Ngöndro Winter Retreat
December 27, 2025–January 4, 2026
Buddhist Path, On Land Retreats
Program Start Date & Time: December 27th, 2025 | 5:30 pm
Program End Date & Time: January 4th, 2026 | 12:00 pm
This is a retreat for people currently doing ngöndro practice and accumulations. We welcome people from every tradition, with a true Rime spirit. Primarily, folks attending will be doing the Kagyu ngöndro, though others are completing ngöndro from the Nyingma lineage.
We are delighted to announce that since this retreat will run concurrently with the Vajrayogini intensive, the ngondro practitioners and Vajrayogini sadhakas will all be gathering together for evening study and discussion. This is a precious opportunity to connect with the larger vajra sangha in one of our lineage’s most sacred practice containers.
Practice Schedule
December 27th
7:00 pm: Brief Orientation
December 28th – January 3rd
9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Practice Session
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Practice Session
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Study & Discussion with Vajra Sangha
January 4th
9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Take-down
Retreat Faculty
Chase Usry
Chase Usry is Drala Mountain Center’s Deputy Director. His main focus is to connect a scattered sangha to DMC and for sangha members to feel like this land is their spiritual home. Ngöndro Winter Retreat is a piece of that effort.
Colin Stubbert
Colin Stubbert is a second generation practitioner. He began his formal training at age eleven when he began Shambhala Sun Summer Camp and has been a dedicated practitioner ever since. He became a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 2015 and received the Vajrayogini abhisheka in the tradition of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 2024.
