August 5th-9th Kids Herbal Wisdom Summer Camp

Full Day Week Long Summer Camps - LAST WEEK OF SUMMER 5 Days Camp

Full Day Week Long Summer Camps

Kids can learn age appropriate anatomy, sciences alongside herbology, they love learning if we supply opportunities!

When planning our own children's summer camps and week-long programs, searching for quality programs where there was some excitement about the magic and healing power of nature was hard to find. Lots of local Boulder programs incorporate nature, but few actually teach kids meaningful herbal medicine. So I had an idea. Why not run summer camps myself! 

I have nearly three decades of herbal knowledge and have been a fully trained Tibetan physician credentialed since 2009. Camp size is purposefully limited to ten kids and ages 6-11. Designed for younger kids, as well as those nearing the end of elementary age, there is an effort to have various ages to support each other's needs. 

This will be hands on fun learning and play individuated to your kids. We will spend time exploring the garden, meeting plant allies and learning about how they grow in the garden, how they want to be harvested and processed and what benefits local plants, kitchen cabinet medicine and garden herbals provide in our lives.

Does your child believe in magic, witches and wizards? Let them take on this role for the week as they learn the beauty and power that herbal medicine has to offer. This does not have to be a make believe childhood that gets left behind!

The magic and wonder of nature as healer can be a reality, through embracing ancient wisdom and your child being able to carry this precious knowledge with them for the rest of their lives.

Make your own non-toxic bug spray, herbal teas for tummy upsets, learn herbal decoctions for fevers and how we deal with minor bodily issues all with plants they can meet and make friends with. Kids can learn valuable tidbits on systems of the body.

What is the respiratory system? How does digestion work? What herbs are good for a cold and cough, what is good for a headache? What local tree has SPF 15 in its bark? We will have a little science, outside and kitchen herbal classrooms, fun in exploring nearby open space where stick forts and imagination blend with local herbs.

Kids can pack a swimsuit Tuesdays and Thursdays to include some good old fashioned running through the sprinkler fun. A good blend of fun, and structured learning will fill their days with adventure. Monday-Friday the days will be filled with fun learning they can bring home and share with family forever.

Hours are 9-3pm with aftercare playtime options till 4 available.

Typical Schedule

9am Drop-off

9:15 Circle time, meditative check in and setting the days intention

9:45 Meeting some plant allies

10:30 Snack & Play

10:50 Project Time

11:30 Lunch & Playtime

1pm Project Part Two

2-3pm Free Choice Time

*Schedule subject to change with the days project and kids mood and focus. Tuesday and Thursday is water play in the afternoon - bring swimsuits.

*What to bring: Open mind, curious heart, enthusiasm to learn new things, nut free lunch (if no one has an allergy we will relax this but preventively it's best) and 2 snacks, water bottles and sunscreen!

First week of the summer: 4 Day Camp: May 28-May 31 cost $375 includes supplies (REGISTER BELOW)

Last week of the summer: 5 day camp August 5-9th cost $465 includes supplies
Hours are 9-3 with option to add extended care till 4:00pm. REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE

Limited to 10 children.

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up.

Your deposit is due within two weeks of sign up to reserve your slot. A non-refundable deposit of $150 will hold the slot for a full summer week long camp. We plan all winter to provide the best week for your child and this deposit reflects your investment in skills to be offered. We request checks to avoid lost fees as a small non-profit please. Checks payable to Chagpori US 

Paypal is available if required: paypal.me/ChagporiUS 

About Chagpori US: We are a registered 501c3 Charitable Religious Organization since 1986. 

Our mission is to help spread, preserve and promote the spiritual aspects and herbal tradition within the Sowa Rigpa Traditional Tibetan Medical System. 

Consent and health forms are due two weeks before camp begins. 

Any further questions please reach out. Please note we DO NOT have Texting on the work lines 303 570 8242 Thank you!

May 28th-31st Kids Herbal Wisdom Summer Camp

Full Day Week Long Summer Camps - FIRST WEEK OF SUMMER 4 Days Camp

Full Day Week Long Summer Camps

Kids can learn age appropriate anatomy, sciences alongside herbology, they love learning if we supply opportunities!

When planning our own children's summer camps and week-long programs, searching for quality programs where there was some excitement about the magic and healing power of nature was hard to find. Lots of local Boulder programs incorporate nature, but few actually teach kids meaningful herbal medicine. So I had an idea. Why not run summer camps myself! 

I have nearly three decades of herbal knowledge and have been a fully trained Tibetan physician credentialed since 2009. You can read about my qualifications here: Camp size is purposefully limited to ten kids and ages 6-11. Designed for younger kids, as well as those nearing the end of elementary age, there is an effort to have various ages to support each other's needs. 

