Lama Palden Drolma – The Awakened Feminine of Tara

Lama Palden Drolma – The Awakened Feminine of Tara

Embody the wisdom and love at the core of who you are — your sustaining, yet transforming fountain of awakened presence — through a profound connection with Tara.

Receive Tara’s many blessings to help you release unbeneficial narratives, woundings, and shame, and open to her authentic reflection of you as YOUR pure nature.

What would it be like to allow yourself to deeply and fully connect with the compassionate, wrathful, tenderly receptive, unapologetically truthful, sensual, free-spirited, wise woman within you — the all-encompassing awakened feminine?

This sacred self of the ancients — that’s also quite human — is within all women…

And she’s waiting… for you to remember her, for you to see her as the truth of who you are, to step into your pure essential nature — that is her.

Tara, who Tibetans see as the most beloved enlightened being, the female buddha, the Savioress, can mirror this full-spectrum feminine within you.

She’s the mother you never had — primordial and enlightened, inseparable with the vast cosmos — yet she comes into embodiment so that we can connect with her and receive her blessings.

These blessings are not all light and love, however…

Her path also takes us through the muckiness of our inner obstacles — our stuck behaviors, self-defeating thoughts, and emotional woundings — helping us to transform them into fertile ground for our own unique blossoming.

Ultimately, she leads us to the freedom and liberation we seek… that have been there for us all along.

This powerful new program with Lama Palden Drolma, one of the first Western women authorized as a lama, invites you — over the course of seven modules — to experience the embodiment of the awakened feminine within you as reflected by Tara.

Through a culminating meditative series on Tara — reaching an experiential integration in the final session — you’ll receive her many blessings and heartfully open to her reflection of you, your pure nature.

You’ll meditate with focused intent on this beloved deity, allowing her to reach out to you with her infinite compassion, love, and healing energies.

And as you open to her, you’ll open to her healing transmission of awakened body, right speech, and clarity of mind.

Over the 7 modules of this viscerally experiential, transformative inner journey, you’ll:

• Discover Tara’s origin and her embodiment of the awakened full-spectrum feminine
• Realize how each part of you is essentially sacred, and how Tara mirrors this for you
• Become familiar with both formless and form meditations
• Explore how to maintain wakefulness and clarity of mind while letting go and relaxing into the boundless compassion and love inherent in non-dual awareness
• Find sanctuary within by opening to the buddhas’ and dakinis’ awakened presence of wisdom and love
• Discover the profound meaning of Tara’s seed syllable and mantra, and how to meditate on these to instantly connect with her
• Receive the nourishing, soothing, healing grace of Tara’s divine blessing
• Discover how to let go of your negative thoughts about yourself, and open to the innate goodness of who you truly are
• With Tara as your model, find out how to work with your ego self or human self with an awakened mind
• Be given an inquiry practice that can unlock your blocks to spiritual development and awakening
• And much more…

Tara helps you connect with the wisdom and love at the core of who you are — the sustaining, transforming fountain of awakened presence in your own heart.

Over the course of this profound new training, you’ll learn and develop a spiritual practice, which you can return to again and again throughout your lifetime, that can help you let go of what stands between you and the awakened feminine within you.

You’ll find out how to extend loving kindness to yourself and others in very real and authentic ways, and connect with yourself and the world, healed, renewed, and with a fresh and enlivened perspective.

Lama Palden was authorized as a lama in 1986 by her root teacher, Kalu Rinpoche, following her completion of the traditional Tibetan 3-year, 3-month retreat.

She’s been a student and practitioner of Buddhism and of comparative mysticism for over 40 years. She’s known for her gift in helping her students actualize their innate wisdom and joy, and is committed to supporting the balance between her students’ inner and outer lives, and to their individuation process.

In this new online course with her, Lama Palden will guide you in opening to Tara’s potent energies to awaken her peacefulness, wisdom, fierce clarity, compassion, and healing powers already within you… empowering and liberating you to step beyond duality and settle into the fullness of yourself and your life.

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules

In this 7-module transformational intensive, Lama Palden will guide you through the fundamental spiritual skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully embody the wisdom and love at the core of who you are through a profound connection with Tara.

This course will feature teachings and experiential practices with Lama Palden. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to sustain a transformed fountain of awakened presence and openness to Tara’s authentic reflection of you as your pure nature.

Module 1: Opening to the Full-Spectrum Awakened Feminine

Step 1 of the Tara Meditation

In this opening session, you’ll explore how to engage with the dance of form and formlessness through a meditation on Tara. This practice is designed to nourish you, help you release anxiety, heal emotional and physical wounds, and open you to your awakened nature. You’ll connect with yourself and Tara in loving, open awareness, and learn to do this on your own so that Tara is always accessible to you.

All the great Tibetan masters call upon and meditate extensively on Tara. Over many centuries, this meditation has proven to be as valuable for men as it is for women, who all report that their lives completely changed through their Tara practice.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover Tara’s origin and her embodiment of the awakened full-spectrum feminine
• Learn how each part of you is essentially sacred, and how Tara mirrors this for you
• Become familiar with both formless and form meditations
• Explore how to maintain wakefulness and clarity of mind while letting go and relaxing into the boundless compassion and love inherent in non-dual awareness
• Find sanctuary within by opening to the buddhas’ and dakinis’ awakened presence of wisdom and love
• Learn Step 1 of the Tara Meditation

Module 2: Receiving Awakened Healing — A Transmission From Tara

Step 2 of the Tara Meditation

Receive a healing and transmission of the awakened feminine body, speech, and mind from Tara, who represents the full-spectrum embodiment of the awakened feminine. You’ll discover how this type of meditation can activate healing and transformation.

