online, in-person

📆 Date:

Monday 15 June – Tuesday 16 June 2026

📍 Addr.:

London Centre, 330 Caledonian Road, London N1 1BB

💰 Fee:

£40 suggested donation

In Tibetan Buddhism, Tara represents compassion, protection, and healing. Rather than something distant or abstract, Tara can be understood as a way of connecting with our own inner strength, care, and wisdom. This practice is both simple and profound. During these two evening teachings, we will be guided through meditation, visualisation, and heartfelt intention, and begin to open to these qualities within ourselves. It can feel as though we are drawing on something beyond our usual worries-while at the same time discovering a deeper confidence and resilience within.

We all visualise naturally-replaying conversations, imagining the future, or worrying about what might happen. Tara practice gently guides this natural ability in a positive and healing direction. Instead of feeding anxiety, we learn to connect with compassion, courage, and clarity.

Traditionally, Tara is described as a source of healing and protection. By connecting with her through sincere intention, we can begin to overcome obstacles and create more supportive conditions in our lives. Over time, this practice becomes less about seeking help from something outside, and more about recognising and embodying these qualities ourselves.

This can be especially meaningful when life feels difficult. When someone we love is struggling-through illness, loss, or emotional pain-it’s natural to feel powerless. Tara practice offers a way to respond. By holding others in mind with kindness and sincerity, we can gently support them, helping to ease fear, anxiety, and distress.

Summary of the Practice –

The practice of Tara (or Sadhana) involves chanting her mantra, visualizing her form, and meditating on her qualities to transform one’s own mind. It is a foundational yet profound Vajrayana practice that moves from outer devotion to inner identification.

This is a path of transformation-gentle, powerful, and human. A way of becoming a source of healing, for ourselves and for others. In this way, Tara becomes both a source of support and a path of transformation-for ourselves and for others.

Teacher

Marcia lived at the feet of one of the greatest Tibetan Masters of meditation for 17 years at the epicenter of unfolding events of Dharma that crossed many oceans. – Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

Marcia [Dechen Wangmo] has followed many great lamas, some of the best of this century. Her experience as an American amidst this older generation of Lamas is quite important for Dharma students from the West. – Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Marcia Dechen Wangmo, AKA Marcia Binder Schmidt is a renowned Buddhist translator, editor, writer, and teacher. Together with Erik Pema Kunsang, she established Rangjung Yeshe Institute that has been dedicated to offering educational and practice support for practitioners and scholars of Tibetan Buddhism in 1981. In 1986 as an offshoot of this Institute, Erik and she created Rangjung Yeshe Publications. (www.rangjung.com) www.lotustreasure.com.

They have translated and produced over sixty-two titles that have been translated into thirteen different languages.

Marcia has helped to develop retreat centers and study groups all over the world and has been teaching in recent years, sharing her humor and human approach to traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice, all over the world.

How to participate

This event will be held in person and online.

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Cost

Full price l £40
Concessions l £20
Under 25’s l Free
Donate what you can l Contact [email protected] if finances prevent you from coming

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