This will be hands on fun learning and play individuated to your kids. We will spend time exploring the garden, meeting plant allies and learning about how they grow in the garden, how they want to be harvested and processed and what benefits local plants, kitchen cabinet medicine and garden herbals provide in our lives.

Does your child believe in magic, witches and wizards? Let them take on this role for the week as they learn the beauty and power that herbal medicine has to offer. This does not have to be a make believe childhood that gets left behind!

The magic and wonder of nature as healer can be a reality, through embracing ancient wisdom and your child being able to carry this precious knowledge with them for the rest of their lives.

Make your own non-toxic bug spray, herbal teas for tummy upsets, learn herbal decoctions for fevers and how we deal with minor bodily issues all with plants they can meet and make friends with. Kids can learn valuable tidbits on systems of the body.

What is the respiratory system? How does digestion work? What herbs are good for a cold and cough, what is good for a headache? What local tree has SPF 15 in its bark? We will have a little science, outside and kitchen herbal classrooms, fun in exploring nearby open space where stick forts and imagination blend with local herbs.

Kids can pack a swimsuit Tuesdays and Thursdays to include some good old fashioned running through the sprinkler fun. A good blend of fun, and structured learning will fill their days with adventure. Monday-Friday the days will be filled with fun learning they can bring home and share with family forever.

Hours are 9-3pm with aftercare playtime options till 4 available.

Typical Schedule

9am Drop-off

9:15 Circle time, meditative check in and setting the days intention

9:45 Meeting some plant allies

10:30 Snack & Play

10:50 Project Time

11:30 Lunch & Playtime

1pm Project Part Two

2-3pm Free Choice Time

*Schedule subject to change with the days project and kids mood and focus. Tuesday and Thursday is water play in the afternoon - bring swimsuits.

*What to bring: Open mind, curious heart, enthusiasm to learn new things, nut free lunch (if no one has an allergy we will relax this but preventively it's best) and 2 snacks, water bottles and sunscreen!

First week of the summer: 4 Day Camp: May 28-May 31 cost $375 includes supplies (REGISTER BELOW)

Last week of the summer: 5 day camp August 5-9th cost $465 includes supplies
Hours are 9-3 with option to add extended care till 4:00pm. REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE

Limited to 10 children.

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up.

Your deposit is due within two weeks of sign up to reserve your slot. A non-refundable deposit of $150 will hold the slot for a full summer week long camp. We plan all winter to provide the best week for your child and this deposit reflects your investment in skills to be offered. We request checks to avoid lost fees as a small non-profit please. Checks payable to Chagpori US 

Paypal is available if required: paypal.me/ChagporiUS 

About Chagpori US: We are a registered 501c3 Charitable Religious Organization since 1986. 

Our mission is to help spread, preserve and promote the spiritual aspects and herbal tradition within the Sowa Rigpa Traditional Tibetan Medical System. 

Consent and health forms are due two weeks before camp begins. 

Any further questions please reach out. Please note we DO NOT have Texting on the work lines 303 570 8242 Thank you!

One of my favorite retreats to teach up at Drala, I will be your meditation teacher throughout the weekend and my co-teacher will lead yoga sessions.

Discover relaxation and wakefulness in Drala Mountain Centers amazing and sacred landscape.

Immerse yourself in the Retreat and Renewal program, where contemplative practices designed to unlock insights and inspire. Scheduled activities include guided meditation instruction, both invigorating and deeply restorative yoga sessions, open invitation to walk the scared land or visit the Great Stupa, and optional social evening events.

We all need to get away, to navigate and place a pause on the complexities of modern life. Experience the freedom of a spacious retreat that invites you to explore this mountain sanctuary at your own pace. This is your invitation to unwind, connect, and revitalize. Your rejuvenation on body, mind and spirit awaits.

I always lead meditation grounded in Calm Abiding or Shamatha, and work with group needs around adjusting medication explaining the roll of our body and mind connection. I literally look forward to teaching this retreat every time. Join me!

Approaching Ngöndro & Buddhist Practices According to Our Elemental Nature: Tibetan Medicine Methods for Balance in Practice

with

Dr. Nashalla Gwyn Nyinda

Friday, March 8

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. MST

Saturday, March 9

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. MST

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. MST

Often said, “The most excellent medicine is Dharma.” This statement relates to antidoting of our habits, tendencies, preferences and patterns, all which pull us away from clarity and luminous wisdom. Simple Buddhist pathophysiology explains how Dharma moves in bodily form and within our minds. For thousands of years, such methodologies have been used in traditional Tibetan Medicine, Sowa Rigpa, The Science of Healing to aid yogic and Buddhist practitioners.

