Date: August 8th-15th, 2025.
August 8-15, 2025, Tsegyalgar East
at the Vajra Hall, Khandroling, Buckland, MA
online & in-person
Dear Vajra Family,
We would like to share an update regarding the retreat with Igor Berkhin at Tsegyalgar East this August.
Due to personal circumstances, Igor will not be able to come in person.
Because of that, we made some changes to the structure of the retreat so we can still have the precious opportunity to learn and practice together, now also ONLINE.
We will broadcast on Zoom Igor’s retreat titled “Seven Ways to Discover Reality: Semdzins of the Third Group,” given in Israel, April 2023. The retreat will go from August 8 - August 15, and we will broadcast one session per day, mornings, Eastern Time, New York, all days, from 9am to 11am. Also introductory Yantra Yoga wil be broadcast from 11am to 12:30am by Zoom and in-person.
Other events will be held during those days, some of which will be on Zoom, including an afternoon course of Vajra Dance that Benefits Beings, Yantra Yoga, and an additional instructor-led practice session. Detailed schedule to come soon.
The Zoom link will be sent one day prior to the event to folks who have registered.
Lunch orders are now available for those who are attending in person. Lunch orders and payments MUST be received by August 1.
The retreat is for those who have received teachings and transmissions from either Chogyal Namkhai Norbu or Namkhai Yeshi. Those who never met these two teachers can individually apply for participation (see registration form comment field).
Suggested Donation: $350 Full Course | $40 per Day
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Biography:
Igor Berkhin is a long term Dzogchen practitioner. Born in the USSR, he started his spiritual practice in the 80-s still behind the iron curtain. He studied with and translated for many teachers of different contemplative traditions the most important of them being Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, a renowned Dzogchen master. He was an oral translator for Dzogchen masters such as khenchen Palden Sherab and khenpo Tsewang Dongyal as well as for a Bonpo geshe Nyima Dagpa.
Having had met his root Teacher in 1996, in 2002 Igor was authorized by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu to teach the Base of Santi Maha Sangha, a study and practice program on Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen designed by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. Since 2008, he’s been one of the three senior teachers of Santi Maha Sangha the other two being Jim Valby and late Elio Guarisco.
Starting from 2010, Igor has been also teaching meditation in a non-religious format using modern context to present the practical knowledge of mind preserved in ancient teachings. His meditation course in Russian language made in 2012 on request of Yoga Journal attracted 7000 subscribers. Nowadays, Igor widely teaches online both Dzogchen and secular meditation as well as travels around the world. Most of the participants of his courses are from Russia, China, Europe, Australia, and Latin America.
After having left the Ukraine in 2014 due to the war, Igor moved first to Russia where he co-founded the first in Russia big interdisciplinary conference on awareness. In 2016 he moved to Israel where he currently lives and teaches.