You’ll also learn about how Tara’s essence is manifest as her seed syllable, which serves as her “cosmic texting address,” and as her mantra,which can be likened to an instant email address. And you’ll explore how to navigate working with a buddha — an awakened being.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover the profound meaning of Tara’s seed syllable and mantra, and how to meditate on these to instantly connect with her
• Receive the nourishing, soothing, healing grace of Tara’s divine blessing
• Explore how to let go of your negative thoughts about yourself, and open to the innate goodness of who you truly are
• With Tara as your model, find out how to work with your ego self or human self with an awakened mind
• Be given an inquiry practice that can unlock your blocks to spiritual development and awakening

Module 3: Turning Challenges Into a Path of Awakening

Step 3 of the Tara Meditation

Discover how to converse with Tara as a trusted mentor, deepening your personal connection with this fully awakened deity, and discovering how this connection can help you turn your challenges and difficult emotions into a path of awakening. You’ll also experience practices for liberating your conflictual emotions into wisdom.

In this module, you’ll:

• Discover how to develop a personal connection with Tara through meditation
• Explore how your connection with Tara helps you let go of hurt, frustration, overwhelm, anxiety, and fear
• Gain insights and tools to help you with challenging situations and circumstances
• Find out how Tara can help you eliminate inner obstacles and create a supportive inner foundation — and how to cultivate this transformation through meditation
• Discover how to allow difficult emotions to liberate into their essence, which is wisdom

Module 4: Becoming One With Awakened Feminine

Step 4 of the Tara Meditation

In this module, you’ll be guided through a meditative process to experience what it feels like to become one with Tara. This serves to help you transform your limited idea of who you are, and to unlock your innate awakened presence. You’ll discover how Tara meditation opens you to your pure being and the blossoming of your own unique qualities.

You’ll also discover how this type of transformative meditation can help you shift your identity from ego-centered to one of awakened awareness and compassion, and to the union of awareness and emptiness.

In this module, you’ll:

• Begin opening to your inherent awakened presence
• Experience what it feels like to become one with Tara
• Find out how working with Tara can help you both in meditation and in your moment-to-moment everyday awareness
• Discover how to help the immature, scared, young parts of yourself grow and mature
• Explore how a connection with Tara can improve your relationships and deepen your engagement with the world

Module 5: Stepping Fully Into the Awakened Presence

Step 5 of the Tara Meditation

In this session, you’ll be invited to step fully into becoming one with the enlightened being of Tara, which can greatly accelerate your awakening. You’ll open to her power through your heart chakra, working with her seed syllable and her mantra to offer gratitude to the awakened beings of all times and all places, and to radiate cleansing, healing, and liberating blessings to all.

You’ll also work with the subtle body, consisting of channels (nadis in Sanskrit), movement (prana in Sanskrit), and essential energy (bindu in Sanskrit).

In this module, you’ll:

• Open to natural awakening, awareness, and presence
• Inhabit your individual Sacred Mandala
• Discover how to work with your heart chakra
• Radiate love and thankfulness to all awakened beings from the seed syllable in the center of your heart chakra
• Radiate healing, universal love, and awakening to all sentient beings

Module 6: Letting Go Into Vast Open Love

Step 6 of the Tara Meditation

In this session, you’ll explore the meaning of your true nature, which is the genuine truth of reality — the union of awakened wisdom and love. And, you’ll discover what obscures your understanding of this.

You’ll also experience the powerful liberation of transitioning from meditation with form to meditation without form, and explore the benefits of both. And, you’ll experience letting go into openness and love, and resting in open awareness.

In this module, you’ll:

• Notice the difference between resting in open awareness at the beginning and at the end of a meditation
• Become comfortable with being in form and formlessness, which helps dissolve your fixations that arise from not realizing who you truly are
• Understand how transitioning from form to formlessness in meditation allows you to be more accepting of and comfortable with death
• Feel the innate luminosity and clarity of your own mind
• Open into non-duality, and your actual lack of separation from all that is

Module 7: Dedicating to All Beings Benefit & Integration of Full Tara Meditation

In the last session, you’ll discover practices for incorporating Tara into your daily life — as a friend, mentor, and awakened mother. You’ll retrace the steps of the Tara Meditation to help you access her healing blessings to soothe anxiety, fear, depression, and other challenges.

You’ll find out how to access — and stay in touch with — your inherent wellbeing, goodness, kindness, and wisdom. And you’ll participate in a group dedication of these teachings to benefit all.

In this last module, you’ll:

• Appear as Tara arising out of the void — the union of clarity, luminosity, and emptiness, inseparable with all that is, yet distinctly unique
• Discover how to share these teachings with others
• Explore more ways to bring Tara, as a mentor and friend, into the moment-to-moment awareness of daily life
• Discover how dedicating your meditations to all beings spreads Tara’s blessings out into the world, and also enhances these meditations

Here’s What You’ll Receive

Seven recorded 90-minute Class Sessions With Lama Palden Drolma

Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored by and learn with spiritual teacher Lama Palden Drolma — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to awaken your spiritual potential.

Seven PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions

In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.

Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson

Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each session.

The Awakened Feminine of Tara Bonus Collection

• The Spiritual Path
  Audio Teaching With Lama Palden Drolma

• Personal Journey & the Ego
  Audio Teaching With Lama Palden Drolma

• How to Practice Dedicating Merit
  PDF Article by Lama Palden Drolma

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Awakened Feminine of Tara Virtual Training

We feel honored Lama Palden Drolma has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a contemporary spiritual teacher and renowned lama whose powerful insights are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.

Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations, and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Lama Palden’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — and at your own pace!

If you’re serious about receiving Tara’s many blessings to help you release unbeneficial narratives, woundings, and shame, and open to her authentic reflection of you as your pure nature, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.

If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.