No one method of Buddhist practice is “most effective” for all people, yet preliminaries clear obstacles and specific meditations are applied for specific energies. Applying a balanced approach suited to one’s individual body, elements, and mind typology aids significantly in cultivation of wisdom states. Understanding how elements reflect within and upon us is why teachers meet with students as they progress along their path, to give guidance with inner patterns.

Embark on a journey of self-reflection.

Through these talks, you will learn to embrace and recognize yourself fundamentally. Relating to our three root poisons, unique attributes set through karmic propensity and the overlay of the elements helps ameliorate obstacles and physical disorders in Buddhist practice and bodily experience.

Learn time-tested Tibetan philosophy to increase and deepen Buddhist practices.

Discover essential antidotes to common mental and physical developments arising from one’s unique elemental patterns. Associations of these patterns to our mental and physical manifestations brings greater discernment to our individual needs in Buddhist practice. In turn, this frees us from perceptions and projections, opening our mind-body to a more peaceful and productive journey.

In-person and live stream attendance options available!

How do we face experiences of suffering and pain, of working with what is and maintaining an open heart, ready to embrace the present moment? Just by hearing the mantra, or name of the Medicine Buddha innumerable benefits arise. This practice integrates the essence of compassionate healing and fuses it with trust we don’t have to endure suffering, or help others alone. This weekend we practice compassionate healing as a community. Anyone in a healing crisis, burned out from compassion fatigue, or from a year of pandemic drama, those new to meditation and healing practices; as well as practitioners seeking to deepen compassionate healing for self and others, all benefit from this unbroken healing lineage.

Participants may bring any fresh unopened medicines or herbs for blessings and learn how to infuse healing mantra into any substances.

Register HERE

The excerpt below is from Dr. Nyinda’s article: THE ART OF DIAGNOSIS: A PRACTICE INPERCEPTION AND COMPASSION

“Working with diagnosis in the Tibetan Medicine model is an art form based on a combination of education, intimacy with the elements, and pure direct perception. Cultivating a deeper level of interaction, employing psychology between doctor and patient creates the best possible outcome in determining the actual disease and circumstances creating imbalance. More profound accuracy of diagnostics requires faith and trust between doctor and patient. This opens a gateway for a pure vision of symptoms and the bodily, mental and/or spiritual aspects involved. The spiritual interchange between doctor and patient plays a much more significant role than immediately considered in the typical western biomedicine model.”  Read more here.

This introductory course connects the foundations of Tibetan Medical theory and practice to clinical use of food, both as antidote and preventive medicine in the modern clinic. We explore the essential instructions derived from the 16th-20th chapters of the Explanatory Tantra and apply their relevance in modern nutritional concepts, healthy diet and disease management.

11 September 16:00-18:00; September 12, 15:30-17:30 (St Petersburg Time)

This online course was organized by MATTM St. Petersburg in addition to ongoing studies. .https://www.mattmpetergof.ru/novosti/198-pervyj-blok-3-semestr

Teaching in English with consistent translation into Russian by Bella Bash.

In the Tibetan tradition, nutrition is one of the ways to treat, along with lifestyle, medicinal therapy and external treatments. Proper nutrition plays a crucial role in the prevention of diseases.

Registration for the course with Menpa Nashalla Nyinda.  https://mattm-petergof-sorig-khan.timepad.ru/event/1740879/

The classes will detail the instructions given in 16-20 chapters of Tibetan medicine's indigenous text, Explanatory Tantra, in application with modern clinical practices, various diets, healthy diet concepts, prevention and treatment of diseases.

Dr. Nyinda will talk about medical nutrition, sowa rigpa and will hold analogies with modern recommendations of nutritiologists.

An overview of modern food products that constitute a regular diet of a metropolis resident will also be made.

This course focuses on the integration of ancient knowledge into modern living conditions.The course will provide clear explanations on how to navigate the subject, how to distinguish a scientific approach in dietitics from dilettos.

We will discuss separately how to determine the properties of those products that can be found on the store shelves.

How to evaluate modern food from the perspective of Tibetan Medicine. Dr. Nyinda will talk about the differences in food products obtained in the traditional way described in ancient texts and food produced massively at farms or plants, often using chemical agents.

Is there really a difference between the same products obtained in different ways and why? Special attention will be paid to maintaining intestines microbiota. In fact, ancient texts provide detailed instructions on this, but unusual language to us, Dr. Nyinda will help translate these instructions into terms of modern nutritiology and describe in categories of modern products.

The cost of the course is 4000 rubles.

Registration and all the details: https://mattm-petergof-sorig-khan.timepad.ru/event/1740879/